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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Grand Registrar—the officer whose especial duty it is to provide for an efficient and Masonic government in the Provinces—and principally upon the grounds that there might be many reasons why a Provincial Grand Master could not hold a meeting every year ; and that according
to the terms ofthe resolution , it might have an ex post facto application . And it was chiefly in consequence of the latter objection , that the Grand Lodge rescinded the previous vote . But what shall we say for the candour or courtesy of the Grand Registrar ; what for his desire to advance the
interests of Freemasonry in his particular department ;^ ivhen we inform our readers , that the existing evil having been made so manifest as to be indisputable — to have remained undisputed—at the Grand Lodge in September , and the Grand Registrar having then objected to the time
expressed in the resolution , and in general terms to the wording of it , he was at once respectfully asked by the mover to amend the proposition in either particular , but which he expressly declined to do ! Was it not most unmasonic and unfair—was it not an absolute dereliction of
duty on his part , thus purposely to refrain from amending the resolution in terms and detail , that he might afterwards defeat the proper application of the princip le it involved ? Upon his " dexterity , " in defeating the object ofthe orig inal mover , he may safely pride himself without having , we
believe , a single member of Grand Loclge at all anxious to share with him such a questionable honour . He was " dexterous" enough in September , not to utter a word about the ex post facto application of the resolution , but to keep that back as a dernier ressort until December ; and in
the latter meeting he was equally " dexterous" in keeping from the view of Grand Lodge the fact , that every Prov . Grand Master has the aid of a Deputy , to hold for him , if it be inconvenient to himself , annual or other Prov . Grand Meetings . For the unseemly exercise of that "dexterity " he had , we will admit , more punishment administered to him in the discussion at the last Grand Lodge , than usually
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Grand Registrar—the officer whose especial duty it is to provide for an efficient and Masonic government in the Provinces—and principally upon the grounds that there might be many reasons why a Provincial Grand Master could not hold a meeting every year ; and that according
to the terms ofthe resolution , it might have an ex post facto application . And it was chiefly in consequence of the latter objection , that the Grand Lodge rescinded the previous vote . But what shall we say for the candour or courtesy of the Grand Registrar ; what for his desire to advance the
interests of Freemasonry in his particular department ;^ ivhen we inform our readers , that the existing evil having been made so manifest as to be indisputable — to have remained undisputed—at the Grand Lodge in September , and the Grand Registrar having then objected to the time
expressed in the resolution , and in general terms to the wording of it , he was at once respectfully asked by the mover to amend the proposition in either particular , but which he expressly declined to do ! Was it not most unmasonic and unfair—was it not an absolute dereliction of
duty on his part , thus purposely to refrain from amending the resolution in terms and detail , that he might afterwards defeat the proper application of the princip le it involved ? Upon his " dexterity , " in defeating the object ofthe orig inal mover , he may safely pride himself without having , we
believe , a single member of Grand Loclge at all anxious to share with him such a questionable honour . He was " dexterous" enough in September , not to utter a word about the ex post facto application of the resolution , but to keep that back as a dernier ressort until December ; and in
the latter meeting he was equally " dexterous" in keeping from the view of Grand Lodge the fact , that every Prov . Grand Master has the aid of a Deputy , to hold for him , if it be inconvenient to himself , annual or other Prov . Grand Meetings . For the unseemly exercise of that "dexterity " he had , we will admit , more punishment administered to him in the discussion at the last Grand Lodge , than usually