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Article THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
THE MASTERS' AND PAST MASTERS' CLUB * . —•—This association is now embodied ; its object , if we are correct , is likely to insure a regular attendance at the Quarterly Communications , by which any business thereat transacted will not onl y be more ampl y discussed , but more generally
known throughout the Order . The arrangements of this club , it is also said , are made with every view to economy ; and one feature we have heard stated with peculiar satisfaction , that any Provincial Master or Past Master , entitled to a seat in the Grand
Lodge , has free access to the club on the days of meeting , both to the business and afterwards to the dinner—the latter at a very moderate charge . This liberality in throwing open the affairs of the club to any visitor so qualified , is a
sufficient repl y to any illiberal observations in which prejudice may have indulged , ancl affords such of our provincial Brethren who can avail themselves of it , the opportunity of Masonic intercourse under circumstances of peculiar interest ancl importance . The meeting on the third of this
month mi g ht be termed its inaugural one ( as the first , we have been informed , was merel y to consider the necessity of such a club ); and most propitious was its commencement —its members moved and seconded the nomination of his Royal Hi g hness , our present Grand Master , to be
continued , with his gracious " permission , in the exercise of that hi g h office : thus proving , first , the inestimable value of jiublic opinion , by which alone good men wish to be judged ; and , secondly , that the first public result of the association was one of courtesy as Brethren and loyalty as Freemasons .
It is with unmixed p leasure we announce that in London the accession of new Members to the Order has been unusually great ; that there has arisen a proportionate anxiety to attain the honour of the Masonic Chair , not
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
THE MASTERS' AND PAST MASTERS' CLUB * . —•—This association is now embodied ; its object , if we are correct , is likely to insure a regular attendance at the Quarterly Communications , by which any business thereat transacted will not onl y be more ampl y discussed , but more generally
known throughout the Order . The arrangements of this club , it is also said , are made with every view to economy ; and one feature we have heard stated with peculiar satisfaction , that any Provincial Master or Past Master , entitled to a seat in the Grand
Lodge , has free access to the club on the days of meeting , both to the business and afterwards to the dinner—the latter at a very moderate charge . This liberality in throwing open the affairs of the club to any visitor so qualified , is a
sufficient repl y to any illiberal observations in which prejudice may have indulged , ancl affords such of our provincial Brethren who can avail themselves of it , the opportunity of Masonic intercourse under circumstances of peculiar interest ancl importance . The meeting on the third of this
month mi g ht be termed its inaugural one ( as the first , we have been informed , was merel y to consider the necessity of such a club ); and most propitious was its commencement —its members moved and seconded the nomination of his Royal Hi g hness , our present Grand Master , to be
continued , with his gracious " permission , in the exercise of that hi g h office : thus proving , first , the inestimable value of jiublic opinion , by which alone good men wish to be judged ; and , secondly , that the first public result of the association was one of courtesy as Brethren and loyalty as Freemasons .
It is with unmixed p leasure we announce that in London the accession of new Members to the Order has been unusually great ; that there has arisen a proportionate anxiety to attain the honour of the Masonic Chair , not