While fully aware that this Lodge is instituted as a Lodge of Research, I feel sure the Worshipful Brethren will pardon me if I pass over the ancient history and deal to-night with the modern aspects of Freemasonry.
I therefore propose to deal with "Practical Freemasonry," and how it is or is not carried out, which I must leave to the conscience of the brethren.
I consider this a most important subject at this time, when we need all the
combination and mutual assistance possible, in view of the stressed conditions of the present time, as well as of the immediate future.
A Letter from a Brother in France.
Your circular of 10th January has, after various excursions round Egypt, just reached me in my dug-out.
I am at present in the front trench, with nothing but a few tons of wire and No Man's Land between me and the Hated Hun (probably some of them my Masonic brethren!) I am sending you, as something of a curiosity, the envelope covering yours of 10th January
I was transferred from the New Zealand Mounted Brigade, after our return from Gallipoli to the Second New Zealand Infantry Brigade, just then being formed, and am now commanding the Eighth (Southland) Company of the Second Otago Regiment.
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1916 - Practical Freemasonry - Bro. R. W. S. Eastwood.
