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The Masonic Mirror.
THE MASONIC MIRROR .
MASONIC MEMS . There is to be a grand aggregate meeting of the Masons of Bath on the 10 th of February , when Bro . Dr . Falconer , the respected Mayor , is to preside . A large muster of Brethren is expected . The Westbourne Lodge is to be consecrated on the 4 th of February , at the Manor House , Westbourne-terrace Norths
THE PRESTONIAN LECTTTRE . We are sure the Brethren will share with us the astonishment with which we
were filled when we were informed that the Prestonian lecture—of which so much has been heard—was , on Wednesday last , delivered in a private Lodge , without the slightest notice being given to the Craft that such an event was to take place . In doing this we cannot help thinking that the Royal York Lodge has shown a great want of appreciation of the honour conferred upon them by the Grand Master when the Prestonian lecture was put in their charge , and of courtesy towards the Members of the Craft .
When , in 1819 , Bro . Preston—the well-known author of the " Illustrations of Freemasonry "—bequeathed by will £ 300 consols , the interest of which was to provide for the annual delivery of a lecture on the principles of Freemasonry , he certainly could never have expected that the Brother appointed to fulfil so important a duty , should hide his light under a busnel and deliver the lecture in a private Lodge , to which only should be invited a select circle of the friends of the members . We are aware that we may be answered that it has ever been so ; but because ( should that even be the case ) a grievous error was committed by those originally appointed to deliver the lecture when Masonry was ' comparatively but little understood and practised , when such a thing as a Freemasons' Magazine
was unheard of , and Lodges of Instruction rare as angels' visits—is it any reason for the error being persevered in at a time when the true spirit of Masonryresearch after knowledge—is actively at work ; when advancing science has united the London and provincial Brethren so closely together that a constant interchange of the hospitalities of life are taking place between them : and when it is
considered almost a disgrace to take the chair of a Lodge without knowing something of the requisites for that high office ? We unhesitatingly answer " No j " and as unhesitatingly express our belief that when , after having been allowed to lie for some years in abeyance , the M . W . Gr . M . revived , in April last , the office of Prestonian lecturer , and , instead of giving it to some member of the Lodge of Antiquity ( the Lodge with , which Bro . Preston had been himself connected ) as
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The Masonic Mirror.
THE MASONIC MIRROR .
MASONIC MEMS . There is to be a grand aggregate meeting of the Masons of Bath on the 10 th of February , when Bro . Dr . Falconer , the respected Mayor , is to preside . A large muster of Brethren is expected . The Westbourne Lodge is to be consecrated on the 4 th of February , at the Manor House , Westbourne-terrace Norths
THE PRESTONIAN LECTTTRE . We are sure the Brethren will share with us the astonishment with which we
were filled when we were informed that the Prestonian lecture—of which so much has been heard—was , on Wednesday last , delivered in a private Lodge , without the slightest notice being given to the Craft that such an event was to take place . In doing this we cannot help thinking that the Royal York Lodge has shown a great want of appreciation of the honour conferred upon them by the Grand Master when the Prestonian lecture was put in their charge , and of courtesy towards the Members of the Craft .
When , in 1819 , Bro . Preston—the well-known author of the " Illustrations of Freemasonry "—bequeathed by will £ 300 consols , the interest of which was to provide for the annual delivery of a lecture on the principles of Freemasonry , he certainly could never have expected that the Brother appointed to fulfil so important a duty , should hide his light under a busnel and deliver the lecture in a private Lodge , to which only should be invited a select circle of the friends of the members . We are aware that we may be answered that it has ever been so ; but because ( should that even be the case ) a grievous error was committed by those originally appointed to deliver the lecture when Masonry was ' comparatively but little understood and practised , when such a thing as a Freemasons' Magazine
was unheard of , and Lodges of Instruction rare as angels' visits—is it any reason for the error being persevered in at a time when the true spirit of Masonryresearch after knowledge—is actively at work ; when advancing science has united the London and provincial Brethren so closely together that a constant interchange of the hospitalities of life are taking place between them : and when it is
considered almost a disgrace to take the chair of a Lodge without knowing something of the requisites for that high office ? We unhesitatingly answer " No j " and as unhesitatingly express our belief that when , after having been allowed to lie for some years in abeyance , the M . W . Gr . M . revived , in April last , the office of Prestonian lecturer , and , instead of giving it to some member of the Lodge of Antiquity ( the Lodge with , which Bro . Preston had been himself connected ) as