ODD FELLOWS' Magazine. NEW SERIES.---SECOND EDITION. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, OF THE MANCHESTER UNITY, OF INDEPENDENT ODD FELLOWS. "They helped every one his neighbour, and every one said to his PRINTED BY MARK WARDLE, G. M. BACK KING-STREET. 1829. PREFACE TO THE NEW SERIES OF THE I. O. F's MAGAZINE. After the most mature deliberation, and after the most patient enquiry, the Board of Directors, (in compliance with the wish of the Annual Committee, held at Nottingham, 1827) have ordered a new Series of the Odd Fellows' Magazine to be put to press, and the first No, to issue at the first quarterly committee for 1828. In taking this step, they have been actuated purely by a desire to benefit the Independent Order. The mind of man cannot stand still--it must either advance or petrograde--and nutriment is as necessary for it as for the phisical operations of the body. This the Directors are aware of, and they will endeavour to lay such matter before their readers as will have a tendency to make them wiser and better men. The first object of our invaluable institution, is to 'spread the principles of benevolence end charity,'-to make man what he ought to be to man-a BROTHER to remove all the stumbling blocks of envy, malice and suspicion-to restore confidence, and to make the "human face divine," what it ought to be an unerring index of the mind. Instruction and information are the only instruments that can be employed in producing this great good-and the Magazine is the only medium through which they can be communicated. In a pecuniary point of view, the MAGAZINE presents important facts for the consideration of the Directors and the Order in general. In the first place, the PROFITS of the work belong to the Order, and what those profits may be, depends upon the Order. If officers and brothers are imbued with that spirit which they ought to be on the occasion, the profits will soon become more than sufficient to grease the wheels of government, and not only render any other calls upon the Order unnecessary, but |