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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
JUNE 30 , 1854 . MASONIC RITUALISM .
_ SCARCELY a week passes without our receiving some communication or other respecting the necessity of means being taken to secure perfect and accurate working in the country Lodges . One Brother advises one course ; another has a different crotchet . One wants G . L . to appoint paid Officers , to travel through the country to visit Lodgesand to set them rihtanother
, g ; wishes to know whether there might not be written instructions forwarded under cover to the W . M . of every Lodge throughout the British dominions , in order to insure uniformity ? Doubtless , there are many good and cogent reasons why so much anxiety should exist . The work in many Provinces is often slovenly performed . One or two Brethren , with better memories
than others / and with more time at their disposal , get up the subjects , and henceforth , whether right or wrong , perfect or imperfect , become the rulers of the Lodge , and too often presume upon their efficiency—or rather their inefficiency—so far as to make the W . M . for the time being a mere cipher ; which state of things obtainsmore or lessuntil some more
hih-, , g spirited Brother than the rest takes the chair , and , determined to do his own work , and make his Officers do theirs , puts down the presumptions dogmatism of such soi-clisant rulers of the Craft . Then come bickering and disputes , petty jealousies and discontent ; and so harmony is disturbed , and unanimit y is for a time suspended .
We are not disposed to discuss the question of MASONIC RITUALISM in detail , because—for reasons which every wellinstructed Brother will understand—it is a Avide question , and one which a little pains will render easy to be carried out in its full efficiency . But as we have been favoured with so many communications , and are asked to give our opinion freely , VOL . II . JJ
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE .
JUNE 30 , 1854 . MASONIC RITUALISM .
_ SCARCELY a week passes without our receiving some communication or other respecting the necessity of means being taken to secure perfect and accurate working in the country Lodges . One Brother advises one course ; another has a different crotchet . One wants G . L . to appoint paid Officers , to travel through the country to visit Lodgesand to set them rihtanother
, g ; wishes to know whether there might not be written instructions forwarded under cover to the W . M . of every Lodge throughout the British dominions , in order to insure uniformity ? Doubtless , there are many good and cogent reasons why so much anxiety should exist . The work in many Provinces is often slovenly performed . One or two Brethren , with better memories
than others / and with more time at their disposal , get up the subjects , and henceforth , whether right or wrong , perfect or imperfect , become the rulers of the Lodge , and too often presume upon their efficiency—or rather their inefficiency—so far as to make the W . M . for the time being a mere cipher ; which state of things obtainsmore or lessuntil some more
hih-, , g spirited Brother than the rest takes the chair , and , determined to do his own work , and make his Officers do theirs , puts down the presumptions dogmatism of such soi-clisant rulers of the Craft . Then come bickering and disputes , petty jealousies and discontent ; and so harmony is disturbed , and unanimit y is for a time suspended .
We are not disposed to discuss the question of MASONIC RITUALISM in detail , because—for reasons which every wellinstructed Brother will understand—it is a Avide question , and one which a little pains will render easy to be carried out in its full efficiency . But as we have been favoured with so many communications , and are asked to give our opinion freely , VOL . II . JJ