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Provincial Grand Lodges.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES .
NOTH & a caii be more gra ^ time more eon ^^ joiirh # & to which . they may devote their time—than to find their opinions upon a given sul ^ ect almost ^ ^ a great ektent acted upon . Such has been our good fortune with regard to the opinions which felt it our duty- to enunciate ^ a
few nionths since , respecting the management of Provincial Grand Lodges—and which at the time produced some correspondence , which only tended to show the correctness of our views . The season for the Provincial Grtod lodges was then about to commence ; and as it is now rapidly drawing to a close , we may be excused if we again briefly recur to the subject .
The two points upon which we most insisted at the time when our former articles were written were—that it was not only contrary to Book of Constitutions , but opposed tt > its own dignity , for a Provincial Grand Lodge to be opened within a private Lodge—presenting the novelty of the greater being contained within the lesser body ; and the indiscriminate admission of the brethren to take part in the
proceedings without regard to rank—it being clearly laid down in the Book of- Constitutions , that Provincial Grand Lodges consist only of Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens ; the same qualification for membership , in faqt , being required in a Provincial Grand Lodge as in the supreme governing body of the Craft , the United Grand Lodge of England . As regards our first proposition , little difference of opinion arose ; and notwithstanding long established custom to the contrary , it has been , adopted , with two or three exceptions , at every Provincial Grand Lodge of the year ; the provinces in which the erroneous system has been continued , will , we confidently believe , cease to be
exceptions to the general rule next year . That the errorj had grown up so extensively as to be the almost universal practice , is a proof that it , like many other abuses ill society , originated , not in the desire of those having authority in the matter , but from their having too closely followed the practice of those who preceded them , without inquiry into the actual laws which regulated the bodies over which they were called upon to preside . And on the first Provincial Grand Lodge , we VOL . V . 2 S "
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Provincial Grand Lodges.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES .
NOTH & a caii be more gra ^ time more eon ^^ joiirh # & to which . they may devote their time—than to find their opinions upon a given sul ^ ect almost ^ ^ a great ektent acted upon . Such has been our good fortune with regard to the opinions which felt it our duty- to enunciate ^ a
few nionths since , respecting the management of Provincial Grand Lodges—and which at the time produced some correspondence , which only tended to show the correctness of our views . The season for the Provincial Grtod lodges was then about to commence ; and as it is now rapidly drawing to a close , we may be excused if we again briefly recur to the subject .
The two points upon which we most insisted at the time when our former articles were written were—that it was not only contrary to Book of Constitutions , but opposed tt > its own dignity , for a Provincial Grand Lodge to be opened within a private Lodge—presenting the novelty of the greater being contained within the lesser body ; and the indiscriminate admission of the brethren to take part in the
proceedings without regard to rank—it being clearly laid down in the Book of- Constitutions , that Provincial Grand Lodges consist only of Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens ; the same qualification for membership , in faqt , being required in a Provincial Grand Lodge as in the supreme governing body of the Craft , the United Grand Lodge of England . As regards our first proposition , little difference of opinion arose ; and notwithstanding long established custom to the contrary , it has been , adopted , with two or three exceptions , at every Provincial Grand Lodge of the year ; the provinces in which the erroneous system has been continued , will , we confidently believe , cease to be
exceptions to the general rule next year . That the errorj had grown up so extensively as to be the almost universal practice , is a proof that it , like many other abuses ill society , originated , not in the desire of those having authority in the matter , but from their having too closely followed the practice of those who preceded them , without inquiry into the actual laws which regulated the bodies over which they were called upon to preside . And on the first Provincial Grand Lodge , we VOL . V . 2 S "