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Article UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. ← Page 10 of 12 →
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United Grand Lodge Of England.
President , in refusing to put the motion ? On the other hand , if approved , it would have come down to Grand Lodge in the report from the Board , and would have had a chance of being rejected or carried months before . But no , such was the system , that if a chance existed of anything being carried in a liberal spirit , the too ! of the Grand Master , the President of the Board of General Purposes , put a stop to it altogether . Bro . LEWIS rose to orderhe had been President of the Board of
, General Purposes , and was not any man ' s tool . Bro . SCARBOROUGH was glad to bear it . The R . W . DEPUTY GRAND MASTER interfered . He felt sure Bro . Scarborough would not use the expression he had , if an opportunity had been given him to reflect . He would perceive that it was one that would occasion him regret , when he recollected having used it . Bro . SCARBOROUGH was grateful to the Grand Master for the
fraternal and kind manner in which the Grand Master had checked him . He meant nothing offensive . He meant to say that the President of the Board was the mouthpiece of the Grand Master ; that he might say and do what he pleased , and no one would correct him . He ( Bro . Scarborough ) considered the position the President had assumed as highly improper ; and , if it were tolerated , would tend to the most humiliating interferences . He should
certainly support the original motion . Bro . Havers , it appears , had also had a motion upon the subject of the red apron , but , of course , he had an answer forwarded to him . Why not , also , Bro . Bigg ? Because the Grand Master did not have Bro . Bigg ' s letter . He said this feeling assured that i f a letter had been sent to the Earl of Zetland , his
Lordship , he was certain , would have condescended to reply . He could draw another inference . The whole proceeding in this affair , from its first introduction to the rejection of Bro . Bigg ' s motion , was altogether improper . The GRAND SECRETARY explained when he had received the letter , and when he had delivered it . Bro . HAVERS objected to a system that had grown up during the past yearor year and a halfof imputing motives to the members of the
, , Grand Lodge . The discussions now were characterized by a species of bravado and uncourteousness before that unknown . Among them it was as unseemly as it was unnecessary . He did not wonder at the mover of the resolution being out of temper at not having been able to bring his project to disfranchise a certain number of lodges forward with the eclat and advantages of being recommended by the Board of General Purposesin their report . Having failed in doing sohe
, , complained of its being eliminated at the Board , but in reality it was eliminated at the Grand Lodge when it came before it . He considered the proposal one of impropriety and injustice . He was glad , therefore , the President had dealt with it as he had , and protected thereby the unquestioned prerogative of the Grand Master . But it so happened that " ex quovis ligno non fit mercurius . " He could cap Latin with Bro . Biggas he had shown . 13 S- ( Bro . H . )
, had received an answer to his letter to the M . W . Grand Master , as he considered it his duty to make inquiry of him what his sentiments were upon a subject in which his prerogatives were concerned . Having made that inquiry , he should have waited the pleasure of the Grand Master for an answer . Bro . Bigg wrote entirely on his own account .
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United Grand Lodge Of England.
President , in refusing to put the motion ? On the other hand , if approved , it would have come down to Grand Lodge in the report from the Board , and would have had a chance of being rejected or carried months before . But no , such was the system , that if a chance existed of anything being carried in a liberal spirit , the too ! of the Grand Master , the President of the Board of General Purposes , put a stop to it altogether . Bro . LEWIS rose to orderhe had been President of the Board of
, General Purposes , and was not any man ' s tool . Bro . SCARBOROUGH was glad to bear it . The R . W . DEPUTY GRAND MASTER interfered . He felt sure Bro . Scarborough would not use the expression he had , if an opportunity had been given him to reflect . He would perceive that it was one that would occasion him regret , when he recollected having used it . Bro . SCARBOROUGH was grateful to the Grand Master for the
fraternal and kind manner in which the Grand Master had checked him . He meant nothing offensive . He meant to say that the President of the Board was the mouthpiece of the Grand Master ; that he might say and do what he pleased , and no one would correct him . He ( Bro . Scarborough ) considered the position the President had assumed as highly improper ; and , if it were tolerated , would tend to the most humiliating interferences . He should
certainly support the original motion . Bro . Havers , it appears , had also had a motion upon the subject of the red apron , but , of course , he had an answer forwarded to him . Why not , also , Bro . Bigg ? Because the Grand Master did not have Bro . Bigg ' s letter . He said this feeling assured that i f a letter had been sent to the Earl of Zetland , his
Lordship , he was certain , would have condescended to reply . He could draw another inference . The whole proceeding in this affair , from its first introduction to the rejection of Bro . Bigg ' s motion , was altogether improper . The GRAND SECRETARY explained when he had received the letter , and when he had delivered it . Bro . HAVERS objected to a system that had grown up during the past yearor year and a halfof imputing motives to the members of the
, , Grand Lodge . The discussions now were characterized by a species of bravado and uncourteousness before that unknown . Among them it was as unseemly as it was unnecessary . He did not wonder at the mover of the resolution being out of temper at not having been able to bring his project to disfranchise a certain number of lodges forward with the eclat and advantages of being recommended by the Board of General Purposesin their report . Having failed in doing sohe
, , complained of its being eliminated at the Board , but in reality it was eliminated at the Grand Lodge when it came before it . He considered the proposal one of impropriety and injustice . He was glad , therefore , the President had dealt with it as he had , and protected thereby the unquestioned prerogative of the Grand Master . But it so happened that " ex quovis ligno non fit mercurius . " He could cap Latin with Bro . Biggas he had shown . 13 S- ( Bro . H . )
, had received an answer to his letter to the M . W . Grand Master , as he considered it his duty to make inquiry of him what his sentiments were upon a subject in which his prerogatives were concerned . Having made that inquiry , he should have waited the pleasure of the Grand Master for an answer . Bro . Bigg wrote entirely on his own account .