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The Present Aspect.
. some misapprehension might result from our marked silence upon this vital question ; and as many of our readers may not be sufficiently informed , we will essay some remarks , which mav have the effect of directing the attention of the
junior members of the Order ( hereafter the probable rulers in the Craft ) , and even of assisting the opinions of many who have attained Masonic honours . We must , in the first place , enter our protest against the monstrous position , that any attempts to renovate the laws
which have been suffered either to lapse into abeyance , or to remodel laws so as to render them more accceptable to time and circumstance , is either unconstitutional or disloyal—it is no such thing , and it is fatal to the position so taken up by those not desirous of healthful changes ; that
they endeavour to create a diversion in their favour , by circulating an idea ( for it is but an idea ) that an illustrious personage views the happy state of things with distrust . We , still more as constitutional and loyal Masons , protest against the indiscriminate use which is made of his name ,
first , because it is unseemly in those who , possibly , may owe their elevation in the Craft to his generosity and kindness ; and next , because such an irrational liberty tends to endanger that peculiar protection which his lloyal Highness throws over all Masonic proceedings ; w-hich acts like a
spell-charm—it fascinates by its moral beauty , and ought not to be dimmed by the misconceptions of those who , in the warmth of argument , rob us , as it were , of a jewel , and give us nothing in return but a mere opinion of their own . We maintain that the Grand Master views the discussion
in Grand Lodge without any distrust ; that opinion has been publicly confirmed by the Deputy Grand Master ( the Earl of Durham ) in his admirable address at the Grand Festival of the Order , to which address we call the serious attention of our readers ; they will find there much to ad-
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The Present Aspect.
. some misapprehension might result from our marked silence upon this vital question ; and as many of our readers may not be sufficiently informed , we will essay some remarks , which mav have the effect of directing the attention of the
junior members of the Order ( hereafter the probable rulers in the Craft ) , and even of assisting the opinions of many who have attained Masonic honours . We must , in the first place , enter our protest against the monstrous position , that any attempts to renovate the laws
which have been suffered either to lapse into abeyance , or to remodel laws so as to render them more accceptable to time and circumstance , is either unconstitutional or disloyal—it is no such thing , and it is fatal to the position so taken up by those not desirous of healthful changes ; that
they endeavour to create a diversion in their favour , by circulating an idea ( for it is but an idea ) that an illustrious personage views the happy state of things with distrust . We , still more as constitutional and loyal Masons , protest against the indiscriminate use which is made of his name ,
first , because it is unseemly in those who , possibly , may owe their elevation in the Craft to his generosity and kindness ; and next , because such an irrational liberty tends to endanger that peculiar protection which his lloyal Highness throws over all Masonic proceedings ; w-hich acts like a
spell-charm—it fascinates by its moral beauty , and ought not to be dimmed by the misconceptions of those who , in the warmth of argument , rob us , as it were , of a jewel , and give us nothing in return but a mere opinion of their own . We maintain that the Grand Master views the discussion
in Grand Lodge without any distrust ; that opinion has been publicly confirmed by the Deputy Grand Master ( the Earl of Durham ) in his admirable address at the Grand Festival of the Order , to which address we call the serious attention of our readers ; they will find there much to ad-