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Provincial Grand Lodges
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES
As the season is now rapidly approaching when these atigust bodies will he called together , we may" perhaps be allowed to call attention tathevman ^ the view of producing a greater the dignity of their members by pointing out a few laxities in management which call for immediate reform . To commence at the beginning .., we will in the first instance allude to the opening of Provincial Grand Lodges—and here we are bound , to state that our experience has shown that but few of the Provincial
Grand Masters or Deputy Grand Masters seem sufficiently to estimate their own position and what is due to the dignity of their office ; and a system has arisen of at first opening a private Lodge , and then opening the Provincial Grand Lodge within it . That this practice is not only essentially wrong , but that if is- opposed to the dictates of reason we think will be clear to any person who calmly reflects on the matter even for a few minutes . It must be evident
that the minor body or private Lodge must be subordinate to the major body or Provincial Grand Lodge—and as the minor cannot confer honour upon the major , neither ought the Provincial Grand Lodge to be opened within the private Lodge . We do not object to business being transacted in tbe private Lodge of a town which the Provincial Grand Master may honour by holding his Grand
Lodge in , prior to the opening of the last named body , if need be ; but that business should be concluded , and the Lodge closed , before the assembling of the Provincial Grand Lodge , which should be constituted and opened as an entirely independent body in the same manner as the Supreme Grand Lodge is opened in London , and the
business transacted as nearly as may be on the same plan , lhere can be no doubt that the system has originated by Provincial Grand Lodges being called together under the banner—as it is phrased—of a particular Lodge . Now this is a grave error—the Provincial Grand Lodge , being as we have shown the superior body , cannot meet under the banner of an inferior ; though for convenience it may meet
in the Lodge room of a particular Lodge , which would , doubtless , at all times be readily placed at the disposal of the Provincial Grand Master on intimating his intention of holding his Provincial Grand Lodge within a given town or district . This error has given rise to another of serious importance to the well-being of many Lodges , viz ., that of calling upon , the Lodge under whose banner the toi / , it . 3 £
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial Grand Lodges
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES
As the season is now rapidly approaching when these atigust bodies will he called together , we may" perhaps be allowed to call attention tathevman ^ the view of producing a greater the dignity of their members by pointing out a few laxities in management which call for immediate reform . To commence at the beginning .., we will in the first instance allude to the opening of Provincial Grand Lodges—and here we are bound , to state that our experience has shown that but few of the Provincial
Grand Masters or Deputy Grand Masters seem sufficiently to estimate their own position and what is due to the dignity of their office ; and a system has arisen of at first opening a private Lodge , and then opening the Provincial Grand Lodge within it . That this practice is not only essentially wrong , but that if is- opposed to the dictates of reason we think will be clear to any person who calmly reflects on the matter even for a few minutes . It must be evident
that the minor body or private Lodge must be subordinate to the major body or Provincial Grand Lodge—and as the minor cannot confer honour upon the major , neither ought the Provincial Grand Lodge to be opened within the private Lodge . We do not object to business being transacted in tbe private Lodge of a town which the Provincial Grand Master may honour by holding his Grand
Lodge in , prior to the opening of the last named body , if need be ; but that business should be concluded , and the Lodge closed , before the assembling of the Provincial Grand Lodge , which should be constituted and opened as an entirely independent body in the same manner as the Supreme Grand Lodge is opened in London , and the
business transacted as nearly as may be on the same plan , lhere can be no doubt that the system has originated by Provincial Grand Lodges being called together under the banner—as it is phrased—of a particular Lodge . Now this is a grave error—the Provincial Grand Lodge , being as we have shown the superior body , cannot meet under the banner of an inferior ; though for convenience it may meet
in the Lodge room of a particular Lodge , which would , doubtless , at all times be readily placed at the disposal of the Provincial Grand Master on intimating his intention of holding his Provincial Grand Lodge within a given town or district . This error has given rise to another of serious importance to the well-being of many Lodges , viz ., that of calling upon , the Lodge under whose banner the toi / , it . 3 £