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The Masonic Mirror:
have thought it more judicious to cast our horoscope on the hist of November . Our readers need not apprehend any inconvenience in the matter of binding , from this arrangement , for as a general rule our volumes will end with December ;• and though our first volume will contain fourteen mvmbevs , each of the otheis Avill be comprised in twelve . It had been our original intention to publish our journal in the , shape of a
covered pamphlet , but urgent communications from country Brethren , induced us to alter this plan ; and the requirements of the Yost Office , Avhich forbid a separate cover and compel publication on one sheet only , have obliged us , if Ave Avould not forfeit the postal privilege , to adopt our present form , and to limit the Aveight of the paper on Avhich the " Mirror " is printed . Our readers , however , may rely upon it , that Ave will not allow them to suffer by these regulations . They shall have to the full as much , if not more , value for their money , than Ave could haA e given them had
the journal come out in the shape of a pamphlet . We pledge ourselves to give in each number , at least forty-eight pages of readable matter , altogether irrespective of the advertisements , Avhich will -be so arranged and numbered , as not to interfere with the general body of the publication , from which they may be cut aAVay to permit the binding of the "Mirror , " in one continuous volume , at the close of the year .
It is scarcely necessary to add , that there shall be no taint of sectarianism on the pages of the " Masonic Mirror . "Our mission being love , not hatred , —union , not discord , —religious rancour aud party acrimony shall alike be relegated from our columns . Inspired Avith this purpose and animated ivith , these feelings , Ave know not how better to conclude our address , than in the melodious language of the great poet , Avhose name
Ave have already mentioned—a poet of Avhose glory assuredly no class of his countrymen has greater reason to be proud than they Avho Avere bound with , him iu the mystic tye ot' Masonry .
" May freedom , harmony , and love , Unite you in the grand design , Beneath th' Omniscient eye above , The glorious architect divine ! That you may keep th' unerring line , Still rising by the ¦ plummet's law , Till order bright completely shine Shall be our prayer for one and a ' , "
Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE AGED FREEMASONS ASYLUM . IT gives us sincere pleasure to be enabled to announce that the Asylum at Croydon , in connexion ivith the Eoyal Masonic Benevolent Institution for aged Freemasons and their Avidows , is now nearly completed , and that it will be capable of accommodating thirty-four inmates , not aboi e half that number being at present within its walls . We are the more gratified to record the rapid approach to completion of the building , because it now
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The Masonic Mirror:
have thought it more judicious to cast our horoscope on the hist of November . Our readers need not apprehend any inconvenience in the matter of binding , from this arrangement , for as a general rule our volumes will end with December ;• and though our first volume will contain fourteen mvmbevs , each of the otheis Avill be comprised in twelve . It had been our original intention to publish our journal in the , shape of a
covered pamphlet , but urgent communications from country Brethren , induced us to alter this plan ; and the requirements of the Yost Office , Avhich forbid a separate cover and compel publication on one sheet only , have obliged us , if Ave Avould not forfeit the postal privilege , to adopt our present form , and to limit the Aveight of the paper on Avhich the " Mirror " is printed . Our readers , however , may rely upon it , that Ave will not allow them to suffer by these regulations . They shall have to the full as much , if not more , value for their money , than Ave could haA e given them had
the journal come out in the shape of a pamphlet . We pledge ourselves to give in each number , at least forty-eight pages of readable matter , altogether irrespective of the advertisements , Avhich will -be so arranged and numbered , as not to interfere with the general body of the publication , from which they may be cut aAVay to permit the binding of the "Mirror , " in one continuous volume , at the close of the year .
It is scarcely necessary to add , that there shall be no taint of sectarianism on the pages of the " Masonic Mirror . "Our mission being love , not hatred , —union , not discord , —religious rancour aud party acrimony shall alike be relegated from our columns . Inspired Avith this purpose and animated ivith , these feelings , Ave know not how better to conclude our address , than in the melodious language of the great poet , Avhose name
Ave have already mentioned—a poet of Avhose glory assuredly no class of his countrymen has greater reason to be proud than they Avho Avere bound with , him iu the mystic tye ot' Masonry .
" May freedom , harmony , and love , Unite you in the grand design , Beneath th' Omniscient eye above , The glorious architect divine ! That you may keep th' unerring line , Still rising by the ¦ plummet's law , Till order bright completely shine Shall be our prayer for one and a ' , "
Masonic Intelligence.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE AGED FREEMASONS ASYLUM . IT gives us sincere pleasure to be enabled to announce that the Asylum at Croydon , in connexion ivith the Eoyal Masonic Benevolent Institution for aged Freemasons and their Avidows , is now nearly completed , and that it will be capable of accommodating thirty-four inmates , not aboi e half that number being at present within its walls . We are the more gratified to record the rapid approach to completion of the building , because it now