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Article THE W. BROTHERS JENNINGS AND M'MULLEN. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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The W. Brothers Jennings And M'Mullen.
ments of increasing intelligence , who so able as the Assistant Grand Director of the Ceremonies—the Grand Director expectant , and so in due time inducted—to hunt it out among " The Crack Lodges , " and dissuade , intimidate , or denounce the possessors ? And was the same inquisitorial office required among " The Working Lodges , " who so fit , so anxious , so assiduous , so successful , as the Grand Sword Bearer of the day—the subsequent Grand Deacon by necessity ?
All honour to the Lodge of Antiquity ! Having conferred upon Bro . Jennings the privilege of initiation , in due time it bestowed upon him the dignity of Master , i . e . the office , as Deputy , for the performance of private lodge duties , under the perpetual Mastership of the Duke of Sussex . His earliest act under that royal patronage was unfortunate , unless , indeed , its consequences led him , at once , to merge
all ideas of self-dependence into the better rewarded notions of subserviency . In the first circular issued by him , he inserted his own name as Deputy , after that of his Royal Master ! The Duke erased the name . Where his effulgence shone , no shadow was needed . About this time , too , he was a warm admirer of all that was said or done in Freemasonry hy the R . W . Brother , R . T . Crucefix , LL . D . ; and ,
when presiding over the St . Andrew ' s Lodge , East , he proposed the health of the worthy Doctor in most eulogistic terms . Yet who , afterwards , so eager as he , to disparage efforts infinitely beyond his own achievement—masonic virtues high above his unemulative aspirations ?
As a speaker , Bro . Jennings has just as much facility of expression , as the professional experience of a Proctor in Doctors' Commons may be expected to give to a man of moderate capacity—and nothing more . A few years since he was ready to attack whoever dissented from the dicta of the Royal Grand Master . We do not , however , remember a single triumphant result ; and the retorts from below the dais , often
and successfully administered to him , have had their effect . His voice is now seldom heard in Grand Lodge except in the performance of his not very onerous duties .
Due credit to the Corner Stone Lodge ! In that body we believe Bro . M'Mullen first beheld tbe light of Freemasonry . His was a spirit not easily daunted . To manliness he could oppose meanness—to courage caution—to the open avowals of indiscreet honesty the covert whisperings of secret intrigue—no time , no labour , and , at one period , no devotion of pecuniary means were deemed too great in the way of sacrifice , to
attain his object , as the public and secret servitor of the Royal Grand Master . Inferior to Bro . Jennings in educational advantages , yet quite as prompt in controversy—ever on the same side— always as dogmatical
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The W. Brothers Jennings And M'Mullen.
ments of increasing intelligence , who so able as the Assistant Grand Director of the Ceremonies—the Grand Director expectant , and so in due time inducted—to hunt it out among " The Crack Lodges , " and dissuade , intimidate , or denounce the possessors ? And was the same inquisitorial office required among " The Working Lodges , " who so fit , so anxious , so assiduous , so successful , as the Grand Sword Bearer of the day—the subsequent Grand Deacon by necessity ?
All honour to the Lodge of Antiquity ! Having conferred upon Bro . Jennings the privilege of initiation , in due time it bestowed upon him the dignity of Master , i . e . the office , as Deputy , for the performance of private lodge duties , under the perpetual Mastership of the Duke of Sussex . His earliest act under that royal patronage was unfortunate , unless , indeed , its consequences led him , at once , to merge
all ideas of self-dependence into the better rewarded notions of subserviency . In the first circular issued by him , he inserted his own name as Deputy , after that of his Royal Master ! The Duke erased the name . Where his effulgence shone , no shadow was needed . About this time , too , he was a warm admirer of all that was said or done in Freemasonry hy the R . W . Brother , R . T . Crucefix , LL . D . ; and ,
when presiding over the St . Andrew ' s Lodge , East , he proposed the health of the worthy Doctor in most eulogistic terms . Yet who , afterwards , so eager as he , to disparage efforts infinitely beyond his own achievement—masonic virtues high above his unemulative aspirations ?
As a speaker , Bro . Jennings has just as much facility of expression , as the professional experience of a Proctor in Doctors' Commons may be expected to give to a man of moderate capacity—and nothing more . A few years since he was ready to attack whoever dissented from the dicta of the Royal Grand Master . We do not , however , remember a single triumphant result ; and the retorts from below the dais , often
and successfully administered to him , have had their effect . His voice is now seldom heard in Grand Lodge except in the performance of his not very onerous duties .
Due credit to the Corner Stone Lodge ! In that body we believe Bro . M'Mullen first beheld tbe light of Freemasonry . His was a spirit not easily daunted . To manliness he could oppose meanness—to courage caution—to the open avowals of indiscreet honesty the covert whisperings of secret intrigue—no time , no labour , and , at one period , no devotion of pecuniary means were deemed too great in the way of sacrifice , to
attain his object , as the public and secret servitor of the Royal Grand Master . Inferior to Bro . Jennings in educational advantages , yet quite as prompt in controversy—ever on the same side— always as dogmatical