-
Articles/Ads
Article THE CANADIAN MOVEMENT. ← Page 10 of 11 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Canadian Movement.
independent Grand Lodge of Canada . If this was actually intended , it seems to me to open a fountain of hitter waters , ill adapted to promote the growth of charity and brotherly love . "I have examined , with some care , the communications of some Masonic writers on this highly interesting subject , with a view of learning all that was accessible ; and I am obliged to express nay surprise at what has appeared in relation to it in
some of the leading Masonic .. publications ; It has been contended in one quarter that the recognition of the Independent Grand Lodge of Canada by the Grand Lodge of Ireland is of no great inportance , because she had only about fifteen Lodges in Canada , and did "not burthen themwith charges so harshly as the Grand Lodge of England did the Lodges holding warrants under her . This is a singular argument to be urged , and very naturally leads to the inquiry , why , if Ireland ' s aclcnowledgnftent is of no importanc e , Scotland's refusal is of even as much weight , when it is
known that she had a far less number of lodges in the Province under her care . If in a territory free and open for the admission of warranted Lodges by different foreign Grand Lodges , the question of right and wrong is to be settled by the greater or lesser number of Lodges introduced by each , then we have introduced a new Masonic rule of practice , the existence of which is yet unknown to our constitutions / and equally unknown to the intellectual tribunals of Masonic equity and justice ,:
" And it has been contended too , strange as it may seem , that since the separation of Canada from France , the three Grand Lodges of Great Britain and Ireland , have ' held and improved that Province , ( to use the language of the writer , ) as a"' coparcenary or a partnership inheritance , with a joint right of succession '—as ' one heir holding the premises as an estate in common . ' With such a view of her position , Canada might well complain that this interesting Masonic partnership ) of the rose , the shamrock , and the thistle , did not transact its
business under some regular partnership title , and issue its Lodge warrants in the name of the irra . It might also have been important to inquire , in what respective individual proportions these joint partners of Canadian Masonic rights and privileges owned the Masonic stock of such a glorious inheritance , and not have left so important a matter wholly to inference . The author of the argument to which I am addressing myself , brings down his statistics no " farther than the year 1848 , at which time , according to his information , said stock consisted of ninetyseven shares , of which England possessed eighty , Ireland fifteen , and Scotland two .
"U pon the loyal theory suggested , the writer might with propriety have insisted that England and Scotland should have enjoined Ireland from interfering with their partnership rights , by acknowledging Canadian Masonic Independence " A partnership where each separate partner acts independent of the firm ,
transacts his part of the business independent of his associates , carries it on in his own name and on his own responsibility , and has a 'joint individual interest ' and a ' right of survivorship ' besides , in so large a property as the Masonic territory of Canada , without lenowing it or suspecting it himself , is an invention which leaves steam and telegraphs in the far distance , and will only be equalled by the discovery of a partially successful rudder to the balloon .
"It is among my strongest wishes , personally , to see the Masonry of this continent firmly established on its own unsculptured Doric column , as strong in its moral as are the Pyramids in their physical strength . Every lawful Masonic act which , to a fair and unbiassed judgment , has a tendency in that direction , has always had , and always will have , niy warmest encouragement and firmest support . I sincerely and solemnly believe the movement in Canada to have been one of
that kind , and in common with the members of this Grand Lodge , I have felt bound to give it the best support in my power . I have no doubt of its eventual succes « , and none that such success is most highly important both to the Masonry of Canada and of the United States . To ourselves , my Brethren , who are the immediate neighbours of Canada , and who know personally many of the officers and members of the Independent Grand Lodge , and of the Lodges which recognize its organization , it is wholly idle to talk about Masonic ' rebellion . ' We know
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Canadian Movement.
independent Grand Lodge of Canada . If this was actually intended , it seems to me to open a fountain of hitter waters , ill adapted to promote the growth of charity and brotherly love . "I have examined , with some care , the communications of some Masonic writers on this highly interesting subject , with a view of learning all that was accessible ; and I am obliged to express nay surprise at what has appeared in relation to it in
some of the leading Masonic .. publications ; It has been contended in one quarter that the recognition of the Independent Grand Lodge of Canada by the Grand Lodge of Ireland is of no great inportance , because she had only about fifteen Lodges in Canada , and did "not burthen themwith charges so harshly as the Grand Lodge of England did the Lodges holding warrants under her . This is a singular argument to be urged , and very naturally leads to the inquiry , why , if Ireland ' s aclcnowledgnftent is of no importanc e , Scotland's refusal is of even as much weight , when it is
known that she had a far less number of lodges in the Province under her care . If in a territory free and open for the admission of warranted Lodges by different foreign Grand Lodges , the question of right and wrong is to be settled by the greater or lesser number of Lodges introduced by each , then we have introduced a new Masonic rule of practice , the existence of which is yet unknown to our constitutions / and equally unknown to the intellectual tribunals of Masonic equity and justice ,:
" And it has been contended too , strange as it may seem , that since the separation of Canada from France , the three Grand Lodges of Great Britain and Ireland , have ' held and improved that Province , ( to use the language of the writer , ) as a"' coparcenary or a partnership inheritance , with a joint right of succession '—as ' one heir holding the premises as an estate in common . ' With such a view of her position , Canada might well complain that this interesting Masonic partnership ) of the rose , the shamrock , and the thistle , did not transact its
business under some regular partnership title , and issue its Lodge warrants in the name of the irra . It might also have been important to inquire , in what respective individual proportions these joint partners of Canadian Masonic rights and privileges owned the Masonic stock of such a glorious inheritance , and not have left so important a matter wholly to inference . The author of the argument to which I am addressing myself , brings down his statistics no " farther than the year 1848 , at which time , according to his information , said stock consisted of ninetyseven shares , of which England possessed eighty , Ireland fifteen , and Scotland two .
"U pon the loyal theory suggested , the writer might with propriety have insisted that England and Scotland should have enjoined Ireland from interfering with their partnership rights , by acknowledging Canadian Masonic Independence " A partnership where each separate partner acts independent of the firm ,
transacts his part of the business independent of his associates , carries it on in his own name and on his own responsibility , and has a 'joint individual interest ' and a ' right of survivorship ' besides , in so large a property as the Masonic territory of Canada , without lenowing it or suspecting it himself , is an invention which leaves steam and telegraphs in the far distance , and will only be equalled by the discovery of a partially successful rudder to the balloon .
"It is among my strongest wishes , personally , to see the Masonry of this continent firmly established on its own unsculptured Doric column , as strong in its moral as are the Pyramids in their physical strength . Every lawful Masonic act which , to a fair and unbiassed judgment , has a tendency in that direction , has always had , and always will have , niy warmest encouragement and firmest support . I sincerely and solemnly believe the movement in Canada to have been one of
that kind , and in common with the members of this Grand Lodge , I have felt bound to give it the best support in my power . I have no doubt of its eventual succes « , and none that such success is most highly important both to the Masonry of Canada and of the United States . To ourselves , my Brethren , who are the immediate neighbours of Canada , and who know personally many of the officers and members of the Independent Grand Lodge , and of the Lodges which recognize its organization , it is wholly idle to talk about Masonic ' rebellion . ' We know