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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
* [ TJIE EWTOU does not held himself responsible for any opinions entertained ly Correspondents . ] MASONIC HALLS .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ' THE I'llEEMASOXs' MAUAZ 1 XE AXD MAS 0 X 1 C M 1 HIS 0 R . DJSAII SIR AXD BUOTIIKI ; , —With many others , I have recently become more tmm ever impressed with the importance of clearing Masonic proceedings from all liability to those abuses to which , more than ' any other circumstance , meetings in hotels give rise . liven in cases where the evils complained of do not practically exist , the world is apt to form an unfavourable opinion of in of
us consequence objectionable associations . 'The best than ks ot freemasons are due to you , and are hereby tendered as far as regards myself , for the efforts you have made and are continuing on this point bv your provincial analysis , and the distinctions you have so clearly pointed out between what you very properly term Masonic and profane practice , ion are meeting with your reward in the responses you receive and insert among your correspondence , and it is most gratifying to observe the "rowiii" - tendency to adopt vour views . " °
Ibis letter will perhaps add nothing very material to the argument ; but - icel that on so vital a subject every expression of opinion strengthens your position , and keeps the matter before the Masonic public , remembering die adage , that a stone will gradually become worn with constant and Ion " continued drippings upon it . Many men doubtless have long been of your opinion ; but from want of opportunity , Jack of moral courage , or some other ol the bwhich those
many causes y constitutionally destitute of energy , or of timid dispositions , are influenced , these right-minded men nave hesitated to come forward , to press their own opinions , and to strike out a path dictated by their convictions though opposed to common piaclicc . It is more easy to float with the stream than to stem the current and we hope that in the difficulties onl
may very many cases y have proved a hindrance , which it has been your object to remove—and not an absolute ami determined preference for non-masonic buildings . Turn the stream the other way—make the Masonic practice the rule and not the exception , —and all becomes easv .
Hie amount ol money . now spent in superfluities , and perhaps extravagance , which would , in such case , be available for the cultivation of pure and genuine recniasoiiry , and the exercise of charitv , one of its most distinguishing characteristic . ^ is incalculable . The removal from undesirable puces ol meeting takes away the motive to a large proportion of the means ol expenditure which must be incurred in them .
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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
* [ TJIE EWTOU does not held himself responsible for any opinions entertained ly Correspondents . ] MASONIC HALLS .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ' THE I'llEEMASOXs' MAUAZ 1 XE AXD MAS 0 X 1 C M 1 HIS 0 R . DJSAII SIR AXD BUOTIIKI ; , —With many others , I have recently become more tmm ever impressed with the importance of clearing Masonic proceedings from all liability to those abuses to which , more than ' any other circumstance , meetings in hotels give rise . liven in cases where the evils complained of do not practically exist , the world is apt to form an unfavourable opinion of in of
us consequence objectionable associations . 'The best than ks ot freemasons are due to you , and are hereby tendered as far as regards myself , for the efforts you have made and are continuing on this point bv your provincial analysis , and the distinctions you have so clearly pointed out between what you very properly term Masonic and profane practice , ion are meeting with your reward in the responses you receive and insert among your correspondence , and it is most gratifying to observe the "rowiii" - tendency to adopt vour views . " °
Ibis letter will perhaps add nothing very material to the argument ; but - icel that on so vital a subject every expression of opinion strengthens your position , and keeps the matter before the Masonic public , remembering die adage , that a stone will gradually become worn with constant and Ion " continued drippings upon it . Many men doubtless have long been of your opinion ; but from want of opportunity , Jack of moral courage , or some other ol the bwhich those
many causes y constitutionally destitute of energy , or of timid dispositions , are influenced , these right-minded men nave hesitated to come forward , to press their own opinions , and to strike out a path dictated by their convictions though opposed to common piaclicc . It is more easy to float with the stream than to stem the current and we hope that in the difficulties onl
may very many cases y have proved a hindrance , which it has been your object to remove—and not an absolute ami determined preference for non-masonic buildings . Turn the stream the other way—make the Masonic practice the rule and not the exception , —and all becomes easv .
Hie amount ol money . now spent in superfluities , and perhaps extravagance , which would , in such case , be available for the cultivation of pure and genuine recniasoiiry , and the exercise of charitv , one of its most distinguishing characteristic . ^ is incalculable . The removal from undesirable puces ol meeting takes away the motive to a large proportion of the means ol expenditure which must be incurred in them .