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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW, AND GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE. ← Page 3 of 3 Article GRAND LODGE. Page 1 of 3 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, And General Assurance Advocate.
- - u heaven ! my head is not giddy , my hand is unpalsied , my foot is firm , pud my heart yet steadily pulsates . " Then why retire ?—First , because I desire to prepare my papers , in hopes of bequeathing my legacy to the Craft ; next , because there is a secret monitor that wills it—that monitor which no man ought to disreshall for the
gard . Yet , although I retire from public duty , I pray continuance of health while life is granted , that I may be at hand when needed , to offer that experience which younger brethren may seek . " This is my preliminary adieu ; my next may possibly touch gently on current subjects , and by the end of the year I shall hope to offer my valedictory thanks . " ROBERT I HOBIAS CRIICEWX . Grove , Gravesend , 20 th Match , 18-19 .
Grand Lodge.
GRAND LODGE .
The last Quarterly Communication was chracterised by three curious circumstances , —First came the admission that the Grand Secretary was to a certain extent answerable for the contents , or rather the omissions of the Grand Lodge official report , for when attention was called to the noninsertion of the library particulars , theGrand Master pointedly transfered the matter to the shoulders of the Grand Secretary . This is as it should
be : of course the Grand Master cannot be accountable for the getting up of the Grand Lodge report , nor can he know the correctness of the report for which he alone is responsible , if he is not present at the debate whicli it pretends to report . The second was pointing out that at a previous meeting , a question of adjournment of the debate had been entertained . The adjournment of the debate involves a particularly dangerous
precedent , the result of which can scarcely be foreseen . 1 he third matter was the debate on " Major-general Cooke , " and on this we intend to offer a few remarks , because the subject has now been decided by the votes of the majority of those present , and is no longer either private or secret . The commencement of the Major-general ' s masonic career here is , that he introduced himself to the St . Paul's Lodge , which holds its while
meeting at the hotel where the Major-general was staying visiting London , two years since . His rank and great liberality to the masonic charities , together with his courtesy and bearing , attracted the notice of visitors to the Lodge , and he was introduced to the Grand Master and his Lodge ; his continued donations to charities , and position , obtained for hiin the friendship of several influential Masons , and on his own
solicitation he was appointed Representative of the Grand Master at the Grand Lodge of New York , with the rank of Past Grand Warden , obtained for him , or given to him by the Grand Master ; but it being reported
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, And General Assurance Advocate.
- - u heaven ! my head is not giddy , my hand is unpalsied , my foot is firm , pud my heart yet steadily pulsates . " Then why retire ?—First , because I desire to prepare my papers , in hopes of bequeathing my legacy to the Craft ; next , because there is a secret monitor that wills it—that monitor which no man ought to disreshall for the
gard . Yet , although I retire from public duty , I pray continuance of health while life is granted , that I may be at hand when needed , to offer that experience which younger brethren may seek . " This is my preliminary adieu ; my next may possibly touch gently on current subjects , and by the end of the year I shall hope to offer my valedictory thanks . " ROBERT I HOBIAS CRIICEWX . Grove , Gravesend , 20 th Match , 18-19 .
Grand Lodge.
GRAND LODGE .
The last Quarterly Communication was chracterised by three curious circumstances , —First came the admission that the Grand Secretary was to a certain extent answerable for the contents , or rather the omissions of the Grand Lodge official report , for when attention was called to the noninsertion of the library particulars , theGrand Master pointedly transfered the matter to the shoulders of the Grand Secretary . This is as it should
be : of course the Grand Master cannot be accountable for the getting up of the Grand Lodge report , nor can he know the correctness of the report for which he alone is responsible , if he is not present at the debate whicli it pretends to report . The second was pointing out that at a previous meeting , a question of adjournment of the debate had been entertained . The adjournment of the debate involves a particularly dangerous
precedent , the result of which can scarcely be foreseen . 1 he third matter was the debate on " Major-general Cooke , " and on this we intend to offer a few remarks , because the subject has now been decided by the votes of the majority of those present , and is no longer either private or secret . The commencement of the Major-general ' s masonic career here is , that he introduced himself to the St . Paul's Lodge , which holds its while
meeting at the hotel where the Major-general was staying visiting London , two years since . His rank and great liberality to the masonic charities , together with his courtesy and bearing , attracted the notice of visitors to the Lodge , and he was introduced to the Grand Master and his Lodge ; his continued donations to charities , and position , obtained for hiin the friendship of several influential Masons , and on his own
solicitation he was appointed Representative of the Grand Master at the Grand Lodge of New York , with the rank of Past Grand Warden , obtained for him , or given to him by the Grand Master ; but it being reported