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Article A FEW WORDS TO THE CRAFT. Page 1 of 4 →
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A Few Words To The Craft.
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It is n ^ Magazine first enter eel the lists wit li th e yi ew of endea voitring to rai $ e the character of periodic ^ reliable knowledge of the proceedings a ^
private L ^ to the Strict maintenance of our Mason ^ the interests of ou ^ n ^ raise the status and improve the practices of Freemasonry , not only in this country , but throughout the world .
How fer we have succeeded in our mission it is not for ns to determine ; but we think we may be allowed to go so far as to claim credit to ourselves for having given to Masonic periodicals a character which they never before possessed . At the time when we first came before the Brethren , the Freemmoni Quarterly had considerably declined in reputation ; its reports of Grand Lodge were meagre in the extreme
- —all attempts at reporting the exact proceedings being systematically ignored ; and there were but few notices ( and these mostly borrowed from the provincial press ) of the doings in the country . It was to reform , this that the prospectus of the Masonic Mirror was first issued —offering to the Brethren a monthly publication which should contain
full and" impartial reports of the Grand Lodge proceedings , and a medium of rapid communication throughout the kingdom and the colonies . No sooner was our little venture launched , however , than the Freemasons' Quarterly was altered to a monthly Magazine ; through competition , greater energy was imported into its management , and a race for the favour of the Brethren commenced . Which
would ultimately have succeeded is not now worth inquiry , as , ere twelve months had passed , it had become evident to both that one must give wayj ; and though greater interest was being taken in the affairs and government of the Craft than for many previous years
there was not sufficient support extended to the publications to justify the continuance of the contest . The result was an amalgamation Qf interests on equal terms , it being agreed that ; tb $ then ^ ditoy of the TOL . Y . 4 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Few Words To The Craft.
^ £ ; C ^
It is n ^ Magazine first enter eel the lists wit li th e yi ew of endea voitring to rai $ e the character of periodic ^ reliable knowledge of the proceedings a ^
private L ^ to the Strict maintenance of our Mason ^ the interests of ou ^ n ^ raise the status and improve the practices of Freemasonry , not only in this country , but throughout the world .
How fer we have succeeded in our mission it is not for ns to determine ; but we think we may be allowed to go so far as to claim credit to ourselves for having given to Masonic periodicals a character which they never before possessed . At the time when we first came before the Brethren , the Freemmoni Quarterly had considerably declined in reputation ; its reports of Grand Lodge were meagre in the extreme
- —all attempts at reporting the exact proceedings being systematically ignored ; and there were but few notices ( and these mostly borrowed from the provincial press ) of the doings in the country . It was to reform , this that the prospectus of the Masonic Mirror was first issued —offering to the Brethren a monthly publication which should contain
full and" impartial reports of the Grand Lodge proceedings , and a medium of rapid communication throughout the kingdom and the colonies . No sooner was our little venture launched , however , than the Freemasons' Quarterly was altered to a monthly Magazine ; through competition , greater energy was imported into its management , and a race for the favour of the Brethren commenced . Which
would ultimately have succeeded is not now worth inquiry , as , ere twelve months had passed , it had become evident to both that one must give wayj ; and though greater interest was being taken in the affairs and government of the Craft than for many previous years
there was not sufficient support extended to the publications to justify the continuance of the contest . The result was an amalgamation Qf interests on equal terms , it being agreed that ; tb $ then ^ ditoy of the TOL . Y . 4 1