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Article THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 11 →
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
upon the many important matters which have recently engaged the attention of the Order . We amongst others feel that we shall have to meet a moment of trial , but it is a trial of the heart , in which may it please the Great All-wise to lend us the advocacy of one
we love in his greatness , to cheer us onward in aiding to erect an " Asylum" for another , whom we no less respect in his adversity .
THE "R ECENT BLACKBALL , " A SATELLITE OF THE BALLOT Whilst we shrink not from the consideration of this subject—a subject from circumstances obviously involving in itself a delicacy—we beg to assure the Craft that we approach it with sentiments more of sorrow than of anger . We would
fain look upon the " untoward event" as an " ingenious device" to maintain what may have been considered the exercise of a right , rather than as an intention to degrade by its conceived effect , the individual party who has been singularly selected for its offensive operation—to say insulting , would be to call into the arena the moral force of Freemasonry , the influence of which might probably visit the
mistaken parties with a severity they have little contemp lated . A reference to the immediate articles on the subject will explain more fully all the particulars . That the delinquent parties themselves will repent their ill-timed conduct , we freely admit—IN A MORAL SENSE , AS
REGARDS FREEMASONRY , we unquestionably hold them to be delinquents , inasmuch , as the opportunity afforded them of exercising a privilege—by which they have attempted to degrade the Order itself by excluding an individual member , who has given some few proofs of Masonic qualification , and
let us hope , secured the respect of the Fraternity—should have rather called forth a very different result from the three companions who have thus chosen to make themselves con-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
upon the many important matters which have recently engaged the attention of the Order . We amongst others feel that we shall have to meet a moment of trial , but it is a trial of the heart , in which may it please the Great All-wise to lend us the advocacy of one
we love in his greatness , to cheer us onward in aiding to erect an " Asylum" for another , whom we no less respect in his adversity .
THE "R ECENT BLACKBALL , " A SATELLITE OF THE BALLOT Whilst we shrink not from the consideration of this subject—a subject from circumstances obviously involving in itself a delicacy—we beg to assure the Craft that we approach it with sentiments more of sorrow than of anger . We would
fain look upon the " untoward event" as an " ingenious device" to maintain what may have been considered the exercise of a right , rather than as an intention to degrade by its conceived effect , the individual party who has been singularly selected for its offensive operation—to say insulting , would be to call into the arena the moral force of Freemasonry , the influence of which might probably visit the
mistaken parties with a severity they have little contemp lated . A reference to the immediate articles on the subject will explain more fully all the particulars . That the delinquent parties themselves will repent their ill-timed conduct , we freely admit—IN A MORAL SENSE , AS
REGARDS FREEMASONRY , we unquestionably hold them to be delinquents , inasmuch , as the opportunity afforded them of exercising a privilege—by which they have attempted to degrade the Order itself by excluding an individual member , who has given some few proofs of Masonic qualification , and
let us hope , secured the respect of the Fraternity—should have rather called forth a very different result from the three companions who have thus chosen to make themselves con-