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The Reverend George Oliver, D.D.,
by whose advice in all our better service we have profited ! We are now at the moment wondrously reminded ot the simplicity in which he commenced a correspondence with us-to him by name unknown-of the perfect confidence which he entrusted the honour of a Masonwith
with us , on , the secret beatings of his own excellent heart-and that through our humble instrumentality , he has given to an admiring community the periodical results ot his girted mind . That Dr . Oliver should have never expressed any dissent from the manner in which we have endeavoured to noble rewardthat in times
conduct this journal , is to us a ; of earlier prospect , when the uncertainty of support led us rather to hope for than to expect success , he should have encouraged us , was the natural act of a generous heart ; that he has continued gratuitously to lend his aid in the il ustration of principles and tenets which he professed , was a liberal when in difficultyand we
largess to the Order—that our , have had to pass through an alembic of no common tna , Dr . Oliver should still remain our uncompromising friend , proves him to be a man of honour-and certain we are that he will peruse our Valedictory Address to a generous public with much although we are equallcertain that he
regret ; y will accord to our successor his confidence with his patronage . That we may so long as we shall mutually hve , _ be each unto the other as we now are , is the prayer of him whose pen inscribes with all fidelity—Gratitude to Friendship .
In utroquejidelis . [ We need scarcely remark that this tribute to an excellent Brother was written by the late editor . It would be unkind if not unjust , were his successor to alter a single sentence in the last public proof of good feHowJnp Seen two such llasonic worthies . The editorial responstbdity o the one could not terminate better than with the Masonic biography of the other . —En . F . Q . B- ]
A . SLIGHT TRIBUTE , FROM AN ADMIRING BROTHER , TO DR . OLIVLR Skill'd in all the mystic lore , The priests of Isis only feign'd ; Bich in wisdom—purer ore Than science e ' er from earth hath gained'Tis thine with potent , quickening spell , To g ive the past a second birth , shell
As at the sound of Orpheus' , The dead once more return'd to earth . EDWARD RALEIGH MOItAN , No . Strand , Dec . 9 , 1840 .
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The Reverend George Oliver, D.D.,
by whose advice in all our better service we have profited ! We are now at the moment wondrously reminded ot the simplicity in which he commenced a correspondence with us-to him by name unknown-of the perfect confidence which he entrusted the honour of a Masonwith
with us , on , the secret beatings of his own excellent heart-and that through our humble instrumentality , he has given to an admiring community the periodical results ot his girted mind . That Dr . Oliver should have never expressed any dissent from the manner in which we have endeavoured to noble rewardthat in times
conduct this journal , is to us a ; of earlier prospect , when the uncertainty of support led us rather to hope for than to expect success , he should have encouraged us , was the natural act of a generous heart ; that he has continued gratuitously to lend his aid in the il ustration of principles and tenets which he professed , was a liberal when in difficultyand we
largess to the Order—that our , have had to pass through an alembic of no common tna , Dr . Oliver should still remain our uncompromising friend , proves him to be a man of honour-and certain we are that he will peruse our Valedictory Address to a generous public with much although we are equallcertain that he
regret ; y will accord to our successor his confidence with his patronage . That we may so long as we shall mutually hve , _ be each unto the other as we now are , is the prayer of him whose pen inscribes with all fidelity—Gratitude to Friendship .
In utroquejidelis . [ We need scarcely remark that this tribute to an excellent Brother was written by the late editor . It would be unkind if not unjust , were his successor to alter a single sentence in the last public proof of good feHowJnp Seen two such llasonic worthies . The editorial responstbdity o the one could not terminate better than with the Masonic biography of the other . —En . F . Q . B- ]
A . SLIGHT TRIBUTE , FROM AN ADMIRING BROTHER , TO DR . OLIVLR Skill'd in all the mystic lore , The priests of Isis only feign'd ; Bich in wisdom—purer ore Than science e ' er from earth hath gained'Tis thine with potent , quickening spell , To g ive the past a second birth , shell
As at the sound of Orpheus' , The dead once more return'd to earth . EDWARD RALEIGH MOItAN , No . Strand , Dec . 9 , 1840 .