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Masonic Intelligence.
the Grand Secretary ' s letter , and referred to the published letter of Brother R . T . Crueefix to the M . W . Grand Master , which in the Review is dated 10 th , making it not improbable that it was given to the printerfor publication before it was
sent to the Grand Master . There are also trifling differences in the two copies .
" The handwriting of Brother R . T . Crueefix to the letter addressed to the Grand Master was then proved ; it was also proved that he was the avowed editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " The Board also deemed it
necessary to receive distinct proof that the M . W . Grand Master , neither directly nor indirectly , either originated , encouraged , promoted , or in any matter whatever interfered in relation to the former charge against Brother R . T . Crueefixor
, in the investigation of it before the Board of General Purposes or their sentence , ancl that at the Grand Lodge of the Srd of June he declared , on taking the Throne , that he did so to perform certain duties which devolved on him ' on that
night , and to preserve order and regularity in the proceedings in the Lodge , hut that on the merits of the questions before the Grand Lodge lie should give no opinion or vote . " The Board felt , bound to
receive and put on record this proof , to rebut the wilfully false and scandalous inferences which the statements in the letter to the Grand Master were obviously intended to produce in the minds of Members of country , and foreign , and distant
"To Dr . R . T . Crueefix . "DKAR Srn , —I did not receive the MS . copy of the correspondence to the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary until Fridav the 26 th of June . Your direction at the time was to set it up in slip , and not to page it , as it was possible it might not appear . Your obedient , servant , " 29 th Oct ., 1040 . W . W-LCOCKSON . " This direction to set in sli
up p does not tally with the " not improbable" sophistries ; but on this subject we could " a tale unfold . " This is good!—and there are also trifling differences in the printed circular of the Board and the written copy left at Dr . Crueefix '
house . This must have been a most difficult affair ! More wonderful still ! But why did not the Board proceed to state
the trul y Fraternal and Masonic manner in which it set about to obtain these proofs ? It is as well not to attempt to explain what is probably meant to mislead .
So , then , the Board really feared that the country , foreign , and distantLodges mightlearnfacts before the executive should be pleased to issue their own version . This may be taken as reproving equall y the Secretarial department and Brother Crueefix .
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Masonic Intelligence.
the Grand Secretary ' s letter , and referred to the published letter of Brother R . T . Crueefix to the M . W . Grand Master , which in the Review is dated 10 th , making it not improbable that it was given to the printerfor publication before it was
sent to the Grand Master . There are also trifling differences in the two copies .
" The handwriting of Brother R . T . Crueefix to the letter addressed to the Grand Master was then proved ; it was also proved that he was the avowed editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " The Board also deemed it
necessary to receive distinct proof that the M . W . Grand Master , neither directly nor indirectly , either originated , encouraged , promoted , or in any matter whatever interfered in relation to the former charge against Brother R . T . Crueefixor
, in the investigation of it before the Board of General Purposes or their sentence , ancl that at the Grand Lodge of the Srd of June he declared , on taking the Throne , that he did so to perform certain duties which devolved on him ' on that
night , and to preserve order and regularity in the proceedings in the Lodge , hut that on the merits of the questions before the Grand Lodge lie should give no opinion or vote . " The Board felt , bound to
receive and put on record this proof , to rebut the wilfully false and scandalous inferences which the statements in the letter to the Grand Master were obviously intended to produce in the minds of Members of country , and foreign , and distant
"To Dr . R . T . Crueefix . "DKAR Srn , —I did not receive the MS . copy of the correspondence to the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary until Fridav the 26 th of June . Your direction at the time was to set it up in slip , and not to page it , as it was possible it might not appear . Your obedient , servant , " 29 th Oct ., 1040 . W . W-LCOCKSON . " This direction to set in sli
up p does not tally with the " not improbable" sophistries ; but on this subject we could " a tale unfold . " This is good!—and there are also trifling differences in the printed circular of the Board and the written copy left at Dr . Crueefix '
house . This must have been a most difficult affair ! More wonderful still ! But why did not the Board proceed to state
the trul y Fraternal and Masonic manner in which it set about to obtain these proofs ? It is as well not to attempt to explain what is probably meant to mislead .
So , then , the Board really feared that the country , foreign , and distantLodges mightlearnfacts before the executive should be pleased to issue their own version . This may be taken as reproving equall y the Secretarial department and Brother Crueefix .