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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW.
DECEMBER 31 , 1836 .
THE GRAND MASTER . AT the last quarterly communication , the nomination as Grand Master for the ensuing year of that illustrious Prince who has been so closely identified with the interests of the
Craft—who has fostered by his kindness—protected by his vigilance , and adorned by his Masonic genius—should not pass at the present moment without some observation on the splendour of its character , from the only organ professedly devoted to Masonic purposes ; and it is in the honest exercise of our
vocation that we record the renewal of a mutual compact on the part of the Royal Brother and Grand Lodge-intimated on his side , with a peculiar propriety , that the nomination should emanate from amongst the " Rulers of the Craft , "and accepted by them in the comprehensive sense in which
such intimation was conveyed . The worthy mover no doubt felt , as he well might , proud of the opportunity to exercise in Grand Lodge , the highest prerogative of a Mason—and the consciousness that gratitude sweetened the exercise cf duty , gave a moral power to
the earnestness , and imparted a courtesy to the manner , by which the nomination was graced . The necessity of a nomination must be apparent—the entrusting of the high privileges of Masonry to any indivi-VOL . in . ; 3 G
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW.
DECEMBER 31 , 1836 .
THE GRAND MASTER . AT the last quarterly communication , the nomination as Grand Master for the ensuing year of that illustrious Prince who has been so closely identified with the interests of the
Craft—who has fostered by his kindness—protected by his vigilance , and adorned by his Masonic genius—should not pass at the present moment without some observation on the splendour of its character , from the only organ professedly devoted to Masonic purposes ; and it is in the honest exercise of our
vocation that we record the renewal of a mutual compact on the part of the Royal Brother and Grand Lodge-intimated on his side , with a peculiar propriety , that the nomination should emanate from amongst the " Rulers of the Craft , "and accepted by them in the comprehensive sense in which
such intimation was conveyed . The worthy mover no doubt felt , as he well might , proud of the opportunity to exercise in Grand Lodge , the highest prerogative of a Mason—and the consciousness that gratitude sweetened the exercise cf duty , gave a moral power to
the earnestness , and imparted a courtesy to the manner , by which the nomination was graced . The necessity of a nomination must be apparent—the entrusting of the high privileges of Masonry to any indivi-VOL . in . ; 3 G