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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
By a temperate and prudent , yet firm and confident application of the means at our disposal , which will never fall short of the occasion , we will prove this unmasonic supercession of the Book of Constitutions—this vain attempt to anticipate offence , and to punish non-offenders — to
have been as needless a waste of the time of the Grand Lodge , as it is a manifest subversion of the privileges of the Craft , and , in every point of view , a most unjust procedure . Yet , whilst we regret the occurrence of transactions that
reflect neither credit nor dignity upon the Order , it is a source of consolation to us , that no single error has been pointed out in the reports of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge , which have hitherto appeared in the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review . Privately they have been referred to
as " singularly correct—evidently taken by a short-hand writer ; " and their accuracy has never been publicly impugned . They may , therefore , be taken as faithful and verified records of the past , as part and parcel of Masonic History , to which reference may always be most confidently made . Nor do we discontinue the series for want of
equally detailed reports ; but higher , or more extensive interests than those in which we are personally concerned , must be at stake , before we shall be tempted to deviate from our own well-considered and considerate intention . From many communications on this subject we have
selected those which comprise the prominent features of the case ; and to which we refer , in the confident expectation that they will have some influence on the proceedings of the next Grand Lodge , and , by thus prudently retrieving the past , restore many to the exercise of reason .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
By a temperate and prudent , yet firm and confident application of the means at our disposal , which will never fall short of the occasion , we will prove this unmasonic supercession of the Book of Constitutions—this vain attempt to anticipate offence , and to punish non-offenders — to
have been as needless a waste of the time of the Grand Lodge , as it is a manifest subversion of the privileges of the Craft , and , in every point of view , a most unjust procedure . Yet , whilst we regret the occurrence of transactions that
reflect neither credit nor dignity upon the Order , it is a source of consolation to us , that no single error has been pointed out in the reports of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge , which have hitherto appeared in the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review . Privately they have been referred to
as " singularly correct—evidently taken by a short-hand writer ; " and their accuracy has never been publicly impugned . They may , therefore , be taken as faithful and verified records of the past , as part and parcel of Masonic History , to which reference may always be most confidently made . Nor do we discontinue the series for want of
equally detailed reports ; but higher , or more extensive interests than those in which we are personally concerned , must be at stake , before we shall be tempted to deviate from our own well-considered and considerate intention . From many communications on this subject we have
selected those which comprise the prominent features of the case ; and to which we refer , in the confident expectation that they will have some influence on the proceedings of the next Grand Lodge , and , by thus prudently retrieving the past , restore many to the exercise of reason .