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Masoney In The Isle Of Wight
MASONEY IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Good , like evil , lias the double effect of aiding its own progress , and of corroborating the efforts of its promoters ; it generates byits own action an increasingly self-productive spirit , even whilst it encourages great accession of friends from the evidence afforded of its rapid promulgation . We are now beginning to reap the fruits of our unceasing exertions , ever since we assumed the conduct of this
periodical , to evoke almost from their ashes true Masonic principles into intellectual and moral activity , by receiving not merely from all sides congratulations on our influence and grateful appreciation of our efforts , but by ourselves witnessing the wide-spreading results of our labours , in the effects produced upon society through , the demonstration , by the Brethren , of kindred principles . It has been our
purport to make every Mason , especially in authority , behold and feel at once the enormous influence and responsibility attached to him for the furtherance of social good . We have urged upon the fraternity , first , the fact that as throughout all ancient times Freemasonry was the parent of Art and the nurse of Science , so in modern , with increased means of education and culture there exist greater
opportunities , without any diminished reason , for its demonstrative efforts in these respects . That , moreover , the anomaly of witnessing great works of ancestral Masonry contrasted with a modern torpidity in the Brotherhood , must be as great as to welcome amongst our Lodges hundreds of the most scientific , who , however beneficial to
the world , yet neither by lecture , speech , nor action in their Masonic character , yield aught to elevate the Order in the estimation of all ranks of men . It is , therefore , with an especial feeling of gratification that we turn to the recent proceedings in the Isle of Wight , and to the effects , as striking as they must inevitably be permanent , there produced to the honour and dignity of the Craft . A gentlevol . ti . 3 z
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masoney In The Isle Of Wight
MASONEY IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
Good , like evil , lias the double effect of aiding its own progress , and of corroborating the efforts of its promoters ; it generates byits own action an increasingly self-productive spirit , even whilst it encourages great accession of friends from the evidence afforded of its rapid promulgation . We are now beginning to reap the fruits of our unceasing exertions , ever since we assumed the conduct of this
periodical , to evoke almost from their ashes true Masonic principles into intellectual and moral activity , by receiving not merely from all sides congratulations on our influence and grateful appreciation of our efforts , but by ourselves witnessing the wide-spreading results of our labours , in the effects produced upon society through , the demonstration , by the Brethren , of kindred principles . It has been our
purport to make every Mason , especially in authority , behold and feel at once the enormous influence and responsibility attached to him for the furtherance of social good . We have urged upon the fraternity , first , the fact that as throughout all ancient times Freemasonry was the parent of Art and the nurse of Science , so in modern , with increased means of education and culture there exist greater
opportunities , without any diminished reason , for its demonstrative efforts in these respects . That , moreover , the anomaly of witnessing great works of ancestral Masonry contrasted with a modern torpidity in the Brotherhood , must be as great as to welcome amongst our Lodges hundreds of the most scientific , who , however beneficial to
the world , yet neither by lecture , speech , nor action in their Masonic character , yield aught to elevate the Order in the estimation of all ranks of men . It is , therefore , with an especial feeling of gratification that we turn to the recent proceedings in the Isle of Wight , and to the effects , as striking as they must inevitably be permanent , there produced to the honour and dignity of the Craft . A gentlevol . ti . 3 z