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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
time , take precedence of notices of motion , is neither expedient nor consistent . Again , it is in the recollection of every one , that a late motion for regulating the duties of Provincial Grancl Masters , was carried by a considerable majority , and only lost on confirmation of minutes , by permitting a second debate
on new arguments , instead of correcting the inadvertence of its tendency to operate as an ex post facto law . Well , what happens ? Why , that a new notice of motion , founded on the former , but with part only of its value , is actually on the paper given by the very party who caused the loss of the former !
Did the necessity of any such law ever strike the Grand Registrar , previously to the original notice of motion given some year and a half ago ? Yet the laws were by five lawyers arranged and settled in 1841 . So much for consistency and expediency .
The aspect of Masonry in Ireland is , we regret to say , dimmed by a serious misunderstanding . Of the disputants , it may be simply observed , without hesitation , they are both in the wrong . THE VICAR AND BISHOP VERSUS FREEMASONRY . —The
Earl of Zetland has granted a warrant to the Brethren in Axminster called the Lodge of Virtue and Honour . It was hopefully expected that this new Masonic scion would be the more firmly engrafted on the noble Tree , by a procession to church , and a sermon by a clerical Brother . The Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Sincerity and Unanimity
at Taunton , Bro . William Tucker , who is named in the warrant as the first Master of the new Lodge , addressed the Rev . W . D . Conybeare , Vicar of Axminster , requesting permission to use the church on the day of consecration , that the Prov . Grand Chaplain or some other clerical Brother , might preach on the occasion . It being the first time that
the Rev . Vicar had received such a request , he replied , that if on referring the matter to his Bishop , his Lordship did not disapprove , he the Vicar would be happy to accede to the wishes of Bro . Tucker . The Bishop of Exeter , however , did disapprove , on the grounds that he had alread y
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
time , take precedence of notices of motion , is neither expedient nor consistent . Again , it is in the recollection of every one , that a late motion for regulating the duties of Provincial Grancl Masters , was carried by a considerable majority , and only lost on confirmation of minutes , by permitting a second debate
on new arguments , instead of correcting the inadvertence of its tendency to operate as an ex post facto law . Well , what happens ? Why , that a new notice of motion , founded on the former , but with part only of its value , is actually on the paper given by the very party who caused the loss of the former !
Did the necessity of any such law ever strike the Grand Registrar , previously to the original notice of motion given some year and a half ago ? Yet the laws were by five lawyers arranged and settled in 1841 . So much for consistency and expediency .
The aspect of Masonry in Ireland is , we regret to say , dimmed by a serious misunderstanding . Of the disputants , it may be simply observed , without hesitation , they are both in the wrong . THE VICAR AND BISHOP VERSUS FREEMASONRY . —The
Earl of Zetland has granted a warrant to the Brethren in Axminster called the Lodge of Virtue and Honour . It was hopefully expected that this new Masonic scion would be the more firmly engrafted on the noble Tree , by a procession to church , and a sermon by a clerical Brother . The Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Sincerity and Unanimity
at Taunton , Bro . William Tucker , who is named in the warrant as the first Master of the new Lodge , addressed the Rev . W . D . Conybeare , Vicar of Axminster , requesting permission to use the church on the day of consecration , that the Prov . Grand Chaplain or some other clerical Brother , might preach on the occasion . It being the first time that
the Rev . Vicar had received such a request , he replied , that if on referring the matter to his Bishop , his Lordship did not disapprove , he the Vicar would be happy to accede to the wishes of Bro . Tucker . The Bishop of Exeter , however , did disapprove , on the grounds that he had alread y