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Correspodence.
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CANONBURY AND EGYPTIAN LODGES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir axp Brother , —My attention having been called to a paragraph in your Magazine of the 7 th hist , No . 27 , page 21 , describing a meeting of the Canonbury Lodge , Mo . 955 , and Egyptian Lodge , No . 29 , at the Three Tuns , Billingsgate , on Monday , the 28 th of June last ; and also to a letter in the following number of your Magazinepage 70 , signed by "An Officer
, Of the Canonbury Lodge , " denying that that meeting was a Masonic gathering and lest silence on the part of Lodge No . 29 might be construed into an assent or permission to such meeting on the part of that Lodge , I beg most distinctly to deny that the convivial meeting of the 28 th ult , above alluded to , Avas either directly or indirectly under the sanction of Lodge No . 29 . I may add that I was Avholly ignorant that any such meeting had taken place until yesterday , when my attention Avas called to the report in the Freemasons Magazine .
1 may , perhaps , be permitted to suggest to Brethren meeting in a mixed society , such as the one alluded to , the necessity of being careful not to arrogate to themselves the character or semblance of a Masonic meeting , or to adopt any portion of the Masonic usages or customs , inasmuch as no Masonic meeting can possibly take place unless convened by regularly constituted authority . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , July 24 th , 1858 . The W . M . of the Egyptian Lodge , No . 29 .
lute ScuLrruRE or Habit . —Did you ever watch a sculptor slowly fashioning a human countenance ? It is not moulded at once . It is not struck out at a single beat . It is painfully and laboriously Avrought . A thousand blows rough-cast it . Ten thousand chisel-points polish and perfect it—put in the £ ne touches , and bring out the features and expression . It is a work of time ; but at last the full likeness comes put , stands fixed for ever and unchanged in the solid marble . Well ,
so does a man under the leading of the Spirit , or the teaching of Satan , carve out his own moral likeness . Every day he adds something to the work . A thousand acts of thought , and will , and deed , shape the features and expression of the soul —habits of love , suid purity , and txuth—habits of falsehood , malice , and uncleanliness , silently mould and fashion it , till at length it wears the likeness of God , or the image and superscription ofthe Evil One . — Plain Parochial Strmms .
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Correspodence.
COKKESPOOEffOE
[ The Emtok does % ot hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ] '
CANONBURY AND EGYPTIAN LODGES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir axp Brother , —My attention having been called to a paragraph in your Magazine of the 7 th hist , No . 27 , page 21 , describing a meeting of the Canonbury Lodge , Mo . 955 , and Egyptian Lodge , No . 29 , at the Three Tuns , Billingsgate , on Monday , the 28 th of June last ; and also to a letter in the following number of your Magazinepage 70 , signed by "An Officer
, Of the Canonbury Lodge , " denying that that meeting was a Masonic gathering and lest silence on the part of Lodge No . 29 might be construed into an assent or permission to such meeting on the part of that Lodge , I beg most distinctly to deny that the convivial meeting of the 28 th ult , above alluded to , Avas either directly or indirectly under the sanction of Lodge No . 29 . I may add that I was Avholly ignorant that any such meeting had taken place until yesterday , when my attention Avas called to the report in the Freemasons Magazine .
1 may , perhaps , be permitted to suggest to Brethren meeting in a mixed society , such as the one alluded to , the necessity of being careful not to arrogate to themselves the character or semblance of a Masonic meeting , or to adopt any portion of the Masonic usages or customs , inasmuch as no Masonic meeting can possibly take place unless convened by regularly constituted authority . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , July 24 th , 1858 . The W . M . of the Egyptian Lodge , No . 29 .
lute ScuLrruRE or Habit . —Did you ever watch a sculptor slowly fashioning a human countenance ? It is not moulded at once . It is not struck out at a single beat . It is painfully and laboriously Avrought . A thousand blows rough-cast it . Ten thousand chisel-points polish and perfect it—put in the £ ne touches , and bring out the features and expression . It is a work of time ; but at last the full likeness comes put , stands fixed for ever and unchanged in the solid marble . Well ,
so does a man under the leading of the Spirit , or the teaching of Satan , carve out his own moral likeness . Every day he adds something to the work . A thousand acts of thought , and will , and deed , shape the features and expression of the soul —habits of love , suid purity , and txuth—habits of falsehood , malice , and uncleanliness , silently mould and fashion it , till at length it wears the likeness of God , or the image and superscription ofthe Evil One . — Plain Parochial Strmms .