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The Recent Grand Lodge.
" The publication of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review iias excited much attention in the Grand Lodge during the past year . Certain articles have appeared in its pages which the brethren have most justly and rightly condemned . No publication can be allowed to make such unfair and unhandsome attacks on our beloved Grand Master , without the just indignation of the Craft at large being excited and openly shown . It is deeply to be regretted that the F . Q . R . should have taken such a course . Much amusing Masonic anecdote , as well as much
sound and useful information , has been and still is , conveyed to the brethren through its medium ; and I am inclined to think that so far it has effected much good . But here the publication must rest . Personal attack is in every way most foreign to the principles of our Order ; and when that personal attack is levelled at our rulers , and that for party purposes , the author , the aiders and abettors of the libel must be
each treated and held alike , by all honest brethren , as being unworthy our privileges , and a disgrace to our Order . " With the opinions of the Prov . Grand Master as to the masonic policy of reducing the period of probation , we have nothing to do—he
approves of it . With his idea that " Freedom by birth" did form a landmark , we differ . It not only never did , but never will . Landmarks of Masonry are unchangeable . Does the P . G . M . for Dorset know what they are ? We fear not ; or he would not have risked his declaration as to " Free by birth . " When the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review " shall condescend to personal attacks in any matter , but
especially for party purposes , it will descend into unhonoured oblivion ; but we cannot refrain from advising the brother who possesses so many claims to the love and gratitude of the Craft to take a moral lesson from the manner in which his address to the Grand Master was entertained by the Grand Lodge .
The real empire of Freemasonry is public opinion—a power , as far as human power can go , supreme ; confidence in its princi ples , in ourselves , and , above all , in Providence—forming an impregnable bulwark . Shake the prestige of this confidence , and we lose all ; maintain it , and we preserve for posterity a blessing beyond price . To this empire , every Freemason is subject , be he ever so humble or exalted ; and it is not in
wordy crusades against the press that either the one or the other can prove his title to respect or protection . INDIA . —The acceptance by the Earl of Dalhousie of the dignity of Lord Patron of Freemasonry , in Bengal , will , encourage our Anglo-Indian fraternity .
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The Recent Grand Lodge.
" The publication of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review iias excited much attention in the Grand Lodge during the past year . Certain articles have appeared in its pages which the brethren have most justly and rightly condemned . No publication can be allowed to make such unfair and unhandsome attacks on our beloved Grand Master , without the just indignation of the Craft at large being excited and openly shown . It is deeply to be regretted that the F . Q . R . should have taken such a course . Much amusing Masonic anecdote , as well as much
sound and useful information , has been and still is , conveyed to the brethren through its medium ; and I am inclined to think that so far it has effected much good . But here the publication must rest . Personal attack is in every way most foreign to the principles of our Order ; and when that personal attack is levelled at our rulers , and that for party purposes , the author , the aiders and abettors of the libel must be
each treated and held alike , by all honest brethren , as being unworthy our privileges , and a disgrace to our Order . " With the opinions of the Prov . Grand Master as to the masonic policy of reducing the period of probation , we have nothing to do—he
approves of it . With his idea that " Freedom by birth" did form a landmark , we differ . It not only never did , but never will . Landmarks of Masonry are unchangeable . Does the P . G . M . for Dorset know what they are ? We fear not ; or he would not have risked his declaration as to " Free by birth . " When the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review " shall condescend to personal attacks in any matter , but
especially for party purposes , it will descend into unhonoured oblivion ; but we cannot refrain from advising the brother who possesses so many claims to the love and gratitude of the Craft to take a moral lesson from the manner in which his address to the Grand Master was entertained by the Grand Lodge .
The real empire of Freemasonry is public opinion—a power , as far as human power can go , supreme ; confidence in its princi ples , in ourselves , and , above all , in Providence—forming an impregnable bulwark . Shake the prestige of this confidence , and we lose all ; maintain it , and we preserve for posterity a blessing beyond price . To this empire , every Freemason is subject , be he ever so humble or exalted ; and it is not in
wordy crusades against the press that either the one or the other can prove his title to respect or protection . INDIA . —The acceptance by the Earl of Dalhousie of the dignity of Lord Patron of Freemasonry , in Bengal , will , encourage our Anglo-Indian fraternity .