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Letters To The Editor.
"That the grateful thanks of this Lodge are due , ancl are hereby " given to Brother Ribbans , our late W . M ., for the unremitting atten" tion he has invariably manifested to his duties as AA . M ., ancl that this " Loclge has great cause for congratulation in the increase of its mem" bers during his year of office . —Carried unanimously . " This , I think , will sufficiently show the estimation in which Brother Ribbons was held thenancl a very pretty little mark of respect ancl
ad-, miration of his talents ancl industry , shortly to be presented to him , will sufficiently indicate the esteem of his friends now . I am , clear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , AN OLD MASON , of Birmingham . Birmingham , May 7 , 1840 .
SIR AND BROTHER , —Nobody , I think , can be more ready to agree to customs or laws than I am ; but I confess I must see something like common justice in them , or I cannot willingly comply with what they may require . Upon application for a new warrant for a Loclge , it is always very properly required to be recommended by the officers of some regularly constituted working Loclge ; and those who take upon themselves the responsibility of recommending such petition may , I thinkfairlclaim
, y , and are justly entitled to , the optional privilege of becoming members of such new Lodge , without the ceremony of ballot ; this , at all events , is my view of the matter , it being evident that no petition can be legally attended to without being recommended , so also it follows that those who do recommend such petition have a just ri ght to claim equality with the petitioners , and to expect , at least , ( to say nothing about courtesy ) to be consulted about joining the Loclgeparticularlsince the
, , y petition would be entirely useless without such signatures . Afewing it thus , permit me to solicit of you to state at the foot of this letter , in the next Review , your opinion as to whether my construction be right or wrong . I remain . Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , J . A . Moss .
Dudley , May 25 th , 1840 . [ AVe differ with our correspondent upon his construction . The Constitutions point out the necessity of a recommendation from some regular Lodge to a petition for a new Loclge , but there is not even an implied consent that those who recommend are , because of such responsibility , eligible to enter the new Lodge , when constituted , free from
a ballot—and for a simple reason , such a view of the case would destroy the independence intended to exist . First , the intent is that a Loclge may be granted , not upon the shewing of the parties seeking , but upon the recommendation of others , who have no other interest than the welfare of the Craft . As the entering of a Lodge without ballot is unconstitutional , so theparties ' recommendation would , under such circumstances , be improper . Again , suppose that certain Brethren , who might be desirous of retiring from a Loclge on account of any difference , however well or ill-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Letters To The Editor.
"That the grateful thanks of this Lodge are due , ancl are hereby " given to Brother Ribbans , our late W . M ., for the unremitting atten" tion he has invariably manifested to his duties as AA . M ., ancl that this " Loclge has great cause for congratulation in the increase of its mem" bers during his year of office . —Carried unanimously . " This , I think , will sufficiently show the estimation in which Brother Ribbons was held thenancl a very pretty little mark of respect ancl
ad-, miration of his talents ancl industry , shortly to be presented to him , will sufficiently indicate the esteem of his friends now . I am , clear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , AN OLD MASON , of Birmingham . Birmingham , May 7 , 1840 .
SIR AND BROTHER , —Nobody , I think , can be more ready to agree to customs or laws than I am ; but I confess I must see something like common justice in them , or I cannot willingly comply with what they may require . Upon application for a new warrant for a Loclge , it is always very properly required to be recommended by the officers of some regularly constituted working Loclge ; and those who take upon themselves the responsibility of recommending such petition may , I thinkfairlclaim
, y , and are justly entitled to , the optional privilege of becoming members of such new Lodge , without the ceremony of ballot ; this , at all events , is my view of the matter , it being evident that no petition can be legally attended to without being recommended , so also it follows that those who do recommend such petition have a just ri ght to claim equality with the petitioners , and to expect , at least , ( to say nothing about courtesy ) to be consulted about joining the Loclgeparticularlsince the
, , y petition would be entirely useless without such signatures . Afewing it thus , permit me to solicit of you to state at the foot of this letter , in the next Review , your opinion as to whether my construction be right or wrong . I remain . Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , J . A . Moss .
Dudley , May 25 th , 1840 . [ AVe differ with our correspondent upon his construction . The Constitutions point out the necessity of a recommendation from some regular Lodge to a petition for a new Loclge , but there is not even an implied consent that those who recommend are , because of such responsibility , eligible to enter the new Lodge , when constituted , free from
a ballot—and for a simple reason , such a view of the case would destroy the independence intended to exist . First , the intent is that a Loclge may be granted , not upon the shewing of the parties seeking , but upon the recommendation of others , who have no other interest than the welfare of the Craft . As the entering of a Lodge without ballot is unconstitutional , so theparties ' recommendation would , under such circumstances , be improper . Again , suppose that certain Brethren , who might be desirous of retiring from a Loclge on account of any difference , however well or ill-