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Article THE FEEEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. ← Page 6 of 12 →
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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
favour , the Proprietors will secure the active and zealous encouragement of their Brethren , the greatest stimulus will be given to their purposes , and thus the time will be proved to have come when it may be truthfully saicl , that Freemasonry is not behind the age in its patx * onage of literature , any more
than it is in the increasing support which it is annually giving to its noble and princely Charities . Having said thus much of the exclusively literary department of the JFYeemasons' Quarterly Magazine , and asked for support ancl encouragement upon promises which it is intended
punctually to fulfil , it may not be out of place here to refer to that department of the publication which , as heretofox * e , will be exclusively confined to the records of Masonic proceedings at home and abroad . In this department , care will be taken to record the proceedings of the Grand Cliapter , of the Quarterly
Communications of the Grand Lodge , of the Higher Degrees , of the Charities , and of Metropolitan , Provincial , Scotch , Irish , Colonial , and Foreign intelligence . As an earnest of what our intentions in this respect may be , we are induced to call attention to the second part of the present number , which
will be foixnd to he quite as frill of Masonic intelligence as on any former occasion ; and which , moreover , will even be much more so , in future , if our correspondents will only attend to our earnest and oft-repeated request—to furnish us with tlieir communications by the time we have again and again
specified . If those correspondents could only be brought to consider how much they add to our labours by not acceding to our wishes , and how often they render it imperative upon us to omit their information altogether , they would , we are convinced , cease from procrastination , and put us , at least by the time we name , in possession of that intelligence , with which they have taken much pains .
As we have alluded to most of the points which are of peculiar and especial interest in the proposed future conduct of this periodical , we feel that we ought now to say a few words upon the present condition of Ereemasomy itself . We commence a new asra of our existence at a period
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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
favour , the Proprietors will secure the active and zealous encouragement of their Brethren , the greatest stimulus will be given to their purposes , and thus the time will be proved to have come when it may be truthfully saicl , that Freemasonry is not behind the age in its patx * onage of literature , any more
than it is in the increasing support which it is annually giving to its noble and princely Charities . Having said thus much of the exclusively literary department of the JFYeemasons' Quarterly Magazine , and asked for support ancl encouragement upon promises which it is intended
punctually to fulfil , it may not be out of place here to refer to that department of the publication which , as heretofox * e , will be exclusively confined to the records of Masonic proceedings at home and abroad . In this department , care will be taken to record the proceedings of the Grand Cliapter , of the Quarterly
Communications of the Grand Lodge , of the Higher Degrees , of the Charities , and of Metropolitan , Provincial , Scotch , Irish , Colonial , and Foreign intelligence . As an earnest of what our intentions in this respect may be , we are induced to call attention to the second part of the present number , which
will be foixnd to he quite as frill of Masonic intelligence as on any former occasion ; and which , moreover , will even be much more so , in future , if our correspondents will only attend to our earnest and oft-repeated request—to furnish us with tlieir communications by the time we have again and again
specified . If those correspondents could only be brought to consider how much they add to our labours by not acceding to our wishes , and how often they render it imperative upon us to omit their information altogether , they would , we are convinced , cease from procrastination , and put us , at least by the time we name , in possession of that intelligence , with which they have taken much pains .
As we have alluded to most of the points which are of peculiar and especial interest in the proposed future conduct of this periodical , we feel that we ought now to say a few words upon the present condition of Ereemasomy itself . We commence a new asra of our existence at a period