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those who propose it , expect to be flattered and feasted in Great Queen Street , and return to continue the abuses , which so much stand in need of reform at home , we can only anticipate a still longer continuation ofthe gross evils which at present obtain . I am not without hope that the best results will flow from the visits of the Grand Lodge of Scotland to those of England and Ireland . If the first deputation visit Londonit will sureldraw a full house
, y , and put all the English Brethren " on tiptoe expectation " to see the lions of the north ; and from all the Craft , from the Earl of Zetland downwards , we are sure , they will secure a most fraternal reception . We should be sorry , if any false delicacy should restrain English Brethren from expressing their opinions to the deputation , in a truly Masonic and fraternal spirit , of what they have seen practised in Scotland . When the Grand Lodof Scotland does visit the Grand
ge Lodge of England , we also trust that the members may not think it beneath their dignity to visit as many of the private Lodges as they can . It is their duty to see what is doing and what has been done . Let them travel East in pursuit of knowledge and instruction , and they will obtain information ; their reception will gratify , and the entertainment delight them . But when the Grand Lodge return , let ns hope that its members will in good earnest set their house in
order , scrub it up and repair it , so that they may expect— -if they have heart to invite a deputation from the Grand Lodge of England to visit our venerable parent—that the results of their journey may be both evident and permanent . Much , very much , however , mil have to be done in the meantime ! Yours fraternally , FELLOW CRAFT .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND REVIEW . SIR AND BROTHER , —Belzoni , in his narrative of Ms operations in Egypt and Nubia , on opening the second Pyramid , found in the principal chamber an Arabic inscription , the translation of which he gives as under . Your readers will perhaps remember , that this Pyramid had not been opened for some hundreds of years .
" The Master Mohammed Ahmed lapicide has opened them , and the Master Othman attended , and the King Alij Mohammed , at first to the closing up . " And in Vol . I ., pp . 398 and 412 , he says he got a clue to the entrance by certain mai-ks on the outer stones of the Pyramid . Can any of your readers inform me what those marks were , and where any account is to be found of them ? I apprehend they must
have been some Masonic marks of the builders . —Yours , SEGO . MONSIEUR ET TRES CHER FRERE , —Dans votre revue retrospective du 31 Decembre dernier , vous rapportez un article de I' Univers Religieux contre la Maconnerie , et vous imputez aux Jesuites les persecutions dont nous avons toujonrs ete menaces . II entre dans
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Correspondence.
those who propose it , expect to be flattered and feasted in Great Queen Street , and return to continue the abuses , which so much stand in need of reform at home , we can only anticipate a still longer continuation ofthe gross evils which at present obtain . I am not without hope that the best results will flow from the visits of the Grand Lodge of Scotland to those of England and Ireland . If the first deputation visit Londonit will sureldraw a full house
, y , and put all the English Brethren " on tiptoe expectation " to see the lions of the north ; and from all the Craft , from the Earl of Zetland downwards , we are sure , they will secure a most fraternal reception . We should be sorry , if any false delicacy should restrain English Brethren from expressing their opinions to the deputation , in a truly Masonic and fraternal spirit , of what they have seen practised in Scotland . When the Grand Lodof Scotland does visit the Grand
ge Lodge of England , we also trust that the members may not think it beneath their dignity to visit as many of the private Lodges as they can . It is their duty to see what is doing and what has been done . Let them travel East in pursuit of knowledge and instruction , and they will obtain information ; their reception will gratify , and the entertainment delight them . But when the Grand Lodge return , let ns hope that its members will in good earnest set their house in
order , scrub it up and repair it , so that they may expect— -if they have heart to invite a deputation from the Grand Lodge of England to visit our venerable parent—that the results of their journey may be both evident and permanent . Much , very much , however , mil have to be done in the meantime ! Yours fraternally , FELLOW CRAFT .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND REVIEW . SIR AND BROTHER , —Belzoni , in his narrative of Ms operations in Egypt and Nubia , on opening the second Pyramid , found in the principal chamber an Arabic inscription , the translation of which he gives as under . Your readers will perhaps remember , that this Pyramid had not been opened for some hundreds of years .
" The Master Mohammed Ahmed lapicide has opened them , and the Master Othman attended , and the King Alij Mohammed , at first to the closing up . " And in Vol . I ., pp . 398 and 412 , he says he got a clue to the entrance by certain mai-ks on the outer stones of the Pyramid . Can any of your readers inform me what those marks were , and where any account is to be found of them ? I apprehend they must
have been some Masonic marks of the builders . —Yours , SEGO . MONSIEUR ET TRES CHER FRERE , —Dans votre revue retrospective du 31 Decembre dernier , vous rapportez un article de I' Univers Religieux contre la Maconnerie , et vous imputez aux Jesuites les persecutions dont nous avons toujonrs ete menaces . II entre dans