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Article THE QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION. ← Page 2 of 2 Article THE WIDOW'S PETITION. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Quarterly Communication.
And it is a remarkable appendage to this discreditable affair , that the Brother who first raised the objection—whose statement was corroborated by several Governors of the Charity—who even gave up the Grand Secretary as his authority , and emphatically challenged contradiction—that
he , although defeated in the midst of such triumphant testimony against the wish of the Grand Master , was successful in his effort to throw discredit on the poor Widow ' s Petition , upon the hearsay evidence of one who no longer lived to repeat it , being then luckily favouring what the Grand Master desired 1
The Widow's Petition.
THE WIDOW ' S PETITION .
We might indeed " blush for our Order , " if we had generally to characterize it by the proceedings of the last Grand Lodge ; or , perhaps , even if the Grand Lodge were on all occasions to be taken as a type of Masonic practice ; for it is not in " high places , " nor by the " highest authorities , "
that Faith is most exhibited , Hope most encouraged , or Charity most exercised . Who but a Mason would believe—and that a Mason having been present at more than one Grand Lodge—that an attempt could be made by a member , and countenanced by
the Grand Master , to throw discredit upon a petition for relief , on the ground that such member had been told by a Brother since dead , that he had been informed by another person , that" the husband of the petitioner died in prosperous circumstances , " although the contrary was alleged in the
petition , and verified by upwards of fifty of the most eminent Masons in the province from which this unfortunate appeal for " Charity" proceeded ? Who but one of those who see the strangest exhibitions at almost every Quarterly Communication , would suppose that the Grand Master could so far falter in his duty as not to check an insinuation from one of his Grand Officers / that
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The Quarterly Communication.
And it is a remarkable appendage to this discreditable affair , that the Brother who first raised the objection—whose statement was corroborated by several Governors of the Charity—who even gave up the Grand Secretary as his authority , and emphatically challenged contradiction—that
he , although defeated in the midst of such triumphant testimony against the wish of the Grand Master , was successful in his effort to throw discredit on the poor Widow ' s Petition , upon the hearsay evidence of one who no longer lived to repeat it , being then luckily favouring what the Grand Master desired 1
The Widow's Petition.
THE WIDOW ' S PETITION .
We might indeed " blush for our Order , " if we had generally to characterize it by the proceedings of the last Grand Lodge ; or , perhaps , even if the Grand Lodge were on all occasions to be taken as a type of Masonic practice ; for it is not in " high places , " nor by the " highest authorities , "
that Faith is most exhibited , Hope most encouraged , or Charity most exercised . Who but a Mason would believe—and that a Mason having been present at more than one Grand Lodge—that an attempt could be made by a member , and countenanced by
the Grand Master , to throw discredit upon a petition for relief , on the ground that such member had been told by a Brother since dead , that he had been informed by another person , that" the husband of the petitioner died in prosperous circumstances , " although the contrary was alleged in the
petition , and verified by upwards of fifty of the most eminent Masons in the province from which this unfortunate appeal for " Charity" proceeded ? Who but one of those who see the strangest exhibitions at almost every Quarterly Communication , would suppose that the Grand Master could so far falter in his duty as not to check an insinuation from one of his Grand Officers / that