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THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . D . WE have waited so long for the expected announcement of the promised meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge for Lincolnshire , that we are compelled to use a privilege usually conceded only to the fair sex , of giving our most important intelligence in a postscript , and we trust our amiable Brother , Dr . Oliver , will not be disnieased with the to take
course we are compelled . Dr . Oliver has very recently published " An Account of the Centenary of the Witham Lodge , No . 374 , holden in the City of Lincoln , June 9 th , 184-2 , with the ceremonies used at the dedication and consecration of a new Masonic Hall , and the Oration delivered on that occasion ; including a narrative of the circumstances attending the Author ' s removal from the Deputy Grand Mastershiof the Provincedrawn
p , up at the express request of all the Brethren present . " In our last , both in the leading and provincial articles , * we entered at considerable length into this important case , and feel greatly obliged by the Doctor ' s compliance with a request so generally preferred . He has executed the task with great forbearance—this was to be expected from such a character ; justice has been rendered to circumstances involved in the subjectand we honour DrOliver for the manliness
, . with which he has unravelled the entangled web , and even for the tenderness he has shewn towards the delinquents—for there is clearly more than one concerned—who feel no tenderness for the Doctor as a man , a gentleman , a clergyman , or as a Brother Mason ! Having , as we have already stated , entered largely into the
circumstances of the case , we shall now confine ourselves to remarks on points not previously noticed . An article from the Lincolnshire Chronicle is given literatim . That article , we presume , may nothave been written by a Mason , as , although pretty correct as to many facts , and in the inferences drawn , yet some general as well as constitutional ( Masonic ) grounds , are not quite tenable—ex . yr . The members of the Bank of England Lodge , although hl
higy respectable , are not restricted to those connected with the national establishment so named ; nor has the Provincial Grand Master an " undoubted right" to remove his Deputy . With these exceptions , we agree with the Editor of that paper . The Provincial Grand Master has a patent ( during the pleasure of the Grand Masterf ) , which in his district confers rank and power similar to those of the Grand Master himself . He has no to expel a Mason buton
power ; , the contrary , has power to restore to his privileges ( until the next Quarterly Communication ) , any Brother who may have been unjustly deprived of them .:, : He may appoint , during ' pleasure , a Deputy Grand Master , § but does any man of common sense , suppose that himself only holding office during pleasure , and thereby having only the power to grant his patent during pleasure , gives him the '' undoubted right" to dismiss a Brother of high reputation , as if he were a renegade ?
We deny his right to do this without cause , as we would call upon him to exercise the right , " proper cause existing . " We question even Dr . Oliver ' s view of the power possessed by a P . G . M ., to remove his Deputy at his discretion . Suppose a P . G . M .,
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Postscript.
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THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . D . WE have waited so long for the expected announcement of the promised meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge for Lincolnshire , that we are compelled to use a privilege usually conceded only to the fair sex , of giving our most important intelligence in a postscript , and we trust our amiable Brother , Dr . Oliver , will not be disnieased with the to take
course we are compelled . Dr . Oliver has very recently published " An Account of the Centenary of the Witham Lodge , No . 374 , holden in the City of Lincoln , June 9 th , 184-2 , with the ceremonies used at the dedication and consecration of a new Masonic Hall , and the Oration delivered on that occasion ; including a narrative of the circumstances attending the Author ' s removal from the Deputy Grand Mastershiof the Provincedrawn
p , up at the express request of all the Brethren present . " In our last , both in the leading and provincial articles , * we entered at considerable length into this important case , and feel greatly obliged by the Doctor ' s compliance with a request so generally preferred . He has executed the task with great forbearance—this was to be expected from such a character ; justice has been rendered to circumstances involved in the subjectand we honour DrOliver for the manliness
, . with which he has unravelled the entangled web , and even for the tenderness he has shewn towards the delinquents—for there is clearly more than one concerned—who feel no tenderness for the Doctor as a man , a gentleman , a clergyman , or as a Brother Mason ! Having , as we have already stated , entered largely into the
circumstances of the case , we shall now confine ourselves to remarks on points not previously noticed . An article from the Lincolnshire Chronicle is given literatim . That article , we presume , may nothave been written by a Mason , as , although pretty correct as to many facts , and in the inferences drawn , yet some general as well as constitutional ( Masonic ) grounds , are not quite tenable—ex . yr . The members of the Bank of England Lodge , although hl
higy respectable , are not restricted to those connected with the national establishment so named ; nor has the Provincial Grand Master an " undoubted right" to remove his Deputy . With these exceptions , we agree with the Editor of that paper . The Provincial Grand Master has a patent ( during the pleasure of the Grand Masterf ) , which in his district confers rank and power similar to those of the Grand Master himself . He has no to expel a Mason buton
power ; , the contrary , has power to restore to his privileges ( until the next Quarterly Communication ) , any Brother who may have been unjustly deprived of them .:, : He may appoint , during ' pleasure , a Deputy Grand Master , § but does any man of common sense , suppose that himself only holding office during pleasure , and thereby having only the power to grant his patent during pleasure , gives him the '' undoubted right" to dismiss a Brother of high reputation , as if he were a renegade ?
We deny his right to do this without cause , as we would call upon him to exercise the right , " proper cause existing . " We question even Dr . Oliver ' s view of the power possessed by a P . G . M ., to remove his Deputy at his discretion . Suppose a P . G . M .,