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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine .
become uninteresting to those members not actively engaged in them ; and country Lodges generally labour under the disadvantage , that none of the members are able to deliver those lectures , which explain so minutely and satisfactorily every point in tbe ceremonies , and give a reason for the observance of the formalities used in them ; which at first sight ( and especially to a candidate for initiation ) may
appear trifling and absurd . I am aware that many country brethren make it a rule , whenever they are in town , to visit the Lodges of Instruction , in Avhich those lectures are so admirably worked ; but it must be at a great sacrifice of time and money , that any individual Brother could , by such means , make himself master of the whole of them . I feel convinced that the country Lodges generally would
hail with satisfaction any well-matured plan , whereby their mode of Avorking could be rendered perfect . Leaving the consideration of this subject to older and more expert brethren , I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , P . M . 786 .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
St . Germains en Loge , March 6 th , 1854 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , — IN reading the last number of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine , I observed that at the Eestival of the Annual Provincial Grand Lodge for North "Wales , the Provincial Grand Master , Sir W . W . "W ynn , iu proposing the health of Lord Combermere , said—¦ " As "Welshmen , we
must all be proud to think that three Peninsular Brothers Avere present at the funeral ofthe illustrious Brother , the Duke of Wellington . " Now I have been Avriting for the last five years , a Avork to be entitled the "Ancient Builders of the "World , " intended to furnish a history of Ancient Masonry and Modern Ereemasonry , and among several subjects , I Avas anxious to have the name and date of reception into Ereemasonry of every illustrious manAvhether a warriorphilosopher
, , , or poet , & c . & c . Eor this purpose , I Avrote to the Duke of "Wellington , and the folloAving is his reply : — London , October 13 , 1851 . " E . M . the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr . "Walsh . He has received his letter of the 7 th ult . The Duke has no recollection of having been admitted a Ereemason . He has no
knoAvledge of that association . " I am perfectly aware that many Lodges Avhich met immediately after the death of the Duke , drank bis memory in silence ; but is it not a curious fact that the Duke should disavoAV his knowledge of any intimacy with such a fact ? I have looked into several Masonic biographies , and cannot find his name ; ancl it is also a most curious thing that the old Napoleon ' s name , although he was a Mason ,
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine .
become uninteresting to those members not actively engaged in them ; and country Lodges generally labour under the disadvantage , that none of the members are able to deliver those lectures , which explain so minutely and satisfactorily every point in tbe ceremonies , and give a reason for the observance of the formalities used in them ; which at first sight ( and especially to a candidate for initiation ) may
appear trifling and absurd . I am aware that many country brethren make it a rule , whenever they are in town , to visit the Lodges of Instruction , in Avhich those lectures are so admirably worked ; but it must be at a great sacrifice of time and money , that any individual Brother could , by such means , make himself master of the whole of them . I feel convinced that the country Lodges generally would
hail with satisfaction any well-matured plan , whereby their mode of Avorking could be rendered perfect . Leaving the consideration of this subject to older and more expert brethren , I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , P . M . 786 .
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
St . Germains en Loge , March 6 th , 1854 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , — IN reading the last number of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine , I observed that at the Eestival of the Annual Provincial Grand Lodge for North "Wales , the Provincial Grand Master , Sir W . W . "W ynn , iu proposing the health of Lord Combermere , said—¦ " As "Welshmen , we
must all be proud to think that three Peninsular Brothers Avere present at the funeral ofthe illustrious Brother , the Duke of Wellington . " Now I have been Avriting for the last five years , a Avork to be entitled the "Ancient Builders of the "World , " intended to furnish a history of Ancient Masonry and Modern Ereemasonry , and among several subjects , I Avas anxious to have the name and date of reception into Ereemasonry of every illustrious manAvhether a warriorphilosopher
, , , or poet , & c . & c . Eor this purpose , I Avrote to the Duke of "Wellington , and the folloAving is his reply : — London , October 13 , 1851 . " E . M . the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr . "Walsh . He has received his letter of the 7 th ult . The Duke has no recollection of having been admitted a Ereemason . He has no
knoAvledge of that association . " I am perfectly aware that many Lodges Avhich met immediately after the death of the Duke , drank bis memory in silence ; but is it not a curious fact that the Duke should disavoAV his knowledge of any intimacy with such a fact ? I have looked into several Masonic biographies , and cannot find his name ; ancl it is also a most curious thing that the old Napoleon ' s name , although he was a Mason ,