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Something Really Curious.
SOMETHING REALLY CURIOUS .
WB have received many communications , that have required both delicacy and tact in their treatment ; but the following travels a lectio out of the usual course of practice , and we shall , therefore , give it" freely and at length ; reserving the honours until the last . "
Milford , October 2-ltli , 1 !) . ' !!) . To THE EDITOR . —DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —The following paragraph having appeared in "The Freemason ' s Quarterly Review" for September"PEKMBuoKKSHmR . —The fresh impetus given to Masonry is progressing with evident advantage . The New Lodge will shortly be opened at Haverfordwest , under tlie Mastership of Colonel Scourfield , late M . P . for that town . The existing Lodges are in excellent working ,-and the Brethren generally , but more especially Brother Thomas , and his pupil , Brother Edwards , with his friend , Brother Byers , give , at each meeting , their valuable assistance . "
and conceiving the omission of the name of our hi ghly talented and zealous Master ( whose able working of his Lodge , elicits from the Brethren , and visitors , an universal admiration ) , that , from some ciuse or other , to us inexplicable , that omission has been intentional ; we , the undersigned Officers , and Members , of the St . David ' s Lodge , No . 474 , request you will be pleased , at your earliest convenience , to furnish us with the name of the writer of the paragraph in question , in order , that at our next regular Lodge , Proceedings may be taken thereon .
We are , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , Signed by R . H . BYERS , and 19 other Brethren * . The charge against us ( for , be it understood that our responsibility cannot be questioned , however our motives may , ) is—That the name of a highly talented and zealous Master has been omitted by intention in the paragraph .
Now this , surely , is rather a stretch of the imagination . What may be very clear to Brethren at Milford , may be somewhat obscure to us in London . Had a charge been brought for any offensive allusion toivards a Brother , or any hastily expressed report of what a Brother might have said ; we should have been abashed at our thoughtlessness , and have hastened to repair the offence by explanation , and by our contrition , if needful ; but for the simple reason of not carrying out the unexpressed
, if implied , wishes of all , to receive a manifesto from all , is a proceeding as unexpected as it is irregular . The Horatian maxim , " In vitium ducit eulpee fuga , " appears to have been forgotten by our friends in Wales , who , having committed a slight irregularity themselves , ivould fain that we should violate all rule of delicacy and honor , by giving up the author of what appears to us , an unexceptionable , nay , a courteous paragraph .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Something Really Curious.
SOMETHING REALLY CURIOUS .
WB have received many communications , that have required both delicacy and tact in their treatment ; but the following travels a lectio out of the usual course of practice , and we shall , therefore , give it" freely and at length ; reserving the honours until the last . "
Milford , October 2-ltli , 1 !) . ' !!) . To THE EDITOR . —DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —The following paragraph having appeared in "The Freemason ' s Quarterly Review" for September"PEKMBuoKKSHmR . —The fresh impetus given to Masonry is progressing with evident advantage . The New Lodge will shortly be opened at Haverfordwest , under tlie Mastership of Colonel Scourfield , late M . P . for that town . The existing Lodges are in excellent working ,-and the Brethren generally , but more especially Brother Thomas , and his pupil , Brother Edwards , with his friend , Brother Byers , give , at each meeting , their valuable assistance . "
and conceiving the omission of the name of our hi ghly talented and zealous Master ( whose able working of his Lodge , elicits from the Brethren , and visitors , an universal admiration ) , that , from some ciuse or other , to us inexplicable , that omission has been intentional ; we , the undersigned Officers , and Members , of the St . David ' s Lodge , No . 474 , request you will be pleased , at your earliest convenience , to furnish us with the name of the writer of the paragraph in question , in order , that at our next regular Lodge , Proceedings may be taken thereon .
We are , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , Signed by R . H . BYERS , and 19 other Brethren * . The charge against us ( for , be it understood that our responsibility cannot be questioned , however our motives may , ) is—That the name of a highly talented and zealous Master has been omitted by intention in the paragraph .
Now this , surely , is rather a stretch of the imagination . What may be very clear to Brethren at Milford , may be somewhat obscure to us in London . Had a charge been brought for any offensive allusion toivards a Brother , or any hastily expressed report of what a Brother might have said ; we should have been abashed at our thoughtlessness , and have hastened to repair the offence by explanation , and by our contrition , if needful ; but for the simple reason of not carrying out the unexpressed
, if implied , wishes of all , to receive a manifesto from all , is a proceeding as unexpected as it is irregular . The Horatian maxim , " In vitium ducit eulpee fuga , " appears to have been forgotten by our friends in Wales , who , having committed a slight irregularity themselves , ivould fain that we should violate all rule of delicacy and honor , by giving up the author of what appears to us , an unexceptionable , nay , a courteous paragraph .