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Masonic Intelligence.
such cases , or in some ought to be allowed , to give advice , it was distinctly proved to the Board that some short time after the appeal hacl been delivered , Brother 11 . T . Crueefix , seeing the Grand Secretary on another subject , asked the Grand Secretary whether theappeal
was right , and was distinctly told , in the presence of two other persons , that it was not , for that it ought to state the particular grievance or ground of appeal , which it did not . The statement , therefore , that he was left in error ( of which
, he complains ) , even if it was possible to believe that , quoting as he does the very pages in which the form is specially required , he could be ignorant of the error , is a wilful untruth .
" The Board also adverted to another wilful misrepresentation in the commencement of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review of the 30 th June , page 128 , in which it is stated , ' that an assertion was hazarded by the M . W . Grand Master , and followed immediately
by a deliberate act disproving its truth ; ' viz ., * That the Grand Lodge could not vote an address to any but the sovereign of the land " ancl that ' scarcely hacl this opinion been given , when a Grand Officer rose to propose an
addresspre-, viously submitted , to the Grand Master for adoption by the Grand Lodge , to the illustrious mother of thc Queen . ' This is deliberately stated in the introductory part of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , in the larger type , with the
o ' clock . At a quarter past four he requested the Tiler to inform the Board that he desired an interview . At six o ' clock , finding he was not summoned , he went up stairs into the office , and was told that the Board had adjourned ! Vexed at what appeared a
discourtesy , he insisted , at least , on seeing Mr . 'White , who stated in reply to his interrogatory why he had not heen called , that the Board did not know he was in attendance ! Brother Quinton , the Tiler , was then asked to whom he hacl
delivered his request , and replied " to Brother Rule . " Again , as to the appeal itself , Brother White certainly did say that the appeal , in its then shape , was insufficient , and pointed out some alterationswhich were
adopt-, ed , and the appeal , as amended , was sent in accordingly . The original appeal is in existence . Let it also be borne in mind that the amended appeal was never objected to until in Grand Lodge ;—it was read in the Committee of Masters .
Thus much for " WILFUL UNTRUTH . " " Wilful misrepresentation ! " is easy to write , but not so easy lo prove . Why not state exactly what really did take place ?
Here is a little coquetry about large type to catch attention . - but the letter to Lodges desiring attendance to hear Brother Cruce-
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Masonic Intelligence.
such cases , or in some ought to be allowed , to give advice , it was distinctly proved to the Board that some short time after the appeal hacl been delivered , Brother 11 . T . Crueefix , seeing the Grand Secretary on another subject , asked the Grand Secretary whether theappeal
was right , and was distinctly told , in the presence of two other persons , that it was not , for that it ought to state the particular grievance or ground of appeal , which it did not . The statement , therefore , that he was left in error ( of which
, he complains ) , even if it was possible to believe that , quoting as he does the very pages in which the form is specially required , he could be ignorant of the error , is a wilful untruth .
" The Board also adverted to another wilful misrepresentation in the commencement of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review of the 30 th June , page 128 , in which it is stated , ' that an assertion was hazarded by the M . W . Grand Master , and followed immediately
by a deliberate act disproving its truth ; ' viz ., * That the Grand Lodge could not vote an address to any but the sovereign of the land " ancl that ' scarcely hacl this opinion been given , when a Grand Officer rose to propose an
addresspre-, viously submitted , to the Grand Master for adoption by the Grand Lodge , to the illustrious mother of thc Queen . ' This is deliberately stated in the introductory part of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , in the larger type , with the
o ' clock . At a quarter past four he requested the Tiler to inform the Board that he desired an interview . At six o ' clock , finding he was not summoned , he went up stairs into the office , and was told that the Board had adjourned ! Vexed at what appeared a
discourtesy , he insisted , at least , on seeing Mr . 'White , who stated in reply to his interrogatory why he had not heen called , that the Board did not know he was in attendance ! Brother Quinton , the Tiler , was then asked to whom he hacl
delivered his request , and replied " to Brother Rule . " Again , as to the appeal itself , Brother White certainly did say that the appeal , in its then shape , was insufficient , and pointed out some alterationswhich were
adopt-, ed , and the appeal , as amended , was sent in accordingly . The original appeal is in existence . Let it also be borne in mind that the amended appeal was never objected to until in Grand Lodge ;—it was read in the Committee of Masters .
Thus much for " WILFUL UNTRUTH . " " Wilful misrepresentation ! " is easy to write , but not so easy lo prove . Why not state exactly what really did take place ?
Here is a little coquetry about large type to catch attention . - but the letter to Lodges desiring attendance to hear Brother Cruce-