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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. ← Page 10 of 11 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
there could be no excuse for not visiting them ; and to thc zealous Mason the pleasure of travelling would be doubl y enhanced . Fifthly . Masonry would receive a great impulse , as Foreign
Masons , seeing what has been done , and xoliat is still in progress among its , woidd endeavour to emulate our example . We cannot but think that the hearty and zealous feeling , which is now more generally apparent in the working of our Lodges , and , above all , in the support of our glorious
Charities , would cheer our visitors and inspire them with fresh ardour in the prosecution of similar objects in their own peculiar spheres . Thus , for instance , our Boys' and Girls' School , our Benevolent Institutions , the Asylum for Aged and Decrepid at Croydon , the charity funds
supported by individual Lodges—all these , the fruits of Masonic benevolence , would be examples for their imitation ; and what would more facilitate an object so desirable as a meeting , at which the origin of those institutions , and the principles carried out in their maintenance and government , might be communicated and explained ?
We have thus stated some of the reasons which appear to us imperatively to demand an effort on the part of the Freemasons of Great Britain towards a display of the fraternal respect and esteem which is due to our expected visitors , an act which would at once involve the performance of a pleasing duty and the realization of important
benefits to the Craft throughout the known world . Prompted by a spirit of zeal in behalf of an institution to which we are so sincerely attached , and induced to think that humble warning might be heard and responded to even at this , the last moment , we commend to the notice of our Brother
Masons our imperfectly expressed sentiments on a subject which , for a considerable period , has been constantly before our mind . Though we have never had time to weigh , systematically , the arguments for and against such a measure as wc have suggested , wc honestly believe that
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
there could be no excuse for not visiting them ; and to thc zealous Mason the pleasure of travelling would be doubl y enhanced . Fifthly . Masonry would receive a great impulse , as Foreign
Masons , seeing what has been done , and xoliat is still in progress among its , woidd endeavour to emulate our example . We cannot but think that the hearty and zealous feeling , which is now more generally apparent in the working of our Lodges , and , above all , in the support of our glorious
Charities , would cheer our visitors and inspire them with fresh ardour in the prosecution of similar objects in their own peculiar spheres . Thus , for instance , our Boys' and Girls' School , our Benevolent Institutions , the Asylum for Aged and Decrepid at Croydon , the charity funds
supported by individual Lodges—all these , the fruits of Masonic benevolence , would be examples for their imitation ; and what would more facilitate an object so desirable as a meeting , at which the origin of those institutions , and the principles carried out in their maintenance and government , might be communicated and explained ?
We have thus stated some of the reasons which appear to us imperatively to demand an effort on the part of the Freemasons of Great Britain towards a display of the fraternal respect and esteem which is due to our expected visitors , an act which would at once involve the performance of a pleasing duty and the realization of important
benefits to the Craft throughout the known world . Prompted by a spirit of zeal in behalf of an institution to which we are so sincerely attached , and induced to think that humble warning might be heard and responded to even at this , the last moment , we commend to the notice of our Brother
Masons our imperfectly expressed sentiments on a subject which , for a considerable period , has been constantly before our mind . Though we have never had time to weigh , systematically , the arguments for and against such a measure as wc have suggested , wc honestly believe that