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members ; at is . each , the proposed augmentation , an annual amount of 318 Z . would be obtained . Take a vote of Grand Lodge upon the subject , and make it compulsory on every London lodge to subscribe . Or , if it be impossible to legislate for a portion of the Craft , let some influential member ( yourself for example ) convene a meeting of the Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of such lodges , and ascertain their feeling on the subject . 'They might then bring it before their respective lodges , and I
am satisfied the greater proportion would readily accede to the plan . I belong to two town lodges , averaging more than the number I have assumed , and I am sure I may promise the prompt and cordial support of both . Excuse my troubling you with this suggestion , and believe me , Dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , A MASTER . March 5 , 1848 .
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SIR AND BROTHER , — In this province ( Durham ) we are aghast at the decision of the Grand Lodge on the matter of limiting the period of probation , for now there is an end of our calling . Hitherto we have been able to maintain the distinction of " border masonry" b y the symbol of authority , but now , thanks to the Grand Registrar who rules potentially over the Grand Master and by the Constitutions over several provinces—himself too a Scotch brother—we shall have an
overwhelming influx not merely of peripatetic visitation , but of masonic mendicancy , which is already insupportable . However , we must I suppose patiently abide the next surrender , and so on until those in high places , when they shall become appalled by the effects of their mis-government , will like the rats , desert the ship . Alas for Freemasonry ! Have you courage to insert these remarks from A PAST MASTER , March 8 , 1848 .
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SIR AND BROTHER , —As our Grand Master , who is also the Prov . Grand Master for the North and East Riding of Yorkshire , has ruled ( for it is idle to talk of the Grand Lodge ruling , after an examination of the arguments at the previous Grand Lodge , and the garbled , suppressed and untrue report circulated ) , that we are tributary in discipline to the Scottish ritual ( God save the mark ) . I presume the next thing will he to put us at once under the order of the Grand Secretary of Scotland
, first superseding him of the Grand Lodge of England ; next let us reduce the fees to those of Scotland , and have operative Lodges at one guinea per man ; next grant all degrees in one night , and go back to the orgies , and saturnalia from whence it had hoped we had for ever emerged—nay , hey presto , let us become once more Picts and Scots of the former day , ancl turn back the stream of our Saxon blood into that of fraternal cannibalism ; let us once more dance and shout , like ghouls , over our victims . Grand Master , you have much to answer for ! A SUNDERLAND MASON .
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To The Editor.
members ; at is . each , the proposed augmentation , an annual amount of 318 Z . would be obtained . Take a vote of Grand Lodge upon the subject , and make it compulsory on every London lodge to subscribe . Or , if it be impossible to legislate for a portion of the Craft , let some influential member ( yourself for example ) convene a meeting of the Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of such lodges , and ascertain their feeling on the subject . 'They might then bring it before their respective lodges , and I
am satisfied the greater proportion would readily accede to the plan . I belong to two town lodges , averaging more than the number I have assumed , and I am sure I may promise the prompt and cordial support of both . Excuse my troubling you with this suggestion , and believe me , Dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , A MASTER . March 5 , 1848 .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER , — In this province ( Durham ) we are aghast at the decision of the Grand Lodge on the matter of limiting the period of probation , for now there is an end of our calling . Hitherto we have been able to maintain the distinction of " border masonry" b y the symbol of authority , but now , thanks to the Grand Registrar who rules potentially over the Grand Master and by the Constitutions over several provinces—himself too a Scotch brother—we shall have an
overwhelming influx not merely of peripatetic visitation , but of masonic mendicancy , which is already insupportable . However , we must I suppose patiently abide the next surrender , and so on until those in high places , when they shall become appalled by the effects of their mis-government , will like the rats , desert the ship . Alas for Freemasonry ! Have you courage to insert these remarks from A PAST MASTER , March 8 , 1848 .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER , —As our Grand Master , who is also the Prov . Grand Master for the North and East Riding of Yorkshire , has ruled ( for it is idle to talk of the Grand Lodge ruling , after an examination of the arguments at the previous Grand Lodge , and the garbled , suppressed and untrue report circulated ) , that we are tributary in discipline to the Scottish ritual ( God save the mark ) . I presume the next thing will he to put us at once under the order of the Grand Secretary of Scotland
, first superseding him of the Grand Lodge of England ; next let us reduce the fees to those of Scotland , and have operative Lodges at one guinea per man ; next grant all degrees in one night , and go back to the orgies , and saturnalia from whence it had hoped we had for ever emerged—nay , hey presto , let us become once more Picts and Scots of the former day , ancl turn back the stream of our Saxon blood into that of fraternal cannibalism ; let us once more dance and shout , like ghouls , over our victims . Grand Master , you have much to answer for ! A SUNDERLAND MASON .