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THE MASONIC EXAMINER . JULY i , 1871 . Copies of THE M ASONIC E XAMINER cannot be sold to anyone making personal application to purchase them . The paper order
will be supplied—^ / post only—according to written , accompanied by a remittance of the amount , for the number required , at the rate of T HREE HALF- PENCE for each copy . All orders to be addressed to Bro . MATTHEW COOKE , 13 , Harpur Street , Red Lion Square , London , W . C . _» TO ADVERTISERS .
All Advertisements in T HE MASONIC E XAMINER will be set up in plain type , and no display or ornamental letters will be used . ONE UNIFORM CHARGE of Sixpence for every ten ( or fractional portion of ten ) words is adopted , from which there will be no reduction whatever . ^ Advertisements intended to appear . in the ensuing montli ' o issue
must reach Bro . Matthew Cooke , accompanied by a cash remittance , at the rate stated above , not later than the 24 th day of the current month , or insertion cannot be guaranteed .
Editorial Address.
EDITORIAL ADDRESS .
BRETHREN , —The first number of T HE MASONIC E XAMINER is before you . Its title has been deliberately chosen for the purpose of affording , in two words , which cannot be mistaken , a complete
as individuals , but with the ignorance , vanity , and tyranny , of systems . It takes nothing for granted but what can be demonstrated as true . It will abhor deceit and double-dealing . To the good and true brother , however mistaken , THE MASONIC E XAMINER must be welcome ; but to
"the whited sepulchres" of outward peace , whilst their souls rankle with injustice , fraud , violence , and tyranny , it will prove a formidable scourge . In its columns the student will find benefit , the charlatan . T HE MASONIC EXAMINER will
exposure cherish the former and sift the pretensions of the latter . One of the chief designs of THE MASONIC EXAMINER is to assert the rig hts of Pree-Masons against the innovating irit which nowunhappily , seems
sp , _ bent on destroying both the Articles and Constitutions of the Order , and subverting all decency and discipline , for innovations in Free-Masonry are the most efficacious , as well as the most plausible , way of compassing a total abolition of it . Consequently THE
MASONIC E XAMINER , led by contributors of sense , reason , and reflection , will steadily endeavour to be a True Conservator of all the ancient rights , privileges , and immunities , appertaining to brethren of every grade .
key to the object of the publication . Free-Masonry is either truth or falsehood . It cannot rank midway between them , but must be enlisted on the one side or the other . Firmly believing it to be founded on that imperishable basis , THE MASONIC EXAMINER is issued to rescue the Truth in
Free-Masonry from ambitious men who would cover the precious deposit and erect over it a superstructure of tinsel , gew-gaw , fiction , and- absurdity . As its title imports , it is a searcher , an inquirer , whose columns are open to every Masonic Examiner , no matter what his connection with any rite , body , or
order , may be , so long as he is one who claims the rights of brotherhood under cosmopolitan Free-Masonry . THE M ASONIC EXAMINER "has but one aim in view " to seek out the old Truths of Free-Masonry ,
; and , where they are veiled by the designing arts of impostors , ruthlessly to tear the mask of falsehood from the pure principles they would dishonour . THE MASONIC E XAMINER wages no war with men ,
Such as would newly model . free-Masonry ougiit not only to have a new society , but a new reason , likewise . Free-Masonry , settled centuries since with sober and mature judgment , now requires no newfangled experiments , which are generally fatal and perniciousand against which—unless they can show
, , truth on their side , —THE M ASONIC E XAMINER will be an uncompromising foe . Free-Masonry is a Royal Society for settling and practising old principles and not for finding out new , and THE MASONIC EXAMINERrecognising this object ,
, in its fullest extent , will endeavour to serve the good old cause , without change or alteration . Without preliminary announcement , without distinguished patronage , but relying on the GREAT HEAD OF ALL TRUTHfor guidance and support , THE
, MASONIC EXAMINER commences its career in a lowly and humble guise suitable to a searcher after that ' truth it seeks to evolve , for the good of cosmopolitan ; Free-Masonry .
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Ar00101
THE MASONIC EXAMINER . JULY i , 1871 . Copies of THE M ASONIC E XAMINER cannot be sold to anyone making personal application to purchase them . The paper order
will be supplied—^ / post only—according to written , accompanied by a remittance of the amount , for the number required , at the rate of T HREE HALF- PENCE for each copy . All orders to be addressed to Bro . MATTHEW COOKE , 13 , Harpur Street , Red Lion Square , London , W . C . _» TO ADVERTISERS .
All Advertisements in T HE MASONIC E XAMINER will be set up in plain type , and no display or ornamental letters will be used . ONE UNIFORM CHARGE of Sixpence for every ten ( or fractional portion of ten ) words is adopted , from which there will be no reduction whatever . ^ Advertisements intended to appear . in the ensuing montli ' o issue
must reach Bro . Matthew Cooke , accompanied by a cash remittance , at the rate stated above , not later than the 24 th day of the current month , or insertion cannot be guaranteed .
Editorial Address.
EDITORIAL ADDRESS .
BRETHREN , —The first number of T HE MASONIC E XAMINER is before you . Its title has been deliberately chosen for the purpose of affording , in two words , which cannot be mistaken , a complete
as individuals , but with the ignorance , vanity , and tyranny , of systems . It takes nothing for granted but what can be demonstrated as true . It will abhor deceit and double-dealing . To the good and true brother , however mistaken , THE MASONIC E XAMINER must be welcome ; but to
"the whited sepulchres" of outward peace , whilst their souls rankle with injustice , fraud , violence , and tyranny , it will prove a formidable scourge . In its columns the student will find benefit , the charlatan . T HE MASONIC EXAMINER will
exposure cherish the former and sift the pretensions of the latter . One of the chief designs of THE MASONIC EXAMINER is to assert the rig hts of Pree-Masons against the innovating irit which nowunhappily , seems
sp , _ bent on destroying both the Articles and Constitutions of the Order , and subverting all decency and discipline , for innovations in Free-Masonry are the most efficacious , as well as the most plausible , way of compassing a total abolition of it . Consequently THE
MASONIC E XAMINER , led by contributors of sense , reason , and reflection , will steadily endeavour to be a True Conservator of all the ancient rights , privileges , and immunities , appertaining to brethren of every grade .
key to the object of the publication . Free-Masonry is either truth or falsehood . It cannot rank midway between them , but must be enlisted on the one side or the other . Firmly believing it to be founded on that imperishable basis , THE MASONIC EXAMINER is issued to rescue the Truth in
Free-Masonry from ambitious men who would cover the precious deposit and erect over it a superstructure of tinsel , gew-gaw , fiction , and- absurdity . As its title imports , it is a searcher , an inquirer , whose columns are open to every Masonic Examiner , no matter what his connection with any rite , body , or
order , may be , so long as he is one who claims the rights of brotherhood under cosmopolitan Free-Masonry . THE M ASONIC EXAMINER "has but one aim in view " to seek out the old Truths of Free-Masonry ,
; and , where they are veiled by the designing arts of impostors , ruthlessly to tear the mask of falsehood from the pure principles they would dishonour . THE MASONIC E XAMINER wages no war with men ,
Such as would newly model . free-Masonry ougiit not only to have a new society , but a new reason , likewise . Free-Masonry , settled centuries since with sober and mature judgment , now requires no newfangled experiments , which are generally fatal and perniciousand against which—unless they can show
, , truth on their side , —THE M ASONIC E XAMINER will be an uncompromising foe . Free-Masonry is a Royal Society for settling and practising old principles and not for finding out new , and THE MASONIC EXAMINERrecognising this object ,
, in its fullest extent , will endeavour to serve the good old cause , without change or alteration . Without preliminary announcement , without distinguished patronage , but relying on the GREAT HEAD OF ALL TRUTHfor guidance and support , THE
, MASONIC EXAMINER commences its career in a lowly and humble guise suitable to a searcher after that ' truth it seeks to evolve , for the good of cosmopolitan ; Free-Masonry .