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Address To Our Readers.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR .

WITH the issue of the Number for June 26 th , the Twentieth Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR -will be completed . In the Address issued with the Eighteenth Volume on its completion , the following passage will be found— " With a view to carry out the proposal some time ago started for enabling the publishing price of the MAGAZINE to be reduced , and its circulation greatly increased , the preliminary

steps have been taken , and it now only remains for our friends and the well-wishers of the MAGAZINE to come forward ancl aid us in completing the project , in the successfully carrying out of which , all the members of the Masonic fraternity , whether holding under the English , Scottish , or Irish Constitution , are interested to a much greater extent than those who have hitherto been connected with the MAGAZINE as a property . " The time having arrived when the arrangements , for carrying

out with effect the proposed reduction in the price of the MAGAZINE , could be completed the announcement was made early in the present month that with the commencement of the Twenty-first Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the MAGAZINE the price would be reduced to THREEPENCE ; from and after July 3 rd , therefore , the promised reduction will come into operation , and we refer our readers to the Advertisement relating to that subject , which will be found in the numbers for June 19 th and 26 th .

The FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE orig inated and was established from purely Masonic motives ; it has , during the entire period of its long ancl useful career , been in the hands of and conducted by brethren who have had no mere selfish of other improper objects to serve by their connection therewith ; its influence has never been used to promote the personal ambition of any individual connected with it , at the expense of the best interests of the Order ; nor

has its power or influence been prostituted for trading purposes . The MAGAZINE has not been allowed to pass into the hands of a Masonic jeweller , tailor , or furnisher , that it mig ht be used to puff his wares , ancl under cover of its Masonic character serve as an advertisement card to carry the " shop " into every branch and department of Masonry , and , under the guise of honest independent journalism , trade upon what should be recognised as a sacred calling .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , during its long existence , has been carried on independently of any aid from Grand Lodge , ancl without courting either official , private , or back-stairs' influence ; and , although information , which has been freely supplied elsewhere , might frequently have been supplied to us for publication at an earlier date , we have hesitated not to risk the realization , of covert threats rather than forfeit our entire freedom of action ancl independence . As the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE is not interested in the manufacture of new , or in establishing

or maintaining Orders of chivalry , or Knightly or other Orders , assumed to be of ancient origin , either for the profit and advantage of those connected with the MAGAZINE , or of any other persons whomsoever ; ancl neither the proprietors nor any of the staff having any manufactory or other trading or shop-interest to serve , we feel assured that no better claim to the general support of the members of the Masonic Order can be put forward than those which wo have upon the whole Fraternity , and we look , forward to such an extended appreciation of our

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Untitled Article 2
ADDRESS TO OUR READERS. Article 3
INDEX. Article 5
MASONIC PERSECUTION.—I. Article 9
GRAND LODGE OF IOWA.—I. Article 10
MASONIC DISCIPLINE.—V. Article 11
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. Article 13
CHAPTER XII. Article 14
CHIPS OF FOREIGN ASHLER. Article 16
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 17
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 19
ANTIQUITY OF CHRISTMAS GAMES. Article 20
MASONIC MEMS. Article 21
METROPOLITAN. Article 21
PROVINCIAL. Article 22
SCOTLAND. Article 24
CHANNEL ISLANDS. Article 25
MARK MASONRY. Article 25
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 25
RED CROSS OF ROME AND CONSTANTINE. Article 25
MASONIC LIFEBOAT FUND. Article 25
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 26
REVIEWS. Article 27
FUNERAL OF THE LATE BRO. JAMES CHALMERS WITH MASONIC HONOURS. Article 27
Obituary. Article 28
METROPOLITAN LODGE MEETINGS, ETC., FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 9TH, 1869. Article 28
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 28
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Address To Our Readers.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR .

WITH the issue of the Number for June 26 th , the Twentieth Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR -will be completed . In the Address issued with the Eighteenth Volume on its completion , the following passage will be found— " With a view to carry out the proposal some time ago started for enabling the publishing price of the MAGAZINE to be reduced , and its circulation greatly increased , the preliminary

steps have been taken , and it now only remains for our friends and the well-wishers of the MAGAZINE to come forward ancl aid us in completing the project , in the successfully carrying out of which , all the members of the Masonic fraternity , whether holding under the English , Scottish , or Irish Constitution , are interested to a much greater extent than those who have hitherto been connected with the MAGAZINE as a property . " The time having arrived when the arrangements , for carrying

out with effect the proposed reduction in the price of the MAGAZINE , could be completed the announcement was made early in the present month that with the commencement of the Twenty-first Volume of the Quarto Weekly Series of the MAGAZINE the price would be reduced to THREEPENCE ; from and after July 3 rd , therefore , the promised reduction will come into operation , and we refer our readers to the Advertisement relating to that subject , which will be found in the numbers for June 19 th and 26 th .

The FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE orig inated and was established from purely Masonic motives ; it has , during the entire period of its long ancl useful career , been in the hands of and conducted by brethren who have had no mere selfish of other improper objects to serve by their connection therewith ; its influence has never been used to promote the personal ambition of any individual connected with it , at the expense of the best interests of the Order ; nor

has its power or influence been prostituted for trading purposes . The MAGAZINE has not been allowed to pass into the hands of a Masonic jeweller , tailor , or furnisher , that it mig ht be used to puff his wares , ancl under cover of its Masonic character serve as an advertisement card to carry the " shop " into every branch and department of Masonry , and , under the guise of honest independent journalism , trade upon what should be recognised as a sacred calling .

THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , during its long existence , has been carried on independently of any aid from Grand Lodge , ancl without courting either official , private , or back-stairs' influence ; and , although information , which has been freely supplied elsewhere , might frequently have been supplied to us for publication at an earlier date , we have hesitated not to risk the realization , of covert threats rather than forfeit our entire freedom of action ancl independence . As the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE is not interested in the manufacture of new , or in establishing

or maintaining Orders of chivalry , or Knightly or other Orders , assumed to be of ancient origin , either for the profit and advantage of those connected with the MAGAZINE , or of any other persons whomsoever ; ancl neither the proprietors nor any of the staff having any manufactory or other trading or shop-interest to serve , we feel assured that no better claim to the general support of the members of the Masonic Order can be put forward than those which wo have upon the whole Fraternity , and we look , forward to such an extended appreciation of our

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