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Number One.
NUMBER ONE .
fOBUIHP custom demands that , at this season of the year , we should greet each other with a well-known greeting . If this be right in every-day life , it ought to he " more especially observed amongst Freemasons , who are supposed to
be linked together in the fraternal chain of universal . brotherhood . Were these two reasons for keeping up the usage obsolete , or unnecessary , we claim the right on another ground . The courtesies of life are as readily observed by the public press of the country , in its intercourse with its readers , as they are in
private ; and , numbering so many brethren of all ranks , amongst our supporters , it would be a breach of good manners did we not seize upon this—the appropriate season and day of our journalistic birth—to express to every Freemason , of whatever
standing , rank , or nationality , the cordial English wish that they may each , and all , be entering upon "A Happy New Year . " New Year ' s Day and Number One of THE MASONIC PKESS have something in common . Both are new this day : both have their future before them . They will grow older together , reap Avisdom
from experience , strength from older acquaintanceship , and leave their mark for posterity . As no one knows what the . . plans conceived on this day may bring forth , so none can foresee , what our issue of Number One will effect . Wc . play our stake , and calmly
await the result . Commencing , in a very humble way , on a New Year ' s Day VOL . i . B
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Number One.
NUMBER ONE .
fOBUIHP custom demands that , at this season of the year , we should greet each other with a well-known greeting . If this be right in every-day life , it ought to he " more especially observed amongst Freemasons , who are supposed to
be linked together in the fraternal chain of universal . brotherhood . Were these two reasons for keeping up the usage obsolete , or unnecessary , we claim the right on another ground . The courtesies of life are as readily observed by the public press of the country , in its intercourse with its readers , as they are in
private ; and , numbering so many brethren of all ranks , amongst our supporters , it would be a breach of good manners did we not seize upon this—the appropriate season and day of our journalistic birth—to express to every Freemason , of whatever
standing , rank , or nationality , the cordial English wish that they may each , and all , be entering upon "A Happy New Year . " New Year ' s Day and Number One of THE MASONIC PKESS have something in common . Both are new this day : both have their future before them . They will grow older together , reap Avisdom
from experience , strength from older acquaintanceship , and leave their mark for posterity . As no one knows what the . . plans conceived on this day may bring forth , so none can foresee , what our issue of Number One will effect . Wc . play our stake , and calmly
await the result . Commencing , in a very humble way , on a New Year ' s Day VOL . i . B