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Masonic Library And Museum.
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to lie an object of no trifling consideration . In all times , as history in a multiplicity of instances has proved , the form ation of establishments of this character has not only obtained general approval , b ut ) has been rightly considered matter of paramour importance .
This having been so genemlly , the question naturally anseis to us , as Masons , why it should not apply to us particularly . There is no reason—there can be no reason—why it should not . A system embodying some of the highest theoretical and practical
principles which can fairly be said to constitute the existence of science itself , should not , in these onward days , be without its garner of lore , and its storehouse of those actual illustrations of the past which nntiring industry may have gathered , cultivated taste arranged , and religious care preserved .
Sincere in these views , we hail with no ordinary degree of satis- , faction the effort which we find is being made towards the formation of a -5 * . Masonic Library and Museum . " At the forthcoming Grand Lodge , a resolution is to be brought
forward relative to the establishment of an institution of the above character . So welUptentioned a step we believe to be one in " the right direction , " as $ . most valuable adjunct in the advancement of Masonry , and its decided and unquestioned interests . This move * Vol . nr . 4 x
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Library And Museum.
[ f ;^
Ti ; is heading of this article may take some of oiir readers "b y surprise , ina prebends m ^
thought o £ Been deemed scarcely ww Yet , the question of tteest ^ otigbt ever , atoiongst any people , and in any progressive com
to lie an object of no trifling consideration . In all times , as history in a multiplicity of instances has proved , the form ation of establishments of this character has not only obtained general approval , b ut ) has been rightly considered matter of paramour importance .
This having been so genemlly , the question naturally anseis to us , as Masons , why it should not apply to us particularly . There is no reason—there can be no reason—why it should not . A system embodying some of the highest theoretical and practical
principles which can fairly be said to constitute the existence of science itself , should not , in these onward days , be without its garner of lore , and its storehouse of those actual illustrations of the past which nntiring industry may have gathered , cultivated taste arranged , and religious care preserved .
Sincere in these views , we hail with no ordinary degree of satis- , faction the effort which we find is being made towards the formation of a -5 * . Masonic Library and Museum . " At the forthcoming Grand Lodge , a resolution is to be brought
forward relative to the establishment of an institution of the above character . So welUptentioned a step we believe to be one in " the right direction , " as $ . most valuable adjunct in the advancement of Masonry , and its decided and unquestioned interests . This move * Vol . nr . 4 x