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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J ANUARY 3 , 1874 .

The Old Year And The New Year.

THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW YEAR .

With the New Year , we beg most heartily and fraternally to offer our sincere good wishes to all our kind patrons , and friends , and readers . May 1874 be to them all a year of personal

happiness , and Masonic progress , and all that this world of ours counts best and pleasantest , be their lot , and that of all near and dear to them , in the as yet unrolled calendar of the new year .

And a new year , full as it is of pleasant sympathies and hopeful emotions , seems ever also to speak to us with a clear and prevailing message of solemnity and pathos . For a new year

reminds us of the old , of that period of our being which , whether in private relationships or public pursuits , is indissolnbly bound up with all our individual hopes and fears , and grievances and

struggles , and happiness , and sorrow . None of us , if we are wise , will allow a new year to succeed the old , or take part in the customary gaieties of the season , without , as it

were , a short and peaceful looking back on the hours and scenes which have slipped away , or the friends who have left us , and the joys which are no more , on the changes which have affected

our home circles , or our public relations , on the voidwhichadvancing timehas caston many circles and on the missing links which no longer make up our once united brotherhood of love . Indeed

it is impossible at the close of an old , or the opening of a new year , not to be sensibly impressed with the alterations , which even twelve short months have wrought for us and ours .

Those who were with us for instance , this time , twelvemonth , are with us no longer . Those who were standing at our sides , in all their freshness and fn-ice , in all their fulness of old , in all

the tenderness ol young affection , no longer adorn our humble hearth , or join the gladness of this festive time . On some households amontrst us . sorrow and

sadness have frllen in their darkening clouds , and have thrown both dimness and despondency , as well over tlie cheer ) ' associations of youth as over the iiiifaded euenyy of ripened ) ears .

The Old Year And The New Year.

So that , say what we will , the advent of a new year cannot be to any of us a subject of unmixed rejoicing , neither would it be well or wise in us , to let go these more sober thoughts , which the

lapse of time ever has , and ever must have for the considerate and the true hearted , and the reflecting . There is a voice speaking to us , from the grave of the old year , to which we may

all well listen , a voice ofjkindness and tenderness , and gentle recollection , and softening sympathy , which we should not drown in the loud gaiety of the world , or pass by unnoticed in the revelry of the hour .

But we did not intend , and we do not propose to preach a sermon , and therefore we will now proceed in our privileged Masonic greeting to our readers , with this closing 1873 , and with this

commencing 1874 . During the last twelve months , though oar English Freemasonry has gone on the even

and peaceful tenour of its way , under our excellent Grand Master , we have had to deplore the . loss of our old and time-honoured chief , Lord Zetland .

His death had been preceded during tho year that has vanished , by the death of a worthy and valued brother , his relative Bro . Frederick Dundas , and as the seasons came and went , the

news of Lord Zetland ' s decease fell upon the Craft , as a great shock . It was true indeed , that he died full of years and honours , that he passed away peacefully and calmly , in full possession

of his faculties to the last , amid the regrets of all who knew , and of many who honoured him . But we of this English Craft , who had known him so long and well , who had seen him preside

so often , so impartially and courteously over our long debates , we who had had good reason to appreciate his deep respect for law , and

his unfailing sense of justice , we felt that , in his loss , ours was a void which could not easily bs filled up .

Indeed it is almost impossible to estimate-yet r the debt of gratitude we owe , as an Order , to our late Iamemted Grand Master . While in other countries and under other

auspices , Fremasonry has been sometimes marked neither by a judicious administration nor decorous acts , while we in England could not but regret , that other ruling bodies did not adopt and imitate

our simple laws of purely Masonic aim and ; organization , we in ' this good land of ours , were ' enjoying , under Lord Zetland ' s firm yet temperate sway , the fullest measure both of material

prosperity and peaceful progress . Kept happily apart and at a distance / in our Craft system , and our lodge gatherings , from the passing polemics , and political controversies of

the hour , during Lord Zetland ' s " regime , " while our lodges have increased in a most remarkable ratio , ( a hundred per cent , ) we liave ? also witnessed the rapid growth of the warm and

unselfish principles and practices amongst us , of ready benevolence and fraternal charity . No nobler crown to his long Masonic : life , no happier testimony to the

progressive and expansive sympathies of Masonicbenevolence could be found , than the fact , that the very year which witnessed the removal of our old Grand Master from amongst us , witnessed also the donation and collection of