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Article THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 6 of 7 →
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
attainted of any act of wilful neglect , or of partial favour : one mind , one heart seems to influence our contributors , and but one opinion has reached us in the manner that opinion should be offered .
We promise then to act for the future as we may be directed by circumstances , always bearing in mind that " he does not easily lose himself who takes the straight road . " Among the " forthcoming novelties" of the year , —and
what a period is therein embraced : now the winter solsticesoon the vernal equinox—anon the summer solstice—then the autumnal equinox—and again the winter solstice!—shall WE be destined to fulfil our promise ? or if such fulfilment be committed to others , AVHO shall name them ? The
thought is startling . Meantime we live ; and promise , life and health permitting , to bring before our Masonic audience in the course of the year , that which is partly in rehearsal . FIRST . —The "A NNALS OF LODGES : " and here we
expect to enlist the attention and researches of every Mason , because " the Mother Lodge" is to every child of promise an affair of some interest . The altar of his early fidelity , like a first love , leaves an impression not easily to be effaced ;
and he will trace even in the wreck of its beauty some memorial of a by-gone day , when time and circumstance were otherwise than they may be at the present moment . We have already some pleasing and interesting anecdotes of Lodges , and shall commence with the Grand Steward's
Lodge , in compliment to its rank in the Order , and the eminent example it has set to the Craft for the period of a century ! We may not be enabled to g ive each Lodge in exact rotation ; indeed if we could we should not , from
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
attainted of any act of wilful neglect , or of partial favour : one mind , one heart seems to influence our contributors , and but one opinion has reached us in the manner that opinion should be offered .
We promise then to act for the future as we may be directed by circumstances , always bearing in mind that " he does not easily lose himself who takes the straight road . " Among the " forthcoming novelties" of the year , —and
what a period is therein embraced : now the winter solsticesoon the vernal equinox—anon the summer solstice—then the autumnal equinox—and again the winter solstice!—shall WE be destined to fulfil our promise ? or if such fulfilment be committed to others , AVHO shall name them ? The
thought is startling . Meantime we live ; and promise , life and health permitting , to bring before our Masonic audience in the course of the year , that which is partly in rehearsal . FIRST . —The "A NNALS OF LODGES : " and here we
expect to enlist the attention and researches of every Mason , because " the Mother Lodge" is to every child of promise an affair of some interest . The altar of his early fidelity , like a first love , leaves an impression not easily to be effaced ;
and he will trace even in the wreck of its beauty some memorial of a by-gone day , when time and circumstance were otherwise than they may be at the present moment . We have already some pleasing and interesting anecdotes of Lodges , and shall commence with the Grand Steward's
Lodge , in compliment to its rank in the Order , and the eminent example it has set to the Craft for the period of a century ! We may not be enabled to g ive each Lodge in exact rotation ; indeed if we could we should not , from