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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
MARCH 31 , 1854 . MASONIC CHARITY .
WE enter upon our next quarter ' s responsibilities with no small feelings of pleasure , and with many serious reasons for bright hopes on the subject of Masonic progress . Increased individual good-feeling towards the Craft is rapidly leading to more organized demonstrations in its favour , and the recent
initiations in certain Lodges tend to strengthen the belief , that no class of society will remain unrepresented in Masonry , and that even many sectarian differences will be united in the one resolution to do good where good can and should be done ; and that minor differences of opinion will give way before those
grand principles of truth and high feeling , which should form the ultimate aim of study to every Freemason . We have , indeed , no discouraging remarks to offer on the state of the Craft in general , but , as its kindly recognised interpreter—as the almost sole medium of its
intercommunication either with its own members or with those who have not yet tasted the cup of its mysteries—we venture , in all brotherly feeling , to " say our say , " and perhaps to grumble a little , at a few matters at which we feel every real working and upright Mason is as indignant as ourselves .
Charity and Masonry should be synonymous words . The greatest of the golden three of Christian virtues—a virtue , be it remembered , that belonged as thoroughly to the old Jewish Masons as to their Christian successors—should be the true VOL . II . n
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
MARCH 31 , 1854 . MASONIC CHARITY .
WE enter upon our next quarter ' s responsibilities with no small feelings of pleasure , and with many serious reasons for bright hopes on the subject of Masonic progress . Increased individual good-feeling towards the Craft is rapidly leading to more organized demonstrations in its favour , and the recent
initiations in certain Lodges tend to strengthen the belief , that no class of society will remain unrepresented in Masonry , and that even many sectarian differences will be united in the one resolution to do good where good can and should be done ; and that minor differences of opinion will give way before those
grand principles of truth and high feeling , which should form the ultimate aim of study to every Freemason . We have , indeed , no discouraging remarks to offer on the state of the Craft in general , but , as its kindly recognised interpreter—as the almost sole medium of its
intercommunication either with its own members or with those who have not yet tasted the cup of its mysteries—we venture , in all brotherly feeling , to " say our say , " and perhaps to grumble a little , at a few matters at which we feel every real working and upright Mason is as indignant as ourselves .
Charity and Masonry should be synonymous words . The greatest of the golden three of Christian virtues—a virtue , be it remembered , that belonged as thoroughly to the old Jewish Masons as to their Christian successors—should be the true VOL . II . n