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cookery and arrangement of the wines . These records will not be without good , for they do not pass without comment , and the bad taste which marks them is duly appreciated ; and thus , many a Lodge which has allowed foolirigj but has not yet printed % is led to a more seemly behaviour ; and many a worthy brother , whose mountebank tricks are nibre suited for orie Of the still subsisting country fairs , is restrained in the exuberance of his buffoonery , to the regret of a few admirers and to the satisfaction of a large body of brethren who have suffered the annoyance without likiiig to check the offender .
The progress of Lodges of Instruction , and thereby the improvement in working which has resulted , is in no small degree owing to the ffire & masong Magazvm ; for many a brother has been induced to join their ranks that he might ensure himself of his competency for the duties devolving upon him . Of all the functions , those that we have recorded in this section of ouir work are the most public , an ^ Order before the
public respectably . They have , however , for many years been greatly neglected , so that town after town could be named in which the public Masonic ceteniohial of laying a foundation stone has never been witnessed , and wdiere the private ceremonial in ordinary buildings has been Invariably neglected , this is in a great degree owing to the laxity of the Grand Siiperintendehts of Works . They have had nothing to do
but to wear fine paraphernalia j they have escaped even from attendance at the Grand Lodges , and thought they did enough for the Order in giving their names to fill an office having a special professional attributive , like Grand Organist , and which could not , therefore , be supplied from the ranks as Grand Standard-bearers are . That the Grand Superintendents are most of them men of inferior professional standing , is well known ; that they are men of no zeal
the state of affairs shows ; aiid , therefore , it is essential that means be adopted by the Brethren to enforce a stricter responsibility upon theni . This we are following out , and a measure no less effective will be to communicate such a spirit of emulation to individual Lodges , that no building shall take place in a town without its foundation being properly laid ; and by a stricter union of co-operation between the Lodges , and architects , builders , and clerks of the works ,
Lawyers' Conversation . — -Lord Grenville said that he never met with a lawyer at a dinner party but he felt certain the conversation would take a rational and improving turn . Sir Walter Scott says in his diary that , " a barrister of extended practice , if he has any talents at all , is the best companion in the world . " The late Mr . Ward , in his admirable Illustrations of Human Life , makes one of his favourite characters complain that " he is never in the compauy of a lawyer but he fancies himself in a witness-box . " This is hardly the case . Taking them as a bocty , lawyers . see much of life , and are constantly brought in contact with the best society . Their , pursuits give them a great insight into the springs of human action ; indeed human character is as much their study as human laws , —Law ami Lawyers . TQht ¥ * . , % ¦ »
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cookery and arrangement of the wines . These records will not be without good , for they do not pass without comment , and the bad taste which marks them is duly appreciated ; and thus , many a Lodge which has allowed foolirigj but has not yet printed % is led to a more seemly behaviour ; and many a worthy brother , whose mountebank tricks are nibre suited for orie Of the still subsisting country fairs , is restrained in the exuberance of his buffoonery , to the regret of a few admirers and to the satisfaction of a large body of brethren who have suffered the annoyance without likiiig to check the offender .
The progress of Lodges of Instruction , and thereby the improvement in working which has resulted , is in no small degree owing to the ffire & masong Magazvm ; for many a brother has been induced to join their ranks that he might ensure himself of his competency for the duties devolving upon him . Of all the functions , those that we have recorded in this section of ouir work are the most public , an ^ Order before the
public respectably . They have , however , for many years been greatly neglected , so that town after town could be named in which the public Masonic ceteniohial of laying a foundation stone has never been witnessed , and wdiere the private ceremonial in ordinary buildings has been Invariably neglected , this is in a great degree owing to the laxity of the Grand Siiperintendehts of Works . They have had nothing to do
but to wear fine paraphernalia j they have escaped even from attendance at the Grand Lodges , and thought they did enough for the Order in giving their names to fill an office having a special professional attributive , like Grand Organist , and which could not , therefore , be supplied from the ranks as Grand Standard-bearers are . That the Grand Superintendents are most of them men of inferior professional standing , is well known ; that they are men of no zeal
the state of affairs shows ; aiid , therefore , it is essential that means be adopted by the Brethren to enforce a stricter responsibility upon theni . This we are following out , and a measure no less effective will be to communicate such a spirit of emulation to individual Lodges , that no building shall take place in a town without its foundation being properly laid ; and by a stricter union of co-operation between the Lodges , and architects , builders , and clerks of the works ,
Lawyers' Conversation . — -Lord Grenville said that he never met with a lawyer at a dinner party but he felt certain the conversation would take a rational and improving turn . Sir Walter Scott says in his diary that , " a barrister of extended practice , if he has any talents at all , is the best companion in the world . " The late Mr . Ward , in his admirable Illustrations of Human Life , makes one of his favourite characters complain that " he is never in the compauy of a lawyer but he fancies himself in a witness-box . " This is hardly the case . Taking them as a bocty , lawyers . see much of life , and are constantly brought in contact with the best society . Their , pursuits give them a great insight into the springs of human action ; indeed human character is as much their study as human laws , —Law ami Lawyers . TQht ¥ * . , % ¦ »