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/ ~ r treated ; of indignation also at ourselves , whose apathy is the seerdt cause of the callous i / mpoteney of Grand Lodge . Are we so stultified in our toadyism that nothing but rank in our Grand Masters will serve our turn ? Do we love the head of gold so much that we ignore altogether the tottering incapacity of the feet of clay ? "Were the
Grand Masters and their officers chosen in the purer days of Masonry for rank , above merit ? What position did Desaguliers hold in the peerage ? Or if personal influence in society is needed for the benefit of the Craft , is it now so scant of noblemen that we are obliged , for the say-so of the thing , to put up year after year with the present Grand Master , who , these very evils greatly prove , as it
is notorious also , never exerts himself for the Craft at all ? Tes ! had an energetic , talented Mason held the reins of office , we should have heard nothing of the severance of Canada . The evils our Brethren complain of justly would have been anticipated , and remedied without solicitation , not , as now , wrested from us ; but if
the heart be ihert , it is useless to look for health in the extremities . "We have deservedly lost Canada , and under circumstances affixing a lasting stigma on our Masonic discourtesy and non-observance of the first principles of propriety . It is all very well to trumpet forth the virtues of past servants , but a powerful organization like our own cannot sacrifice it ' s wide-world interests to the namby-pamby maudlin
of compliment . If the most important officer grow incompetent for business , we are rich enough to pension him ; but Masonry cannot afford to lose its self-respect and imperil its dignity by keeping in office the inert and exhausted agent of its operation . Now that the evil is done , active determination is generally announced to us , by influential Masons , to recall the Craft to a sense of its duty in restoring the law of triennial re-election of the Grand Master , and sure we are no
healthy tone can be recovered by the Order until this most necessary amelioration of the present state of things occurs . A glance at the affairs now pending and lately occurrent in Malta and Trinidad will show that no delay should be allowed to occur in strengthening our outposts in those quarters ; and until a more efficient Grand Master be appointed ,, we earnestly call upon the Craft to co-operate individually , and by a public meeting give utterance to a manifesto which may stop persecution by engendering a greater knowledge of our anti-political and anti-sectarian principles , and at the same time may reanimate those Brethren who are suffering from the tyranny of
priestly bigotry and ignorant superstition . From Malta , then , we have in the Morning Post of March 3 rd , 1850 , the following description of the successful war waged against our Order by the liomanist priests ; and that the pious (!) character of our persecutors may be estimated , we shall annex a story from the same paper ' s correspondent , of an escapade , unfortunately not singular , but , on the contrary , characteristic of these wolves in sheep ' s clothing : —•
" A most magnificent ball and entertainment was intended to have been given last evening by the various Orders of freemasons and the Knights of Malta . The
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/ ~ r treated ; of indignation also at ourselves , whose apathy is the seerdt cause of the callous i / mpoteney of Grand Lodge . Are we so stultified in our toadyism that nothing but rank in our Grand Masters will serve our turn ? Do we love the head of gold so much that we ignore altogether the tottering incapacity of the feet of clay ? "Were the
Grand Masters and their officers chosen in the purer days of Masonry for rank , above merit ? What position did Desaguliers hold in the peerage ? Or if personal influence in society is needed for the benefit of the Craft , is it now so scant of noblemen that we are obliged , for the say-so of the thing , to put up year after year with the present Grand Master , who , these very evils greatly prove , as it
is notorious also , never exerts himself for the Craft at all ? Tes ! had an energetic , talented Mason held the reins of office , we should have heard nothing of the severance of Canada . The evils our Brethren complain of justly would have been anticipated , and remedied without solicitation , not , as now , wrested from us ; but if
the heart be ihert , it is useless to look for health in the extremities . "We have deservedly lost Canada , and under circumstances affixing a lasting stigma on our Masonic discourtesy and non-observance of the first principles of propriety . It is all very well to trumpet forth the virtues of past servants , but a powerful organization like our own cannot sacrifice it ' s wide-world interests to the namby-pamby maudlin
of compliment . If the most important officer grow incompetent for business , we are rich enough to pension him ; but Masonry cannot afford to lose its self-respect and imperil its dignity by keeping in office the inert and exhausted agent of its operation . Now that the evil is done , active determination is generally announced to us , by influential Masons , to recall the Craft to a sense of its duty in restoring the law of triennial re-election of the Grand Master , and sure we are no
healthy tone can be recovered by the Order until this most necessary amelioration of the present state of things occurs . A glance at the affairs now pending and lately occurrent in Malta and Trinidad will show that no delay should be allowed to occur in strengthening our outposts in those quarters ; and until a more efficient Grand Master be appointed ,, we earnestly call upon the Craft to co-operate individually , and by a public meeting give utterance to a manifesto which may stop persecution by engendering a greater knowledge of our anti-political and anti-sectarian principles , and at the same time may reanimate those Brethren who are suffering from the tyranny of
priestly bigotry and ignorant superstition . From Malta , then , we have in the Morning Post of March 3 rd , 1850 , the following description of the successful war waged against our Order by the liomanist priests ; and that the pious (!) character of our persecutors may be estimated , we shall annex a story from the same paper ' s correspondent , of an escapade , unfortunately not singular , but , on the contrary , characteristic of these wolves in sheep ' s clothing : —•
" A most magnificent ball and entertainment was intended to have been given last evening by the various Orders of freemasons and the Knights of Malta . The