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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sin , —Next Wednesday all the Provincial Lodges from Southampton will meet at the Star Inn , Newport . Lord Yarborough , as Provincial Grand Master , in the chair . The Masons will walk to St . Thomas ' s church , in order , where a sermon will be preached by the Rev . Brother Moore , of Ryde . We expect to see something very grand ; many of the aprons are beautifully wrought with gold lace . We hope the ladies will be permitted to take a peep at the Lod ge , before or after church .
The Masons will wear crape , as mourning for the late Duke of Sussex . My dear father was one of the Craft ; he was a good man . You have , I believe , expressed a desire for female correspondence ; and have given so many instances of the interest many women have taken in Masonry , that I venture to write , and subscribe myself as yours truly , Cranbrook , Isle of "Wi ght , E . C . October 3 , 1843 .
We assure our fair correspondent that we prize her good opinion too well not to be grateful for her letter . In soliciting her future correspondence , we wish her the enjoyment of a merry christmas , and a happy new year . —ED .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —Although little known in the Masonic world , and very incompetent to the task of grappling with the many points which call for our serious and impartial attention at this crisis , I cannot forbear sending you a few observations thereon ; trusting that they may call forth the energies of some more experienced Brother . The time is drawing nigh , when we shall be called upon to elect a successor , in the place of our late M . W . G . M . Some material alterations will , I believe , be proposed ;
the most important of which is a limitation of the office of -M . W . G . M . to the term of three years . This I cannot help thinking is a measure likely to work injuriously to the interest of our invaluable Craft ; inasmuch as Brethren of exalted rank , and we cannot have too exalted men to rule over us , may be unwilling to incur the expence , and still less tbe labour , of qualifying themselves for the office , if they are to vacate it so soon . Seven or ten years would , I think , be a much better term , f by no means advocate a tenure for life ; it seldom answers , in any situation in society . The holders too frequently either become , after a lew years , negligent and inattentive to their duties ; or , what is frequently
much worse , think themselves autocrats , and listen to nothing but their own whim and suggestions . Another subject likely to be brought forward , is a revision of the "Bcok of Constitutions ; " and here there is room for much improvement , particularly as regards enforcing an uniformity of working . It is not necessary that al ! Lodges should use , verbatim et literatim , the same expressions ; although , even in this point , the closer they keep together the better . I believe a large portion of the Metropolitan Lodges work very uniformly , and certainly some of them excellently . But any one tolerably conversant with the Provincial Lodges , must see . many things which would be better in the breach , than the observance of . Nothing
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sin , —Next Wednesday all the Provincial Lodges from Southampton will meet at the Star Inn , Newport . Lord Yarborough , as Provincial Grand Master , in the chair . The Masons will walk to St . Thomas ' s church , in order , where a sermon will be preached by the Rev . Brother Moore , of Ryde . We expect to see something very grand ; many of the aprons are beautifully wrought with gold lace . We hope the ladies will be permitted to take a peep at the Lod ge , before or after church .
The Masons will wear crape , as mourning for the late Duke of Sussex . My dear father was one of the Craft ; he was a good man . You have , I believe , expressed a desire for female correspondence ; and have given so many instances of the interest many women have taken in Masonry , that I venture to write , and subscribe myself as yours truly , Cranbrook , Isle of "Wi ght , E . C . October 3 , 1843 .
We assure our fair correspondent that we prize her good opinion too well not to be grateful for her letter . In soliciting her future correspondence , we wish her the enjoyment of a merry christmas , and a happy new year . —ED .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —Although little known in the Masonic world , and very incompetent to the task of grappling with the many points which call for our serious and impartial attention at this crisis , I cannot forbear sending you a few observations thereon ; trusting that they may call forth the energies of some more experienced Brother . The time is drawing nigh , when we shall be called upon to elect a successor , in the place of our late M . W . G . M . Some material alterations will , I believe , be proposed ;
the most important of which is a limitation of the office of -M . W . G . M . to the term of three years . This I cannot help thinking is a measure likely to work injuriously to the interest of our invaluable Craft ; inasmuch as Brethren of exalted rank , and we cannot have too exalted men to rule over us , may be unwilling to incur the expence , and still less tbe labour , of qualifying themselves for the office , if they are to vacate it so soon . Seven or ten years would , I think , be a much better term , f by no means advocate a tenure for life ; it seldom answers , in any situation in society . The holders too frequently either become , after a lew years , negligent and inattentive to their duties ; or , what is frequently
much worse , think themselves autocrats , and listen to nothing but their own whim and suggestions . Another subject likely to be brought forward , is a revision of the "Bcok of Constitutions ; " and here there is room for much improvement , particularly as regards enforcing an uniformity of working . It is not necessary that al ! Lodges should use , verbatim et literatim , the same expressions ; although , even in this point , the closer they keep together the better . I believe a large portion of the Metropolitan Lodges work very uniformly , and certainly some of them excellently . But any one tolerably conversant with the Provincial Lodges , must see . many things which would be better in the breach , than the observance of . Nothing