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Masonic Missions.
That Masonry has not made any advance in Norfolk , but has remained stationary , if it has not retrograded . That no attempt has been made to found new Lodges . That the Lodges , with one exception , meet in taverns . That there is not in the province a single Masonic hall . That there is no provincial benevolent fund .
That there is not a Masonic library in the province . That the Lodges are so many miles apart , that brethren not residing in the Lodge towns cannot celebrate Masonic rites ; and that seaports are left without Lodges , so that seafaring brethren are deprived of tlie advantages of a Lodge . That Provincial Grand Lodges have not been held regularly .
That the higher rites of Masonry are not practised or encouraged . At a later period we shall refer to the province of Norfolk again , and we shall be glad to receive any corrections , or to find that the case for the province over whicli Bro . Cabbell presides is not quite so bad as our information leads us to believe .
Modern Writers Upon Freemasonry.—I.
MODERN WRITERS UPON FREEMASONRY . —I .
DR . OUVEB OS MASOMC JURISPRUDENCE . WE some time since published in the pages of the Freemasons ' Magazine , a series of papers entitled " Ancient Writers and Modern Practices . " Treatises , essays , lectures , writings of all kinds upon Freemasonry , have , however , so much increased in number ancl bulk within the last few years , that they form no small or insignificant
item in matters connected with the Craft , and demand a notice as much as the writings of our ancient brethren . The most voluminous writer on the subject ( in modern days at least ) , is , undoubtedly , the Rev . Dr . Oliver , Past Deputy Grand Master of Massachusetts , Past Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , &< _ . ; and he therefore seems to deserve the first notice .
Dr . Oliver , however , has , ive fear , fallen- into the error of writing too much , and his writings have , at different times , brought down upon the Craft the severe strictures of opponents such as Carlyle , and the even mere powerful peii of the late Bishop Armstrong ( of Graham ' s Town , South Africa ) , ancl were perhaps , among others , the object of the last attack of De Quincey , in his " Secret Records , " a
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Masonic Missions.
That Masonry has not made any advance in Norfolk , but has remained stationary , if it has not retrograded . That no attempt has been made to found new Lodges . That the Lodges , with one exception , meet in taverns . That there is not in the province a single Masonic hall . That there is no provincial benevolent fund .
That there is not a Masonic library in the province . That the Lodges are so many miles apart , that brethren not residing in the Lodge towns cannot celebrate Masonic rites ; and that seaports are left without Lodges , so that seafaring brethren are deprived of tlie advantages of a Lodge . That Provincial Grand Lodges have not been held regularly .
That the higher rites of Masonry are not practised or encouraged . At a later period we shall refer to the province of Norfolk again , and we shall be glad to receive any corrections , or to find that the case for the province over whicli Bro . Cabbell presides is not quite so bad as our information leads us to believe .
Modern Writers Upon Freemasonry.—I.
MODERN WRITERS UPON FREEMASONRY . —I .
DR . OUVEB OS MASOMC JURISPRUDENCE . WE some time since published in the pages of the Freemasons ' Magazine , a series of papers entitled " Ancient Writers and Modern Practices . " Treatises , essays , lectures , writings of all kinds upon Freemasonry , have , however , so much increased in number ancl bulk within the last few years , that they form no small or insignificant
item in matters connected with the Craft , and demand a notice as much as the writings of our ancient brethren . The most voluminous writer on the subject ( in modern days at least ) , is , undoubtedly , the Rev . Dr . Oliver , Past Deputy Grand Master of Massachusetts , Past Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , &< _ . ; and he therefore seems to deserve the first notice .
Dr . Oliver , however , has , ive fear , fallen- into the error of writing too much , and his writings have , at different times , brought down upon the Craft the severe strictures of opponents such as Carlyle , and the even mere powerful peii of the late Bishop Armstrong ( of Graham ' s Town , South Africa ) , ancl were perhaps , among others , the object of the last attack of De Quincey , in his " Secret Records , " a