-
Articles/Ads
Article TO CORRESPONDENTS. ← Page 2 of 3 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Correspondents.
COLLEGE MUSINGS —The continuation of these papers is unavoidably deferred . A COLLECTOR—We are obliged by the offer of some parts ofthe "Bibliotheca Suaiexiami , " but our series is complete . Bro . Spencer will * probably , he glad to avail himself of the offer , having many friends to serve .
A NON-PEON OF SUMATRA . —Thc sovereign of that ilk did not present the memorial against increase of dues , for the purpose of granting annuities to widows , said to have been passed unanimously in his imaginary province , and concocted by—Nobody . He has , we hear , however , become very restless on the important grand junction extension midland trebble-trunk atmospheric , which , being " provincially registered , " is to circum vail ate , under-tunnel , enclose , include , and embrace all the vastness of his intended contemplation . The constant enquiry of Major Longbow is , " How are stocks ?"
PAKNOBELE . —Were AVC not right ? Had you applied to the Board of General Purposes , you must have become foes ; thc mere exposure of the ease would havo tended to such a result . The papers being destroyed by mutual consent , no evidence exists . The Board had no business ofthe kind on hand ., so that your case would have attracted the deeper attention of the Grand Lodge . BUISTOLIENSIS . —Your communications are always valuable .
A NORWICH BROTHER will , we hope , excuse the omission of the "bill of fare" at the Grand Installation dinner ; but we promise to pay the most sidulous attention to any reports of the " working ' - ' of the Provincial Grand Lodge , as well as to that of tho subordinate Lodges . ANTICIPATION . —We merely save the opinion of an influential correspondent . The recent important change in the government may defer , if not otherwise aifeet probability .
BR . O . REED . —Bro . Spencer will have bound copies as soon as they can be procured from the G . S . It . H . —By an act of excessive caution , the lithographic plates have been DESTROYED , SO that about 500 copies of the letter-press of the Constitutions remain on hand without plates . O ye clever men at head-quarters I But will any one dare to state as much in the G . L . ? THE BOY JONES . —Inquires from . whence are the expenses of the G . S ., on the occasion of his visits to the G . M . defrayed ? From the funds of the Board of G . P .
Bno . W . PHILLIPS . —The three stars . Too late . DEV . MAX . —Anonymous correspondents ought not to handle edge-tools , which require handicraft in their use * , such persons often do injury . We always give as full reports as circumstances admit . The name may have escaped the notice of the compiler of the Index . Not knowing our correspondent , we cannot do acceptable justice to the estimable friend ( for such he is ) and Brother alluded to , whose high sense of honour would shrink from anonymous praise . The note reached us on the 21 st Dee ., but bears long ranged date of
1845 . .. j , ji s . —Warty thanks for a very courteous compliment , and rely on the promise . The report came very late , and is therefore somewhat abridged . W . L . —The anticipated grand festival and ball at Birmingham , on the 22 ud Jan ., too late . W . E . —The marriage of Bro . Pigott too late .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . FIDELIO . —As to candidates . The Quaker ' s affirmation with his hat on or off , as lie pleases . Thc Hebrew on the Old Testament . The Turk on the Koran . The Hindoo and Paise ' e by their own test of faith . Tlie Red Indian by the Great Spirit The wild denizen of the forest by the sun , with a reservation , that bis Sponsor do bind himself to acquaint the no ) ile , fellow with . the supremacy of the Great Architect of the Universe that made the sun . All ' whom HE created , the atheist alone excepted , may be received within the pale of FREEMASONRY .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Correspondents.
COLLEGE MUSINGS —The continuation of these papers is unavoidably deferred . A COLLECTOR—We are obliged by the offer of some parts ofthe "Bibliotheca Suaiexiami , " but our series is complete . Bro . Spencer will * probably , he glad to avail himself of the offer , having many friends to serve .
A NON-PEON OF SUMATRA . —Thc sovereign of that ilk did not present the memorial against increase of dues , for the purpose of granting annuities to widows , said to have been passed unanimously in his imaginary province , and concocted by—Nobody . He has , we hear , however , become very restless on the important grand junction extension midland trebble-trunk atmospheric , which , being " provincially registered , " is to circum vail ate , under-tunnel , enclose , include , and embrace all the vastness of his intended contemplation . The constant enquiry of Major Longbow is , " How are stocks ?"
PAKNOBELE . —Were AVC not right ? Had you applied to the Board of General Purposes , you must have become foes ; thc mere exposure of the ease would havo tended to such a result . The papers being destroyed by mutual consent , no evidence exists . The Board had no business ofthe kind on hand ., so that your case would have attracted the deeper attention of the Grand Lodge . BUISTOLIENSIS . —Your communications are always valuable .
A NORWICH BROTHER will , we hope , excuse the omission of the "bill of fare" at the Grand Installation dinner ; but we promise to pay the most sidulous attention to any reports of the " working ' - ' of the Provincial Grand Lodge , as well as to that of tho subordinate Lodges . ANTICIPATION . —We merely save the opinion of an influential correspondent . The recent important change in the government may defer , if not otherwise aifeet probability .
BR . O . REED . —Bro . Spencer will have bound copies as soon as they can be procured from the G . S . It . H . —By an act of excessive caution , the lithographic plates have been DESTROYED , SO that about 500 copies of the letter-press of the Constitutions remain on hand without plates . O ye clever men at head-quarters I But will any one dare to state as much in the G . L . ? THE BOY JONES . —Inquires from . whence are the expenses of the G . S ., on the occasion of his visits to the G . M . defrayed ? From the funds of the Board of G . P .
Bno . W . PHILLIPS . —The three stars . Too late . DEV . MAX . —Anonymous correspondents ought not to handle edge-tools , which require handicraft in their use * , such persons often do injury . We always give as full reports as circumstances admit . The name may have escaped the notice of the compiler of the Index . Not knowing our correspondent , we cannot do acceptable justice to the estimable friend ( for such he is ) and Brother alluded to , whose high sense of honour would shrink from anonymous praise . The note reached us on the 21 st Dee ., but bears long ranged date of
1845 . .. j , ji s . —Warty thanks for a very courteous compliment , and rely on the promise . The report came very late , and is therefore somewhat abridged . W . L . —The anticipated grand festival and ball at Birmingham , on the 22 ud Jan ., too late . W . E . —The marriage of Bro . Pigott too late .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . FIDELIO . —As to candidates . The Quaker ' s affirmation with his hat on or off , as lie pleases . Thc Hebrew on the Old Testament . The Turk on the Koran . The Hindoo and Paise ' e by their own test of faith . Tlie Red Indian by the Great Spirit The wild denizen of the forest by the sun , with a reservation , that bis Sponsor do bind himself to acquaint the no ) ile , fellow with . the supremacy of the Great Architect of the Universe that made the sun . All ' whom HE created , the atheist alone excepted , may be received within the pale of FREEMASONRY .