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The Rev. Brother T. Harvey And The Bishop.
to do with the affair than , as a Christian , to prevent it . Be this as it may , the Bishop ' s conduct appears throughout to have vacillated between harshness ancl appearances of returning favour ; e . g . on the 31 st October , 1831 , he states that he has informed Lord Pahnerston that he declined to license Mr . Harvey , yet , in November of the same year , he actually did license him , and in very handsome terms . In October , 1834 , the Bishop would not sanction his removal to Genoa ; yetin the following
, November he did license him . Further , however , in December , 1842 , the Bishop wrote that he had stated to Lord Aberdeen that there was not any sufficient ground to dismiss Mr . Harvey from the chaplaincy , yet in April , 1843 , his spiritual Lordship acquiesces in the propriety of his dismissal . Aud in the same month , addressing the Rev . AV . W . Bolton , the British Chaplain at Antwerp , he disclaims any disapprobation of Mr . Harvey ' s moral conduct or the correctness of his doctrine ;
ancl that he will grant him a license , if elected to the office of chaplain . All this is passing strange ! In February , 1845 , Lord Aberdeen wrote to Mr . Harvey that he had consulted the Bishop as to the best means of avoiding continued scandal to the English Church and restoring peace , and that the Bishop and himself ( Lord A . ) concurred in his dismissal , and he was dismissed accordingly . In the previous January Mr . Burslem wrote to Mr .
Harvey , that the Bishop , at an interview , said " I will do all I can for Mr . Harvey , hut Lord Aberdeen will not allow him to continue in the chaplaincy at Antwerp . " The salary as chaplain , we understand , was £ 300 per annum ; sufficient to support a wife and family . Mr . Harvey has accepted the Curacy of Thaxted , which , we understand , returns
him twenty pounds . AVe ask the Bishop if Mr . Harvey , his faithful brother in Christ , has no grievance ? But to the case in another phase . Mr . Harvey was initiated in May last , and it is in a degree excepted to him that he obtruded his case too early on the attention of the fraternity ; nay , that he probably sought Masonry for the purpose . AVe dissent from either of these views—from the last in particular—entertaining no doubt that finding a want of charity exhibited towards him by his spiritual Diocesanhe embraced
, with the greater warmth the tenets of an Order whose principles are based on brotherly love , relief , and truth . He saw in their excellence the reflection of the holiest principle , the practice of pure moral virtue , and acting from a warm and glowing feeling while the charge was fresh in the memory of a strong yet wounded spirit—what moment so fitting for his delivery of a powerful moral contrast than when the heart was willing ancl the tongue ready .
The Lodge of Goodfellowship have recorded their sense of his worth by appointing him their chaplain ; the press have taken up the case ; ancl , as in both Houses of Parliament there are members of the'fraternity , at the head of them the revered and venerable the Archbishop of Canterbury , it may not be too much to hope that some preferment may be found for this much-wronged Brother . Let Masons , newly as he has come among thempour oil and wineancl imitate the goocl
Samari-, , tan . AVe , for the present , feel it our duty to conclude—not in offering any excuse for the Bishop , but to disarm the prejudice of many that his Lordship has acted in hostility to Freemasonry , as one of his own class and some Roman Catholic Bishops have done , but to explain that as his unkindness , to give it no harsher name , took place before Mr . Harvey ' s initiation , he is guiltless of that additional sin .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Rev. Brother T. Harvey And The Bishop.
to do with the affair than , as a Christian , to prevent it . Be this as it may , the Bishop ' s conduct appears throughout to have vacillated between harshness ancl appearances of returning favour ; e . g . on the 31 st October , 1831 , he states that he has informed Lord Pahnerston that he declined to license Mr . Harvey , yet , in November of the same year , he actually did license him , and in very handsome terms . In October , 1834 , the Bishop would not sanction his removal to Genoa ; yetin the following
, November he did license him . Further , however , in December , 1842 , the Bishop wrote that he had stated to Lord Aberdeen that there was not any sufficient ground to dismiss Mr . Harvey from the chaplaincy , yet in April , 1843 , his spiritual Lordship acquiesces in the propriety of his dismissal . Aud in the same month , addressing the Rev . AV . W . Bolton , the British Chaplain at Antwerp , he disclaims any disapprobation of Mr . Harvey ' s moral conduct or the correctness of his doctrine ;
ancl that he will grant him a license , if elected to the office of chaplain . All this is passing strange ! In February , 1845 , Lord Aberdeen wrote to Mr . Harvey that he had consulted the Bishop as to the best means of avoiding continued scandal to the English Church and restoring peace , and that the Bishop and himself ( Lord A . ) concurred in his dismissal , and he was dismissed accordingly . In the previous January Mr . Burslem wrote to Mr .
Harvey , that the Bishop , at an interview , said " I will do all I can for Mr . Harvey , hut Lord Aberdeen will not allow him to continue in the chaplaincy at Antwerp . " The salary as chaplain , we understand , was £ 300 per annum ; sufficient to support a wife and family . Mr . Harvey has accepted the Curacy of Thaxted , which , we understand , returns
him twenty pounds . AVe ask the Bishop if Mr . Harvey , his faithful brother in Christ , has no grievance ? But to the case in another phase . Mr . Harvey was initiated in May last , and it is in a degree excepted to him that he obtruded his case too early on the attention of the fraternity ; nay , that he probably sought Masonry for the purpose . AVe dissent from either of these views—from the last in particular—entertaining no doubt that finding a want of charity exhibited towards him by his spiritual Diocesanhe embraced
, with the greater warmth the tenets of an Order whose principles are based on brotherly love , relief , and truth . He saw in their excellence the reflection of the holiest principle , the practice of pure moral virtue , and acting from a warm and glowing feeling while the charge was fresh in the memory of a strong yet wounded spirit—what moment so fitting for his delivery of a powerful moral contrast than when the heart was willing ancl the tongue ready .
The Lodge of Goodfellowship have recorded their sense of his worth by appointing him their chaplain ; the press have taken up the case ; ancl , as in both Houses of Parliament there are members of the'fraternity , at the head of them the revered and venerable the Archbishop of Canterbury , it may not be too much to hope that some preferment may be found for this much-wronged Brother . Let Masons , newly as he has come among thempour oil and wineancl imitate the goocl
Samari-, , tan . AVe , for the present , feel it our duty to conclude—not in offering any excuse for the Bishop , but to disarm the prejudice of many that his Lordship has acted in hostility to Freemasonry , as one of his own class and some Roman Catholic Bishops have done , but to explain that as his unkindness , to give it no harsher name , took place before Mr . Harvey ' s initiation , he is guiltless of that additional sin .