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a strong protest would have heen sent home . Our Provincial Grand Master will not make use of the power when granted . You will enter into my feelings when I tell you that Scotch ancl Irish lodges are coming to our time ; and as a moral contrast , the lodges in the United States have made their period of probation more stringent than ever . In some States they give the R . A . in three months , but in most others
the law extends to twelve months . May we not , after all , hope that the Grand Lodge of England will yet reject the proposed violation when put for confirmation ? Surely we might have been asked for an opinion by the Grand Master , who has thus presented us with what is no boon ! A DISTRICT PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER . 25 th March , 1140 . ( T > ux intelligent correspondent , ere he peruses our present number , will probably have heard that the members were too ready and willing to bend to the Grancl Master ' s will—the purple in esse and in posse are reckless of propriety . —EnfJ
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER . — " A Liverpool Mason , " in your last number ( page 43 ) says , that in consequence of not admiring the Scotch mode of working , they there usually pass and raise over again those from the Scotch lodges that are desirous of joining . To this I could not have given credence , had not Bro . Crucefix ( page 58 ) asserted the same thing . Now allow me to put some questions to the " Liverpool Mason . " 1 st . Is he aware that at the beginning of last century no blue lodge
gave , and no Grand Lodge of St . John ' s Masonry in the world authorized or permitted , any masonic catechisms , or lectures as they are now called ? 2 nd . Is he aware that the first lectures given in a blue lodge were got up in London in imitation of portions illegally revealed to the Grand Lodge there , by an unworthy member of another masonic body , and for which he was expelled ? 3 rd . Is he aware that for certain reasons ( which cannot be communicated in writing ) a change was made in these lectures soon after 1730 , and that the new catechism continued for thirty or forty years , until , indeed , for similar reasons , a new one was again
deemed necessary ? 4 th . Is he aware that the late Bro . Preston was the individual charged with the getting up the new catechism ? Sth . Is he aware that this Brother not only enlarged it to its present overgrown size , by including questions de omnibus rebus et quibusdam alizs , but that he altered several important points in the universally recognised ritual , in order to make it correspond to what he considered to be the actual appearance of , whereas , by entirely understanding what the actual appearance referred to , he has rendered the English ritual in
some respects absurd , and quite inexplicable by astronomy , the only and sure criterion of the accuracy of the ritual , as well as of most of our W ancl S ? And , 6 th , Is he aware that there is a masonic rule that it is not in the power of man , or any body of men , to make innovations in Masonry , at least so as to disturb the landmarks , and that it was in defiance of this rule that all these spurious catechisms , and improper changes in the ritual , have been from time to time introduced in England ? VOL . vi . Y
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To The Editor.
a strong protest would have heen sent home . Our Provincial Grand Master will not make use of the power when granted . You will enter into my feelings when I tell you that Scotch ancl Irish lodges are coming to our time ; and as a moral contrast , the lodges in the United States have made their period of probation more stringent than ever . In some States they give the R . A . in three months , but in most others
the law extends to twelve months . May we not , after all , hope that the Grand Lodge of England will yet reject the proposed violation when put for confirmation ? Surely we might have been asked for an opinion by the Grand Master , who has thus presented us with what is no boon ! A DISTRICT PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER . 25 th March , 1140 . ( T > ux intelligent correspondent , ere he peruses our present number , will probably have heard that the members were too ready and willing to bend to the Grancl Master ' s will—the purple in esse and in posse are reckless of propriety . —EnfJ
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER . — " A Liverpool Mason , " in your last number ( page 43 ) says , that in consequence of not admiring the Scotch mode of working , they there usually pass and raise over again those from the Scotch lodges that are desirous of joining . To this I could not have given credence , had not Bro . Crucefix ( page 58 ) asserted the same thing . Now allow me to put some questions to the " Liverpool Mason . " 1 st . Is he aware that at the beginning of last century no blue lodge
gave , and no Grand Lodge of St . John ' s Masonry in the world authorized or permitted , any masonic catechisms , or lectures as they are now called ? 2 nd . Is he aware that the first lectures given in a blue lodge were got up in London in imitation of portions illegally revealed to the Grand Lodge there , by an unworthy member of another masonic body , and for which he was expelled ? 3 rd . Is he aware that for certain reasons ( which cannot be communicated in writing ) a change was made in these lectures soon after 1730 , and that the new catechism continued for thirty or forty years , until , indeed , for similar reasons , a new one was again
deemed necessary ? 4 th . Is he aware that the late Bro . Preston was the individual charged with the getting up the new catechism ? Sth . Is he aware that this Brother not only enlarged it to its present overgrown size , by including questions de omnibus rebus et quibusdam alizs , but that he altered several important points in the universally recognised ritual , in order to make it correspond to what he considered to be the actual appearance of , whereas , by entirely understanding what the actual appearance referred to , he has rendered the English ritual in
some respects absurd , and quite inexplicable by astronomy , the only and sure criterion of the accuracy of the ritual , as well as of most of our W ancl S ? And , 6 th , Is he aware that there is a masonic rule that it is not in the power of man , or any body of men , to make innovations in Masonry , at least so as to disturb the landmarks , and that it was in defiance of this rule that all these spurious catechisms , and improper changes in the ritual , have been from time to time introduced in England ? VOL . vi . Y