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Address
ADDRESS
OF THE GRAND LODGE OF AKCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA , TO THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ENGLAND .
[ The very great importance of the present condition of relations between the English and Canadian Lodges , prompts us to give instant insertion to the following
Address just received , and to the Letter of our Correspondent appended to it . Our readers will see that the question will come before the Grand Lodge of England at the next Quarterly Communication , and that though we shall return to the subject in our Number for April , it behoves every true friend of the Order to bestir himself at once actively in the matter . —Ed . ]
ADDRESS . To the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , the Might Worshipful the Deputy Grand Master , the Grand Officers \ mid Brethren , of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of
JEngland ; We , the Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , Officers , and Brethren , of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada , with sincere respect
and fraternal regard , send geeetln a , The Freemasons of Canada , to the number of forty-one Lodges , having united in the establishment of a Grand Lodge of Canada ( as you have doubtless already been informed ) , we feel it our first duty to lay before you , as the parent to whom the majority of our members
owe their Masonic existence , a fall explanation of the circumstances which dictated , and the course we pursued , in taking a step , which , while it determines the rule of the Grand Lodge of England over us , as Lodges , we confidently believe will not sever , and we earnestly trust will not weaken , that Holy Bond of Brotherhood so long existing between us as Masons .
In offering these explanations , we feel assured , by the purity of the motives by which we were actuated , and the justness of our cause , that we shall not ask from you in vain , that generous and truly
Masonic consideration which has ever distinguished the Grand Lodge of England . The absence in this province of that progress in our Masonic Art which has invariably attended the existence of duly constituted Lodges in every other country , had long been a source of unfeigned sorrow to all zealous Canadian Freemasons , who observed with deep regret that the advancement of the Order was by no means commonyol . ix z
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Address
ADDRESS
OF THE GRAND LODGE OF AKCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA , TO THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ENGLAND .
[ The very great importance of the present condition of relations between the English and Canadian Lodges , prompts us to give instant insertion to the following
Address just received , and to the Letter of our Correspondent appended to it . Our readers will see that the question will come before the Grand Lodge of England at the next Quarterly Communication , and that though we shall return to the subject in our Number for April , it behoves every true friend of the Order to bestir himself at once actively in the matter . —Ed . ]
ADDRESS . To the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , the Might Worshipful the Deputy Grand Master , the Grand Officers \ mid Brethren , of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of
JEngland ; We , the Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , Officers , and Brethren , of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada , with sincere respect
and fraternal regard , send geeetln a , The Freemasons of Canada , to the number of forty-one Lodges , having united in the establishment of a Grand Lodge of Canada ( as you have doubtless already been informed ) , we feel it our first duty to lay before you , as the parent to whom the majority of our members
owe their Masonic existence , a fall explanation of the circumstances which dictated , and the course we pursued , in taking a step , which , while it determines the rule of the Grand Lodge of England over us , as Lodges , we confidently believe will not sever , and we earnestly trust will not weaken , that Holy Bond of Brotherhood so long existing between us as Masons .
In offering these explanations , we feel assured , by the purity of the motives by which we were actuated , and the justness of our cause , that we shall not ask from you in vain , that generous and truly
Masonic consideration which has ever distinguished the Grand Lodge of England . The absence in this province of that progress in our Masonic Art which has invariably attended the existence of duly constituted Lodges in every other country , had long been a source of unfeigned sorrow to all zealous Canadian Freemasons , who observed with deep regret that the advancement of the Order was by no means commonyol . ix z