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India.
aroused ., ; AVe have lately been visited by Bro . H . Bellamy -Webb , P . G . S . B ., a very intelligent Mason , and , we understand , not without interest at head quarters . He seemed to express a lively interest in our fate , and as he promised to report our true position at head quarters , it is fondly hoped that he will hold to his promise . Of the twenty-eight Lodges under the Anglo-Indian registry , sixteen are in fair work , six on the sick list , and six altogether dormant .
AVe are free to confess that the Grand Secretary is far from relaxing in his demands for money . Give him rupees , and so far well ; but as to one line on any other subject , it is as well not to expect it , and thus prevent disappointment . En passant , the Freemasons' Quarterly Review is not in favour among the big-wigs and the ear-wigs , yet how strange , through that periodical alone do we learn tidings of our Order ! Our Prov . Grand
Master has been in very indifferent health , or sure we are that he would be more in public , for he is estimable , but fearful of giving offence at home . It has been asked if Lord Eldon was a Mason ? for if so , his mantle has , in one sense , fallen on a successor worthy of his lordshipviz ., our Prov . Grand Master , who , in Masonic appeal cases , so hesitates and doubts , then doubts and hesitates , that both appellant and respondent have been known to depart from the earthly tribunal , and abide his decision in the Grand Lodge above I
Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
X 'The Sea . ; its Lessons and its Sorrows : a Sermon . By the Rev . Erskine Neale , MX A ., Rector of Kirton , and Chaplain to the Right Hon . the Earl of Huntingdon and Earl Spencer . Pawsey , Ipswich ; Spencer , London . ; This Sermon was preached on Sunday , the 27 th of June last , at St . Mary Tower , Ipswich , before the mayor and corporation of that borough , in , aid of the Ipswich Shipwrecked Seamen ' s Society . The
request for its publication proves the effect it produced on the attention of those to whom it was addressed ; and it will hardly be doubted but that Its sale will add to the object of the society in whose aid it was composed and preached . It is dedicated to the Earl Spencer . .. ; , , , , " There is sorrow on the sea . "—Jcr . xlix . 23 . It has often been our contemplative duty to peruse the discourses of
our Masonic divines , and to trace through them the types and symbols of our sacred profession . Perhaps no other class of our brethren possess equal moral power to connect our traditions and evidences with the same truthfulness . Our present author is a Mason whose heart and soul are engaged in the promulgation of the principles of brotherly love alid ' , tf uth ; it follows , therefore , as a natural consequence , that into the subject of the Shipwrecked Mariner ' s Society he has infused the pathos , interest ; - ' and holiness which the subject demands . The discourse is divided into spiritual associations and types . First he observes— " View
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India.
aroused ., ; AVe have lately been visited by Bro . H . Bellamy -Webb , P . G . S . B ., a very intelligent Mason , and , we understand , not without interest at head quarters . He seemed to express a lively interest in our fate , and as he promised to report our true position at head quarters , it is fondly hoped that he will hold to his promise . Of the twenty-eight Lodges under the Anglo-Indian registry , sixteen are in fair work , six on the sick list , and six altogether dormant .
AVe are free to confess that the Grand Secretary is far from relaxing in his demands for money . Give him rupees , and so far well ; but as to one line on any other subject , it is as well not to expect it , and thus prevent disappointment . En passant , the Freemasons' Quarterly Review is not in favour among the big-wigs and the ear-wigs , yet how strange , through that periodical alone do we learn tidings of our Order ! Our Prov . Grand
Master has been in very indifferent health , or sure we are that he would be more in public , for he is estimable , but fearful of giving offence at home . It has been asked if Lord Eldon was a Mason ? for if so , his mantle has , in one sense , fallen on a successor worthy of his lordshipviz ., our Prov . Grand Master , who , in Masonic appeal cases , so hesitates and doubts , then doubts and hesitates , that both appellant and respondent have been known to depart from the earthly tribunal , and abide his decision in the Grand Lodge above I
Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
X 'The Sea . ; its Lessons and its Sorrows : a Sermon . By the Rev . Erskine Neale , MX A ., Rector of Kirton , and Chaplain to the Right Hon . the Earl of Huntingdon and Earl Spencer . Pawsey , Ipswich ; Spencer , London . ; This Sermon was preached on Sunday , the 27 th of June last , at St . Mary Tower , Ipswich , before the mayor and corporation of that borough , in , aid of the Ipswich Shipwrecked Seamen ' s Society . The
request for its publication proves the effect it produced on the attention of those to whom it was addressed ; and it will hardly be doubted but that Its sale will add to the object of the society in whose aid it was composed and preached . It is dedicated to the Earl Spencer . .. ; , , , , " There is sorrow on the sea . "—Jcr . xlix . 23 . It has often been our contemplative duty to peruse the discourses of
our Masonic divines , and to trace through them the types and symbols of our sacred profession . Perhaps no other class of our brethren possess equal moral power to connect our traditions and evidences with the same truthfulness . Our present author is a Mason whose heart and soul are engaged in the promulgation of the principles of brotherly love alid ' , tf uth ; it follows , therefore , as a natural consequence , that into the subject of the Shipwrecked Mariner ' s Society he has infused the pathos , interest ; - ' and holiness which the subject demands . The discourse is divided into spiritual associations and types . First he observes— " View