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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
—0 WB have little to report , or to note , except tbat the last Quarterly Communication was I one of the most interesting we have had 1 for some time . All our brethren will be pleased to peruse the admirable remarks of lord Donoughmore , and the important details of Bro . J . M . Olabon ' s seasonable address .
Our Lodges are rapidly increasing ; -we are close upon , if we have not already exceeded , 1 , 700 ; and , if the present rate continues , the end of 1877 will behold us rapidly nearing to 1 , 800 .
We do not take the alarmist views of some good brethren in respect of this great increase , ( but then Bro . Peter Grievous likes to ah always his jeremiades , ) and Ave are neither optimists nor pessimists . Like MrSamuel Weller we likes to
. " eat our melting pears , " we " asks no names , " and we '' gets on pretty Avell . " The true philosophy , be it observed of human life !
: Some of our brethren seem fond of going : before the law courts just now , and we : hope that they will attend to the sage and : seasonable reproof of Mr . Justice Field . It is becoming a great disgrace to us all , and a complete burlesque on our Masonic professions
. —See the Freemason of June 23 . In the Monde Magonnique , for June , were is a very remarkable letter from a ¦ trench Brother in London , which also appeared in the Freemason for June 23 , and which confirms entirel view of the
y our insane struggle into which French Freemasonry has been plunged by an intolerant minorit y , and of the abnormal position it ™ l inevitabl y be placed . in , if this revolution , and this " Coup des libres penseurs " « e permitted to get the upper hand .
Monthly Masonic Summary.
We still cling to fh & JSepfeihat the good sense of the majority of French Freemasons will refuse to allow Freemasonry to be drawn behind the car of irreligion and revolution . Freemasonry has nothing to do with reli
politics or gious contests , and the sooner the French and Belgian Freemasons well learn this fundamental truth of all cosmopolitan and true Freemasonry , tho better it will be for Masonry in General , and the French and Belgian Lodges in particular .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
ON OUR "LITERARY NEW YEAR " JULY , 1877 . BY BRO . BEV . M . QORnON . OOMMBNOIHO WITH THE FIFTH VOLUMB 01 THE " MASONIC MAGAZINB . " IN ev ' ry scenefrom vale to mountain-len
, g , Now flow ' rs and blossoms , full of promise , glow—As fair as flow ' rs—for glad July doth show The brightness of her flushing features , when "With this month ' s hues of beautv smiles
again Our literary new year—to all , not so—For " Lodges "—are there not 1—alas 1 too slow , "Who " all too dear , " our monthly "Maga's " pen At " sixpence" hold;—some , if I ween ariht
g , "Who ne ' er have learn'd intelligently t ' explore Its monthly lucubrations with delight 1 Nor heed Masonic Bounty ' s gen ' ral store Be ' pov ' rish'd by a miserable mite , Monthly ieaerv'd to aid Masonic lore .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
—0 WB have little to report , or to note , except tbat the last Quarterly Communication was I one of the most interesting we have had 1 for some time . All our brethren will be pleased to peruse the admirable remarks of lord Donoughmore , and the important details of Bro . J . M . Olabon ' s seasonable address .
Our Lodges are rapidly increasing ; -we are close upon , if we have not already exceeded , 1 , 700 ; and , if the present rate continues , the end of 1877 will behold us rapidly nearing to 1 , 800 .
We do not take the alarmist views of some good brethren in respect of this great increase , ( but then Bro . Peter Grievous likes to ah always his jeremiades , ) and Ave are neither optimists nor pessimists . Like MrSamuel Weller we likes to
. " eat our melting pears , " we " asks no names , " and we '' gets on pretty Avell . " The true philosophy , be it observed of human life !
: Some of our brethren seem fond of going : before the law courts just now , and we : hope that they will attend to the sage and : seasonable reproof of Mr . Justice Field . It is becoming a great disgrace to us all , and a complete burlesque on our Masonic professions
. —See the Freemason of June 23 . In the Monde Magonnique , for June , were is a very remarkable letter from a ¦ trench Brother in London , which also appeared in the Freemason for June 23 , and which confirms entirel view of the
y our insane struggle into which French Freemasonry has been plunged by an intolerant minorit y , and of the abnormal position it ™ l inevitabl y be placed . in , if this revolution , and this " Coup des libres penseurs " « e permitted to get the upper hand .
Monthly Masonic Summary.
We still cling to fh & JSepfeihat the good sense of the majority of French Freemasons will refuse to allow Freemasonry to be drawn behind the car of irreligion and revolution . Freemasonry has nothing to do with reli
politics or gious contests , and the sooner the French and Belgian Freemasons well learn this fundamental truth of all cosmopolitan and true Freemasonry , tho better it will be for Masonry in General , and the French and Belgian Lodges in particular .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
ON OUR "LITERARY NEW YEAR " JULY , 1877 . BY BRO . BEV . M . QORnON . OOMMBNOIHO WITH THE FIFTH VOLUMB 01 THE " MASONIC MAGAZINB . " IN ev ' ry scenefrom vale to mountain-len
, g , Now flow ' rs and blossoms , full of promise , glow—As fair as flow ' rs—for glad July doth show The brightness of her flushing features , when "With this month ' s hues of beautv smiles
again Our literary new year—to all , not so—For " Lodges "—are there not 1—alas 1 too slow , "Who " all too dear , " our monthly "Maga's " pen At " sixpence" hold;—some , if I ween ariht
g , "Who ne ' er have learn'd intelligently t ' explore Its monthly lucubrations with delight 1 Nor heed Masonic Bounty ' s gen ' ral store Be ' pov ' rish'd by a miserable mite , Monthly ieaerv'd to aid Masonic lore .