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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 7 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE OFFICE OK PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . — On the same evening a motion to the effect that any Provincial Grand Master neglecting to hold his Grand Lodge for twelve months , or cause it to be hoi den , should be deemed to have vacated his office , and retire to the rank of Past
Grand Officer , was also entertained and carried ! The propriety of this will not be questioned ; many Masonic Provinces have been so grievously misrepresented , that it can scarcely be wondered at that the effects of negligence have been so prominently observable . Staffordshire , Wilts ,
Monmouthshire , the Isle of Wight , Auglesea , Cambridgeshire , Norfolk , Notts , Sussex , are among those provinces where Grand Lodges exist but in memory , while in other districts they remind us altogether of " angels visits , few and far between . " By those Provincial Grand Masters who
perform the duties of their high station with exemplary dignity , the motion can be viewed as not merely complimentary , but as an act of Masonic justice . The objections taken to the motion were so weak as to recoil on those who made them ; for they tended to prove the necessity for the
motion to be so " pregnant , clear , and obvious , " as to render the majority in its favour sufficiently evident , without resorting to the customary mode of counting .
ANNUITY FOR WIDOWS . —Among the notices of motion on the paper for early discussion , is one embracing a proposition for annuities to widows ;* possibly no subject can be more interesting , or could evoke the sympathy of Masons with a greater probability of succsss . Without offence to the
Brother who has thus far brought the matter forward , we do most devoutly hope that the amount suggested will be very considerably increased . There has existed too long an indifference to the natural claims of the better sex to a participation in the few advaniages of tiie Institution ; nay , we put it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE OFFICE OK PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . — On the same evening a motion to the effect that any Provincial Grand Master neglecting to hold his Grand Lodge for twelve months , or cause it to be hoi den , should be deemed to have vacated his office , and retire to the rank of Past
Grand Officer , was also entertained and carried ! The propriety of this will not be questioned ; many Masonic Provinces have been so grievously misrepresented , that it can scarcely be wondered at that the effects of negligence have been so prominently observable . Staffordshire , Wilts ,
Monmouthshire , the Isle of Wight , Auglesea , Cambridgeshire , Norfolk , Notts , Sussex , are among those provinces where Grand Lodges exist but in memory , while in other districts they remind us altogether of " angels visits , few and far between . " By those Provincial Grand Masters who
perform the duties of their high station with exemplary dignity , the motion can be viewed as not merely complimentary , but as an act of Masonic justice . The objections taken to the motion were so weak as to recoil on those who made them ; for they tended to prove the necessity for the
motion to be so " pregnant , clear , and obvious , " as to render the majority in its favour sufficiently evident , without resorting to the customary mode of counting .
ANNUITY FOR WIDOWS . —Among the notices of motion on the paper for early discussion , is one embracing a proposition for annuities to widows ;* possibly no subject can be more interesting , or could evoke the sympathy of Masons with a greater probability of succsss . Without offence to the
Brother who has thus far brought the matter forward , we do most devoutly hope that the amount suggested will be very considerably increased . There has existed too long an indifference to the natural claims of the better sex to a participation in the few advaniages of tiie Institution ; nay , we put it