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Correspondence.
Herewith I send a report of a meeting of the Lodge La Cesaree ; and allow me to refer your readers to the measures therein mentioned . * They will give encouragement , and may form a precedent , to others who entertain similar views , but who hesitate as to the provisions for carrying them into ell ' ect . In a letter you published some time ago this Lodge was mentioned alreadmeeting ' in Masonic Hallin common with two or three others .
as y a , This , however , is in fact a private room , the property of a Mason , and not entirely consecrated to the purposes of the Craft , as was then pointed out ; and though this plan is infinitely preferable to a tavern , still there are objections which it is the object of the Lodge to remove . As the plan becomes developed , I shall have great pleasure in forwarding further communications , in the hope that they may prove of general benefit . outis in list of
An error , which I had already pointed ,, repeated your Lodges on page 075 ; Kidderminster is marked with ^ 11 , " significant of the possession of a hall . Such is not the case , for the Lodge of Hope and Charity , No . 5 : 23 , meets at the Black Horse Inn , as I learn from a worthy and energetic brother of that Lodge , Bro . Fitzgerald , P . M . I am dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , Jim' // , April 2 M , 1859 . U-H .
Masonic Antiquities.
MASONIC ANTIQUITIES .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE FUliEJIASOXS' MAdAZINE AND MASONIC MllUtOU . Snt AXD BHOTIIKI :, — "E . E . X . " has done the Masonic body service by bis communication to you of 20 th April , at page 701 . Canterbury Cathedral immortalizes the name of its builder , who was the Grand Master of t lie Freemasons , and belonged also to the Christian degrees of the Order . By his iiillucnce a municipal law was established in that city" 'That no person
, could become a freeman of the guild of operative Masons unless he had previously been initiated into Freemasonry and had obtained the third degree . " I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , April mi , 1859 . 0 . C .
YA ' ASI ' . INUTON ' . —His mind was great and powerful , without being of the very fir . * t order ; his penetration strong , though not so acute as that of a Newton , Bacon , or fjoeke ; and as far as ho saw , no judgment was ever sounder . It was slow in operation , being little aided by invention or imagination , but sure in conclusion . Hence the common remark of his officers , of the advantage he derived from councils of war , where , hearing all suggestions , he selected whatever was best ; and certainl general lanned Ins battles more judiciousl But it
y no ever p y . deranged during the course of the action , if any member of bis plan was dislocated by midden circumstances , he was slow in a readjustment . He was incapable ( if fear , meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern . Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence , never acting until every circumstance , every consideration , was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt , but when once decided , going through with his purpose , whatever obstacles opposed . —Jefferson .
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Correspondence.
Herewith I send a report of a meeting of the Lodge La Cesaree ; and allow me to refer your readers to the measures therein mentioned . * They will give encouragement , and may form a precedent , to others who entertain similar views , but who hesitate as to the provisions for carrying them into ell ' ect . In a letter you published some time ago this Lodge was mentioned alreadmeeting ' in Masonic Hallin common with two or three others .
as y a , This , however , is in fact a private room , the property of a Mason , and not entirely consecrated to the purposes of the Craft , as was then pointed out ; and though this plan is infinitely preferable to a tavern , still there are objections which it is the object of the Lodge to remove . As the plan becomes developed , I shall have great pleasure in forwarding further communications , in the hope that they may prove of general benefit . outis in list of
An error , which I had already pointed ,, repeated your Lodges on page 075 ; Kidderminster is marked with ^ 11 , " significant of the possession of a hall . Such is not the case , for the Lodge of Hope and Charity , No . 5 : 23 , meets at the Black Horse Inn , as I learn from a worthy and energetic brother of that Lodge , Bro . Fitzgerald , P . M . I am dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , Jim' // , April 2 M , 1859 . U-H .
Masonic Antiquities.
MASONIC ANTIQUITIES .
TO THE EDITOR 01 ? THE FUliEJIASOXS' MAdAZINE AND MASONIC MllUtOU . Snt AXD BHOTIIKI :, — "E . E . X . " has done the Masonic body service by bis communication to you of 20 th April , at page 701 . Canterbury Cathedral immortalizes the name of its builder , who was the Grand Master of t lie Freemasons , and belonged also to the Christian degrees of the Order . By his iiillucnce a municipal law was established in that city" 'That no person
, could become a freeman of the guild of operative Masons unless he had previously been initiated into Freemasonry and had obtained the third degree . " I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , April mi , 1859 . 0 . C .
YA ' ASI ' . INUTON ' . —His mind was great and powerful , without being of the very fir . * t order ; his penetration strong , though not so acute as that of a Newton , Bacon , or fjoeke ; and as far as ho saw , no judgment was ever sounder . It was slow in operation , being little aided by invention or imagination , but sure in conclusion . Hence the common remark of his officers , of the advantage he derived from councils of war , where , hearing all suggestions , he selected whatever was best ; and certainl general lanned Ins battles more judiciousl But it
y no ever p y . deranged during the course of the action , if any member of bis plan was dislocated by midden circumstances , he was slow in a readjustment . He was incapable ( if fear , meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern . Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence , never acting until every circumstance , every consideration , was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt , but when once decided , going through with his purpose , whatever obstacles opposed . —Jefferson .