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ERRORS IN VOTING PAPERS .

To the Editor of the FREKMASON s CHRONICXE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In a special paragraph following your usual able and exhaustive analysis of Toting Papers for the ensning Elections , yon prominently call attention to the " error" committed in substituting " W . M . " for " P . M . " in the column descriptive of qualification of Fathers of Candidates . I venture to submit , however ,

that it is immaterial which title is given . To ho a " P . M . a brother must , of course , have been previously a " W . M ., " and either is sufficient to denote what is intended to be shewn , that the brother deceased has so far discharged his Masonic duties faith f ully and con-Boientionsly as to have entitled him to the highest position his Lodge has it in its power to bestow on any of its members . I do nofc admit

that it is to be inferred , naturally or logically , that because the de . scription is given " W . M . " a brother held that rank at the time of his death . He had held puch rank , and there is no misdescription , or need of "further information " on the question . As to " errors " generally ! It , doubtless , to the great majority , appears a very simple matter to compile a document such as our

voting paper , and to issue it as a perfectly " correot card . " And I can qnite understand the annoyance experienced by the friends of any given candidate at the detection of mistakes in connection with a case , which in their opinion may to some extent jeopardise its Buccess ! They turn at once to the particular case in which they are interested , and at a glance can ascertain whether particulars with

which they are intimately acquainted are given with minnte accuracy , and should they discover a " little rift , " sharp and severe are the criticisms to which the luckless responsible offioial is subjected . Let , however , any one try his hand at the preparation of a complicated shf efc such as our voting paper has become , and he will find how easy ifc is , with the exercise of every care , to trip in some detail .

Most disappointing and mortif ying is detection ! I have felt ifc acutely , and deeply deplore any act of seeming carelessness or neglect . I never defend errors ! Ifc always appears to me the better aud more politic , course to admit them unreservedly , and to strive to remedy their consequences . All I ask is— for as much indulgent

cousideration as cnn be extended , and I do so now the more emphaticnl'y —in relation to omissions in our voting paper , for which I am truly sorry—on account of illness of now nearly nine weeks' dnration , for five of which I had to keep my bed , and for the remainder have been , a * I still am , unfortunately , in a condition not best fitted for attention to arduons duties .

But , after all said and done , suppose for an instant there were no such things ns " errors . " The charm of life to the large criticising class wonld be utterl y destroyed . The machinery of society wonld he paralysed . The elaborate organisations for the correction of " errors , " " mistakes , " & c . ( harsherwords are employed occasionally ) would be useless and unnecessary , their very existence would lose its raison

a etre . Such a state of perfection is inconceivable . " The web of ljfe is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together , " and so let it , as it must , continue . There must be those who perpetrate blunders for the sake of those whose mission it is to expose and condemn them . " In error I was born , in error I have lived , and in error I shall die , "

was the definition of himself given by one eminent in an immediate bygone generation ; while , for myself , I am free to confess that were I to attempt a palliation of the numerous shortcomings to be laid to my charge , this hurried epistle would insensibly extend itself to an apologia pro vita mia . With a request for general forgiveness ,

I am , Dear Sir and Brother , Yonrs faithfully and fraternally , FREDBRICK BINCKES , Seoretary R . M . I . B Dover , 4 th October 1882 .

R . M . BOYS' SCHOOL ELECTION .

To the Editor of the FREEMASON s CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , — In your article on the forthcoming election you express yonr proper determination to seek for information to show the merits of the several candidates for election in the Roya Masonic Institution For Boys . I a « k for space in which to assist yon . The case of Frederick Wolfe Hennah ( 41 on tho list ) is that of the

eldest son of three , whose mother is tbe widow of Brother Hennah . Onr departed brother was initiated in the Union Lodgo , No . 127 , Margate , when principal of a scholastic establishment at Westgate-on-Sea , and though he removed to London , to combine ministerial with scholastic duties , bo continued to take a warm interest in his Lodge until his premature death , which occurred last autumn . He was seized with a fatal illness owing to his feeling impelled to fche duty of

preaching while labouring nnder a severe chill . His scholastic estabishment , shorn of its head , became of little value to his widow , who had to dispose of it for a , nominal price , and has herself to battle with tho world in the arduous role of a teacher . How hard this task is , only those who know the little esteem placed upon brain workers' effort * can tell . Some few , myself among the nnmber , poor iu the art ot vote begging , are pressing this case . Poor Bro . Hennah was the

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London member of a Kent Lodge , and while his widow cannot appeal to any London Lodge for help in her son's cause , from the oircum . stance of her husband removing from Kent , the brethren of his Lodge did not seem , at the last election , to regard the case as a " local" one .

Bro . Hennah was loyal to his Lodge , and one element in this case , giving ifc a wide claim upon our brethren , is , that the widow has nothing but her helplessness to strengthen her appeal . The " case " is thought to be so good that , apparently , brethren have thought ifc " must get in , " and henoe left it to take care of itself .

Ever yours faithfully and fraternally , J . WHILE . 135 Loughborongh-road , S . W ., 4 th Oot . 1882 .

! THE REVISE OP THE BOOK OP CONSTITUTIONS .

To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I have obtained a copy of the "Draft Revise Constitutions , " which is printed in large type , on both sides of tho pa

size , BO as to leave nearly half the page for remarks , amendments & o .. & c , I cannot conceive , unless ifc was to defeat the object for which I moved , —that copies should be sent to all Lodges , and be available for all who wished lo purchase them j or the Committee , if they objected to alter the type , might have had the copies inter , leaved as I have done , and then left a fair margin of profit at the

limit price of two shillings . A day or two after the motion for postponing the consideration , " of the Revise , I called afc the office , and looked afc a copy which lay open for inspeotion , whioh was printed in the same type as the copies now issuing , on one side of the page only , and on large folio paper , the printed matter in the middle , with ample margin on either side and on the opposite page , for

amendments and corrections . I called attention to the fact that the new method ( Baron de Ferriere's ) of counting the votes on a division , had not been substituted for the old one , and that ifc would be as well to have the alteration made in the copies about to be issued j bat that has not been done , though there was ample time . I would here remark that , had the Grand Lodge accepted the revise at the meeting in last

September , without having given ns time for consideration , we should have defeated the very resolution we had just confirmed . Now , with regard to this very law of telling the votes , brethren generally may nofc be aware that the law with regard to the teller has not been acted up to for the last seven years . Ifc reads thus , page 28 , artiole 9 , in the present edition , and pages 24 , artiole 26 , of the Revise : — " AU

matters are to be decided by a majority of votes , eaoh member having one vote and the Grand Master two votes , unless the Lodge think proper to leave any particular snbject to the determination of the Grand Master . The votes of the members are to be signified by each holding up one of his hands , and the motion is then to be declared as carried or lost ; but if two members demand that the votes

be counted , the brethren in favour of the motion shall pass to one side of tho Grand Lodge , and those against it to the other , when they shall he counted by THE GRAND DEACONS , THE MOVER AND SECONDER OI * THE MOTION , and TWO OF HIS OPPONENTS , provided such demand appear reasonable to the Grand Master . " Now , Sir , can you or any other brother tell me when the mover and

seconder and two of their opponents were appointed tellers with tbo G . Deacons ? I may be told that they could have demanded ifc . I answer , no doubt they could , and in many instances would , had they , as they shonld have done , made themselves acquainted with the Rales of the Craft . It becomes all the more necessary now that we have risen to be suoh a vast and important factor in sooiety thafc the

revision of the laws which govern us should be maturely weighed and considered , and made as perfect as possible . When Bro . Fenn announced thafc sixteen months had already been spent on the work , I think ifc shewed great want of courtesy , and of what was due to the Craft at large , that they had been kept in ignorance of the faot for over twelve months . Tours fraternally , P . M . 1607 .

Bro . W . T . Purkiss , the spirited proprietor of the Royal MusiO Hall , Holborn , announces his intention to celebrate the anniversary of the re-opening of the above hall , on Thursday , the 12 th instant , when he expects to see a large attendance . An exceptionally talented company of artists will be present .

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