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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
may supply such information as character and experience enable them to do . We do not doubt but that the Grand Secretary has and will continue to place before his superior the just claims of many deserving Brethren ; but ive do not
hesitate to express our regret that the Grand Secretary has suffered his generally excellent judgment to be influenced ; and that even in the recent appointments , the secret power has , to a certain extent , succeeded . Let there be no more
of this ; the secret council is confined to three or four , Avhose claims , by service , or station , if they have any claims whatever , have already been reAvarded to excess . To refrain from a public duty , merely because it is disagreeable , Avould be to limit the office of a journal within very narrow bounds ; to avoid such duty would show a want
of moral courage , and to perform it from reflection and conviction , puts moral courage to a severe trial ; a consideration of the late election of the Board of General Purposes , is a case in point . We can remember when that section of the Board Avhich was returned by the Grand Lodge , Avas
elected by SIIOAV of hands , and when , also , the Grand Officers very rarely voted at all—a few , merely from compliment to this or that individual , for Avhom a personal respect Avas felt . The late Peter Gilkes was thus circumstanced ; Avhen his late
Royal Highness was present , he held up his hand for Bro . Gilkes , and his election was considered to be carried ; and , certainly , the Grand Officers being , as a body , very abundantly represented , through the appointment of the Grand
Master , it is scarcely fair that they should exercise any power whatever on the election of the Board of General Purposes .
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
may supply such information as character and experience enable them to do . We do not doubt but that the Grand Secretary has and will continue to place before his superior the just claims of many deserving Brethren ; but ive do not
hesitate to express our regret that the Grand Secretary has suffered his generally excellent judgment to be influenced ; and that even in the recent appointments , the secret power has , to a certain extent , succeeded . Let there be no more
of this ; the secret council is confined to three or four , Avhose claims , by service , or station , if they have any claims whatever , have already been reAvarded to excess . To refrain from a public duty , merely because it is disagreeable , Avould be to limit the office of a journal within very narrow bounds ; to avoid such duty would show a want
of moral courage , and to perform it from reflection and conviction , puts moral courage to a severe trial ; a consideration of the late election of the Board of General Purposes , is a case in point . We can remember when that section of the Board Avhich was returned by the Grand Lodge , Avas
elected by SIIOAV of hands , and when , also , the Grand Officers very rarely voted at all—a few , merely from compliment to this or that individual , for Avhom a personal respect Avas felt . The late Peter Gilkes was thus circumstanced ; Avhen his late
Royal Highness was present , he held up his hand for Bro . Gilkes , and his election was considered to be carried ; and , certainly , the Grand Officers being , as a body , very abundantly represented , through the appointment of the Grand
Master , it is scarcely fair that they should exercise any power whatever on the election of the Board of General Purposes .