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To The Editor.
Robert Mosse , Edwin Evans , Frederick May , George Shirley Kicruan , and John Seymour Daring , all of the Lodge of Unanimity and Sincerity , were called to the Supreme Degree of Royal Arch Masons . In the year 1835 we had not a single duly installed Principal . We now have five regularly installed first Principals , and are enabled , from the source of information before alluded to , to perform every ceremony in strict conformity with the promulgation of 1836 .
Keeping pace , as we hope we are , with other provincial Chapters , we cannot but regret the want of that new Code of Laws and Regulations , so long expected from the Supreme Grand Chapter . Let us hope they will no longer delay embodying in the existing regulations ( I believe of 1 S 26 ) their recent improvements , so that we may have one authorised code to which to refer for our guidance . Taunton , May , 29 , 1839 . BASIMTOXOS .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER . —As the song goes , " A stout ship , and good sea-room give me , And it a ' nt to a little I'll strike . " Understanding that the Reverend Dr . Oliver intends presenting to the Order another work on Freemasonry , in which its Theocratic Philosophy is to be expounded , I shall , in deference to that distinguished Mason ,
postpone the publication of " My Ten Years experience . " Prudence may influence me in this course—justice I confess does . It is but prudent not to venture upon public observation at the same moment with the "Philosopher of Masonry ;"—it is but just that the noble intentions of the excellent and Reverend Brother should be carried out to their fullest extent . He has offered to the contemplative Mason an opportunity that should not be lost of investigating the recesses of the
jewelled cabinet , by means of a lock and key , whose wards will only yield to the skill and practice of the artist , and then so easily as almost to open by a touch .- He has , with a philanthropy most honourable , declared his intention to devote the profits of this work to the three Charities of the Order , and I hope , devoutly hope , that the list of subscribers will abundantly reward such a labour of love . The worthy Doctor ' s work once fairly before the Masonic publicI
, will then venture my bark on the waters ; and although it is for the present in ordinary , it will be enabled to take in more frei ght ; and 1 , its helmsman , then an older , if not a wiser man shall have gained more " experience . " I will keep my weather eye open , and be ready to slip cable with the first fair wind ; and courting pleasant breezes with well-trimmed sails , shall look out for moorings at good anchorage , and offer my cargo at fair priceexpecting such a profit as may recompence my venture .
, I do not intend , however , to set sail until I have ballast enough to make all sure , and a sufficient number of hands who , in this case , must reverse the order of things , by paying half-a-guinea each , and even then I shall not pledge myself to the appropriation of profits;—I may even reserve them for that Charity—which " begins at home . " THE AUTHOR OF " TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE , " By a Past Grand Officer .
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To The Editor.
Robert Mosse , Edwin Evans , Frederick May , George Shirley Kicruan , and John Seymour Daring , all of the Lodge of Unanimity and Sincerity , were called to the Supreme Degree of Royal Arch Masons . In the year 1835 we had not a single duly installed Principal . We now have five regularly installed first Principals , and are enabled , from the source of information before alluded to , to perform every ceremony in strict conformity with the promulgation of 1836 .
Keeping pace , as we hope we are , with other provincial Chapters , we cannot but regret the want of that new Code of Laws and Regulations , so long expected from the Supreme Grand Chapter . Let us hope they will no longer delay embodying in the existing regulations ( I believe of 1 S 26 ) their recent improvements , so that we may have one authorised code to which to refer for our guidance . Taunton , May , 29 , 1839 . BASIMTOXOS .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER . —As the song goes , " A stout ship , and good sea-room give me , And it a ' nt to a little I'll strike . " Understanding that the Reverend Dr . Oliver intends presenting to the Order another work on Freemasonry , in which its Theocratic Philosophy is to be expounded , I shall , in deference to that distinguished Mason ,
postpone the publication of " My Ten Years experience . " Prudence may influence me in this course—justice I confess does . It is but prudent not to venture upon public observation at the same moment with the "Philosopher of Masonry ;"—it is but just that the noble intentions of the excellent and Reverend Brother should be carried out to their fullest extent . He has offered to the contemplative Mason an opportunity that should not be lost of investigating the recesses of the
jewelled cabinet , by means of a lock and key , whose wards will only yield to the skill and practice of the artist , and then so easily as almost to open by a touch .- He has , with a philanthropy most honourable , declared his intention to devote the profits of this work to the three Charities of the Order , and I hope , devoutly hope , that the list of subscribers will abundantly reward such a labour of love . The worthy Doctor ' s work once fairly before the Masonic publicI
, will then venture my bark on the waters ; and although it is for the present in ordinary , it will be enabled to take in more frei ght ; and 1 , its helmsman , then an older , if not a wiser man shall have gained more " experience . " I will keep my weather eye open , and be ready to slip cable with the first fair wind ; and courting pleasant breezes with well-trimmed sails , shall look out for moorings at good anchorage , and offer my cargo at fair priceexpecting such a profit as may recompence my venture .
, I do not intend , however , to set sail until I have ballast enough to make all sure , and a sufficient number of hands who , in this case , must reverse the order of things , by paying half-a-guinea each , and even then I shall not pledge myself to the appropriation of profits;—I may even reserve them for that Charity—which " begins at home . " THE AUTHOR OF " TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE , " By a Past Grand Officer .