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MEMOIR OF ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , LL . D . P . G . D . B 1 THE "OEV . Q . OUVEB , ID . D ., TABT D , O . DI . MASSACHUSETTS . FOURTH PAPEE . " I am about to leave the world ; and of man I ask nothing but tenderness
towards his fellow-man , and a love of something larger than the speck of which his self consists . There are more reasons than one why , at this moment , when the period appointed by the Psalmist for our sojourn here is for me fast expiring , and when , as I may say , I have but the last stage of existence to travel , that I deem it proper to place upon paper the following few occurrences and remembrances of my time . "—CALEB STUKELEY .
" In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade ; 'Tis her ' s the brave man ' s latest steps to trace , Re-judge his acts , and dignify disgrace . "—POPE . " Amicus Plato , amicus Socrates , sed magis arnica Veritas . "— -LATIN PEOVBBB .
ONE of thc results of the proceedings recorded in my last paper , was a public announcement that Dr . Crucefix had resigned the editorship of "the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " which he gracefully effected by the following address to the Craft : "' The Freemasons' Quarterly Beview' has passed into other hands ; and the original proprietor—the responsible editor of the
preceding twenty-seven numbers—the individual projector and successful conductor of this desideratum in Freemasonry , has now to pen a valedictory address . Leave-taking , painful at all times , is rendered acutely so on such an occasion as this ; nor will its regrets be confined to the writer . He is mistaken , indeed , if they will not be shared by Masons throughout the world—by the thousands who
have kindly greeted each progressive emanation for nearly seven years—whose fraternal consideration , whose encouragement and sympathy , have never been found wanting ; and for whose proper , information , and not for his own personal gain , ' the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review' was commenced , and has been continued , with ardent sincerity and never-ceasing care . His best reward is , that
these labours have elicited Masonic friendships of no common or evanescent nature—to the pardonable pride of their mutual object , and to the enduring honour of all . Such an interchange of utility and appreciation ought not to have terminated but with existence . Yet change has become as necessary now , as sole and uniform devotion had been hitherto . Not as a natural result ; but as the unexpected consequence of arbitrary circumstances . That change grows out of the anomalous state of the English Masonic law , which
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MEMOIR OF ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , LL . D . P . G . D . B 1 THE "OEV . Q . OUVEB , ID . D ., TABT D , O . DI . MASSACHUSETTS . FOURTH PAPEE . " I am about to leave the world ; and of man I ask nothing but tenderness
towards his fellow-man , and a love of something larger than the speck of which his self consists . There are more reasons than one why , at this moment , when the period appointed by the Psalmist for our sojourn here is for me fast expiring , and when , as I may say , I have but the last stage of existence to travel , that I deem it proper to place upon paper the following few occurrences and remembrances of my time . "—CALEB STUKELEY .
" In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade ; 'Tis her ' s the brave man ' s latest steps to trace , Re-judge his acts , and dignify disgrace . "—POPE . " Amicus Plato , amicus Socrates , sed magis arnica Veritas . "— -LATIN PEOVBBB .
ONE of thc results of the proceedings recorded in my last paper , was a public announcement that Dr . Crucefix had resigned the editorship of "the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " which he gracefully effected by the following address to the Craft : "' The Freemasons' Quarterly Beview' has passed into other hands ; and the original proprietor—the responsible editor of the
preceding twenty-seven numbers—the individual projector and successful conductor of this desideratum in Freemasonry , has now to pen a valedictory address . Leave-taking , painful at all times , is rendered acutely so on such an occasion as this ; nor will its regrets be confined to the writer . He is mistaken , indeed , if they will not be shared by Masons throughout the world—by the thousands who
have kindly greeted each progressive emanation for nearly seven years—whose fraternal consideration , whose encouragement and sympathy , have never been found wanting ; and for whose proper , information , and not for his own personal gain , ' the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review' was commenced , and has been continued , with ardent sincerity and never-ceasing care . His best reward is , that
these labours have elicited Masonic friendships of no common or evanescent nature—to the pardonable pride of their mutual object , and to the enduring honour of all . Such an interchange of utility and appreciation ought not to have terminated but with existence . Yet change has become as necessary now , as sole and uniform devotion had been hitherto . Not as a natural result ; but as the unexpected consequence of arbitrary circumstances . That change grows out of the anomalous state of the English Masonic law , which