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suspicious , and do not care to trust the Grand Lodge ; they have no confidence in the management , and the RENT CHARGE in the present account is not very likely to increase it . Nor is it likely that the items which I shall now produce , in contrast to our charity , will tend very materially to change tbeir opinion . We have during last year paid for pictures and frames , 23 / . 5 s ., and the beauty of these drawings is very much increased , when it is considered
that we have no walls of our own whereon to hang them . The upholsterer comes in for 1 ?/ . ! 'What dresses , decorations , or machinery , have been supplied for this amount , we are at a loss to imagine . We guess that the Albion Cloth Company received the next item , 2 / . 14 s . 6 d ., for a pair of gauntlets for the Grand Master , and that the silver gilt trowel was the article that cost the 16 / . Gs . No doubt the pictures , frames , and all , along with the Grand Tailor ' s furnishings , and the golden trowel , are
remarkably pretty to look at , and may , for any thing I know , be worth the money ; but at the same time , they are very useless , and contrast very strongly with the amount which is doled out in charity to the poor Brethren , —59 / . 8 s . Cf / . for these gauds , 40 / . os . 2 d . for charity . But 1 have forgotten 3 s . to make the account balance , it is under the head of Sundries , and possibly may have been for some useful purpose , such as altering the Grand Master ' s gavelthat he miht use it with his left
, g hand . We have pictures and no place to hang them in ; we have a valuable library , and not a closet that we can call our own to stow the books away ; we pay rents , and do not get the use of the place we want ; our meetings are summoned to take place in the Hall , " Waterloo Booms , " but as we cannot afford to pay for it , a " Vegiterian soiree" or public
meeting , giving more for the use of it than our -upset price , take possession , and we have to go to the lower regions of the " Waterloo , " and be stewed in the crypt that may be alloted to us , or else more to the east in search of that civic conservatory , the " Gallon Convening Room . " We may truly he called the Itinerant Grand Orient of Scotland . But now as to the morality of the Grand Lodge , the less that is said on that point the better ; a goodly part of it will be taken notice of in the observations on the Grand Lodge ReporterNo . 3 which contains
thirty-, , two pages , while the Reporter for 1850 contains only sixteen ; certainly this increase is a decided improvement upon the former papers , that were wont to be annually issued from the Masonic Font in Scotland . It shows at least that information is considered of some little importance , even although it may be at the expence of copying your example . The only remark that I have to make on the title and page 2 of the Reporter is , that a number of the Brethren , whose names are therein mentionedhave not
, paid their fees to the Fund of Scottish Masonic Benevolence ; how many of them are defaulters , it is the Grand Clerk ' s " honorary and gratuitous duty" to know . For instance , the S . G . Warden has no right to sit in the Grand Lodge , if the Lodge which he represents has been two years in arrear ; no doubt it is an Indian Lodge , but in these days it is no excuse to elect any Brother to an office , for which he is not qualified by the laws . So much for the Lodge morality !
But again , we find at page 4 , a warning to the Scotch Brethren not to admit into their Lodges , Brethren from the " pretended Lodge , Post Nnbila Lux" at Amsterdam ; the advice is perhaps good , but it comes from a quarter , where example would have much more effect upon the Brethren than precept . We have heard it said , that any one with a good apron can gain admission into tin- (' rand Lodge of Scotland with-
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Correspondence.
suspicious , and do not care to trust the Grand Lodge ; they have no confidence in the management , and the RENT CHARGE in the present account is not very likely to increase it . Nor is it likely that the items which I shall now produce , in contrast to our charity , will tend very materially to change tbeir opinion . We have during last year paid for pictures and frames , 23 / . 5 s ., and the beauty of these drawings is very much increased , when it is considered
that we have no walls of our own whereon to hang them . The upholsterer comes in for 1 ?/ . ! 'What dresses , decorations , or machinery , have been supplied for this amount , we are at a loss to imagine . We guess that the Albion Cloth Company received the next item , 2 / . 14 s . 6 d ., for a pair of gauntlets for the Grand Master , and that the silver gilt trowel was the article that cost the 16 / . Gs . No doubt the pictures , frames , and all , along with the Grand Tailor ' s furnishings , and the golden trowel , are
remarkably pretty to look at , and may , for any thing I know , be worth the money ; but at the same time , they are very useless , and contrast very strongly with the amount which is doled out in charity to the poor Brethren , —59 / . 8 s . Cf / . for these gauds , 40 / . os . 2 d . for charity . But 1 have forgotten 3 s . to make the account balance , it is under the head of Sundries , and possibly may have been for some useful purpose , such as altering the Grand Master ' s gavelthat he miht use it with his left
, g hand . We have pictures and no place to hang them in ; we have a valuable library , and not a closet that we can call our own to stow the books away ; we pay rents , and do not get the use of the place we want ; our meetings are summoned to take place in the Hall , " Waterloo Booms , " but as we cannot afford to pay for it , a " Vegiterian soiree" or public
meeting , giving more for the use of it than our -upset price , take possession , and we have to go to the lower regions of the " Waterloo , " and be stewed in the crypt that may be alloted to us , or else more to the east in search of that civic conservatory , the " Gallon Convening Room . " We may truly he called the Itinerant Grand Orient of Scotland . But now as to the morality of the Grand Lodge , the less that is said on that point the better ; a goodly part of it will be taken notice of in the observations on the Grand Lodge ReporterNo . 3 which contains
thirty-, , two pages , while the Reporter for 1850 contains only sixteen ; certainly this increase is a decided improvement upon the former papers , that were wont to be annually issued from the Masonic Font in Scotland . It shows at least that information is considered of some little importance , even although it may be at the expence of copying your example . The only remark that I have to make on the title and page 2 of the Reporter is , that a number of the Brethren , whose names are therein mentionedhave not
, paid their fees to the Fund of Scottish Masonic Benevolence ; how many of them are defaulters , it is the Grand Clerk ' s " honorary and gratuitous duty" to know . For instance , the S . G . Warden has no right to sit in the Grand Lodge , if the Lodge which he represents has been two years in arrear ; no doubt it is an Indian Lodge , but in these days it is no excuse to elect any Brother to an office , for which he is not qualified by the laws . So much for the Lodge morality !
But again , we find at page 4 , a warning to the Scotch Brethren not to admit into their Lodges , Brethren from the " pretended Lodge , Post Nnbila Lux" at Amsterdam ; the advice is perhaps good , but it comes from a quarter , where example would have much more effect upon the Brethren than precept . We have heard it said , that any one with a good apron can gain admission into tin- (' rand Lodge of Scotland with-