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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 11 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
a few paltry obstacles , which due consideration and proper manao-ement might easily sweep from our path , throw away once for all an opportunity which may never recur to us , and renounce , in the face of hundreds of our Brethren , that solemn duty which , whether individually or
collectively , we are bound to discharge—Brotherly Love ? Now , no good and true hearted Brother can conceive for one moment that the Masons of Great Britain can testify the meaning attached to this term Brotherly Love by a mere public meeting , —a burst of oratory , a vote of
esteem and confidence , ancl so on . Something more ought to be done : —some more real and substantial mode of conveying the feelings of the Freemasons of these realms towards their continental Brethren ought to be adopted . It maj * be a difficult matter to conceive how a scheme of so
gigantic a nature could be properly and satisfactorily carried out , but we cannot help thinking that mature deliberation might diminish some of the obstacles which , at first sight , present themselves ; we felt sure , that were the idea once publicly mooted , —a suggestion once put forth , master
minds might be found to compass the difficulties which we have to enumerate ; and so impressed were we with the possibility of the realization of so beautiful an idea as a meeting of Freemasons of all nations , —so sensible of the benefits which might result from a well organized conference
with the foreign members of the Craft , that we hastened to express our humble opinion on the subject , and to give the signal for a movement , on the part of the Masonic body generally , towards the execution of so laudable a design-But we are , fortunately , not the only persons , though perhaps among the first , to whom a sense of the duties which we owe to ourselves and to our visitors has occurred . We
have heard with great satisfaction that our opinion as to the possibility of carrying out the scheme ivhich we have proposed , the benefits of which we will illustrate and explain more fully , is reciprocated by many . We ourselves were fortunate enough to witness an instance proving the intense VOL . II . E
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
a few paltry obstacles , which due consideration and proper manao-ement might easily sweep from our path , throw away once for all an opportunity which may never recur to us , and renounce , in the face of hundreds of our Brethren , that solemn duty which , whether individually or
collectively , we are bound to discharge—Brotherly Love ? Now , no good and true hearted Brother can conceive for one moment that the Masons of Great Britain can testify the meaning attached to this term Brotherly Love by a mere public meeting , —a burst of oratory , a vote of
esteem and confidence , ancl so on . Something more ought to be done : —some more real and substantial mode of conveying the feelings of the Freemasons of these realms towards their continental Brethren ought to be adopted . It maj * be a difficult matter to conceive how a scheme of so
gigantic a nature could be properly and satisfactorily carried out , but we cannot help thinking that mature deliberation might diminish some of the obstacles which , at first sight , present themselves ; we felt sure , that were the idea once publicly mooted , —a suggestion once put forth , master
minds might be found to compass the difficulties which we have to enumerate ; and so impressed were we with the possibility of the realization of so beautiful an idea as a meeting of Freemasons of all nations , —so sensible of the benefits which might result from a well organized conference
with the foreign members of the Craft , that we hastened to express our humble opinion on the subject , and to give the signal for a movement , on the part of the Masonic body generally , towards the execution of so laudable a design-But we are , fortunately , not the only persons , though perhaps among the first , to whom a sense of the duties which we owe to ourselves and to our visitors has occurred . We
have heard with great satisfaction that our opinion as to the possibility of carrying out the scheme ivhich we have proposed , the benefits of which we will illustrate and explain more fully , is reciprocated by many . We ourselves were fortunate enough to witness an instance proving the intense VOL . II . E