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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal to report this month . The Grand Lodge has accepted unanimously the Eeporfc of the Special Committee appointed to consider what
form the grateful recognition of Grand Lodge for our Grand Master ' s return should take , and which recommends the endowment of tAvo Life Boats with £ 4 , 000 . The vote has to be confirmed at the next Quarterly Communication .
Beyond this and the onward progress of the Craft in England , we have , as we said before , but little to note .
One fact is , however , very striking , namely , that during 1876 our English Fraternity sent up over £ 39 , 000 to the three great metropolitan charities , a fact which in itself speaks volumes for the reality of its professions , and the value of its humble work .
The new year brings us from the antipodes another senseless Ultramontane-attack on Freemasonry , proceeding too , from a Roman Catholic Archbishop , who is old enough to knoAV better , so that in Old World as in New , at Home
and at the Antipodes , the IJltramontanes seem desirous to curse and to crush all who venture to differ from their own opinions , or to diverge from their so-called infallible faith . We shall recur to the subject in our next .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
For the "Masonic Magazine . " BY BEO . BEV . M . GOEDON . THEIR charms renew'd by each glad
summer ' s sun , Deck'd are the ilow ' rs in vesture radiant , as No mortal artists skill can e ' er surpass ; So deftly Phccbus' hands their rolses have spun
In Nature ' s loom . —As not ev ' n Solomon Himself , array'd in all his glory , Avas Apparell'd in such brightness as the grass Can show in flow ' rs—so ne ' er so fair hath shone
His temple ' s stately structure , as doth shine One lowly heart Avhich shows , . in Avorks , its love . By far a nobler—a more fragrant shrine
This temple ; where , enkindled from above , By thee , O Truth , and by thy mystic fires , Love ' s incense , sweet as floAv ' rs , to heav ' n aspires . 2 n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal to report this month . The Grand Lodge has accepted unanimously the Eeporfc of the Special Committee appointed to consider what
form the grateful recognition of Grand Lodge for our Grand Master ' s return should take , and which recommends the endowment of tAvo Life Boats with £ 4 , 000 . The vote has to be confirmed at the next Quarterly Communication .
Beyond this and the onward progress of the Craft in England , we have , as we said before , but little to note .
One fact is , however , very striking , namely , that during 1876 our English Fraternity sent up over £ 39 , 000 to the three great metropolitan charities , a fact which in itself speaks volumes for the reality of its professions , and the value of its humble work .
The new year brings us from the antipodes another senseless Ultramontane-attack on Freemasonry , proceeding too , from a Roman Catholic Archbishop , who is old enough to knoAV better , so that in Old World as in New , at Home
and at the Antipodes , the IJltramontanes seem desirous to curse and to crush all who venture to differ from their own opinions , or to diverge from their so-called infallible faith . We shall recur to the subject in our next .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
For the "Masonic Magazine . " BY BEO . BEV . M . GOEDON . THEIR charms renew'd by each glad
summer ' s sun , Deck'd are the ilow ' rs in vesture radiant , as No mortal artists skill can e ' er surpass ; So deftly Phccbus' hands their rolses have spun
In Nature ' s loom . —As not ev ' n Solomon Himself , array'd in all his glory , Avas Apparell'd in such brightness as the grass Can show in flow ' rs—so ne ' er so fair hath shone
His temple ' s stately structure , as doth shine One lowly heart Avhich shows , . in Avorks , its love . By far a nobler—a more fragrant shrine
This temple ; where , enkindled from above , By thee , O Truth , and by thy mystic fires , Love ' s incense , sweet as floAv ' rs , to heav ' n aspires . 2 n