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The Catfadas.
! ¦ 1 ' called upon to partake of those which may not improbably arise from the hasty or forcing system . We shall not attempt to discuss the question—have the Canadian Lodges , or have they not , a right to throw off their allegiance to the Grand Lodge in Great Britain , and form an independent
Grand Lodge of their own ?—our correspondent having himself so well performed the task . We certainly can see no reason why the Canadians should not have an independent Grand Lodge as well as Scotland , or Ireland ; the only question being , under the state of things which have grown up , how that object is to be carried out for the general good of Freemasonry .
There is one thing , however , perfectly clear—that though it is a rule that one Grand Lodge shall not issue warrants within the territories of another , still we cannot withdraw the protection of the Grand Lodge of England from those Lodges which wish to remain under our constitutions ; " Canadian" counts these as not consisting of more than
one or two . This , however , a little time will show ; for we presume , though we have heard nothing on the subject , that the Most Worshipful Grand Master will have , before now , seen the necessity of directing the V . W . Grand Secretary to make the necessary inquiries on the subject from the Lodges individually .
The Sculptor.
THE SCULPTOR .
BY BBO . CHABLES SfcOMAN . Beneath the Sculptor ' s wondrous art , The marble mass receives a form ; Such seeming life he doth impart , You almost deem the flesh is warm .
The sculptured child in slumber deep , The warrior-figure clad in mail , The beauty fresh from morning sleep , Bespeak the fame that ne ' er can fail . The Bacchus flushed with juice of grape ? The Mercury lighting on a hill ; Or Juno of commanding shape ,
Appear from ' neathhis wondrous skill . Within each eye the light divine Seems with vitality to gleam . Artist ! may Fortune ' s gifts be thine , Thy fate not be an idle dream ! The Two Gates of Heaven " . —Perhaps no writer , whether of prose or poetry ,
in any language , has given a more beautiful image than that supplied in the annexed passage by Bernardin St . Pierre . It is worthy of the symbolism of Precmasonry : — "God has placed upon the earth two gates which lead to heaven . He has put them at the two extremities of life ; the one at its beginning , and the other at its end . The former is the gate of innocence , the latter the ( fate of repentance " 2 i 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Catfadas.
! ¦ 1 ' called upon to partake of those which may not improbably arise from the hasty or forcing system . We shall not attempt to discuss the question—have the Canadian Lodges , or have they not , a right to throw off their allegiance to the Grand Lodge in Great Britain , and form an independent
Grand Lodge of their own ?—our correspondent having himself so well performed the task . We certainly can see no reason why the Canadians should not have an independent Grand Lodge as well as Scotland , or Ireland ; the only question being , under the state of things which have grown up , how that object is to be carried out for the general good of Freemasonry .
There is one thing , however , perfectly clear—that though it is a rule that one Grand Lodge shall not issue warrants within the territories of another , still we cannot withdraw the protection of the Grand Lodge of England from those Lodges which wish to remain under our constitutions ; " Canadian" counts these as not consisting of more than
one or two . This , however , a little time will show ; for we presume , though we have heard nothing on the subject , that the Most Worshipful Grand Master will have , before now , seen the necessity of directing the V . W . Grand Secretary to make the necessary inquiries on the subject from the Lodges individually .
The Sculptor.
THE SCULPTOR .
BY BBO . CHABLES SfcOMAN . Beneath the Sculptor ' s wondrous art , The marble mass receives a form ; Such seeming life he doth impart , You almost deem the flesh is warm .
The sculptured child in slumber deep , The warrior-figure clad in mail , The beauty fresh from morning sleep , Bespeak the fame that ne ' er can fail . The Bacchus flushed with juice of grape ? The Mercury lighting on a hill ; Or Juno of commanding shape ,
Appear from ' neathhis wondrous skill . Within each eye the light divine Seems with vitality to gleam . Artist ! may Fortune ' s gifts be thine , Thy fate not be an idle dream ! The Two Gates of Heaven " . —Perhaps no writer , whether of prose or poetry ,
in any language , has given a more beautiful image than that supplied in the annexed passage by Bernardin St . Pierre . It is worthy of the symbolism of Precmasonry : — "God has placed upon the earth two gates which lead to heaven . He has put them at the two extremities of life ; the one at its beginning , and the other at its end . The former is the gate of innocence , the latter the ( fate of repentance " 2 i 2