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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
Post tot naufragia portum . Our next number will conclude a volume , and also the second series of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " Each of the previous series has been epochal in construction , and important in results .
We felt conscious that at the commencement of our undertaking we were too obviously in advance to secure the patronage of the many ; not that we desire to arrogate in this expression any self-opinionated reliance on our own merits or acquirements , but that the great mass of Masons then required to become acquainted with the principles of truth ; they had surrendered rights , and become too apathetic to recover them ,
unless some independent organ arose to act firmly and unceasingly in the cause . Some of these rights have been recovered , and a salient cohort of brethren , with pure honesty of purpose , have effected great improvement ; it will he the duty of the future journalist to aid them , and
deserve the approbation of the fraternity . We have , it is true , drawn down upon ourselves the envy , and malignant power of those whose actions " shun the light ; " but we are abundantly recompensed by the good opinion of those who have minds that think and hearts that feel . Arrangements are in progress , not merely for a third series , but
inasmuch as we may refer to the spolia opima gained from intolerance and misgovernment in the glorious settlement of annuities for widows , mean as is the amount , —and the new system of reporting by the Grand Master , drivelling as it is , —it is hoped that the third series may send the plough still farther into the luxuriant soil , and raise up stores therefrom that will delight if not surprise the future age of Masonry . Among other
great improvements , we shall endeavour to enlighten our readers by some of the grandest conceptions , which promise to give to much traditionary lore the undoubted evidence of incontestible proof . The Earl of Durham attained his majority on Wednesday , Sept . 5 , 1849 ; may he follow in the steps of his lamented sire !
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
Post tot naufragia portum . Our next number will conclude a volume , and also the second series of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " Each of the previous series has been epochal in construction , and important in results .
We felt conscious that at the commencement of our undertaking we were too obviously in advance to secure the patronage of the many ; not that we desire to arrogate in this expression any self-opinionated reliance on our own merits or acquirements , but that the great mass of Masons then required to become acquainted with the principles of truth ; they had surrendered rights , and become too apathetic to recover them ,
unless some independent organ arose to act firmly and unceasingly in the cause . Some of these rights have been recovered , and a salient cohort of brethren , with pure honesty of purpose , have effected great improvement ; it will he the duty of the future journalist to aid them , and
deserve the approbation of the fraternity . We have , it is true , drawn down upon ourselves the envy , and malignant power of those whose actions " shun the light ; " but we are abundantly recompensed by the good opinion of those who have minds that think and hearts that feel . Arrangements are in progress , not merely for a third series , but
inasmuch as we may refer to the spolia opima gained from intolerance and misgovernment in the glorious settlement of annuities for widows , mean as is the amount , —and the new system of reporting by the Grand Master , drivelling as it is , —it is hoped that the third series may send the plough still farther into the luxuriant soil , and raise up stores therefrom that will delight if not surprise the future age of Masonry . Among other
great improvements , we shall endeavour to enlighten our readers by some of the grandest conceptions , which promise to give to much traditionary lore the undoubted evidence of incontestible proof . The Earl of Durham attained his majority on Wednesday , Sept . 5 , 1849 ; may he follow in the steps of his lamented sire !