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Article PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES. Page 1 of 3 →
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Provincial Grand Lodges.
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giA / ing a ze ^ & ^ reiibreit tPAree ^ thphservice Aylrich they liaye z ^ oi ^^ lj / i ^ QU ted fo ^ a ^ deserye . -. V ' . AVrA
B ^ P £# t ^ and tlie pro tjie business necessarily Tbeiiqig iotoIi pf a formal nature ^ h ^ ihg no interest bej ^^ d ^ it is tr ^ asactecL It cannot , hoAy ^ er , be <^^^ gratifying to us to find ttat the in
errors wh ^ the conducting off PrpvincnaL ^ an improved system We lately drew attention to the fact of Bro . Pwton Cooper ; ^ GM . for Kent ; having discarded the system opening bis Grand Lodge within a subordinate
Lodge , after convincing himself of the correctness of <> u £ xe ^ Jing of ths Oon ^ tit utions pn the point ; and we hav e now to acknowledge $ > similar cpncessipn niade to those opinions'by Brp / Thos . Willis Fleming , the highly esteemed Prov , G . M . of the Isle of Wight . Bro . Fleming , however , went a step further than Bro , Cooper , yet to our thinking scarcely far enough . Bro . Cooper adhered to the practice of transacting the whole of the provincial business in the presence of all Brethren who might choose to attend the Grand Lodge ,
intimating , however , that should at any time a question arise on which there was likely to be a division of opinion , he would request all those Brethren below the rank of Warden to retire . Bro , Fleming held his Grand Lodge as the-Book of Constitutions direct , with Past Rasters , Masters and Wardens only present ; and having transacted some
business afterwards , paid a visit to the Lodge of Newport ( in connection with which the Prov . Grand Lodge was held ) and there appointed his Prov . Qrand Officers , afterwards returning to the hall below , and closing the Prov . Grand Lodge *~ the private Lodge contin wing its business , and closing in the regular manner , 3 Now VQfc , V . ¦ U
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial Grand Lodges.
^ p
wp ^ d ^ e ^^ ^ agree ^ ta plaee at a OTiaaiQBt b ^ quet , p £ ife it is n ^ to
giA / ing a ze ^ & ^ reiibreit tPAree ^ thphservice Aylrich they liaye z ^ oi ^^ lj / i ^ QU ted fo ^ a ^ deserye . -. V ' . AVrA
B ^ P £# t ^ and tlie pro tjie business necessarily Tbeiiqig iotoIi pf a formal nature ^ h ^ ihg no interest bej ^^ d ^ it is tr ^ asactecL It cannot , hoAy ^ er , be <^^^ gratifying to us to find ttat the in
errors wh ^ the conducting off PrpvincnaL ^ an improved system We lately drew attention to the fact of Bro . Pwton Cooper ; ^ GM . for Kent ; having discarded the system opening bis Grand Lodge within a subordinate
Lodge , after convincing himself of the correctness of <> u £ xe ^ Jing of ths Oon ^ tit utions pn the point ; and we hav e now to acknowledge $ > similar cpncessipn niade to those opinions'by Brp / Thos . Willis Fleming , the highly esteemed Prov , G . M . of the Isle of Wight . Bro . Fleming , however , went a step further than Bro , Cooper , yet to our thinking scarcely far enough . Bro . Cooper adhered to the practice of transacting the whole of the provincial business in the presence of all Brethren who might choose to attend the Grand Lodge ,
intimating , however , that should at any time a question arise on which there was likely to be a division of opinion , he would request all those Brethren below the rank of Warden to retire . Bro , Fleming held his Grand Lodge as the-Book of Constitutions direct , with Past Rasters , Masters and Wardens only present ; and having transacted some
business afterwards , paid a visit to the Lodge of Newport ( in connection with which the Prov . Grand Lodge was held ) and there appointed his Prov . Qrand Officers , afterwards returning to the hall below , and closing the Prov . Grand Lodge *~ the private Lodge contin wing its business , and closing in the regular manner , 3 Now VQfc , V . ¦ U