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To Correspondents.
BROTHERS LKIQII , V IIITE , and other Taunton friends , are sincerely thanked . IIROTHER Jou . v LEE STEVENS of Hie British Lodqe , No . 8 , has favoured us with three specimens ot Lyric Poetry . We should be delighted if these were wedded to suitable musie by some other member of the Craft .
ARCH MATTERS . P . Z ., No . 7 . —We are truly thankful for the hint of P . Z . ; it gives us the opportunity of apologizing to COMP . W . W . PRESCOTT , which we do most unaffectedl y . A more unwarrantable neglect was never evident than in revising the proof of page 303 , No . 7 , where an allusion is made to him totallundeservedA nobler spiritwith kinder heart
y . , a , doesliot grace another companion in the fraternity . The Masonic public will at once perceive that the observation could not be intended to apply to Companion Prescott . For Z ., read , PI ., such should have been the note .
E . W . —The alterations in the " Royal Vault" are , in the main , improvements ; but why they Have not been made more illustratively such , is no fault of ours , we were not of the Council . We agree with E . W . that a power might and OUGHT to have been delegated to I rovineial Principals in aid of their Chapters , but , aye , but , " s ; va te monde . " The Orand Chapter has discontinued that portion alluded to , as well as the previous ceremony . o « Pcct tllat E - ^' -llas llot heard the clearest account of things in general . " . ' - —We are ° t * opinion timt a regularly installed Z . having past the Chair regularly as such , can instai all qualified officers , and thus promote the intention of Grand Chanter in xpirit it not in letter . AN INQUIRER —The plinth will no doubt bo attended to in Grand Chapter , and the initials inscribed so as to correspond with the new system . FIDKLITAS —The affair is noticed sufficiently in the proceedings of the Grand Chapter .
TEMPLARS , & C . A TEjirxAR , is right . The appellation M . E . C , can only apply to Grand Masters . A MB . " . IIIEKOF THE CHAPTER or OBSERVANCE We do not perceive the justice of the remarks . A PRINCE MASON cannot be answered here . In private we shall feel pleasure in personal explanation . K . M . P—We agree . Courtesy , if not propriety , should be observed . There are those who will observe both .
DETECTOR . The degrees in the Order of Chivalry , according to the Constitution op THE SAID ORDERS , ARE RECOGNISED BV THE ARTICLES OF UNION , but it is necessary that they be conducted in strict accordance . So well have these orders been protected , that they are duly treated of in the second article . TE . III'J . ARIUS . Vide Constitution , p . 119 , "Regalia , " second section . We advise our correspondent to study the matter carefully , and to peruse the Articles of Union on the subject of his letter . A . MEMBER OF No . 20 . Wc decline the correspondence , however well meant . The parties alluded to will not appreciate the motive .
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To Correspondents.
BROTHERS LKIQII , V IIITE , and other Taunton friends , are sincerely thanked . IIROTHER Jou . v LEE STEVENS of Hie British Lodqe , No . 8 , has favoured us with three specimens ot Lyric Poetry . We should be delighted if these were wedded to suitable musie by some other member of the Craft .
ARCH MATTERS . P . Z ., No . 7 . —We are truly thankful for the hint of P . Z . ; it gives us the opportunity of apologizing to COMP . W . W . PRESCOTT , which we do most unaffectedl y . A more unwarrantable neglect was never evident than in revising the proof of page 303 , No . 7 , where an allusion is made to him totallundeservedA nobler spiritwith kinder heart
y . , a , doesliot grace another companion in the fraternity . The Masonic public will at once perceive that the observation could not be intended to apply to Companion Prescott . For Z ., read , PI ., such should have been the note .
E . W . —The alterations in the " Royal Vault" are , in the main , improvements ; but why they Have not been made more illustratively such , is no fault of ours , we were not of the Council . We agree with E . W . that a power might and OUGHT to have been delegated to I rovineial Principals in aid of their Chapters , but , aye , but , " s ; va te monde . " The Orand Chapter has discontinued that portion alluded to , as well as the previous ceremony . o « Pcct tllat E - ^' -llas llot heard the clearest account of things in general . " . ' - —We are ° t * opinion timt a regularly installed Z . having past the Chair regularly as such , can instai all qualified officers , and thus promote the intention of Grand Chanter in xpirit it not in letter . AN INQUIRER —The plinth will no doubt bo attended to in Grand Chapter , and the initials inscribed so as to correspond with the new system . FIDKLITAS —The affair is noticed sufficiently in the proceedings of the Grand Chapter .
TEMPLARS , & C . A TEjirxAR , is right . The appellation M . E . C , can only apply to Grand Masters . A MB . " . IIIEKOF THE CHAPTER or OBSERVANCE We do not perceive the justice of the remarks . A PRINCE MASON cannot be answered here . In private we shall feel pleasure in personal explanation . K . M . P—We agree . Courtesy , if not propriety , should be observed . There are those who will observe both .
DETECTOR . The degrees in the Order of Chivalry , according to the Constitution op THE SAID ORDERS , ARE RECOGNISED BV THE ARTICLES OF UNION , but it is necessary that they be conducted in strict accordance . So well have these orders been protected , that they are duly treated of in the second article . TE . III'J . ARIUS . Vide Constitution , p . 119 , "Regalia , " second section . We advise our correspondent to study the matter carefully , and to peruse the Articles of Union on the subject of his letter . A . MEMBER OF No . 20 . Wc decline the correspondence , however well meant . The parties alluded to will not appreciate the motive .