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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
have been extinct for the last quarter of a century in "Wilts ; but an important revival has taken place , and the nomination and installation of Lord Methuen as the future Prov . G . M . of that district , can but give an impetus to the operations of the Order , and resuscitate the noble principles of Brotherly Love ,
Relief , and Truth . The tongue of good report is also heard in behalf of Cornwall , where Bro . Sir C . Lemon , with indefatigable zeal , follows out the ancient landmarks of the Society , and exerts his influence both as a man and a Mason to promote the best interests of the Fraternity .
We doubt not , if our space would allow of it , that we could have recorded many other instances whereby the Provinces have testified during the last three months that they are keeping pace with the metropolis ; and it is most satisfactory to us to know , and to be able to announce to the Craft
in general , that not only have our observations in the last number of this periodical , as to the too hasty admission of many of the popular world into the Order , been universally approved , but that a vast number of the leading Lodges are beginning to act promptly upon our suggestions .
Thus we may hail a still further improving sera as rapidly approaching , and may yet see the Order—what it is so eminently calculated to be—a beacon set on a hill , whose diffusive light tends to cheer the hours of sadness , to relieve the darkness of human calamity , and to cement the best feelings of Fraternal affection between man and man .
The death of the late Prov . G . M . for Norfolk , the Right Hon . the Lord Suffield , painfully induces us to refer to the condition of that Province . It is not fitting that we should particularly advert to the circumstances , which have tended to depress that once prosperous Masonic county . But it has our hearty good wishes that a worthy and active successor to the
late Prov . G . M . may speedily be appointed , who will be able to revive the prestige which the G . L . of Norfolk once enjoyed , when Bro . the late Thomas William Coke , afterwards Earl of Leicester , was G . M ., and the late Bro . Jeremiah Ives his indefatigable Deputy . Immense credit is due to the active 2 E 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
have been extinct for the last quarter of a century in "Wilts ; but an important revival has taken place , and the nomination and installation of Lord Methuen as the future Prov . G . M . of that district , can but give an impetus to the operations of the Order , and resuscitate the noble principles of Brotherly Love ,
Relief , and Truth . The tongue of good report is also heard in behalf of Cornwall , where Bro . Sir C . Lemon , with indefatigable zeal , follows out the ancient landmarks of the Society , and exerts his influence both as a man and a Mason to promote the best interests of the Fraternity .
We doubt not , if our space would allow of it , that we could have recorded many other instances whereby the Provinces have testified during the last three months that they are keeping pace with the metropolis ; and it is most satisfactory to us to know , and to be able to announce to the Craft
in general , that not only have our observations in the last number of this periodical , as to the too hasty admission of many of the popular world into the Order , been universally approved , but that a vast number of the leading Lodges are beginning to act promptly upon our suggestions .
Thus we may hail a still further improving sera as rapidly approaching , and may yet see the Order—what it is so eminently calculated to be—a beacon set on a hill , whose diffusive light tends to cheer the hours of sadness , to relieve the darkness of human calamity , and to cement the best feelings of Fraternal affection between man and man .
The death of the late Prov . G . M . for Norfolk , the Right Hon . the Lord Suffield , painfully induces us to refer to the condition of that Province . It is not fitting that we should particularly advert to the circumstances , which have tended to depress that once prosperous Masonic county . But it has our hearty good wishes that a worthy and active successor to the
late Prov . G . M . may speedily be appointed , who will be able to revive the prestige which the G . L . of Norfolk once enjoyed , when Bro . the late Thomas William Coke , afterwards Earl of Leicester , was G . M ., and the late Bro . Jeremiah Ives his indefatigable Deputy . Immense credit is due to the active 2 E 2