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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
JUNE 29 , 1850 . AMALGAMATION OF THE MASONIC CHAEITIES .
A NEW era may truly be said to have commenced in the annals of English Freemasonry . For many years past the unhappy fact has been too well known that heartburning and strife have prevailed , whereby the many excellent objects of the Order have been impaired , and its usefulness
impeded . Singularly enough the dispute originated with a work of charity , and has been kept alive b y the partizans of two different Institutions , each having for its object the benefit of the poor and indigent Freemason . Into the merits or demerits of this feeling , which had too
long existed , it is not our purpose to enter here . The causes , no less than the stimulants , which existed , the continuance of sentiments totally foreign to the true principles of the Craft , are now happily , and , we trust , for ever , — " In the deep bosom of the ocean buried . "
All differences are amicably settled ; all bygones are to be forgiven and forgotten , and henceforth a bright prospect is opened , that in the cause of benevolence , no less than in the preservation of the time-honoured Landmarks of the Order , the Brethren will be able to work with that Brotherly
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
JUNE 29 , 1850 . AMALGAMATION OF THE MASONIC CHAEITIES .
A NEW era may truly be said to have commenced in the annals of English Freemasonry . For many years past the unhappy fact has been too well known that heartburning and strife have prevailed , whereby the many excellent objects of the Order have been impaired , and its usefulness
impeded . Singularly enough the dispute originated with a work of charity , and has been kept alive b y the partizans of two different Institutions , each having for its object the benefit of the poor and indigent Freemason . Into the merits or demerits of this feeling , which had too
long existed , it is not our purpose to enter here . The causes , no less than the stimulants , which existed , the continuance of sentiments totally foreign to the true principles of the Craft , are now happily , and , we trust , for ever , — " In the deep bosom of the ocean buried . "
All differences are amicably settled ; all bygones are to be forgiven and forgotten , and henceforth a bright prospect is opened , that in the cause of benevolence , no less than in the preservation of the time-honoured Landmarks of the Order , the Brethren will be able to work with that Brotherly