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Glasgow Masonics.
It was , we believe , objected as unfair to tbe loyal lodges , which for many years had faithfully contributed towards the maintenance of the influence ancl respectability of the Grand Lodge , to place rebellious and contumacious ones over their heads whenever they chose to make application to be taken under the wing of the Alma Mater . But this objection does not by any means apply to the Old Lodge of Glasgow , whichwhatever may have been the reason for its not being in
con-, nection with the Grand Lodge long before this , —and we have now no means of knowing why it has been so , —never stood towards it in an attitude of rebellion ; but , on the contrary , took every opportunity of testif ying its respect—giving place at once to it in Glasgow , where , in virtue of its royal chatter and corporate privileges , it might have asserted a precedence which the authorities here would have sustained ; foruntil the abolitionwithin these very few yearsof the exclusive
, , , privileges of the incorporations , not even the Grand Lodge could have laid a foundation-stone , or performed any other building operation within the ancient royalty of Glasgow , without its concurrence ; ancl we think the Grand Lodge has done a wise and graceful act in assigning to it tlie high place agreed upon by the Grand
Committee . The lodge with which it is placed m closest juxta-position , —the Scoon and Perth—is also an incorporated loclge of great antiquity , possessed of considerable property , and presenting several other points of Masonic resemblance . The ordinary Quarterly Communication of the Prov . Grand Lodge was held in the lodge room of the G . K . No . 4 , on Thursday , the 2 nd of May , having been postponed for eight clays on account of the St . Mark Festival . Bro . ArnottSub P . G . Master , was iu the chair . There
, was no business of importance before it , but the R . W . G . M . took the opportunity of announcing his purpose , to resume his visitations to the subordinate lodges in the course of a few weeks , and expressed a hope that he should not find any of the lodges unprepared for a satisfactory appearance , as he should now feel it to be his duty to see that the laws and constitutions of the Grand Lodge were faithfully acted up to , in this provinceAs the doctor is just the man to keep his wordwe would
. , advise in all humility , the lodges to overhaul these " canons , " and see that their Masonic practices are in conformity , for with a genuine fraternal suaviter in modo ; there will assuredly be no lack of the fortiter in re ! Yours very respectfully , ARCHITECTON .
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Glasgow Masonics.
It was , we believe , objected as unfair to tbe loyal lodges , which for many years had faithfully contributed towards the maintenance of the influence ancl respectability of the Grand Lodge , to place rebellious and contumacious ones over their heads whenever they chose to make application to be taken under the wing of the Alma Mater . But this objection does not by any means apply to the Old Lodge of Glasgow , whichwhatever may have been the reason for its not being in
con-, nection with the Grand Lodge long before this , —and we have now no means of knowing why it has been so , —never stood towards it in an attitude of rebellion ; but , on the contrary , took every opportunity of testif ying its respect—giving place at once to it in Glasgow , where , in virtue of its royal chatter and corporate privileges , it might have asserted a precedence which the authorities here would have sustained ; foruntil the abolitionwithin these very few yearsof the exclusive
, , , privileges of the incorporations , not even the Grand Lodge could have laid a foundation-stone , or performed any other building operation within the ancient royalty of Glasgow , without its concurrence ; ancl we think the Grand Lodge has done a wise and graceful act in assigning to it tlie high place agreed upon by the Grand
Committee . The lodge with which it is placed m closest juxta-position , —the Scoon and Perth—is also an incorporated loclge of great antiquity , possessed of considerable property , and presenting several other points of Masonic resemblance . The ordinary Quarterly Communication of the Prov . Grand Lodge was held in the lodge room of the G . K . No . 4 , on Thursday , the 2 nd of May , having been postponed for eight clays on account of the St . Mark Festival . Bro . ArnottSub P . G . Master , was iu the chair . There
, was no business of importance before it , but the R . W . G . M . took the opportunity of announcing his purpose , to resume his visitations to the subordinate lodges in the course of a few weeks , and expressed a hope that he should not find any of the lodges unprepared for a satisfactory appearance , as he should now feel it to be his duty to see that the laws and constitutions of the Grand Lodge were faithfully acted up to , in this provinceAs the doctor is just the man to keep his wordwe would
. , advise in all humility , the lodges to overhaul these " canons , " and see that their Masonic practices are in conformity , for with a genuine fraternal suaviter in modo ; there will assuredly be no lack of the fortiter in re ! Yours very respectfully , ARCHITECTON .