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V THE MASONIC CHAKITXES , TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother . —I should feel obliged by the insertion of this letter in your Masonic Magazine . As a regular subscriber to the Boys * and Girls' School I wish to know why we have not had sent to ns due notice of the Anniversary Dinners .
I am aware that a notice is placed in your widely extended Magazine , but it is not every Brother or subscribing Brother that takes your Magazine in , —lam / Yours fraternally , fflaclclands , Hastings , C . J . Kilpin , Mdvch 12 ^ , 1853 . Royal York Lodge of Perseverance , No , 7 .
CANADA . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —I am induced , from your favourable reception of my previous communications , to l'eturn to our Canadian Masonic affairs ; and in discussing the subject I will make hut very little allusion to the unfortunate complication of matters which has arisen from the fact of there being now two bodies , each claiming to be the Grand Lodge for Canada , principally because there is
really no antagonism between them , and also because I fully believe that a very short time will see them united as one . There is in reality no cause for division , no bitter feeling , no strife ; on the contrary , all are fully decided that they must and will unite , and the members of the one organization with the approbation of the ruling powers visit the Lodges of the other ; their differences indeed are more in form than in reality , and as far as this communication is concerned they will he considered as but one body .
Before proceeding to discuss the right of Canadian Masons to form a Grand Lodge for themselves , let me advert to the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of England held in September last , on the presentation of a report from the Colonial Board , when Bro . Henderson , the Grand Reg ., called in question the accuracy of a . statement contained in a resolution of the Canadian Prov . Grand Lodge of June , that a definite reply to the memorial of the Prov . Grand Lodge had not been received . You also , Mr . Editor , in the same number of the Magazine that
reported the Grand Lodge proceedings , declared that the statement of the Prov . Grand Lodge was " not altogether consistent with that truth which should at all times characterize Freemasons . " It was never attempted to be denied that the vague and unsatisfactory speech of the G . M . had been transmitted to the Prov . Grand Lodge . It was so transmitted ; first by the Grand Sec , by command of
the G . M ., within a few days after it was spoken , and subsequently ( April 16 th ) by the Colonial Board , to whom , in conjunction with the G . M ., the whole matter was referred by Grand Lodge in March ; and the only step the Colonial Board seems to have taken on the subject was , sending this address , and hoping it would meet the requirements of the case . But Bro . Henderson was perfectly aware when he spoke as he did in September , that the Prov . Grand Sec , by order of the D . Prov . G . M ,, wrote on the receipt of this address ( for he quotes from the letter ) that the Brethren were then anxiously awaiting a reply to the memorial of Prov . Grand Lodge , and urging that it should be sent previous to the meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge to be held in May ; and , in fact , the meeting of Prov . Grand Lodge was postponed for a month , in hopes of receiving the expected communication . How could we suppose a conciliatory address of the G . M . to his Lodge was
an answer to our memorial , and more especially as the said address was referred to a special committee ( the Colonial Committee and the G . M . ) to take the matter into their consideration ? The consideration they gave to this momentous question I have already adverted to ; but no step was ever taken on the subject— it went no further than talk . But assuming that the speech was really meant as a reply to our memorial ( not very flattering to our dignity—but let that pass ) , what was there in it that we could lay hold of , or that would induce us to believe that all would
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Goeeespoidence. Y
V THE MASONIC CHAKITXES , TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother . —I should feel obliged by the insertion of this letter in your Masonic Magazine . As a regular subscriber to the Boys * and Girls' School I wish to know why we have not had sent to ns due notice of the Anniversary Dinners .
I am aware that a notice is placed in your widely extended Magazine , but it is not every Brother or subscribing Brother that takes your Magazine in , —lam / Yours fraternally , fflaclclands , Hastings , C . J . Kilpin , Mdvch 12 ^ , 1853 . Royal York Lodge of Perseverance , No , 7 .
CANADA . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —I am induced , from your favourable reception of my previous communications , to l'eturn to our Canadian Masonic affairs ; and in discussing the subject I will make hut very little allusion to the unfortunate complication of matters which has arisen from the fact of there being now two bodies , each claiming to be the Grand Lodge for Canada , principally because there is
really no antagonism between them , and also because I fully believe that a very short time will see them united as one . There is in reality no cause for division , no bitter feeling , no strife ; on the contrary , all are fully decided that they must and will unite , and the members of the one organization with the approbation of the ruling powers visit the Lodges of the other ; their differences indeed are more in form than in reality , and as far as this communication is concerned they will he considered as but one body .
Before proceeding to discuss the right of Canadian Masons to form a Grand Lodge for themselves , let me advert to the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of England held in September last , on the presentation of a report from the Colonial Board , when Bro . Henderson , the Grand Reg ., called in question the accuracy of a . statement contained in a resolution of the Canadian Prov . Grand Lodge of June , that a definite reply to the memorial of the Prov . Grand Lodge had not been received . You also , Mr . Editor , in the same number of the Magazine that
reported the Grand Lodge proceedings , declared that the statement of the Prov . Grand Lodge was " not altogether consistent with that truth which should at all times characterize Freemasons . " It was never attempted to be denied that the vague and unsatisfactory speech of the G . M . had been transmitted to the Prov . Grand Lodge . It was so transmitted ; first by the Grand Sec , by command of
the G . M ., within a few days after it was spoken , and subsequently ( April 16 th ) by the Colonial Board , to whom , in conjunction with the G . M ., the whole matter was referred by Grand Lodge in March ; and the only step the Colonial Board seems to have taken on the subject was , sending this address , and hoping it would meet the requirements of the case . But Bro . Henderson was perfectly aware when he spoke as he did in September , that the Prov . Grand Sec , by order of the D . Prov . G . M ,, wrote on the receipt of this address ( for he quotes from the letter ) that the Brethren were then anxiously awaiting a reply to the memorial of Prov . Grand Lodge , and urging that it should be sent previous to the meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge to be held in May ; and , in fact , the meeting of Prov . Grand Lodge was postponed for a month , in hopes of receiving the expected communication . How could we suppose a conciliatory address of the G . M . to his Lodge was
an answer to our memorial , and more especially as the said address was referred to a special committee ( the Colonial Committee and the G . M . ) to take the matter into their consideration ? The consideration they gave to this momentous question I have already adverted to ; but no step was ever taken on the subject— it went no further than talk . But assuming that the speech was really meant as a reply to our memorial ( not very flattering to our dignity—but let that pass ) , what was there in it that we could lay hold of , or that would induce us to believe that all would