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To Correspondents.
VOICE FROM BELOW . —We are not exactly aware from Avhat fund the Editor or Reporter of the Grand Lodge Circulars is paid ; there may be a secret service fund—or it may be that the Board of General Purposes takes on itself to discharge these delicate items . The "Ordo negatii"may be something to this effect : — " 1 . The Grand Reporter takes notes which he submits to the Grand Secretary . 2 . The Grand Secretary presents them to the Grand Master , who , after editing , revising , and correcting—or causing the said notes to be edited , revised , and corrected—returns them to the Graud Secretary . 3 . The Grand Secretary then casts the said notes , thus edited , revised , and corrected , into the brazen alembic of the Grand Macgullem , who condescends to grant his gracious permission for the Grand Printer to work off . " ( Fact , by Jingo . —P . JD . )
AN ENGLISH WOMAN is welcome to our columns ; we hope she will kindly contribute thereto—but regret the necessity of obeying her instruetions to return ' * the sampler . " FIDUS . — ' Anti-Masonry , " if possible , in our next . A . MEMBER OF ST . PAUL ' S LODGE will perceive that we have anticipated h \ s wishes . FRATER . —The best etiquette in Freemasonry is " courteous demeanour . " ORDO —** The battle of the aprons . " Purple insists that the Grand Master can do no wrong ,
and Purple is right ; for if the Grand Master eould by possibility do wrong , the Constitutions come to his aid , and make it all right—for in that book it is written that no provision need be made to correct an evil that cannot exist . Well , Hlue differs—and Blue is right ; for although , the Granil Master may be thus protected , it does not follow that the Grand Master , as a Mason , may not be responsible—No MASON IS IRRESPONSIBLE .
BRO . WILSON . —The Family Herald is an excellent periodical , but it contradicts itself when it declares that Freemasonry is a mere plaything . A sk of Brothers Oliver , Pryer , Crucefix , and many others , if they find Freemasonry to be a mere plaything . That " its theory is more perfect than its practice" is true to the letter , for so resplendently beautiful is its theory , that it is next to an impossibility in any man to attain a pure practical knowledge of it . Freemasonry is the universal religion of Virtue . As to the declaration that " the secrets are well known , and have been all published , " Ave leave that matter to be decided by those whom it may concern .
JOPPA LOOSE . —A member is referred to our last notice to correspondents , where " a reader " is informed why his letter was not inserted . If it is still Avished that such letter should appear , send another copy , with name and address . BRO . JI . B . O'RYAN—We regret that the letter came too late . Our correspondent will perceive that" D . S . " has touched on some points . F . H . —The Grand Report for June did not appear until a / to * the publication of the F . Q . R . consequently we could not avail ourselves of it .
Quiz congratulates us on the advertisement of the F . Q . R . from the Masonic throne : it is good , very good , ancl nuts to crack withal . A . O . —The scavenger may he proud of his position—impudence can go no farther . ARGUS . —Why , with a hundred eyes , must you ask one with only two , whether General Cooke obtained all his credentials from the Secretareat ? However , Ave will enlighten you . The General left England Avithout a single proof { by authority ) of his appointments . The salaries are draAvn to the day—but many a day ! many a month !! and , it has happened , that many a year !!! have passed ivithout due attention to cases similar to that of General Cooke .
A LIFE GOVERNOR TO BOTH SCHOOLS , AND TO THE B . A . F . —We seldom receive any report from the Triad Secretaries . Perhaps the Grancl Reporter has undertaken the charge . VERAX ( QU . MEND AX } . —We have heard of putting salt on birds'tails , but old birds are not caught with chaff . The account of the Grand Officers' dinner mess , on the occasion of the Especial Grand Lodge , 18 th of August , is a miserable hoax . There was " no dinner mess "had tiiere been one , no doubt there would have been a goodly attendance of the " Purple '» Some five or six Grand Officers dined in Bro . Bacon's new coffee-room , and partook of an excellent dinner at three shillings per head . VOL . V . 3 1 )
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To Correspondents.
VOICE FROM BELOW . —We are not exactly aware from Avhat fund the Editor or Reporter of the Grand Lodge Circulars is paid ; there may be a secret service fund—or it may be that the Board of General Purposes takes on itself to discharge these delicate items . The "Ordo negatii"may be something to this effect : — " 1 . The Grand Reporter takes notes which he submits to the Grand Secretary . 2 . The Grand Secretary presents them to the Grand Master , who , after editing , revising , and correcting—or causing the said notes to be edited , revised , and corrected—returns them to the Graud Secretary . 3 . The Grand Secretary then casts the said notes , thus edited , revised , and corrected , into the brazen alembic of the Grand Macgullem , who condescends to grant his gracious permission for the Grand Printer to work off . " ( Fact , by Jingo . —P . JD . )
AN ENGLISH WOMAN is welcome to our columns ; we hope she will kindly contribute thereto—but regret the necessity of obeying her instruetions to return ' * the sampler . " FIDUS . — ' Anti-Masonry , " if possible , in our next . A . MEMBER OF ST . PAUL ' S LODGE will perceive that we have anticipated h \ s wishes . FRATER . —The best etiquette in Freemasonry is " courteous demeanour . " ORDO —** The battle of the aprons . " Purple insists that the Grand Master can do no wrong ,
and Purple is right ; for if the Grand Master eould by possibility do wrong , the Constitutions come to his aid , and make it all right—for in that book it is written that no provision need be made to correct an evil that cannot exist . Well , Hlue differs—and Blue is right ; for although , the Granil Master may be thus protected , it does not follow that the Grand Master , as a Mason , may not be responsible—No MASON IS IRRESPONSIBLE .
BRO . WILSON . —The Family Herald is an excellent periodical , but it contradicts itself when it declares that Freemasonry is a mere plaything . A sk of Brothers Oliver , Pryer , Crucefix , and many others , if they find Freemasonry to be a mere plaything . That " its theory is more perfect than its practice" is true to the letter , for so resplendently beautiful is its theory , that it is next to an impossibility in any man to attain a pure practical knowledge of it . Freemasonry is the universal religion of Virtue . As to the declaration that " the secrets are well known , and have been all published , " Ave leave that matter to be decided by those whom it may concern .
JOPPA LOOSE . —A member is referred to our last notice to correspondents , where " a reader " is informed why his letter was not inserted . If it is still Avished that such letter should appear , send another copy , with name and address . BRO . JI . B . O'RYAN—We regret that the letter came too late . Our correspondent will perceive that" D . S . " has touched on some points . F . H . —The Grand Report for June did not appear until a / to * the publication of the F . Q . R . consequently we could not avail ourselves of it .
Quiz congratulates us on the advertisement of the F . Q . R . from the Masonic throne : it is good , very good , ancl nuts to crack withal . A . O . —The scavenger may he proud of his position—impudence can go no farther . ARGUS . —Why , with a hundred eyes , must you ask one with only two , whether General Cooke obtained all his credentials from the Secretareat ? However , Ave will enlighten you . The General left England Avithout a single proof { by authority ) of his appointments . The salaries are draAvn to the day—but many a day ! many a month !! and , it has happened , that many a year !!! have passed ivithout due attention to cases similar to that of General Cooke .
A LIFE GOVERNOR TO BOTH SCHOOLS , AND TO THE B . A . F . —We seldom receive any report from the Triad Secretaries . Perhaps the Grancl Reporter has undertaken the charge . VERAX ( QU . MEND AX } . —We have heard of putting salt on birds'tails , but old birds are not caught with chaff . The account of the Grand Officers' dinner mess , on the occasion of the Especial Grand Lodge , 18 th of August , is a miserable hoax . There was " no dinner mess "had tiiere been one , no doubt there would have been a goodly attendance of the " Purple '» Some five or six Grand Officers dined in Bro . Bacon's new coffee-room , and partook of an excellent dinner at three shillings per head . VOL . V . 3 1 )