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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
DECEMBER 31 , 1850 . ADVANCEMENT OF MASONIC KNOWLEDGE .
NOTWITHSTANDING the many discouragements whicli Freemasonry has met with , it is an undoubted fact that at this moment it is on the advance throughout the globe ; and in no part of the world is it making greater strides than in the British dominions . If we refer to our own island , —to
which our remarks will more especially in this instance be confined , —and examine its progress during the last ten or fifteen years , we shall observe a marked improvement in the class of persons who have ranged themselves under its banners ; and find that the majority of those , who have joined
its ranks , have become so far imbued with its principles at the very outset of their career , as to become " working " Brethren , as contradistinguished from others , who do but little suit and service , and seem to imagine that the whole business of the society is merely to offer a means of
periodical relaxation from the cares and anxieties of the usual avocations of life . It is clear that brethren of this character are not only the slowest to discover the secret arts and hidden mysteries of the several degrees , but , moreover , YOIu 1 . 3 L
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
DECEMBER 31 , 1850 . ADVANCEMENT OF MASONIC KNOWLEDGE .
NOTWITHSTANDING the many discouragements whicli Freemasonry has met with , it is an undoubted fact that at this moment it is on the advance throughout the globe ; and in no part of the world is it making greater strides than in the British dominions . If we refer to our own island , —to
which our remarks will more especially in this instance be confined , —and examine its progress during the last ten or fifteen years , we shall observe a marked improvement in the class of persons who have ranged themselves under its banners ; and find that the majority of those , who have joined
its ranks , have become so far imbued with its principles at the very outset of their career , as to become " working " Brethren , as contradistinguished from others , who do but little suit and service , and seem to imagine that the whole business of the society is merely to offer a means of
periodical relaxation from the cares and anxieties of the usual avocations of life . It is clear that brethren of this character are not only the slowest to discover the secret arts and hidden mysteries of the several degrees , but , moreover , YOIu 1 . 3 L