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Article APPOINTMENT OF GRAND OFFICERS. ← Page 2 of 4 →
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Appointment Of Grand Officers.
the noble Earl should utterly and indignantly deny it , still less was it unnatural that the Grand Lodge should enthusiastically accept his deni al . It is almost unnecessary for us to express our entire disbelief in it ; were it necessary , we could add many more to the names of those adduce ^ by the Grand Master in support of his assertion . We believe
in ost fully that political feeling has never guided the Grand Master in tlie selection of Ms officers , and with no desire whatever to enter into a controversy with our contemporary , we cannot but regret that he should have lent his pages to the dissemination of what we believe to bean unfounded and silly fabrication , rendered still more offensive by being gratuitously thrust upon the noble Earl himself . We are of opinion that the Grand Master exercised a thoughtful ,
and pernaps hardly deserved forbearance , in confining himself to the reading of the first sentence of this article ; because , had he proceeded , the doing so would of necessity have involved mentioning the name of the noble Brother whose claims to office are so prominently brought forward—to whose disappointment many of the Brethren ( with what
justice , we cannot say ) , ascribe the tone of the articles of the Masouie Observer , with which publication he is said to be connected . But though the Grand Master did not refer to it , we may be permitted to make some few remarks upon the remainder of that article . We find it there gravely asserted , that " if a ballot bad been taken throughout England for the most fitting person to be nominated Senior Grand Warden , the unanimous voice of the Craft— -with the
exception of the clique—would have decided in favour of the Earl of Carnarvon . ' We believe the opinion here expressed to be founded entirely in error . We deprecate also the insulting attack made upon the
Deputy Grand Master , and we are very certain that gratuitous insult , such as this , is not the way to gain for us the services of sensitive or high-minded men . We regret also , to observe that the memory of his late royal highness the Duke of Sussex is not left to rest in peace . Whatever might have been his faults , one thing is certain—no one can deny that the duke gave more time to our service , and did more thaii
any man in this or any other country , to support Masonry and make it respected . He is charged with having bequeathed Masonry as a heirloom to the political party of which the Earl of Zetland is a member . We are old enough Masons to remember that the duke left behind hhri the Marquis of Salisbury and the late Bro . Harrison , Q . C ., as
Deputy Grand Master and Grand Registrar respectively , and that the latter , the well-known Conservative counsel , was ' the intimate friend and adviser of the duke in all Masonic matters . Peace , then , and a just tribute to his memory .
We much fear that some of our younger Brethren take a wrong view of Freemasonry and of the duties of the Grand Lodge , and that they look upon the latter as a sort of House of Commons , where there being a government , there must of necessity be an opposition . Now we are of those who believe a good opposition is a good thing—it is the
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Appointment Of Grand Officers.
the noble Earl should utterly and indignantly deny it , still less was it unnatural that the Grand Lodge should enthusiastically accept his deni al . It is almost unnecessary for us to express our entire disbelief in it ; were it necessary , we could add many more to the names of those adduce ^ by the Grand Master in support of his assertion . We believe
in ost fully that political feeling has never guided the Grand Master in tlie selection of Ms officers , and with no desire whatever to enter into a controversy with our contemporary , we cannot but regret that he should have lent his pages to the dissemination of what we believe to bean unfounded and silly fabrication , rendered still more offensive by being gratuitously thrust upon the noble Earl himself . We are of opinion that the Grand Master exercised a thoughtful ,
and pernaps hardly deserved forbearance , in confining himself to the reading of the first sentence of this article ; because , had he proceeded , the doing so would of necessity have involved mentioning the name of the noble Brother whose claims to office are so prominently brought forward—to whose disappointment many of the Brethren ( with what
justice , we cannot say ) , ascribe the tone of the articles of the Masouie Observer , with which publication he is said to be connected . But though the Grand Master did not refer to it , we may be permitted to make some few remarks upon the remainder of that article . We find it there gravely asserted , that " if a ballot bad been taken throughout England for the most fitting person to be nominated Senior Grand Warden , the unanimous voice of the Craft— -with the
exception of the clique—would have decided in favour of the Earl of Carnarvon . ' We believe the opinion here expressed to be founded entirely in error . We deprecate also the insulting attack made upon the
Deputy Grand Master , and we are very certain that gratuitous insult , such as this , is not the way to gain for us the services of sensitive or high-minded men . We regret also , to observe that the memory of his late royal highness the Duke of Sussex is not left to rest in peace . Whatever might have been his faults , one thing is certain—no one can deny that the duke gave more time to our service , and did more thaii
any man in this or any other country , to support Masonry and make it respected . He is charged with having bequeathed Masonry as a heirloom to the political party of which the Earl of Zetland is a member . We are old enough Masons to remember that the duke left behind hhri the Marquis of Salisbury and the late Bro . Harrison , Q . C ., as
Deputy Grand Master and Grand Registrar respectively , and that the latter , the well-known Conservative counsel , was ' the intimate friend and adviser of the duke in all Masonic matters . Peace , then , and a just tribute to his memory .
We much fear that some of our younger Brethren take a wrong view of Freemasonry and of the duties of the Grand Lodge , and that they look upon the latter as a sort of House of Commons , where there being a government , there must of necessity be an opposition . Now we are of those who believe a good opposition is a good thing—it is the