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The Revelations Of A Square.
on which occasion all the existing rituals were discussed with every possible care and attention , until , by the assistance of some zealous friends , whom he had deputed to visit a variety of Lodges in different parts of the kingdom for the purpose of gaining information , he succeeded in arranging and digesting the whole of the First Lecture . To establish its validity , he
resolved to submit the progress he had made to the judgment of the Society at large , and on Thursday , May 21 st , 1772 , he gave a banquet , at his own expense , at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , in the Strand , which was honoured with the presence of the Grand Officers , and many other eminent and respectable Brethren . " At his request the Brethren assembled early , " said the Square , " and Bro . Preston opened the business of the meeting in words to this effect :
" ' Brethren and friends , —I should scarcely have taken the liberty of soliciting your attendance here this day , had I not conceived that the general interests of Masonry might reap essential advantages from a convocation of the chief Members of the Craft , to consider and deliberate on a measure which could not take the initiative in Grand Lodge . I allude to a
revision of our Lodge Lectures , which , I think , ought to keep pace with the gradual advancement of other branches of Science , that the Fraternity may be furnished with an adequate motive for the exercise of their assiduity and zeal . Freemasonry is the friend of Industry , and being rather chary of her favourswill not dispense them to the indolent or
in-, different Brother . If he be either too proud to learn or too listless to attend to the general and particular business of the Lodge , there is good reason to believe that he will never be a bright and intelligent Mason . It would have been better not to have sought admission amongst us , than by a want of diligence to have rendered his initiaiion unproductive of solid
advantages . Whatever is worth doing at all , is worth doing well ; and no one can ever attain excellence in any art , human or divine , without an anxious development of the principles on which it is founded . His heart must be in the work , or he will never succeed ; and Masonry will yield neither feud , nor blossomnor fruit—he will neither understand its objectsor
, , participate in its advantages . With the name of a Mason , he will remain ignorant of its secrets , and incapable of estimating their value . " ' This is one chief reason why so many nominal brethren exist amongst us , who know no more of the aim and end of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Revelations Of A Square.
on which occasion all the existing rituals were discussed with every possible care and attention , until , by the assistance of some zealous friends , whom he had deputed to visit a variety of Lodges in different parts of the kingdom for the purpose of gaining information , he succeeded in arranging and digesting the whole of the First Lecture . To establish its validity , he
resolved to submit the progress he had made to the judgment of the Society at large , and on Thursday , May 21 st , 1772 , he gave a banquet , at his own expense , at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , in the Strand , which was honoured with the presence of the Grand Officers , and many other eminent and respectable Brethren . " At his request the Brethren assembled early , " said the Square , " and Bro . Preston opened the business of the meeting in words to this effect :
" ' Brethren and friends , —I should scarcely have taken the liberty of soliciting your attendance here this day , had I not conceived that the general interests of Masonry might reap essential advantages from a convocation of the chief Members of the Craft , to consider and deliberate on a measure which could not take the initiative in Grand Lodge . I allude to a
revision of our Lodge Lectures , which , I think , ought to keep pace with the gradual advancement of other branches of Science , that the Fraternity may be furnished with an adequate motive for the exercise of their assiduity and zeal . Freemasonry is the friend of Industry , and being rather chary of her favourswill not dispense them to the indolent or
in-, different Brother . If he be either too proud to learn or too listless to attend to the general and particular business of the Lodge , there is good reason to believe that he will never be a bright and intelligent Mason . It would have been better not to have sought admission amongst us , than by a want of diligence to have rendered his initiaiion unproductive of solid
advantages . Whatever is worth doing at all , is worth doing well ; and no one can ever attain excellence in any art , human or divine , without an anxious development of the principles on which it is founded . His heart must be in the work , or he will never succeed ; and Masonry will yield neither feud , nor blossomnor fruit—he will neither understand its objectsor
, , participate in its advantages . With the name of a Mason , he will remain ignorant of its secrets , and incapable of estimating their value . " ' This is one chief reason why so many nominal brethren exist amongst us , who know no more of the aim and end of the