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To 0ur Readers.
TO 0 TIE RE A DEES .
In presenting to our Subscribers the first number of the second volume of the weekly issue of the Freemasons' Magazine , it would be ungrateful were we not to return them our best thanks for tlie support we have already received , whilst at the same time , we respectfully solicit them to aid us in increasing our subscription list for the future .
On first announcing our intention—in consequence of the growing demands on our space preventing us doing justice to tlie many communications with which we were favoured—to extend the limits of our Magazine and to publish it in a weekly form , there were many who warned us that the result must be a largely diminished sale ; whilst others assured us that there would not be sufficient material found to
sustain the interest of such a publication . To the first of these prophecies we have now the most practical answer in the shape of an increased and increasing circulation ; as regards the second , we believe we need only refer to our pages for the last six months to prove that there is ample material to be found in the proceedings of the Craft to render a weekly magazine both interesting and instructive . "W hilst returning thanks for the support we have received , however , we are bound to admit that it has not yet arrived at that
amount which can give a guarantee for the permanency of any publication—a permanency which a slight exertion on the part of our friends would ensure—all that we ask being , an average of three
subscribers in each Lodge in England . Doubtless there are several Lodges the members of which take many more than three copies , but there are others who appear to take no interest in what is passing around them—to whom all that is passing in the Craft is as a sealed book ; and the consequence is , that as yet our journal has not
reached that circulation which would prevent each recurring balancesheet showing a diminished asset at our banker ' s . The Magazine has been and still is conducted more as a labour of love than a source ^ pecuniary profit ; but , at the same time , we feel that we ought not long to continue to devote alike our time and our capital to
promote the interest of the Craft and the prosperity of its charities , unless we can receive something like an adequate support from the brethren . In the full assurance that we need only call the attention of our inends to the necessity of some little extra cxei ^ tion on their part to vol v . ' , u
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To 0ur Readers.
TO 0 TIE RE A DEES .
In presenting to our Subscribers the first number of the second volume of the weekly issue of the Freemasons' Magazine , it would be ungrateful were we not to return them our best thanks for tlie support we have already received , whilst at the same time , we respectfully solicit them to aid us in increasing our subscription list for the future .
On first announcing our intention—in consequence of the growing demands on our space preventing us doing justice to tlie many communications with which we were favoured—to extend the limits of our Magazine and to publish it in a weekly form , there were many who warned us that the result must be a largely diminished sale ; whilst others assured us that there would not be sufficient material found to
sustain the interest of such a publication . To the first of these prophecies we have now the most practical answer in the shape of an increased and increasing circulation ; as regards the second , we believe we need only refer to our pages for the last six months to prove that there is ample material to be found in the proceedings of the Craft to render a weekly magazine both interesting and instructive . "W hilst returning thanks for the support we have received , however , we are bound to admit that it has not yet arrived at that
amount which can give a guarantee for the permanency of any publication—a permanency which a slight exertion on the part of our friends would ensure—all that we ask being , an average of three
subscribers in each Lodge in England . Doubtless there are several Lodges the members of which take many more than three copies , but there are others who appear to take no interest in what is passing around them—to whom all that is passing in the Craft is as a sealed book ; and the consequence is , that as yet our journal has not
reached that circulation which would prevent each recurring balancesheet showing a diminished asset at our banker ' s . The Magazine has been and still is conducted more as a labour of love than a source ^ pecuniary profit ; but , at the same time , we feel that we ought not long to continue to devote alike our time and our capital to
promote the interest of the Craft and the prosperity of its charities , unless we can receive something like an adequate support from the brethren . In the full assurance that we need only call the attention of our inends to the necessity of some little extra cxei ^ tion on their part to vol v . ' , u