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An Account Of The Vicissitudes Of The Neapolitan Masonry;
Britain , proud , generous , and hospitable , protects in his country other nations , the evidences of foreign barbarism and cruelty ; and beneath his sheltering wings the remains of these unfortunates , the martyrs of liberty , sacrificed to the caprices of despotism though worthy of a better fate , find security and peace . And the eye of providence has never lost sight of this nation of virtuous , brave , sympathising , industrious , benevolent , and generous men , who are the friends of the unfortunate and the protectors of the oppressed . { To be continued . )
To The Provincial Members Of Grand Lodge.
TO THE PROVINCIAL MEMBERS OF GRAND LODGE .
BRETIIRUN , if ever " the hour of peril was near ; " if ever our venerable , ( and by all of you , I trust , venerated institution ^) was threatened with fatal innovations , it is at this time . Those of the provincial brethren who look beyond the outward trappings of Masonry—who love that HOLY HAKUHIAIS OP RELIGION ancl MOTJIEK or CHARITY , not for the rank or clothing she may give them in an earthly lodge , but for those better feelings and sentiments of our nature which she so forcibly
inculcates—to those brethren the proceedings of Grand Lodge on tbe 1 st instant have given a lesson , well calculated to call forth their serious attention and rouse them to exertion . The present state of masonic government , or rather mis-government , arises partly from the ignorance , too general in the provinces , of what takes place in Grand Lodge , ancl
partly from the brethren leaving things to take their chance . The first of these causes might easily be removed by an extended circulation of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " I know that that publication has met with great opposition from certain parties ; it has been stigmatized as au unauthorized publication , full of esc parte and garbled statements . Like every other work of man , it might be improved ; but as a whole , it is a valuable work , well deserving of a greatly increased patronage . To counteract the supposed poison of this unauthorized periodical , a notahle
expedient has been resorted to . An authorized reporter attends , draws up a summary of the proceedings of Grand Lodge , and submits it to the inspection of the Most Worshipful Grand Master ; it is then printed ancl circulated , cum privitegio . At the Quarterly Communication , in December last , the Most Worshipful Grand Master distinctly ancl emphatically expressed his wish that " the brethren should be put in possession of a correct and authorised report of the proceedings of Grand Lodge ; he did not mean that every speech should be reported at length , as it would lead many of the brethren to make long speeches for the sake of seeing themselves in print . But what he intended to look over
and authorize , was such a summary of the debates in Grand Lodge as was given ofthe debates in Parliament by the the ' Times' Newspaper . " Now , brethren , mark tiie beautiful , the impartial , accordance of this declaration , with the authorized report of that very meeting . The Most Worshipful Grand Master moved a resolution , which was carried . Of the debate which took place on the motion , you have been favoured with the Most Worshipful Grand Master ' s address nearly verbatim ,
from begining to end . So far , so good ; but look on the other side , and you are simply told , that brothers so and so , " expressed their dissent . " But not one word of what they said—not a syllable of the powerful
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An Account Of The Vicissitudes Of The Neapolitan Masonry;
Britain , proud , generous , and hospitable , protects in his country other nations , the evidences of foreign barbarism and cruelty ; and beneath his sheltering wings the remains of these unfortunates , the martyrs of liberty , sacrificed to the caprices of despotism though worthy of a better fate , find security and peace . And the eye of providence has never lost sight of this nation of virtuous , brave , sympathising , industrious , benevolent , and generous men , who are the friends of the unfortunate and the protectors of the oppressed . { To be continued . )
To The Provincial Members Of Grand Lodge.
TO THE PROVINCIAL MEMBERS OF GRAND LODGE .
BRETIIRUN , if ever " the hour of peril was near ; " if ever our venerable , ( and by all of you , I trust , venerated institution ^) was threatened with fatal innovations , it is at this time . Those of the provincial brethren who look beyond the outward trappings of Masonry—who love that HOLY HAKUHIAIS OP RELIGION ancl MOTJIEK or CHARITY , not for the rank or clothing she may give them in an earthly lodge , but for those better feelings and sentiments of our nature which she so forcibly
inculcates—to those brethren the proceedings of Grand Lodge on tbe 1 st instant have given a lesson , well calculated to call forth their serious attention and rouse them to exertion . The present state of masonic government , or rather mis-government , arises partly from the ignorance , too general in the provinces , of what takes place in Grand Lodge , ancl
partly from the brethren leaving things to take their chance . The first of these causes might easily be removed by an extended circulation of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " I know that that publication has met with great opposition from certain parties ; it has been stigmatized as au unauthorized publication , full of esc parte and garbled statements . Like every other work of man , it might be improved ; but as a whole , it is a valuable work , well deserving of a greatly increased patronage . To counteract the supposed poison of this unauthorized periodical , a notahle
expedient has been resorted to . An authorized reporter attends , draws up a summary of the proceedings of Grand Lodge , and submits it to the inspection of the Most Worshipful Grand Master ; it is then printed ancl circulated , cum privitegio . At the Quarterly Communication , in December last , the Most Worshipful Grand Master distinctly ancl emphatically expressed his wish that " the brethren should be put in possession of a correct and authorised report of the proceedings of Grand Lodge ; he did not mean that every speech should be reported at length , as it would lead many of the brethren to make long speeches for the sake of seeing themselves in print . But what he intended to look over
and authorize , was such a summary of the debates in Grand Lodge as was given ofthe debates in Parliament by the the ' Times' Newspaper . " Now , brethren , mark tiie beautiful , the impartial , accordance of this declaration , with the authorized report of that very meeting . The Most Worshipful Grand Master moved a resolution , which was carried . Of the debate which took place on the motion , you have been favoured with the Most Worshipful Grand Master ' s address nearly verbatim ,
from begining to end . So far , so good ; but look on the other side , and you are simply told , that brothers so and so , " expressed their dissent . " But not one word of what they said—not a syllable of the powerful