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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
AVe greet our readers , one and all , most kindly , Avith this neAV number of a New Year . It is impossible to let such an event , commonplace though it be , pass without some notice , and therefore Ave feel bound to advert to
the subject in this our January number for 1877 . A . D . 1876 Avhich has passed aAvay , and young 1877 Avhich is knocking at the door , make up for us little circles of time , closely bound up with , our nearest
and dearest earthly interests , our hopes and fears , our joys and sorrows , our aspirations and recollections . _ The close of an old and the beginning of a neAV year always suggest to us some sobering , some saddening
thoughts . Time was , and is and is not , and is yet to be , and who can number up the changes which Time , untiring , witnesses year by year amongst us ? We cannot put pen to paper to-day without feeling IIOAV uncertain ever are the
issues of life , the results of Time , the opening young year reminds us of departed friends , and though neAV friends and fresh friends are Avith us , we cannot but look back Avith wistful eyes through the hazy shadows of the past , for
friends and faces very dear to us Mice , but noAV no more with us , to soothe our sorrows or animate our joys . We who Avrite and you who read , may all well feel the truth of what has been s , ° % said , as Ave are reminded to-W , that with a new natural year Ave De gm , so to say , fresh labours , and
appeal to unchanged friends . Yet who of us may see the close of 1877 ? The Aveary pen may be still , the "tired heart may cease to palpitate , " kind readers may have passed aAvay , and neAV writers may conduct , and new subscribers may Avelcome our "Masonic Magazine . " Good is it that the future is
unknoAvn to us all . Life Avould be unendurable if it Avere not so ; it is hard enough and trying enough as it is , without the certainty of future events , substituting despair for hope , and desolation for anticipation .
But still , as Freemasons , trusting in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., we leave the things of the future to His supreme wisdom and goodness and mercy and justice , doing Avhat our "hand findeth to do with all our might , " and never forgetting that as faithful craftsmen Ave have all alike a
work to do for the Master of us all , a work not to be clone perfunctorily or carelessly , or half-heartedly , but , as Ave Freemasons-say , " with freedom , fervency , and zeal . " We wish a Happy NBAV Year to all our many kind friends , courteous correspondents , and steady readers , at home and abroad .
"We do not affect to say that Ave have much to report in this our Monthly Summary . Freemasonry is flourishing in Great Britain , the United States , the Canadas , India , and all our colonial dependencies , in marvellous measures . Mayits onwardprogress notbemarred
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
AVe greet our readers , one and all , most kindly , Avith this neAV number of a New Year . It is impossible to let such an event , commonplace though it be , pass without some notice , and therefore Ave feel bound to advert to
the subject in this our January number for 1877 . A . D . 1876 Avhich has passed aAvay , and young 1877 Avhich is knocking at the door , make up for us little circles of time , closely bound up with , our nearest
and dearest earthly interests , our hopes and fears , our joys and sorrows , our aspirations and recollections . _ The close of an old and the beginning of a neAV year always suggest to us some sobering , some saddening
thoughts . Time was , and is and is not , and is yet to be , and who can number up the changes which Time , untiring , witnesses year by year amongst us ? We cannot put pen to paper to-day without feeling IIOAV uncertain ever are the
issues of life , the results of Time , the opening young year reminds us of departed friends , and though neAV friends and fresh friends are Avith us , we cannot but look back Avith wistful eyes through the hazy shadows of the past , for
friends and faces very dear to us Mice , but noAV no more with us , to soothe our sorrows or animate our joys . We who Avrite and you who read , may all well feel the truth of what has been s , ° % said , as Ave are reminded to-W , that with a new natural year Ave De gm , so to say , fresh labours , and
appeal to unchanged friends . Yet who of us may see the close of 1877 ? The Aveary pen may be still , the "tired heart may cease to palpitate , " kind readers may have passed aAvay , and neAV writers may conduct , and new subscribers may Avelcome our "Masonic Magazine . " Good is it that the future is
unknoAvn to us all . Life Avould be unendurable if it Avere not so ; it is hard enough and trying enough as it is , without the certainty of future events , substituting despair for hope , and desolation for anticipation .
But still , as Freemasons , trusting in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., we leave the things of the future to His supreme wisdom and goodness and mercy and justice , doing Avhat our "hand findeth to do with all our might , " and never forgetting that as faithful craftsmen Ave have all alike a
work to do for the Master of us all , a work not to be clone perfunctorily or carelessly , or half-heartedly , but , as Ave Freemasons-say , " with freedom , fervency , and zeal . " We wish a Happy NBAV Year to all our many kind friends , courteous correspondents , and steady readers , at home and abroad .
"We do not affect to say that Ave have much to report in this our Monthly Summary . Freemasonry is flourishing in Great Britain , the United States , the Canadas , India , and all our colonial dependencies , in marvellous measures . Mayits onwardprogress notbemarred