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Coirespgndence.
be pronounced an universal institution j but being blended together , they will unitedly pajtaice of that distinguished honour , when the period shall arrive which the Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace has assigned , in his celestial councils , for this great consummation . '¦ « . \ . Their object and end are consentaneous . In Freemasonry , the greatest of virtues is esteemed to be charity , or brotherly love ; for it is predicated in the
lectures that charity comprehends the whole system ; " and the Mason who can claim to have exercised that heavenly virtue in its most ample sense , may justly be deemed to have attained the summit of his Masonic profession—figuratively speaking , an ethereal mansion , veiled from mortal eye by the starry firmament , which i though they court the sight , forbid the mortal eye to petietrate the realms within ; and as this is the sphere where every wish is perfected , so is it the actual number which composes a Masonic Lodge , and without which number no Lodge
is perfect , neither can any candidate be legally initiated therein . " In like manner charity , according to the testimony of St . Paul , is the greatest of all Christian virtues . Thus Dean Stanhope says : " Whatever degreee of religion any persons may pretend to , unless they have this grace of charity it will profit them nothing . For nothing we are if we have not charity ; and charity we have not if we are destitute of the apostolical marks to show for it . The
most specious professions ^ the most austere practices of religion , will not avail when destitute of this comprehensive grace , this indispensable condition of salvation . Wisely , therefore , doth our chuixh instruct us to pray to God , and zealously ought we to pray , and never to leave of praying till our petition be granted , that He would ¦ * send his Holy Spirit and pour into pur hearts that most excellent gift of charity , the very bond of peace and of all virtues , lest , living without this , we he at last accounted dead before Him
Hence , united with Christianity , Freemasonry will not only be universal , but everything we can desire or wish for on this side the grave ; but divorced from that holy religion it is , and must ever remain , worthless and of no value . Yours fraternally , Sit Ltjx .
ADMISSION OF MEMBEES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —Observing in your " Notices to Correspondents" a very proper refusal to insert the communication of " A Young Mason" because he had declined to confide his name for your private information , I beg , with I trust no less a share of humility , but with a larger amount of confidence in your editorial integrity , very indignantly to reiterate his complaint .
It is a lamentable fact that a metropolitan Lodge has committed an act of discourtesy which would in many orders of a far less pretending character than that of Masonry , be regarded as highly irregular . A gentleman—whose name I give you , and the estimate of whose moral character by the Masonic body in this city , forms , I firmly believe , a true standard of his merits—has been rejected by three different Lodges hi the Province in which he resides—twice in one , —and has not attempted to obtain admission in either of
the others , simply because he well knew it must be hopeless . He has , moreover , applied for admission into the Lodge of a neighbouring town , in another Province , whose WJVI . adopted the Masonic course , of putting himself in communication with this Province , and in consequence of information thus received , the name was immediately withdrawn . Under these circumstances , what was the
almost unanimous expression of surprise and indignation , upon learning that a London Lodge had , without any previous communication with the Masonic body here , received and initiated into the Order , this oft-rejected candidate ; and which feeling received a manifestation in the oldest and largest Lodge in the Province by an immediate notice of motion from a highly esteemed P . M . to insert in the by-laws of the Lodge an article providing a " visitors fee . " I very much regret the matter has not been taken up by abler hands , but am satisfied that a simple statement of the above facts will suffice to convince you
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Coirespgndence.
be pronounced an universal institution j but being blended together , they will unitedly pajtaice of that distinguished honour , when the period shall arrive which the Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace has assigned , in his celestial councils , for this great consummation . '¦ « . \ . Their object and end are consentaneous . In Freemasonry , the greatest of virtues is esteemed to be charity , or brotherly love ; for it is predicated in the
lectures that charity comprehends the whole system ; " and the Mason who can claim to have exercised that heavenly virtue in its most ample sense , may justly be deemed to have attained the summit of his Masonic profession—figuratively speaking , an ethereal mansion , veiled from mortal eye by the starry firmament , which i though they court the sight , forbid the mortal eye to petietrate the realms within ; and as this is the sphere where every wish is perfected , so is it the actual number which composes a Masonic Lodge , and without which number no Lodge
is perfect , neither can any candidate be legally initiated therein . " In like manner charity , according to the testimony of St . Paul , is the greatest of all Christian virtues . Thus Dean Stanhope says : " Whatever degreee of religion any persons may pretend to , unless they have this grace of charity it will profit them nothing . For nothing we are if we have not charity ; and charity we have not if we are destitute of the apostolical marks to show for it . The
most specious professions ^ the most austere practices of religion , will not avail when destitute of this comprehensive grace , this indispensable condition of salvation . Wisely , therefore , doth our chuixh instruct us to pray to God , and zealously ought we to pray , and never to leave of praying till our petition be granted , that He would ¦ * send his Holy Spirit and pour into pur hearts that most excellent gift of charity , the very bond of peace and of all virtues , lest , living without this , we he at last accounted dead before Him
Hence , united with Christianity , Freemasonry will not only be universal , but everything we can desire or wish for on this side the grave ; but divorced from that holy religion it is , and must ever remain , worthless and of no value . Yours fraternally , Sit Ltjx .
ADMISSION OF MEMBEES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —Observing in your " Notices to Correspondents" a very proper refusal to insert the communication of " A Young Mason" because he had declined to confide his name for your private information , I beg , with I trust no less a share of humility , but with a larger amount of confidence in your editorial integrity , very indignantly to reiterate his complaint .
It is a lamentable fact that a metropolitan Lodge has committed an act of discourtesy which would in many orders of a far less pretending character than that of Masonry , be regarded as highly irregular . A gentleman—whose name I give you , and the estimate of whose moral character by the Masonic body in this city , forms , I firmly believe , a true standard of his merits—has been rejected by three different Lodges hi the Province in which he resides—twice in one , —and has not attempted to obtain admission in either of
the others , simply because he well knew it must be hopeless . He has , moreover , applied for admission into the Lodge of a neighbouring town , in another Province , whose WJVI . adopted the Masonic course , of putting himself in communication with this Province , and in consequence of information thus received , the name was immediately withdrawn . Under these circumstances , what was the
almost unanimous expression of surprise and indignation , upon learning that a London Lodge had , without any previous communication with the Masonic body here , received and initiated into the Order , this oft-rejected candidate ; and which feeling received a manifestation in the oldest and largest Lodge in the Province by an immediate notice of motion from a highly esteemed P . M . to insert in the by-laws of the Lodge an article providing a " visitors fee . " I very much regret the matter has not been taken up by abler hands , but am satisfied that a simple statement of the above facts will suffice to convince you