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Correspondence.
CORBEHfOTOEi
£ The 33 i > ifor cfces not hold himself responsible for any opinions ewtertc ^
TO THE Beak Sib aki > ; BEOTHER ,---The proceedings which took place at the special PxoyinciA ^ ultinio deserve the attentive consideratioit of th ^ Craft . The ' ^ groundless charge " launc & d ^ Qter ^ er , alt ^
eluded by incidence the officers whw h ^ in consequence of the alleged ^ political purposes . Tlie reply of the province of Oxford is now before the Craft , and it is to M provinces will not be slow to follow the exainplei ^ set them ; and the more so , that the result will doubtless prove that the Observer party ^ who aspire to lead the Craft , and who arrogate to themselves the credit for all progress effected , will be openly and unmistakably taught that they will have neither support nor sympathy from the Freemasons of England .
The speech delivered on this occasion by the leader of the Observer party ' should not be overlooked . Many must have read that speech with much regret , because it is difficult to understand how a Brother who aspires to stand foremost among the chiefs of our Order , and whose mission among men is to preach peace and good will to all , should have so far forgotten himself as to publicly avow the sentiments contained in those observations . Bro . Portal is reported to have
said" He felt that the Grand Master was entitled to their unqualified sympathy under the attacks which had been , made upon him , as would he airy person who had been attacked by , statements which were untrue ; and his lordship , having denied the truthfulness ' of the statements in the paragraph iu the Masonic Observer complained of , was entitled to their sympathy . But it was one thing to accord that sympathy , and it was another thing to say that there were no grounds for the statements made . "Why , it was notorious that both the late and the present
Deputy Grand Masters , the late Senior Grand Warden , the Earl of Durham , and Junior Grand Warden , Brother Fenwick , were members of the same political party to which the Grand Masker belonged . They were bound to accept the explanation of the noble lord , that in mating these appointments he was not influenced by political motives . -They were bound to believe the Grand Master that he did not even know the politics of many of his officers when he appointed them ; but they could not "therefore say tho charges brought against him were groundless '; They
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Correspondence.
CORBEHfOTOEi
£ The 33 i > ifor cfces not hold himself responsible for any opinions ewtertc ^
TO THE Beak Sib aki > ; BEOTHER ,---The proceedings which took place at the special PxoyinciA ^ ultinio deserve the attentive consideratioit of th ^ Craft . The ' ^ groundless charge " launc & d ^ Qter ^ er , alt ^
eluded by incidence the officers whw h ^ in consequence of the alleged ^ political purposes . Tlie reply of the province of Oxford is now before the Craft , and it is to M provinces will not be slow to follow the exainplei ^ set them ; and the more so , that the result will doubtless prove that the Observer party ^ who aspire to lead the Craft , and who arrogate to themselves the credit for all progress effected , will be openly and unmistakably taught that they will have neither support nor sympathy from the Freemasons of England .
The speech delivered on this occasion by the leader of the Observer party ' should not be overlooked . Many must have read that speech with much regret , because it is difficult to understand how a Brother who aspires to stand foremost among the chiefs of our Order , and whose mission among men is to preach peace and good will to all , should have so far forgotten himself as to publicly avow the sentiments contained in those observations . Bro . Portal is reported to have
said" He felt that the Grand Master was entitled to their unqualified sympathy under the attacks which had been , made upon him , as would he airy person who had been attacked by , statements which were untrue ; and his lordship , having denied the truthfulness ' of the statements in the paragraph iu the Masonic Observer complained of , was entitled to their sympathy . But it was one thing to accord that sympathy , and it was another thing to say that there were no grounds for the statements made . "Why , it was notorious that both the late and the present
Deputy Grand Masters , the late Senior Grand Warden , the Earl of Durham , and Junior Grand Warden , Brother Fenwick , were members of the same political party to which the Grand Masker belonged . They were bound to accept the explanation of the noble lord , that in mating these appointments he was not influenced by political motives . -They were bound to believe the Grand Master that he did not even know the politics of many of his officers when he appointed them ; but they could not "therefore say tho charges brought against him were groundless '; They