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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
DECEMBER 31 , 1851 . MASONIC RETROSPECT . WITH this number of the "FREEMASON ' QUARTERLY
MAGAZINE AND REVIEW " we close the year 1851 , —a period long to be remembered , as one of the most remarkable that has ever , perhaps , occurred in our country's history . It is not , however , with the political events , which have transpired during the year , that we have to deal ;
neither is it any part of our province or duty to refer to the great religious struggle , which still goes on in the world . We also doubt very much whether we have any right to refer to the mercantile transactions , which have been of an unusual character , or to the operations of trade , which have either been benefited or depressed by the various circumstances that have crowded upon each other in rapid
succession . On these accounts , therefore , we dismiss all such subjects from our minds , and leave them to those , who are more deeply interested in them than we are in our present position . We have to deal with quite another subject , — one that is far more to our taste than those we have enumerated—THE PROGRESS OE FREEMASONRY at home and
abroad . In the natural order of events we will first consider the position of the Masonic Order in England at the close of 1851 . In looking back upon the year , we are able to congratulate the entire Fraternity , no less than ourselves , upon the decided progress which has been made . It is true , that the opportunity afforded by the Great Exhibition was not VOL . II . I I
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 , 1851 . MASONIC RETROSPECT . WITH this number of the "FREEMASON ' QUARTERLY
MAGAZINE AND REVIEW " we close the year 1851 , —a period long to be remembered , as one of the most remarkable that has ever , perhaps , occurred in our country's history . It is not , however , with the political events , which have transpired during the year , that we have to deal ;
neither is it any part of our province or duty to refer to the great religious struggle , which still goes on in the world . We also doubt very much whether we have any right to refer to the mercantile transactions , which have been of an unusual character , or to the operations of trade , which have either been benefited or depressed by the various circumstances that have crowded upon each other in rapid
succession . On these accounts , therefore , we dismiss all such subjects from our minds , and leave them to those , who are more deeply interested in them than we are in our present position . We have to deal with quite another subject , — one that is far more to our taste than those we have enumerated—THE PROGRESS OE FREEMASONRY at home and
abroad . In the natural order of events we will first consider the position of the Masonic Order in England at the close of 1851 . In looking back upon the year , we are able to congratulate the entire Fraternity , no less than ourselves , upon the decided progress which has been made . It is true , that the opportunity afforded by the Great Exhibition was not VOL . II . I I