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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
Purposes . " So that , in p lain language , the Board of General Purposes would be quite content to accomplish a paiticulur purpose at any cost ; would be the willing aiders and abettors of dishonesty ; would be careless to what extent or in what degree " breach of faith" —the abnegation of truth , justice ,
honour , and fidelity—might be committed ; so that faith were , at all events , kept with that immaculate body . Matters remained in this position up to the 2-rd of February , the Wednesday preceding that on which the last Quarterly Communication was held . On the former day
the usual reports and incidental notices of motion were read in the General Committee , commonl y designated the Committee of Masters ; and among them a special report from the Board of General purposes , respecting the negoeiations had with the Sub-Committee of the Asylum . As soon as the report had been read , Brother Crucefix , M . D ., gave notice of motion : —
" That the report of the Board of General Purposes be referred to that body for reconsideration , because the Board of General Purposes might have received the first proposition of the Sub-Committee of the Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason , and have recommended its acceptance by Grand Lodge , with much propriety ; and certainly ought to have so received and recommended the second proposition , without hesitation or reserve . "
His object , no doubt , being to afford the Grand Lodge a fair opportunity of giving an opinion upon the merits of the case ; and , if possible , to obtain that unanimous co-operation , through the superior power , which the ( truly ) inferior power had decried . How that honest and reasonable course
was for the time defeated , we will by and by show . But at this General Committee not the most meagre notice was given—not the slig htest mention was made— of any intention on the part of the Grand Registrar , or of any other person , to move the forty-seven resolutions in Grand
Lodge on the Wednesday following ; much less to claim precedence for them before the regular and indispensable business of that meeting . We use the word indispensable , as applying to the practical operations of benevolence and justice , which ought never to be postponed for considerations
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
Purposes . " So that , in p lain language , the Board of General Purposes would be quite content to accomplish a paiticulur purpose at any cost ; would be the willing aiders and abettors of dishonesty ; would be careless to what extent or in what degree " breach of faith" —the abnegation of truth , justice ,
honour , and fidelity—might be committed ; so that faith were , at all events , kept with that immaculate body . Matters remained in this position up to the 2-rd of February , the Wednesday preceding that on which the last Quarterly Communication was held . On the former day
the usual reports and incidental notices of motion were read in the General Committee , commonl y designated the Committee of Masters ; and among them a special report from the Board of General purposes , respecting the negoeiations had with the Sub-Committee of the Asylum . As soon as the report had been read , Brother Crucefix , M . D ., gave notice of motion : —
" That the report of the Board of General Purposes be referred to that body for reconsideration , because the Board of General Purposes might have received the first proposition of the Sub-Committee of the Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason , and have recommended its acceptance by Grand Lodge , with much propriety ; and certainly ought to have so received and recommended the second proposition , without hesitation or reserve . "
His object , no doubt , being to afford the Grand Lodge a fair opportunity of giving an opinion upon the merits of the case ; and , if possible , to obtain that unanimous co-operation , through the superior power , which the ( truly ) inferior power had decried . How that honest and reasonable course
was for the time defeated , we will by and by show . But at this General Committee not the most meagre notice was given—not the slig htest mention was made— of any intention on the part of the Grand Registrar , or of any other person , to move the forty-seven resolutions in Grand
Lodge on the Wednesday following ; much less to claim precedence for them before the regular and indispensable business of that meeting . We use the word indispensable , as applying to the practical operations of benevolence and justice , which ought never to be postponed for considerations