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a more utter confusion of ideas on the real subject under discussion could have existed in the mind of any man ? No one had proposed to go to election , nor could it be imagined that the majority in Grand Lodge would blindly vote for any person without being assured that the candidate would serve if elected ; but the right of an
individual Brother to nominate is altogether different—the nomination , by law , always coming three months before the day of election , surely ample time for a Brother to be enabled to determine whether
circumstances will allow him to accept the office if elected to it . If snch be the logic Lord Panmure is to bring into Grand Lodge—admirable speaker as he is—we are afraid , that rather than assist in clearing away the stumbling-blocks which have of late led to more protracted
and animated discussions than were wont for some y ears to distinguish that august assembly , he will be augmenting them by introducing too subtle interpretations of the Book of Constitutions and of the English language . At all events , we must protest in opposition to his lordship , that there is a broad and marked distinction between " nomination" and " election 3 " and maintain the right of every member of Grrand Lodge to nominate yearly such candidate as he may think fit to fill the chair , if only to remind the Gr . M . that under
the Book of Constitutions the office is not one for life , but temporary , in the hands of the Craft . The election being over , we can as sincerely as any of the Brethren wish his lordship may be blessed with health to be often amongst us , and that the proceedings of Grrand Lodge , under his guidance , will in future be more harmonious and business-like than they have occasionally been during the past year .
The Canadas.
THE CANADAS .
"We congratulate the Craft on the result of the proceedings of Grand Lodge on the 4 th of March , relative to the disputes which have unhappily too long existed in regard to our relations with the Lodges in Canada West . And we are the more pleased because the olive branch has been held out temperately and opportunely by
the M . W . Gr . M . His Lordship frankly admitted to- Grand Lodge , that , when he made his former statement in June last , he was not fully acquainted with the facts of the case , and that the Canadian Brethren have not received at the hands of the authorities in this country all the consideration they had a right to demand . This is a most important admission , and will , we are sure , fully justify the JJ reemasons
Magazine , and the influential members of Lodges supporting it , in the part they have taken in impressing a . knowledge of those facts on Grand Lodge and the Craft . We do not , however , wish to recur to the past ; we would rather with Bro . Portal let " by-gones be bygones , " and look to the future . In his last communication ; , the GKM . promises the Canadian , and , we presume , other colonial Brethren all they can well desire . His Lordship will not forego any of his
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a more utter confusion of ideas on the real subject under discussion could have existed in the mind of any man ? No one had proposed to go to election , nor could it be imagined that the majority in Grand Lodge would blindly vote for any person without being assured that the candidate would serve if elected ; but the right of an
individual Brother to nominate is altogether different—the nomination , by law , always coming three months before the day of election , surely ample time for a Brother to be enabled to determine whether
circumstances will allow him to accept the office if elected to it . If snch be the logic Lord Panmure is to bring into Grand Lodge—admirable speaker as he is—we are afraid , that rather than assist in clearing away the stumbling-blocks which have of late led to more protracted
and animated discussions than were wont for some y ears to distinguish that august assembly , he will be augmenting them by introducing too subtle interpretations of the Book of Constitutions and of the English language . At all events , we must protest in opposition to his lordship , that there is a broad and marked distinction between " nomination" and " election 3 " and maintain the right of every member of Grrand Lodge to nominate yearly such candidate as he may think fit to fill the chair , if only to remind the Gr . M . that under
the Book of Constitutions the office is not one for life , but temporary , in the hands of the Craft . The election being over , we can as sincerely as any of the Brethren wish his lordship may be blessed with health to be often amongst us , and that the proceedings of Grrand Lodge , under his guidance , will in future be more harmonious and business-like than they have occasionally been during the past year .
The Canadas.
THE CANADAS .
"We congratulate the Craft on the result of the proceedings of Grand Lodge on the 4 th of March , relative to the disputes which have unhappily too long existed in regard to our relations with the Lodges in Canada West . And we are the more pleased because the olive branch has been held out temperately and opportunely by
the M . W . Gr . M . His Lordship frankly admitted to- Grand Lodge , that , when he made his former statement in June last , he was not fully acquainted with the facts of the case , and that the Canadian Brethren have not received at the hands of the authorities in this country all the consideration they had a right to demand . This is a most important admission , and will , we are sure , fully justify the JJ reemasons
Magazine , and the influential members of Lodges supporting it , in the part they have taken in impressing a . knowledge of those facts on Grand Lodge and the Craft . We do not , however , wish to recur to the past ; we would rather with Bro . Portal let " by-gones be bygones , " and look to the future . In his last communication ; , the GKM . promises the Canadian , and , we presume , other colonial Brethren all they can well desire . His Lordship will not forego any of his