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Article THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE. ← Page 7 of 19 →
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The Revelations Of A Square.
high attainments should be so inconsiderate as to compromise himself and you by a succession of injudicious acts , which , I am sure , on mature consideration , his conscience cannot approve . " ' However , ' he continued , ' the mischief , it appears , has been inflictedand it only remains to consider how we are to
, provide an effectual remedy . You are pleased to think it possible that I may be instrumental in the restoration of the Lodge to its primitive statu quo , which was rather high . If I were fully assured that such woulcl be the result , I might be induced to ' gird vq > my loins' to the task , - but I am afraid , from your own showingthat several of most influential
, your members have not only withdrawn from the Lodge , but have taken a final leave of it , by actually uniting themselves to other more flourishing societies ; and they might feel great delicacy in dissolving their new connection to return to the embraces of their first love . It is therefore probable that , in anticipating the re-union of all the old membersyou have
, taken too wide a margin . Nor can you be ignorant that without their concurrence and active co-operation , our prospects of a successful issue may reasonably be considered doubtful . But , ' he added , abstractedly , and half-aloud , ' dissolve , —a Lodge like this dissolve , —it must not be , it cannot be permitted ; although the chances appear to be against it . '
" ' Help us , then , with your influence and experience , my good Brother / said Dr . Sequiera . ' You will have the most animating prospect of success . The difficulty to which you have alluded has been foreseen , and measures have been taken to test its accuracy . Several of the seceding Brethren have been applied to personally to ascertain their sentiments on this
point , and , with few exceptions , they have all expressed their approbation of the proposed plan to resuscitate the Lodge , and have pledged themselves to reunite with the Brethren , on receiving an assurance that a Brother of Dr . Dodd's eminence shall have been elevated to the chair . '
" Not to detain you longer on this point , " the Square continued , swinging itself majestically round on one of its silver limbs , " as I have many other revelations of great importance to make respecting the doings of Masonry in the eighteenth century , I will merely add that , after a few other minor objections had been disposed of , Dr . Dodd consented to be put in nomination for the chair of the Lodge at the ensuing choice of Officers ; for , he said , it would be discreditable to the Order to suffer such a Lodge to fall without an
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The Revelations Of A Square.
high attainments should be so inconsiderate as to compromise himself and you by a succession of injudicious acts , which , I am sure , on mature consideration , his conscience cannot approve . " ' However , ' he continued , ' the mischief , it appears , has been inflictedand it only remains to consider how we are to
, provide an effectual remedy . You are pleased to think it possible that I may be instrumental in the restoration of the Lodge to its primitive statu quo , which was rather high . If I were fully assured that such woulcl be the result , I might be induced to ' gird vq > my loins' to the task , - but I am afraid , from your own showingthat several of most influential
, your members have not only withdrawn from the Lodge , but have taken a final leave of it , by actually uniting themselves to other more flourishing societies ; and they might feel great delicacy in dissolving their new connection to return to the embraces of their first love . It is therefore probable that , in anticipating the re-union of all the old membersyou have
, taken too wide a margin . Nor can you be ignorant that without their concurrence and active co-operation , our prospects of a successful issue may reasonably be considered doubtful . But , ' he added , abstractedly , and half-aloud , ' dissolve , —a Lodge like this dissolve , —it must not be , it cannot be permitted ; although the chances appear to be against it . '
" ' Help us , then , with your influence and experience , my good Brother / said Dr . Sequiera . ' You will have the most animating prospect of success . The difficulty to which you have alluded has been foreseen , and measures have been taken to test its accuracy . Several of the seceding Brethren have been applied to personally to ascertain their sentiments on this
point , and , with few exceptions , they have all expressed their approbation of the proposed plan to resuscitate the Lodge , and have pledged themselves to reunite with the Brethren , on receiving an assurance that a Brother of Dr . Dodd's eminence shall have been elevated to the chair . '
" Not to detain you longer on this point , " the Square continued , swinging itself majestically round on one of its silver limbs , " as I have many other revelations of great importance to make respecting the doings of Masonry in the eighteenth century , I will merely add that , after a few other minor objections had been disposed of , Dr . Dodd consented to be put in nomination for the chair of the Lodge at the ensuing choice of Officers ; for , he said , it would be discreditable to the Order to suffer such a Lodge to fall without an