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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
upon this ; the minority sufficiently proves the importance of the motion , and the discussion that was elicited may prevent the necessity of repeating it . On another subject , touching the resignation of a member ofthe Board of Management , we avow that" our opinion is
at variance with all the legal Brethren who opposed it-A discussion arose out of the following circumstance : a Member of the Board finding it inconvenient to attend the
meetings , prudently resigned ; but was informed that the Board had no power to receive his resignation . He then publicly resigned at the Committee of Masters , when the same objection was renewed . The Constitutions not having provided against such contingency , the Board and Committee probably felt they had no power to deal with the
question . However , the Brother having resigned , gave notice of motion , to the effect , " that the Grand Lodge should fill up all vacancies occasioned by resignation as well as by death or removal ; and the Grand Master to be dutifully requested to fill up any vacancy caused by the
resignation of any Brother he may have nominated . " This very sensible motion was opposed by a considerable majority , upon the plea that the Constitutions had wisely abstained from providing for such a probability , because it
might lead to serious inconvenience ; ex gra . a Brother who took this now alledged course , might find hiniself ununequal to the duties of the Board of Management , and feel desirous to retire , that some Brother more energetic might succeed him . Mark , reader , this curious objection , which ,
if it have any meaning at all , serves the motion . Another objection was , that if ( what virtue is there not in an if ) one resignation were accepted , they would become so frequent ( as blackberries , we presume , ) as to prove seriously troublesome to the Grand Lodge . A third notable objection to the
motion was grounded upon the plea , that a resignation was not a removal—( the Constitution provides for the ease of a removal)—which would have been a good and valid case . So that , a Brother desirous of resigning , upon an honest discretion arising from great personal inconvenience , or
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
upon this ; the minority sufficiently proves the importance of the motion , and the discussion that was elicited may prevent the necessity of repeating it . On another subject , touching the resignation of a member ofthe Board of Management , we avow that" our opinion is
at variance with all the legal Brethren who opposed it-A discussion arose out of the following circumstance : a Member of the Board finding it inconvenient to attend the
meetings , prudently resigned ; but was informed that the Board had no power to receive his resignation . He then publicly resigned at the Committee of Masters , when the same objection was renewed . The Constitutions not having provided against such contingency , the Board and Committee probably felt they had no power to deal with the
question . However , the Brother having resigned , gave notice of motion , to the effect , " that the Grand Lodge should fill up all vacancies occasioned by resignation as well as by death or removal ; and the Grand Master to be dutifully requested to fill up any vacancy caused by the
resignation of any Brother he may have nominated . " This very sensible motion was opposed by a considerable majority , upon the plea that the Constitutions had wisely abstained from providing for such a probability , because it
might lead to serious inconvenience ; ex gra . a Brother who took this now alledged course , might find hiniself ununequal to the duties of the Board of Management , and feel desirous to retire , that some Brother more energetic might succeed him . Mark , reader , this curious objection , which ,
if it have any meaning at all , serves the motion . Another objection was , that if ( what virtue is there not in an if ) one resignation were accepted , they would become so frequent ( as blackberries , we presume , ) as to prove seriously troublesome to the Grand Lodge . A third notable objection to the
motion was grounded upon the plea , that a resignation was not a removal—( the Constitution provides for the ease of a removal)—which would have been a good and valid case . So that , a Brother desirous of resigning , upon an honest discretion arising from great personal inconvenience , or