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Why Masonry Prospers.
the state of Maine . Leaving Passamaquoddy Bay behind , and journeying on the famous north-eastern boundary line five hundred miles , we reach the northern end of Lake Champlain ; thence one hundred more to the liver St . Lawrence . Take a steamer there , and leaving its
venerable waters far behind , threo hundred miles through Lake Ontario and up the wild Niagara river , will bring you to the great cataract whose thunders roar for ever , like a solemn anthem of nature up to Nature ' s God ! Look for a moment at the bow of promise , spread from shore to shore , as
if in token of peace and amity between the greatest nations on earth . And then away through the northern lakesoceans compared with those of any other land—more than a thousand miles to port Charlotte , on Lake Superior . You may find company even there . Speak to the trapper *
in the language of Masonry , before he starts upon his journey from the lake to the Pacific ocean , and yon will most likely find a brother even there . Follow him in his hardy enterprise , and he will conduct you three thousand and five hundred miles to
the strait of Fuca , in the Pacific ocean . Get upon the quarter-deck of some noble frigate there , from whose masthead floats the stars and stripes , and pass rapidly down the Pacific coast to the bay of San Francisco , another thousand miles ! Mount there a trusty steed , some tried
mustang , fleet as the wind and almost as tireless , and away for Santa Fe ! Ocean , and plain , and river , and mountain , and forest aro left behind!—fifteen hundred miles to the city of the Holy Faith ! In somo light canoe
glide swiftly with the current of the Rio Grande another thousand miles to tho Mexican gulf ; and now we have an endless line of coast , back to the place of beginning , almost four thousand miles .
And this vast country is tho land of Liberty ! It is also peculiarly the land of Masonry . Here it haa been set upon by demagogues , and persecuted by fanatics ; and
here it has signally triumphed over all its enemies ! And now , having come out of the fiery trial like gold doubly refined , it circulates as true coin , stamped with the signet of truth in the mint of public opinion .
And now , would you know how to trace the institution into other lands than this ? Follow the footsteps of Freedom in the world ; travel over the globe with the spread of civilisation ; follow the beacon-light of science from
shore to shore ; and where these are , Masonry is also . Even in the uttermost parts of the earth the sound of the gavel is heard , and men who have never known each other ' s voices meet to speak the universal language of brotherly love .
And why is it that a mere human institution should enjoy such continued and such wide-spread prosperity ? Because its principles are in harmony with the better nature and the best interests of men ; the very same reasons which give to our country its present prosperity and its future
promise . It is because the American government is a natural government , and not only in harmony with human rights but with human character , that men from all nations so easily assimilate with us , and soon become lona fide
Americans . Those unnatural principles upon which thrones are built tumble their tyrants down from the very nature of things . So must it be with all institutions which are founded without regard to a just knowledge of human character .
But Masonry , having been founded in harmony with Man ' s moral nature ; having as her standard the most elevated virtue ; and being sustained by very many of the best men of our race , gives hopeful promise that her labour of love will not be stayed until Brotherly Love shall prevail in all the earth .
EDITORIAL COMMENT . —Freemasonry prospers because it is founded in and erected on the dogma , the-Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man ; because it teaches and practices all the duties of love to God and man ; because it ever is iu the vanguard of true civil and religious liberty ,
and because it firmly and inflexibly maintains that naturally and civilly all men are equal , and possess no distinction in condition and right save that produced by physical , social ,
mental , moral and spiritual culture . In brief , because it unfalteringly inculcates and practices all the essentials and virtues of humanity and of pure and undefiled reli gion . —Voice of Masonry .
Brother Charles Frederick Forshaw, ;Ll.D., D.D.S.
BROTHER CHARLES FREDERICK FORSHAW , ; LL . D ., D . D . S .
IS not only a well-known Bradford poet , bat is , par excellence , the biographer and historian of Yorkshire poetry , a walking encyclopeedia of lore regarding the county poets and their writings . He has in this connection written almost a thousand biographies of poets and poetasters , which together with excerpts from their works have been published in various journals . He has also published five volumes of "Yorkshire Poets . " Dr . Forshaw is equally
productive , whether as editor , biographer , or original composer . Althongh still a young man , his name is attached to no less than twenty-five publications , the last of which is the " Holroyd Collection of Yorkshire ballad ? , " just issued . The twenty . sixtb , whioh ho is now preparing for the press , is " Tha Leading Poets of Yorkshire , " which is to be dedicated by spacial permission to His Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury , and this is to be followed by " The Poetesses of Yorkshire " and " The Poets of Halifax . " Dr . Forshaw , we learn from " North Country Poets , " published in 1888 , by Wm . Andrews , F . R . H . S ., president of the Hnll Literary Club , and author of a number of standard Yorkshire Works , " waa born at Bilston , South Staffordshire , January 1863 , but has resided in Bradford since hia
childhood . At the age when most young men aro commencing the work of marking out a career we find him established as senior partner in an extensive and well-known firm of dentists , a lecturer of some note , a writer of scientific articles and pamphlets ; the author of two volumes of poetry , and a liberal contributor of verse to many of the leading papers in the north of England . " " North
Country Poeta " is not the only book in whioh Dr . Forshaw's praises have been sung . He also figures in " Popular Poets of the Period , " an expensive work published by a Brighton author ; in the " American Magazine of Poetry , " published at Buffalo , New York ; and in the " Thousand Best Poems of the World , " an . Australian work printed at Mel bourne . There are few readers of weekly papers throughout the
British Isles to whom his name is not familiar as a poetical contributor , and sonnets and poems from his pen have appeared in a number of American journals , and also through the medium of translation in several German magazines . Amongst other regular poetical engagements he contributes at present a sonnet on Freemasonry , of which he is an ardent devotee , each week to the FREEMASON '
CHRONICLE . Dr . Forshaw s assiduity and perseverance have not passed unrewarded either in the paths of literature or the more mundane fields of professional life . He " bears hia blushing honours thick npon him . " His early publications on the use of cocaine , the microscopic structure of the teeth and other allied matters have secured him the coveted distinction of Fellow of the Chemical Society
of Berlin , an honour conferred only on six Englishmen , and also the fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society of London ; his literary labours obtained for him some years ago the honorary LL . D . of Tusculum and Greenville College , Tusoulum University , Tennessee , a distinction so far conferred upon eight Britons only , although the university charter dates from 1794 : and last year in
connection with his dental patents and papers on dental matters the Faculty of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery , the oldest and largest dental college in the world , granted him , in absentia , their honorary degree of D . D . S . This is the only honorary dootorate granted by the college within the British Isles for the last 33 years , and a dignity of which the holder may be justly proud . He ia also
a Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh , and a member of the Society of Chemical Industry of London . Dr . Forshaw holds offices as honorary dental surgeon for four Bradford Charities and for the Ilkley College . As a poet Dr . Forshaw ' s tastea are of a moat catholic type , but the subjects of his versification are to a large extent of a domestic
character , or snch as breathe of the gentler emotions , and are eminently calculated to appeal to the sympathies of the great Demos . He has published many songs , including a Masonio one , " The Mystic Tie , " which , set to music , hare had considerable vogue , and latterly haa developed a great penchant for the sonnet style of composition . His poem on tho " Silver Wedding "
elicited a personal letter of thanks from the Prince of Wales , and for hia aonnet on the death of the Duke of Clarence he received an autograph letter of thanks from Princess May , the bride-elect of the unfortunate young prince , as well as the praise of the Queen herself conveyed through her private secretary . We give three of Dr .
Forshaw a aonnets , the first of which was contributed to a volume of " Sonnets on the Sonnet , " published in Dublin by the editor of the "Irish Monthly ; " the second from a series of sonnets , entitled " Sonnets of the Greek Mythology , " and the third from his " Sonnet of Lakeland , " published recently .
THE SONNET . I love to be " cribbed , cabined , and confined " Within the sonnet's fourteen lines of space ; To me it seems the beau ideal of grace Into its limits to compress the mind . Though some assert its narrow boundaries bind ,
And stop the flow of thought's untiring pace , I wonld not add a line , nor one erase—To mar a feature that the gods designed . "A thing of beauty " 'tis , wherein the Soul ,
Finds blest enchantment , glorious , divine ; With all the witchery that enthralled the Nine ; No wonder , then , that all its charms extol—And that free praise is ever vented on it , Soft , soothing , sweet , stately , seductive sonnet !
To CALLIOPE . Goddess of grace , I pray , impart to me That eloquence which none but thou hast got j Come when I call thee , coy Calliope ; Come to me from thy sacred sylvan grot :
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Why Masonry Prospers.
the state of Maine . Leaving Passamaquoddy Bay behind , and journeying on the famous north-eastern boundary line five hundred miles , we reach the northern end of Lake Champlain ; thence one hundred more to the liver St . Lawrence . Take a steamer there , and leaving its
venerable waters far behind , threo hundred miles through Lake Ontario and up the wild Niagara river , will bring you to the great cataract whose thunders roar for ever , like a solemn anthem of nature up to Nature ' s God ! Look for a moment at the bow of promise , spread from shore to shore , as
if in token of peace and amity between the greatest nations on earth . And then away through the northern lakesoceans compared with those of any other land—more than a thousand miles to port Charlotte , on Lake Superior . You may find company even there . Speak to the trapper *
in the language of Masonry , before he starts upon his journey from the lake to the Pacific ocean , and yon will most likely find a brother even there . Follow him in his hardy enterprise , and he will conduct you three thousand and five hundred miles to
the strait of Fuca , in the Pacific ocean . Get upon the quarter-deck of some noble frigate there , from whose masthead floats the stars and stripes , and pass rapidly down the Pacific coast to the bay of San Francisco , another thousand miles ! Mount there a trusty steed , some tried
mustang , fleet as the wind and almost as tireless , and away for Santa Fe ! Ocean , and plain , and river , and mountain , and forest aro left behind!—fifteen hundred miles to the city of the Holy Faith ! In somo light canoe
glide swiftly with the current of the Rio Grande another thousand miles to tho Mexican gulf ; and now we have an endless line of coast , back to the place of beginning , almost four thousand miles .
And this vast country is tho land of Liberty ! It is also peculiarly the land of Masonry . Here it haa been set upon by demagogues , and persecuted by fanatics ; and
here it has signally triumphed over all its enemies ! And now , having come out of the fiery trial like gold doubly refined , it circulates as true coin , stamped with the signet of truth in the mint of public opinion .
And now , would you know how to trace the institution into other lands than this ? Follow the footsteps of Freedom in the world ; travel over the globe with the spread of civilisation ; follow the beacon-light of science from
shore to shore ; and where these are , Masonry is also . Even in the uttermost parts of the earth the sound of the gavel is heard , and men who have never known each other ' s voices meet to speak the universal language of brotherly love .
And why is it that a mere human institution should enjoy such continued and such wide-spread prosperity ? Because its principles are in harmony with the better nature and the best interests of men ; the very same reasons which give to our country its present prosperity and its future
promise . It is because the American government is a natural government , and not only in harmony with human rights but with human character , that men from all nations so easily assimilate with us , and soon become lona fide
Americans . Those unnatural principles upon which thrones are built tumble their tyrants down from the very nature of things . So must it be with all institutions which are founded without regard to a just knowledge of human character .
But Masonry , having been founded in harmony with Man ' s moral nature ; having as her standard the most elevated virtue ; and being sustained by very many of the best men of our race , gives hopeful promise that her labour of love will not be stayed until Brotherly Love shall prevail in all the earth .
EDITORIAL COMMENT . —Freemasonry prospers because it is founded in and erected on the dogma , the-Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man ; because it teaches and practices all the duties of love to God and man ; because it ever is iu the vanguard of true civil and religious liberty ,
and because it firmly and inflexibly maintains that naturally and civilly all men are equal , and possess no distinction in condition and right save that produced by physical , social ,
mental , moral and spiritual culture . In brief , because it unfalteringly inculcates and practices all the essentials and virtues of humanity and of pure and undefiled reli gion . —Voice of Masonry .
Brother Charles Frederick Forshaw, ;Ll.D., D.D.S.
BROTHER CHARLES FREDERICK FORSHAW , ; LL . D ., D . D . S .
IS not only a well-known Bradford poet , bat is , par excellence , the biographer and historian of Yorkshire poetry , a walking encyclopeedia of lore regarding the county poets and their writings . He has in this connection written almost a thousand biographies of poets and poetasters , which together with excerpts from their works have been published in various journals . He has also published five volumes of "Yorkshire Poets . " Dr . Forshaw is equally
productive , whether as editor , biographer , or original composer . Althongh still a young man , his name is attached to no less than twenty-five publications , the last of which is the " Holroyd Collection of Yorkshire ballad ? , " just issued . The twenty . sixtb , whioh ho is now preparing for the press , is " Tha Leading Poets of Yorkshire , " which is to be dedicated by spacial permission to His Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury , and this is to be followed by " The Poetesses of Yorkshire " and " The Poets of Halifax . " Dr . Forshaw , we learn from " North Country Poets , " published in 1888 , by Wm . Andrews , F . R . H . S ., president of the Hnll Literary Club , and author of a number of standard Yorkshire Works , " waa born at Bilston , South Staffordshire , January 1863 , but has resided in Bradford since hia
childhood . At the age when most young men aro commencing the work of marking out a career we find him established as senior partner in an extensive and well-known firm of dentists , a lecturer of some note , a writer of scientific articles and pamphlets ; the author of two volumes of poetry , and a liberal contributor of verse to many of the leading papers in the north of England . " " North
Country Poeta " is not the only book in whioh Dr . Forshaw's praises have been sung . He also figures in " Popular Poets of the Period , " an expensive work published by a Brighton author ; in the " American Magazine of Poetry , " published at Buffalo , New York ; and in the " Thousand Best Poems of the World , " an . Australian work printed at Mel bourne . There are few readers of weekly papers throughout the
British Isles to whom his name is not familiar as a poetical contributor , and sonnets and poems from his pen have appeared in a number of American journals , and also through the medium of translation in several German magazines . Amongst other regular poetical engagements he contributes at present a sonnet on Freemasonry , of which he is an ardent devotee , each week to the FREEMASON '
CHRONICLE . Dr . Forshaw s assiduity and perseverance have not passed unrewarded either in the paths of literature or the more mundane fields of professional life . He " bears hia blushing honours thick npon him . " His early publications on the use of cocaine , the microscopic structure of the teeth and other allied matters have secured him the coveted distinction of Fellow of the Chemical Society
of Berlin , an honour conferred only on six Englishmen , and also the fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society of London ; his literary labours obtained for him some years ago the honorary LL . D . of Tusculum and Greenville College , Tusoulum University , Tennessee , a distinction so far conferred upon eight Britons only , although the university charter dates from 1794 : and last year in
connection with his dental patents and papers on dental matters the Faculty of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery , the oldest and largest dental college in the world , granted him , in absentia , their honorary degree of D . D . S . This is the only honorary dootorate granted by the college within the British Isles for the last 33 years , and a dignity of which the holder may be justly proud . He ia also
a Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh , and a member of the Society of Chemical Industry of London . Dr . Forshaw holds offices as honorary dental surgeon for four Bradford Charities and for the Ilkley College . As a poet Dr . Forshaw ' s tastea are of a moat catholic type , but the subjects of his versification are to a large extent of a domestic
character , or snch as breathe of the gentler emotions , and are eminently calculated to appeal to the sympathies of the great Demos . He has published many songs , including a Masonio one , " The Mystic Tie , " which , set to music , hare had considerable vogue , and latterly haa developed a great penchant for the sonnet style of composition . His poem on tho " Silver Wedding "
elicited a personal letter of thanks from the Prince of Wales , and for hia aonnet on the death of the Duke of Clarence he received an autograph letter of thanks from Princess May , the bride-elect of the unfortunate young prince , as well as the praise of the Queen herself conveyed through her private secretary . We give three of Dr .
Forshaw a aonnets , the first of which was contributed to a volume of " Sonnets on the Sonnet , " published in Dublin by the editor of the "Irish Monthly ; " the second from a series of sonnets , entitled " Sonnets of the Greek Mythology , " and the third from his " Sonnet of Lakeland , " published recently .
THE SONNET . I love to be " cribbed , cabined , and confined " Within the sonnet's fourteen lines of space ; To me it seems the beau ideal of grace Into its limits to compress the mind . Though some assert its narrow boundaries bind ,
And stop the flow of thought's untiring pace , I wonld not add a line , nor one erase—To mar a feature that the gods designed . "A thing of beauty " 'tis , wherein the Soul ,
Finds blest enchantment , glorious , divine ; With all the witchery that enthralled the Nine ; No wonder , then , that all its charms extol—And that free praise is ever vented on it , Soft , soothing , sweet , stately , seductive sonnet !
To CALLIOPE . Goddess of grace , I pray , impart to me That eloquence which none but thou hast got j Come when I call thee , coy Calliope ; Come to me from thy sacred sylvan grot :