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we look forward , hopefully , through darkness , dangers , and difficulties , to surmount all obstacles , and trust , on many anniversaries , to see our puny child recognized by our great brotherhood , in every quarter of the globe , as THE Organ of Cosmopolitan
Freemasonry , whilst we hope to be able to improve it year after year , and render it more and more worthy and acceptable to all , for its candour , justice , and intelligence . We have received so many inquiries on the various matters set forth in our prospectus , that it has been utterly impossible
to reply to even an equal moiety of them , and therefore we embrace this opportunity of making certain declarations , once for all , and reiterating some portions of our preliminary address ; but as it is one of our leading principles to render " all honour where honour is due , " we will first explain what is meant by the terms " sanction and approval . " Our publication is sanctioned and approved by The Most
Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of The Ancient and Accepted Pdte , and by The Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master of Masonic Knights Templar of England and Wales . We had permission to state this ere we issued one copy of the address to the Order . But though Dr . Lceson , and Sir
Knt . Stuart , both kindly accorded their sanction and approval of our plan , neither , the one nor the other of them , are responsible for one single statement that appears in THE MASONIC PKESS . Those gentlemen have other pursuits than to look after the utterances of the fourth estate , and we , bowing to their authority ,
loving and revering both equally , are under no restriction to cither of them , but are entirely free and unfettered , bound to no party , and the avowed enemy of all that is calculated to lower Freemasonry in ihe esteem of its members or ihe profane . We are unsubsidized , unbought , and unpurchasable . Truth is our guide ; and our best and dearest friend will be as firmly castigated in these columns—should lie deserve it—as our greatest
enemy . Of late tlie world seems turned topsy-turvy . Politicians , Churchmen , . Political Economists , and newsiiapers all seem floating in mid air , grasping at anv expedient to govern by ,
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Number One.
we look forward , hopefully , through darkness , dangers , and difficulties , to surmount all obstacles , and trust , on many anniversaries , to see our puny child recognized by our great brotherhood , in every quarter of the globe , as THE Organ of Cosmopolitan
Freemasonry , whilst we hope to be able to improve it year after year , and render it more and more worthy and acceptable to all , for its candour , justice , and intelligence . We have received so many inquiries on the various matters set forth in our prospectus , that it has been utterly impossible
to reply to even an equal moiety of them , and therefore we embrace this opportunity of making certain declarations , once for all , and reiterating some portions of our preliminary address ; but as it is one of our leading principles to render " all honour where honour is due , " we will first explain what is meant by the terms " sanction and approval . " Our publication is sanctioned and approved by The Most
Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of The Ancient and Accepted Pdte , and by The Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master of Masonic Knights Templar of England and Wales . We had permission to state this ere we issued one copy of the address to the Order . But though Dr . Lceson , and Sir
Knt . Stuart , both kindly accorded their sanction and approval of our plan , neither , the one nor the other of them , are responsible for one single statement that appears in THE MASONIC PKESS . Those gentlemen have other pursuits than to look after the utterances of the fourth estate , and we , bowing to their authority ,
loving and revering both equally , are under no restriction to cither of them , but are entirely free and unfettered , bound to no party , and the avowed enemy of all that is calculated to lower Freemasonry in ihe esteem of its members or ihe profane . We are unsubsidized , unbought , and unpurchasable . Truth is our guide ; and our best and dearest friend will be as firmly castigated in these columns—should lie deserve it—as our greatest
enemy . Of late tlie world seems turned topsy-turvy . Politicians , Churchmen , . Political Economists , and newsiiapers all seem floating in mid air , grasping at anv expedient to govern by ,