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Valedictory Address To Our Readers , For The Year 1839.
the sake of honour and justice , and a love for the Asylum , that your support and our advocacy may be the means of ensuring the bond of union and of friendship ; and that another six years may pass over your heads and our own .
now with the sober tint of iron grey ; but that then with a whiter gravity , we may look back upon the moment when we _ called you to counsel and advise upon emergency . The same principles upon which we based our earlier pretensions , will regulate our future conduct . We hope to prove that in action has destroyed illtimed
energy any - allusion , and that our mind having found some wellgrounded pride in its honesty of exertion , may , if our readers give us credit for due regulation , overlook the disappointment of a lucrative result , and consider such
disappointment to be a fair cause for starting afresh . To affect a virtue and to practice it , are far different matters . In the one case , vanity pioneers folly ; in the other , public energy leads on honesty . Our own thoughts are often mirrored in the minds of
others ; we should therefore stud y others to know ourselves . It is m this view that we have attempted to explore many secret paths , and to reflect upon increasing experience . We admit , freely , that honour is due to those in superior station ; and with all tenderness to circumstances , precisely m the ratio m which they observe the duties of their station . to the throne
Loyalty , and , if possible , more especially to her who , first among the better sex , is its honoured tenant , will be upheld , because it is felt to be synonymous with sound judgment and the life-blood of chivalrous sentiment . But come what may , the glorious principles of Freemasonry will ever find m us untiring support , because it is as the creed of our faith , and in its tenets we find those unerring proofs which make this life a blessing ; and the chiefest blessing of this life is the hope of the future .
Ana now , readers , gentle ladies , and honest Brethren , you must , after all , determine , for we cannot , whether we shall additionall y continue or cease to be . In either case , may the festivities ofthe season be a type of the blessings in store for you . We would be ri ght meme , and we will not be sad ; for stalwart Masons have applauded us , and there are bright eyes that have welcomed our quarterly visit , and there are lips whose praise have brought honey to om- moral banquet .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Valedictory Address To Our Readers , For The Year 1839.
the sake of honour and justice , and a love for the Asylum , that your support and our advocacy may be the means of ensuring the bond of union and of friendship ; and that another six years may pass over your heads and our own .
now with the sober tint of iron grey ; but that then with a whiter gravity , we may look back upon the moment when we _ called you to counsel and advise upon emergency . The same principles upon which we based our earlier pretensions , will regulate our future conduct . We hope to prove that in action has destroyed illtimed
energy any - allusion , and that our mind having found some wellgrounded pride in its honesty of exertion , may , if our readers give us credit for due regulation , overlook the disappointment of a lucrative result , and consider such
disappointment to be a fair cause for starting afresh . To affect a virtue and to practice it , are far different matters . In the one case , vanity pioneers folly ; in the other , public energy leads on honesty . Our own thoughts are often mirrored in the minds of
others ; we should therefore stud y others to know ourselves . It is m this view that we have attempted to explore many secret paths , and to reflect upon increasing experience . We admit , freely , that honour is due to those in superior station ; and with all tenderness to circumstances , precisely m the ratio m which they observe the duties of their station . to the throne
Loyalty , and , if possible , more especially to her who , first among the better sex , is its honoured tenant , will be upheld , because it is felt to be synonymous with sound judgment and the life-blood of chivalrous sentiment . But come what may , the glorious principles of Freemasonry will ever find m us untiring support , because it is as the creed of our faith , and in its tenets we find those unerring proofs which make this life a blessing ; and the chiefest blessing of this life is the hope of the future .
Ana now , readers , gentle ladies , and honest Brethren , you must , after all , determine , for we cannot , whether we shall additionall y continue or cease to be . In either case , may the festivities ofthe season be a type of the blessings in store for you . We would be ri ght meme , and we will not be sad ; for stalwart Masons have applauded us , and there are bright eyes that have welcomed our quarterly visit , and there are lips whose praise have brought honey to om- moral banquet .