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exceeded , perh aps never equalled , in any of her sex . There were men who sneered at this female corps . Eamiliar only with vice and selfishness , they could not be brought to believe in the existence of such exalted virtue , such unselfish devotion : and now , if there is one voice which is authorised to speak quasi ex cathedra , —on the
preparations for the casualties of war , on military hospitals , on the commissariat , on the medical arrangements , and on the not less important arrangements for the transport of the w ounded , and the nursing of the sick , —that voice is the voice of Miss Nightingale ; and what she says to the people of England is , " prepare me a hospital , wherein I may train my sisters and my countrywomen to nurse the sick . "
Brother Masons ! you who have always taken the lead in every good and charitable work , let your aid be forthcoming on this occasion . Rally round the ensign of this modern maid of Orleans , in whom shine conspicuous the Masonic qualities , especially of brotherly love , relief , and truth . She affects not male attire , nor military armour ;
but her truly feminine and delicate mind is fortified with masculine energy : the battle to which she urges you is holy , her forces are the elements of good , arrayed against moral and physical evils ; once she has saved a country and a continent , who shall refuse , by his aid and influence , to wish her Gi-od Speed ?
Notes On Antiquarian Research
NOTES ON" ANTIQTJABIAN EE 3 EABCIL
( Continued from page 539 . ) CHAPTER VII . WHAT tfREEMASOtfRY HAS EEEECTEB . Winchester , or Winton , was called successively by the names of Venta Belgarum , and Wintanceaster . The history of the present cathedral , which is dedicated to the holy and indivisible Trinity ,
commences about the year 635 , when St . Binnus came over to England on his mission of turning our forefathers from the cruel superstitions of paganism . Amongst other persons , Birinus converted to the Christian faith Kynegils ( Kinegilsus ) , king of the West Saxons , whose godfather at the font , says Stow , was King Oswald . Those two kings rewarded the exertions of Birinus by giving him the bishopric of Dorchester .
Kynegils soon died , and his son Kennelwalch— -whose name is spelt , we know , in eight diiferent ways , and it may be in more—succeeded his father , and founded the church at Winchester , which he made a bishop ' s see . This church he lived to complete , and on his death he was buried , John of Exeter tells us , before the high altar , considered the most holy place , and generally reserved , as we know , for ecclesiastics alone , to whom then , and even in the present day , the chancel especially belongs . Many bishops were buried beside King
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exceeded , perh aps never equalled , in any of her sex . There were men who sneered at this female corps . Eamiliar only with vice and selfishness , they could not be brought to believe in the existence of such exalted virtue , such unselfish devotion : and now , if there is one voice which is authorised to speak quasi ex cathedra , —on the
preparations for the casualties of war , on military hospitals , on the commissariat , on the medical arrangements , and on the not less important arrangements for the transport of the w ounded , and the nursing of the sick , —that voice is the voice of Miss Nightingale ; and what she says to the people of England is , " prepare me a hospital , wherein I may train my sisters and my countrywomen to nurse the sick . "
Brother Masons ! you who have always taken the lead in every good and charitable work , let your aid be forthcoming on this occasion . Rally round the ensign of this modern maid of Orleans , in whom shine conspicuous the Masonic qualities , especially of brotherly love , relief , and truth . She affects not male attire , nor military armour ;
but her truly feminine and delicate mind is fortified with masculine energy : the battle to which she urges you is holy , her forces are the elements of good , arrayed against moral and physical evils ; once she has saved a country and a continent , who shall refuse , by his aid and influence , to wish her Gi-od Speed ?
Notes On Antiquarian Research
NOTES ON" ANTIQTJABIAN EE 3 EABCIL
( Continued from page 539 . ) CHAPTER VII . WHAT tfREEMASOtfRY HAS EEEECTEB . Winchester , or Winton , was called successively by the names of Venta Belgarum , and Wintanceaster . The history of the present cathedral , which is dedicated to the holy and indivisible Trinity ,
commences about the year 635 , when St . Binnus came over to England on his mission of turning our forefathers from the cruel superstitions of paganism . Amongst other persons , Birinus converted to the Christian faith Kynegils ( Kinegilsus ) , king of the West Saxons , whose godfather at the font , says Stow , was King Oswald . Those two kings rewarded the exertions of Birinus by giving him the bishopric of Dorchester .
Kynegils soon died , and his son Kennelwalch— -whose name is spelt , we know , in eight diiferent ways , and it may be in more—succeeded his father , and founded the church at Winchester , which he made a bishop ' s see . This church he lived to complete , and on his death he was buried , John of Exeter tells us , before the high altar , considered the most holy place , and generally reserved , as we know , for ecclesiastics alone , to whom then , and even in the present day , the chancel especially belongs . Many bishops were buried beside King