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Masoney In The Isle Of Wight

Brother to his duty and with instructing the Lodges in the most efficient way by personal surveillance and information , the lastnamed indefatigable Mason attaches the external world to the Craft

by the delivery every month of lectures upon various interesting scientific subjects , to which Masons are privileged to invite their friends , and which Bro . Pullen illustrates by the requisite machinery , in a way to instruct and entertain the most apathetic auditor . We attended once a lecture delivered by him upon pneumatics , and were delighted with the originality and beauty of his illustrations , produced by a most complete apparatus and accompanied by appropriate verbal explanation . As a necessary issue , the Craft is honoured for the Brother ' s sake ; in him it is seen not to produce qerebral paralysis and only abdominal activity , as the doctors would say ; but to become , as of old , the cogent spring to social light and grateful intelligence of creative wisdom , strength , and beauty .

We take no credit to ourselves for having evoked in our worthy Brother this active exercise of Masonic principles , since he practised it spontaneously long ago ; but we point to the province so managed , by himself and Bro . Fleming , to attest the good resulting from the pursuance of the system we recommend . We have

Lodges of railway engineers , who give no instruction to their Brethren nor the public , through open Lodges , upon locomotion or steam ; of physicians , who tell us nothing of the secrets of our own vitality ; of artists , who treat not of colour , order , form ; of chemists , who touch not upon electricity ; of astronomers , whose stars shine not , but set , the instant they enter a Lodge ; of masons , who in the world practical can evoke architectural beauty , and can all but say to the stone "live ! " yet will not devote even one hour occasionally to irradiate with their knowledge that Order , which teaches them emblematically , by the very instruments of their art , that they live not for themselves alone , but that every one is bound , like the ancient phosphori in the race , to light up his Brother ' s torch , whence the rays of truth and knowledge may illuminate endless generations !

Woman.

WOMAN .

, woman ! not for thee the living tomb , The harem ' s splendour , or the consent ' s gloom : Not thine to bend at fear ' s unhallow'd nod , And scorn the world , to please creation ' s God ; To see , to feel , that earth , that life is fair , Yet weep to think thou hash no portion there . JSTo , child of ioy ! a holier task is thine ,

A brighter prospect , and a purer shrine : 'Tis thine to curb the passions' rnadd ' ning sway , And wipe the mourner ' s bitter tear away ; 7 Tis thine to soothe , when hope itself is ( led , And cheer with angel smile the suff ' rer ' s bed ; To give to earth its charm , to life its zest ; One only task— to bless and to he blest .- J . ( t * * .

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1856-08-01, Page 3” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 4 July 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmr/issues/frm_01081856/page/3/.
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MASONEY IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT Article 1
WOMAN. Article 3
ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE EARLY AGES AS CONNECTED WITH EWLIGION. Article 4
THE PRACTICAL OF MASONRY. Article 9
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE. * Article 10
THE TRUE PLEASURES OF A MASON. Article 16
BEVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 17
SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Article 18
music. Article 20
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 22
SYMPATHY. Article 24
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 25
METROPOLITAN. Article 30
PROVINCIAL. Article 34
ROYAL ARCH. Article 52
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 53
MARK MASONRY; Article 53
SCOTLAND. Article 53
IRELAND. Article 54
COLONIAL. Article 55
INDIA, Article 57
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR JULY. Article 58
Obituary. Article 62
NOTICE. Article 62
TO CO-RESPONDENTS. Article 62
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Masoney In The Isle Of Wight

Brother to his duty and with instructing the Lodges in the most efficient way by personal surveillance and information , the lastnamed indefatigable Mason attaches the external world to the Craft

by the delivery every month of lectures upon various interesting scientific subjects , to which Masons are privileged to invite their friends , and which Bro . Pullen illustrates by the requisite machinery , in a way to instruct and entertain the most apathetic auditor . We attended once a lecture delivered by him upon pneumatics , and were delighted with the originality and beauty of his illustrations , produced by a most complete apparatus and accompanied by appropriate verbal explanation . As a necessary issue , the Craft is honoured for the Brother ' s sake ; in him it is seen not to produce qerebral paralysis and only abdominal activity , as the doctors would say ; but to become , as of old , the cogent spring to social light and grateful intelligence of creative wisdom , strength , and beauty .

We take no credit to ourselves for having evoked in our worthy Brother this active exercise of Masonic principles , since he practised it spontaneously long ago ; but we point to the province so managed , by himself and Bro . Fleming , to attest the good resulting from the pursuance of the system we recommend . We have

Lodges of railway engineers , who give no instruction to their Brethren nor the public , through open Lodges , upon locomotion or steam ; of physicians , who tell us nothing of the secrets of our own vitality ; of artists , who treat not of colour , order , form ; of chemists , who touch not upon electricity ; of astronomers , whose stars shine not , but set , the instant they enter a Lodge ; of masons , who in the world practical can evoke architectural beauty , and can all but say to the stone "live ! " yet will not devote even one hour occasionally to irradiate with their knowledge that Order , which teaches them emblematically , by the very instruments of their art , that they live not for themselves alone , but that every one is bound , like the ancient phosphori in the race , to light up his Brother ' s torch , whence the rays of truth and knowledge may illuminate endless generations !

Woman.

WOMAN .

, woman ! not for thee the living tomb , The harem ' s splendour , or the consent ' s gloom : Not thine to bend at fear ' s unhallow'd nod , And scorn the world , to please creation ' s God ; To see , to feel , that earth , that life is fair , Yet weep to think thou hash no portion there . JSTo , child of ioy ! a holier task is thine ,

A brighter prospect , and a purer shrine : 'Tis thine to curb the passions' rnadd ' ning sway , And wipe the mourner ' s bitter tear away ; 7 Tis thine to soothe , when hope itself is ( led , And cheer with angel smile the suff ' rer ' s bed ; To give to earth its charm , to life its zest ; One only task— to bless and to he blest .- J . ( t * * .

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