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Article THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW, ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE RECENT GRAND LODGE. Page 1 of 6 →
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The Freemasons ' Quarterly Review,
their original poverty permitted them to pay anything further . The improvement in our fees will gradually mend matters ; but what we do want is a test of subscription to a lodge as a passport to charity . Nothing short of an imperative lodge-subscription will avail . This explanation is due for the proper understanding of the report in the F . Q . i ? ., which is , in my opinion , a very fair one . With regard to the relaxation
in respect to your colonial system , we deem it to be a decided step in the wrong direction . Here , in Scotland , we have for many years been gradually endeavouring to establish the English mode of letting a certain time elapse between the degrees ; and of course our colonial authorities must in time have conformed thereto .
" WE PEEL SATISFIED , THAT IF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND HAD PROPOSED TO THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND THE ENFORCEMENT OF A REGULATION SIMILAR TO YOUR OLD SYSTEM , IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CORDIALLY AND THANKFULLY RECEIVED AND ADOPTED , AND THE INITIATION , PASSING , AND RAISING BEEN MADE EQUAL . FURTHERMORE , WE ARE OF OPINION THAT IT IS SO DETERIORATING AN ENACTMENT ON THE
PART OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , THAT AN ARRANGEMENT OUGHT TO BE ATTEMPTED BETWEEN THE SISTER GRAND LODGES , TO PUT THEIR COLONIAL DEPENDENCIES UPON THE ANCIENT ENGLISH SYSTEM . " What a contrast is thus presented to the dispassionate consideration !
The Recent Grand Lodge.
THE RECENT GRAND LODGE .
Our first duty is to record our tribute of respect to the presiding officer , the Earl of Yarborough , the Deputy Grand Master , who , during a very protracted and most uninteresting debate , was not merely consistently attentive , but perfectly courteous to every one—his very reproof was kind . How anxiously could we hope that he would himself investigate the great moral evil that so loathsomely retards the onward
progress . He has youth on his side , which should be ever ardent and generous ; and he has unquestionable talent , and powerful influence . With such advantages , how improved would be our position , were his lordship but to throw them into the scale , and decide in favour of " Right versus Might . "
THE CASE OF MAJOR GENERAL COOKE . —The sanctity of the Grand Lodge was profaned , undisguisedly profaned , by being made the arena of premature discussion of a message , submitted by the Grand Master not for discussion but simply for reception ; and in this discussion , we regret to state , that the sacred character of Freemasonry was lost sight of—the presumed errors of a brother were viewed as actual crimes , and his expulsion contemplated , before he was even summoned to appear t
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The Freemasons ' Quarterly Review,
their original poverty permitted them to pay anything further . The improvement in our fees will gradually mend matters ; but what we do want is a test of subscription to a lodge as a passport to charity . Nothing short of an imperative lodge-subscription will avail . This explanation is due for the proper understanding of the report in the F . Q . i ? ., which is , in my opinion , a very fair one . With regard to the relaxation
in respect to your colonial system , we deem it to be a decided step in the wrong direction . Here , in Scotland , we have for many years been gradually endeavouring to establish the English mode of letting a certain time elapse between the degrees ; and of course our colonial authorities must in time have conformed thereto .
" WE PEEL SATISFIED , THAT IF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND HAD PROPOSED TO THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND THE ENFORCEMENT OF A REGULATION SIMILAR TO YOUR OLD SYSTEM , IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CORDIALLY AND THANKFULLY RECEIVED AND ADOPTED , AND THE INITIATION , PASSING , AND RAISING BEEN MADE EQUAL . FURTHERMORE , WE ARE OF OPINION THAT IT IS SO DETERIORATING AN ENACTMENT ON THE
PART OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , THAT AN ARRANGEMENT OUGHT TO BE ATTEMPTED BETWEEN THE SISTER GRAND LODGES , TO PUT THEIR COLONIAL DEPENDENCIES UPON THE ANCIENT ENGLISH SYSTEM . " What a contrast is thus presented to the dispassionate consideration !
The Recent Grand Lodge.
THE RECENT GRAND LODGE .
Our first duty is to record our tribute of respect to the presiding officer , the Earl of Yarborough , the Deputy Grand Master , who , during a very protracted and most uninteresting debate , was not merely consistently attentive , but perfectly courteous to every one—his very reproof was kind . How anxiously could we hope that he would himself investigate the great moral evil that so loathsomely retards the onward
progress . He has youth on his side , which should be ever ardent and generous ; and he has unquestionable talent , and powerful influence . With such advantages , how improved would be our position , were his lordship but to throw them into the scale , and decide in favour of " Right versus Might . "
THE CASE OF MAJOR GENERAL COOKE . —The sanctity of the Grand Lodge was profaned , undisguisedly profaned , by being made the arena of premature discussion of a message , submitted by the Grand Master not for discussion but simply for reception ; and in this discussion , we regret to state , that the sacred character of Freemasonry was lost sight of—the presumed errors of a brother were viewed as actual crimes , and his expulsion contemplated , before he was even summoned to appear t