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require . Remember , to help thepoor , clothe the naked , and feed the hungry , is our peculiar dutyas Masons , and rest assured there are no better means at our disposal thai ! the formation of Benevolent Funds . —I am , Dear Sir and Brother , 11 , City Terrace , City Road . Henry A . Isaacs , P . M . No . 247 .
MASONIC hospitality ; TO THE EDITOR OF THE FBEEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —On Tuesday the l <) th March , being in town , I wen intending to visit the Canonbury Lodge , 955 , according to Book , of Constitutions ( page 72 , article A ) . Having put aside business matters with that object , changed , my dress to " Masonic full dress , " and gone a distance above a mile , I was somewhat surprised
on presenting myself to be kept on the landing for about ten minutes , without being allowed even to see inside the convenient room . " After which a Brother came to me , to whom I showed a bundle of certificates from E . A . P . upwards to the R . A ., K . T ., R * J < , < fec . ; when I was asked , first , " If I knew any Brother there , " and having replied that I was not aware I did , I was then asked , " What was my object in visiting them ? " and " if I wished to dine with them ? " I felt
somewhat grieved at such questions , but contented myself with saying , "I wished simply to see their working f when I was told their business was over , although I knew , from certain matters known to Masons , they were installing their W . M . elect . The Brother then retired into the " sanctum sanctorum" which I before alluded to , without even wishing me good night , inviting me to stay , or even the slightest courtesy due from one gentleman to another , much less from a Mason to one of his Brethren .
As we do not manage things after this fashion in Lancashire , perhaps by it being made known through the Magazine , the Brethren from the N . S . E . and W . will spare themselves the trouble of going to the Canonbury Tavern until the Canonbury Lodge say in a like manner that they do not object to receive visitors from the country or elsewhere . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours Fraternally , Manchester , March 7 , 1857 . A Past Master , R . A ., K . T . R > J « , & c .
" The Eire Never Dies Out . "—A venerable Mason , upwards of eighty years of age , Bro . Hosford , of West Poulteney , Y . T ., in forwarding his subscription to a Masonic charity in Philadelphia , says , in a letter enclosing the same : ¦—"I am in ray fiftieth year of Masonry ; I am old , and cannot hear the word , or see the signs , but I can yet feel the true grip of Masonry . " How significant of the beauty and durability of Masonic teachings ! Let the senses lose
thenpowers and die out , as age conies on , so that we can hear no more the sounds that were once so welcome to the Masonic ear ; let the eyes grow dim , so that we can no longer look upon signs and symbols , once so grateful to the Mason ' s eye ; yet the grip , even until the life blood is frozen in the veins by the icy touch of death , remains with us all , until the last nerve is shattered , and we have passed over the valley . r J > uly , " the lire never goes out , " aged Brother ; our hand is in thine , even while we write this , in as pure a commnnion as men ever knew .
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Coeeesponbeioe.
require . Remember , to help thepoor , clothe the naked , and feed the hungry , is our peculiar dutyas Masons , and rest assured there are no better means at our disposal thai ! the formation of Benevolent Funds . —I am , Dear Sir and Brother , 11 , City Terrace , City Road . Henry A . Isaacs , P . M . No . 247 .
MASONIC hospitality ; TO THE EDITOR OF THE FBEEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —On Tuesday the l <) th March , being in town , I wen intending to visit the Canonbury Lodge , 955 , according to Book , of Constitutions ( page 72 , article A ) . Having put aside business matters with that object , changed , my dress to " Masonic full dress , " and gone a distance above a mile , I was somewhat surprised
on presenting myself to be kept on the landing for about ten minutes , without being allowed even to see inside the convenient room . " After which a Brother came to me , to whom I showed a bundle of certificates from E . A . P . upwards to the R . A ., K . T ., R * J < , < fec . ; when I was asked , first , " If I knew any Brother there , " and having replied that I was not aware I did , I was then asked , " What was my object in visiting them ? " and " if I wished to dine with them ? " I felt
somewhat grieved at such questions , but contented myself with saying , "I wished simply to see their working f when I was told their business was over , although I knew , from certain matters known to Masons , they were installing their W . M . elect . The Brother then retired into the " sanctum sanctorum" which I before alluded to , without even wishing me good night , inviting me to stay , or even the slightest courtesy due from one gentleman to another , much less from a Mason to one of his Brethren .
As we do not manage things after this fashion in Lancashire , perhaps by it being made known through the Magazine , the Brethren from the N . S . E . and W . will spare themselves the trouble of going to the Canonbury Tavern until the Canonbury Lodge say in a like manner that they do not object to receive visitors from the country or elsewhere . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours Fraternally , Manchester , March 7 , 1857 . A Past Master , R . A ., K . T . R > J « , & c .
" The Eire Never Dies Out . "—A venerable Mason , upwards of eighty years of age , Bro . Hosford , of West Poulteney , Y . T ., in forwarding his subscription to a Masonic charity in Philadelphia , says , in a letter enclosing the same : ¦—"I am in ray fiftieth year of Masonry ; I am old , and cannot hear the word , or see the signs , but I can yet feel the true grip of Masonry . " How significant of the beauty and durability of Masonic teachings ! Let the senses lose
thenpowers and die out , as age conies on , so that we can hear no more the sounds that were once so welcome to the Masonic ear ; let the eyes grow dim , so that we can no longer look upon signs and symbols , once so grateful to the Mason ' s eye ; yet the grip , even until the life blood is frozen in the veins by the icy touch of death , remains with us all , until the last nerve is shattered , and we have passed over the valley . r J > uly , " the lire never goes out , " aged Brother ; our hand is in thine , even while we write this , in as pure a commnnion as men ever knew .