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The Freemasons' Magazine And The Craet.
possibility of danger ; the Craft itself would be benefited ; a knowledge of the wants of our admirable charities would be more universally extended ; and we should not be slow in showing our gratitude by the increased expenditure we would be prepared to incur to make the Magazine even more perfect than it now is .
The Grand Master Of Worcestershire And The Freemasons' Magazine.
THE GRAND MASTER OF WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
It will be seen , by our report of the proceedings at the Prov „ Grand Lodge of Worcestershire , that the great and mighty Henry Charles Vernon , Prov . G . M . for Worcestershire , has been hurling his puny thunder at our devoted heads . We had long heard that
this would-be Masonic authority relative to what is right and proper , had been endeavouring to use the little influence he possesses to prevent Brethren in his district supplying us with communications ; but we did not expect the violent invectives with which we understand we were assailed to be made in Prov . Grand Lodge , or we would have been present , not only to have published what
he said , but to answer him in person . We challenge Henry Charles Vernon , or any Brother , to point out one single line in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror which in any way betrays any of the secrets or mysteries of the Order . Our sole aim is to benefit the Craft ; and if there are abuses in any of our institutions , to expose them , not for the purpose of destroying , but to amend ,
and conserve an institution to which it is our pride to belong , and to the study of the laws and constitutions of which we have devoted considerable attention . It is useless for Brethren like Henry Charles Vernon to talk of its being un-Masonic to publish anything that takes place in any Lodge . The time for undue secrecy has passed , and , as was well expressed in Grand Lodge by the Prov . G . M . for Kent , Bro . P'urton Cooper , a short time since , Freemasons , like other men ,
must march with the times , and remember that it is only a tew years since that the publication of their debates by the Houses of Parliament was interdicted , whilst now every facility is given for their accurate reporting . If we have disobeyed the Book of Constitutions , so has the M . W . Gr . M . and the G . Sec . by publishing the speech of the G . M . at the Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge in Juno . In such company we are content to bear the denunciations even of the Worcestershire Solon—Henry Charles Vernon .
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The Freemasons' Magazine And The Craet.
possibility of danger ; the Craft itself would be benefited ; a knowledge of the wants of our admirable charities would be more universally extended ; and we should not be slow in showing our gratitude by the increased expenditure we would be prepared to incur to make the Magazine even more perfect than it now is .
The Grand Master Of Worcestershire And The Freemasons' Magazine.
THE GRAND MASTER OF WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
It will be seen , by our report of the proceedings at the Prov „ Grand Lodge of Worcestershire , that the great and mighty Henry Charles Vernon , Prov . G . M . for Worcestershire , has been hurling his puny thunder at our devoted heads . We had long heard that
this would-be Masonic authority relative to what is right and proper , had been endeavouring to use the little influence he possesses to prevent Brethren in his district supplying us with communications ; but we did not expect the violent invectives with which we understand we were assailed to be made in Prov . Grand Lodge , or we would have been present , not only to have published what
he said , but to answer him in person . We challenge Henry Charles Vernon , or any Brother , to point out one single line in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror which in any way betrays any of the secrets or mysteries of the Order . Our sole aim is to benefit the Craft ; and if there are abuses in any of our institutions , to expose them , not for the purpose of destroying , but to amend ,
and conserve an institution to which it is our pride to belong , and to the study of the laws and constitutions of which we have devoted considerable attention . It is useless for Brethren like Henry Charles Vernon to talk of its being un-Masonic to publish anything that takes place in any Lodge . The time for undue secrecy has passed , and , as was well expressed in Grand Lodge by the Prov . G . M . for Kent , Bro . P'urton Cooper , a short time since , Freemasons , like other men ,
must march with the times , and remember that it is only a tew years since that the publication of their debates by the Houses of Parliament was interdicted , whilst now every facility is given for their accurate reporting . If we have disobeyed the Book of Constitutions , so has the M . W . Gr . M . and the G . Sec . by publishing the speech of the G . M . at the Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge in Juno . In such company we are content to bear the denunciations even of the Worcestershire Solon—Henry Charles Vernon .