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paragraph : that of Kentucky is 9 , 000 dollars ; Pennsylvania , 23 ) 000 dollars . I will give -others in future issues . The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of New York , by one of its most intelligent officers , Hon . John L . Lewis , jun ., has prepared and published a " Ritual of the Burial Service of the Orders of Masonic Knighthood ;"
it may be seen in the October issue of The American Quarterly Review of Freemasonry , " published at New York . The sentiments are scriptural , applicable , and couched in language equally forcible and elegant . The plan of introducing into the funeral services as much of the technical language of the Templar Rite as possible , thus affording to the initiated a clue to the esotei'ic lectures , and serving as ah important prompter to the memory , is one calculated to become highly
popular . As a specimen passage from this ' " ,. Ritual , " I offer the following , which is to be spoken by the Prelate after arriving at the grave \— Sir Knights , — . There is one sacred spot upon the earth where the foot-falls of our march are unheeded , our trumpets quicken no pulse and incite no fear ; the rustling of our banners and the gleam of our * swords awaken no emotion—it is the silent city of
the dead where we now stand . Awe rests upon every heart , and the stern warrior ' s eyes are bedewed with feelings which never shame his manhood . It needs no siege , nor assault , nor beleaguering host to enter its wall ; we fear no sortie , and listen for no battle-shout . No warder ' s challenge greets the ear , nor do we wait awhile with patience for permission to enter : hither must we all come at last . "
There is ho Burial Service of Knights Templar in use in this country ; heretofore Masonic obsequies have been performed ; by Blue Lodge Masons exclusively , though the higher orders have had a place in funeral pi'ocessioris . The effort above alluded to will doubtless give a different direction to these last honours of Masonry .
The " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " at Boston , Massachusetts , announces its seventeenth annual volume , during the whole period of which jt has been edited and conducted by its present proprietor , Charles W . Moore . His first volume was commenced November , 1841 , immediately following the so-called " Anti-masonic Warfare , " which proved for a time so destructive to Masonic progress in America ; and nothing has done so much to set the Institution again upon its proper pedestal , and give the fraternity an impulse in the proper direction ,
as the Magazine . Mr . Moore established "The Masonic Mirror "in 1825 , and continued it until 1835 ; it was then united with " The Bunker Hill Aurora , " a periodical which devoted parts of each issue to Freemasonry . In 1828-9 , he also published an exclusively Masonic journal , styled "The Amaranth , or Masonic Garland . " Such men are valued among us at a price which no rivalry or business competition is allowed to affect .
St . John ' s Lodge , No . 1 , at Providence , Rhode Island , has published , in a neat pamphlet of 116 pages , the Proceedings connected with the Centennial Celebration of its Institution , June 24 , 1857 , including the Address of Rev . George M . Randal , D . D ., Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts , a Masonic poem of uncommon merit , by Charles C . Yan Zanat , Esq ., with other matters of interest ; it is got up with uncommon ability . A Masonic Map of the State of Mississippi has been published by the Grand Secretary of that jurisdiction , the R , W . Bro . T . Daniel . It points out by suitable
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Tidings Feom The Craft In The United Sta...
paragraph : that of Kentucky is 9 , 000 dollars ; Pennsylvania , 23 ) 000 dollars . I will give -others in future issues . The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of New York , by one of its most intelligent officers , Hon . John L . Lewis , jun ., has prepared and published a " Ritual of the Burial Service of the Orders of Masonic Knighthood ;"
it may be seen in the October issue of The American Quarterly Review of Freemasonry , " published at New York . The sentiments are scriptural , applicable , and couched in language equally forcible and elegant . The plan of introducing into the funeral services as much of the technical language of the Templar Rite as possible , thus affording to the initiated a clue to the esotei'ic lectures , and serving as ah important prompter to the memory , is one calculated to become highly
popular . As a specimen passage from this ' " ,. Ritual , " I offer the following , which is to be spoken by the Prelate after arriving at the grave \— Sir Knights , — . There is one sacred spot upon the earth where the foot-falls of our march are unheeded , our trumpets quicken no pulse and incite no fear ; the rustling of our banners and the gleam of our * swords awaken no emotion—it is the silent city of
the dead where we now stand . Awe rests upon every heart , and the stern warrior ' s eyes are bedewed with feelings which never shame his manhood . It needs no siege , nor assault , nor beleaguering host to enter its wall ; we fear no sortie , and listen for no battle-shout . No warder ' s challenge greets the ear , nor do we wait awhile with patience for permission to enter : hither must we all come at last . "
There is ho Burial Service of Knights Templar in use in this country ; heretofore Masonic obsequies have been performed ; by Blue Lodge Masons exclusively , though the higher orders have had a place in funeral pi'ocessioris . The effort above alluded to will doubtless give a different direction to these last honours of Masonry .
The " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " at Boston , Massachusetts , announces its seventeenth annual volume , during the whole period of which jt has been edited and conducted by its present proprietor , Charles W . Moore . His first volume was commenced November , 1841 , immediately following the so-called " Anti-masonic Warfare , " which proved for a time so destructive to Masonic progress in America ; and nothing has done so much to set the Institution again upon its proper pedestal , and give the fraternity an impulse in the proper direction ,
as the Magazine . Mr . Moore established "The Masonic Mirror "in 1825 , and continued it until 1835 ; it was then united with " The Bunker Hill Aurora , " a periodical which devoted parts of each issue to Freemasonry . In 1828-9 , he also published an exclusively Masonic journal , styled "The Amaranth , or Masonic Garland . " Such men are valued among us at a price which no rivalry or business competition is allowed to affect .
St . John ' s Lodge , No . 1 , at Providence , Rhode Island , has published , in a neat pamphlet of 116 pages , the Proceedings connected with the Centennial Celebration of its Institution , June 24 , 1857 , including the Address of Rev . George M . Randal , D . D ., Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts , a Masonic poem of uncommon merit , by Charles C . Yan Zanat , Esq ., with other matters of interest ; it is got up with uncommon ability . A Masonic Map of the State of Mississippi has been published by the Grand Secretary of that jurisdiction , the R , W . Bro . T . Daniel . It points out by suitable