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Masonic Processions.
pro mirifico : " the latter , without departing a step from thc traditional Landmarks of the Order , desiring to bring its ever young and living principles into energetic operation on the well-being of our actual society , and into harmony with the onward spirit of our time .
PROGRESSIVE FREEMASONRY is the watchword of Doctor Oliver . May the advancing race of Masons take him at his word ! But we desire to say a word more particularly on the topic of MASONIC PROCESSIONS ; for we cannot but sympathize with the regrets
expressed by Dr . Oliver , at their present more than partial abandonment ; perhaps we may say their almost general discontinuance . There are many grave local and practical objections , too obvious to need detailed explanation , to the pursuance of this custom in large towns , —especially in the metropolitan city . Here indeed , even if feasible in practice , or recommenclabie in purpose , processional
demonstrations would be a supererogation of zeal , a superfluous display of energy . For English Masonry is , perhaps , already too much centralized , or rather , not sufficiently decentralized . Not ignoring , but professing all respect to the many excellent working provincial Lodges , we may , without fear of contradiction , affirm that all that
is externally active ancl fruitful in the working charities of the Order , is , if not sustained , at least chiefly represented by the central Lodges ; ancl as it is from the centre that the voice of law and authority speaks and acts , so too the grand solemnities to which we owe our recognition by the outward world are central ; and provincial Masonry lives , as it were , by deputation . Turn we then to
the provinces ; and to them we appeal for a revival of Annual Processions , bringing together from scattered localities in harmonious and fraternal concert , and in compact array , the divergent , but not discordant , members of a system free and equal as God ' s law : eternal as truth and justice . Nothing but good , we heartily believe , could spring from these periodical manifestations . Blessings to the
Order ! charities to the world ! In the midst of our unhappy religious discords and grave political contentions—our wars of creeds and churches—our dangerous social anomalies- —and jarring and . fatal contrasts : what more potent healer of wounds , what more
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Masonic Processions.
pro mirifico : " the latter , without departing a step from thc traditional Landmarks of the Order , desiring to bring its ever young and living principles into energetic operation on the well-being of our actual society , and into harmony with the onward spirit of our time .
PROGRESSIVE FREEMASONRY is the watchword of Doctor Oliver . May the advancing race of Masons take him at his word ! But we desire to say a word more particularly on the topic of MASONIC PROCESSIONS ; for we cannot but sympathize with the regrets
expressed by Dr . Oliver , at their present more than partial abandonment ; perhaps we may say their almost general discontinuance . There are many grave local and practical objections , too obvious to need detailed explanation , to the pursuance of this custom in large towns , —especially in the metropolitan city . Here indeed , even if feasible in practice , or recommenclabie in purpose , processional
demonstrations would be a supererogation of zeal , a superfluous display of energy . For English Masonry is , perhaps , already too much centralized , or rather , not sufficiently decentralized . Not ignoring , but professing all respect to the many excellent working provincial Lodges , we may , without fear of contradiction , affirm that all that
is externally active ancl fruitful in the working charities of the Order , is , if not sustained , at least chiefly represented by the central Lodges ; ancl as it is from the centre that the voice of law and authority speaks and acts , so too the grand solemnities to which we owe our recognition by the outward world are central ; and provincial Masonry lives , as it were , by deputation . Turn we then to
the provinces ; and to them we appeal for a revival of Annual Processions , bringing together from scattered localities in harmonious and fraternal concert , and in compact array , the divergent , but not discordant , members of a system free and equal as God ' s law : eternal as truth and justice . Nothing but good , we heartily believe , could spring from these periodical manifestations . Blessings to the
Order ! charities to the world ! In the midst of our unhappy religious discords and grave political contentions—our wars of creeds and churches—our dangerous social anomalies- —and jarring and . fatal contrasts : what more potent healer of wounds , what more