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To Our Readers.
graver studies or ai'cbasological questions . Hence most of the questions and subjects which might and do fill a Masonic magazine with well-written and careful essays , seem to pass by and pass over a large pi'oportion of possible readers , in that they lie practically
beyond their Masonic horizon , the scope of their sympathies and interests , their ideas and associations . A magazine filled with archaeological contributions is only welcome to a comparatiTely very limited number of readers . Equally Masonic essays on this or that subject of Masonic teaching or
habits , of the normal professions , of the common practice of Freemasonry , of past or present Freemasonry itself in the abstract and concrete , pall by reiteration , and fall on inattentive or unconcerned
ears , because such brethren like to consider the lodge the proper place for all such dogmata and declarations , " ex cathedra . " And once again , if the Masonic magazine is filled with general articles , the cry goes up at once , " Not Masonic . " Thus the difficulties of a serial purely dedicated to
Freemasonry are very great , and as the past proves often very disheartening , nay , disastrous . The " Masonic Magazine , " thanks to the pluck of its proprietor , has , so far , kept on the even tenour of its way , undeterred by Masonic apathy , uninfluenced by Masonic preoccupations . And its piiblislier means to persevere , hoping and
believing that in the revival of aesthetic tastes and literary tendencies among us , the " MASONIC MONTHLY , " as our Maga will henceforth be termed , may share in the better days and advancing claims of a Masonic Literary Revival .
Probably at no time in our history had Anglo Saxon Freemasonry an abler band , a more promising " Collegium " of Masonic Students to boast of than at this very hour . The names of D . Murray Lyon , Hughan , Fort , Gould , Rylands , Whytehead , Lukis , Carson , Clifford Macalla , Masonic Student , Vernon , Ramsay , and many others
will revive pleasant recollections and will inspire well-grounded hopes . The EDITOR can only add that in this new aspect of affairs he relies , as he has hitherto done , on the friendly and sympathetic support of many kind associates and fellow students , and by a
mixture of grave and gay , of archasological treatises and of pleasant reviews , of recondite essays and of lighter contributions , he hopes to render the MASONIC MONTHLY worthy of the support of its old , and the cheery countenance of its new readers .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Our Readers.
graver studies or ai'cbasological questions . Hence most of the questions and subjects which might and do fill a Masonic magazine with well-written and careful essays , seem to pass by and pass over a large pi'oportion of possible readers , in that they lie practically
beyond their Masonic horizon , the scope of their sympathies and interests , their ideas and associations . A magazine filled with archaeological contributions is only welcome to a comparatiTely very limited number of readers . Equally Masonic essays on this or that subject of Masonic teaching or
habits , of the normal professions , of the common practice of Freemasonry , of past or present Freemasonry itself in the abstract and concrete , pall by reiteration , and fall on inattentive or unconcerned
ears , because such brethren like to consider the lodge the proper place for all such dogmata and declarations , " ex cathedra . " And once again , if the Masonic magazine is filled with general articles , the cry goes up at once , " Not Masonic . " Thus the difficulties of a serial purely dedicated to
Freemasonry are very great , and as the past proves often very disheartening , nay , disastrous . The " Masonic Magazine , " thanks to the pluck of its proprietor , has , so far , kept on the even tenour of its way , undeterred by Masonic apathy , uninfluenced by Masonic preoccupations . And its piiblislier means to persevere , hoping and
believing that in the revival of aesthetic tastes and literary tendencies among us , the " MASONIC MONTHLY , " as our Maga will henceforth be termed , may share in the better days and advancing claims of a Masonic Literary Revival .
Probably at no time in our history had Anglo Saxon Freemasonry an abler band , a more promising " Collegium " of Masonic Students to boast of than at this very hour . The names of D . Murray Lyon , Hughan , Fort , Gould , Rylands , Whytehead , Lukis , Carson , Clifford Macalla , Masonic Student , Vernon , Ramsay , and many others
will revive pleasant recollections and will inspire well-grounded hopes . The EDITOR can only add that in this new aspect of affairs he relies , as he has hitherto done , on the friendly and sympathetic support of many kind associates and fellow students , and by a
mixture of grave and gay , of archasological treatises and of pleasant reviews , of recondite essays and of lighter contributions , he hopes to render the MASONIC MONTHLY worthy of the support of its old , and the cheery countenance of its new readers .