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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
read by the whole Fraternity , by even the most ruthless and unprincipled of our own assailants , and reckon among our friendly readers the most aspiring and able of the junior Brethren , we place those of the latter , who are accidentally unacquainted with the name of the chief worthin modern
y Freemasonry , on a par with their predecessors , and announce the Rev . George Oliver , D . D ., late Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , as the most recent mark for the poisoned shaft of Masonic persecution . Our readers are aware , that as early as 1839 , it was determined
, by the Craft at large , to present a Testimonial to Dr . Crucefix , for the invaluable services he had previousl y rendered to Freemasonry ; and that this gratifying and spontaneous honour was consummated in November , 1841 . They also know that this excellent Mason , in the interval between these two periods , was partially victimized b y
Masonic persecution , and would have been wholly so but for the memorable and glorious rallying of the Craft around him , in Grand Lod ge . And they will therefore see , that whatever occurred of an unjustifiable or hostile nature , on either side , during that interval , must be matter totall y irrelevant to the of
subject the Testimonial , or the dinner upon its presentation . The propriety of getting up subscriptions , their progress , or their application , had never been made a subject of discussion in Grand Lodge . It had not even been attempted to pass a veto upon them . Who then would
suppose , that to be the chairman on such an occasion-to preside at a meeting of admiring and grateful Freemasons , for the purpose of paying a proper and justlyearned tribute of attachment and respect to the most popular member of the Craft-could be held to be a Masonic crime of such magnitude as to call for Masonic degradation V Yet this is the melanchol y truth .
The proceedings of the Testimonial Festival in November , 1841 , were reported at some length in the daily journals of the same period , and given very fully in the Freemasons ' Quarterl y Revieio published in the following month ¦ but it was not until March , 1842 , that Dr . Oliver was apprized of
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
read by the whole Fraternity , by even the most ruthless and unprincipled of our own assailants , and reckon among our friendly readers the most aspiring and able of the junior Brethren , we place those of the latter , who are accidentally unacquainted with the name of the chief worthin modern
y Freemasonry , on a par with their predecessors , and announce the Rev . George Oliver , D . D ., late Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , as the most recent mark for the poisoned shaft of Masonic persecution . Our readers are aware , that as early as 1839 , it was determined
, by the Craft at large , to present a Testimonial to Dr . Crucefix , for the invaluable services he had previousl y rendered to Freemasonry ; and that this gratifying and spontaneous honour was consummated in November , 1841 . They also know that this excellent Mason , in the interval between these two periods , was partially victimized b y
Masonic persecution , and would have been wholly so but for the memorable and glorious rallying of the Craft around him , in Grand Lod ge . And they will therefore see , that whatever occurred of an unjustifiable or hostile nature , on either side , during that interval , must be matter totall y irrelevant to the of
subject the Testimonial , or the dinner upon its presentation . The propriety of getting up subscriptions , their progress , or their application , had never been made a subject of discussion in Grand Lodge . It had not even been attempted to pass a veto upon them . Who then would
suppose , that to be the chairman on such an occasion-to preside at a meeting of admiring and grateful Freemasons , for the purpose of paying a proper and justlyearned tribute of attachment and respect to the most popular member of the Craft-could be held to be a Masonic crime of such magnitude as to call for Masonic degradation V Yet this is the melanchol y truth .
The proceedings of the Testimonial Festival in November , 1841 , were reported at some length in the daily journals of the same period , and given very fully in the Freemasons ' Quarterl y Revieio published in the following month ¦ but it was not until March , 1842 , that Dr . Oliver was apprized of