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¦»(¦ The Boys' School.
impracticability by means of it , of ey § j- effecting what was at the time ^ eatly desidex ^ ted ^ he inc tis @ d und ^ r Eriglish rule ^ or , of JlgMinately fox ^ i % a separate grand body of themselves ; They , tferefol ^ tkfjfflfr , anj regardfal of that regularity which ought ^ $ 0 to in ^ rk Maronic proceedings , resolved to apply to the sister country for what was ? iot to be obtained in their own ; namely , warrants to work in a legal manner the degree sought to be instituted ; judging , no doubt , that whentbe proper
time should have arrived , and they powerful enough , the object they had in view would be found to be of easy attainment . Motives of synipathy alone induced the Supreme Chapter of Scotland to accede te thei ? Tequest ; otherwise they had no purpose to serve ? ' and to show that no selfish feelings were indulged , or desire manifested that England should thenceforward continue to be dependent oh Scotch authority for the propagating of the degree , reference need only be made to a clause which will be found in each
of the warrants which has been issued , that so soon as the Mark degree should become lawfidly sanctioned and acknowledged "by a supreme body of the country , such warrants " should fall , and ' ipso facto become void and null . " :- '; ; # A clause of this nature , it must be conceded , while at once freeing Scotland from the odium which mi ght attach to any desire for improper rule , sufficiently provided for , and eyeii contemplated , the fonnatioh of a
national supreme body ; when of conrs ^ selves relieved froni that allegiance to which , for special purposes , they had temporarily subjected themselves . Qualified only , as the terms of the warrants were , by the arising to take cognizance of the degree , nothing certainly stood opposed to themselves forming that' supreme legal body , when the proper time was judged by them to have arrived .
But this is not the measure contemplated . An amalgamation with Brethren whom they must know to be irregular is proposed . I would here be permitted to remind my Anglo-Scotch Brethren of the Mark , that the qualification referred to in the warrants was inserted at the request of the . Brethren who received the first of these , and with the avowed object pf averting the possibility of any such Lodges as those that were arising clandestinely being
regarded as any barrier to what was ultimately intended to be accomplished by themselves . Had the present movement been for the Lodges holding under Scotch authority forming a Grand Lodge , Scotland , I am certaih , so far from objecting , would , if there was need , have been ready to lend every assistance ; but it is of a nature opposed to everything calculated to the maintenance pf that regularity which has hitherto characterized all
Masonic institutions , not to speak of its being * ilso at variance with the declaration which each Brother gives at his admission , to abstain from any communication on the subject of the degree with any arte who has not received it in like lawful manner with himself . In such a case , it may not be wondered at , that such a movement will fail to command the approbation of the Scotch authorities , and be looked upon by them as harmonizing but little with originally declared intentions * besides , it is not a requital after the proper fashion for the services they have rendered .
But apart from all this , the contemplated union is of itself futile and impracticable . To constitute a regular Grand Body , the Lodges composing it , it is presumed , must also be regular . This is a quality which the Lodges under the Leigh constitution do not possess , flow then is a regular union to be effected ^ Not certainly by niean $ of anything stated in the paper now in circulation . Other measures must be adopted , but these I have no right to propound . Those in hand cannot possibly answer the purpose .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
¦»(¦ The Boys' School.
impracticability by means of it , of ey § j- effecting what was at the time ^ eatly desidex ^ ted ^ he inc tis @ d und ^ r Eriglish rule ^ or , of JlgMinately fox ^ i % a separate grand body of themselves ; They , tferefol ^ tkfjfflfr , anj regardfal of that regularity which ought ^ $ 0 to in ^ rk Maronic proceedings , resolved to apply to the sister country for what was ? iot to be obtained in their own ; namely , warrants to work in a legal manner the degree sought to be instituted ; judging , no doubt , that whentbe proper
time should have arrived , and they powerful enough , the object they had in view would be found to be of easy attainment . Motives of synipathy alone induced the Supreme Chapter of Scotland to accede te thei ? Tequest ; otherwise they had no purpose to serve ? ' and to show that no selfish feelings were indulged , or desire manifested that England should thenceforward continue to be dependent oh Scotch authority for the propagating of the degree , reference need only be made to a clause which will be found in each
of the warrants which has been issued , that so soon as the Mark degree should become lawfidly sanctioned and acknowledged "by a supreme body of the country , such warrants " should fall , and ' ipso facto become void and null . " :- '; ; # A clause of this nature , it must be conceded , while at once freeing Scotland from the odium which mi ght attach to any desire for improper rule , sufficiently provided for , and eyeii contemplated , the fonnatioh of a
national supreme body ; when of conrs ^ selves relieved froni that allegiance to which , for special purposes , they had temporarily subjected themselves . Qualified only , as the terms of the warrants were , by the arising to take cognizance of the degree , nothing certainly stood opposed to themselves forming that' supreme legal body , when the proper time was judged by them to have arrived .
But this is not the measure contemplated . An amalgamation with Brethren whom they must know to be irregular is proposed . I would here be permitted to remind my Anglo-Scotch Brethren of the Mark , that the qualification referred to in the warrants was inserted at the request of the . Brethren who received the first of these , and with the avowed object pf averting the possibility of any such Lodges as those that were arising clandestinely being
regarded as any barrier to what was ultimately intended to be accomplished by themselves . Had the present movement been for the Lodges holding under Scotch authority forming a Grand Lodge , Scotland , I am certaih , so far from objecting , would , if there was need , have been ready to lend every assistance ; but it is of a nature opposed to everything calculated to the maintenance pf that regularity which has hitherto characterized all
Masonic institutions , not to speak of its being * ilso at variance with the declaration which each Brother gives at his admission , to abstain from any communication on the subject of the degree with any arte who has not received it in like lawful manner with himself . In such a case , it may not be wondered at , that such a movement will fail to command the approbation of the Scotch authorities , and be looked upon by them as harmonizing but little with originally declared intentions * besides , it is not a requital after the proper fashion for the services they have rendered .
But apart from all this , the contemplated union is of itself futile and impracticable . To constitute a regular Grand Body , the Lodges composing it , it is presumed , must also be regular . This is a quality which the Lodges under the Leigh constitution do not possess , flow then is a regular union to be effected ^ Not certainly by niean $ of anything stated in the paper now in circulation . Other measures must be adopted , but these I have no right to propound . Those in hand cannot possibly answer the purpose .