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length received official notification—^ the hand of our younger Brother was held out , we intended to take it , and it was for us to say whether we would grasp it in true Masonic feeling , or coldly defer our recognition under the plea that we wanted time for consideration . The motion for recognition was one which ought to emanate from the chief , and not from a subordinate member of the Graft . The
Grand Master ,, therefore , In accordance with what has all along been hisknown inoehtion—an intention known by and agreed to twelve months ago , be it renqLembered , by Lord Carnarvon and-Bro . Portalproposed that recognition in a > graceful , becoming and fraternal spirit ; and :-. we believe that it will be hailed with satisfaction , not only by our Canadian Brethren , but by an overwiiclming majority of the Craffc here .
We could not but admire the masterly speech of the Grand Master , a , nd the clekr and distinct enunciation of those principles which must guide us in our future intercourse with the Grand Lodge of Canada , l ^ o words were ever uttered more to the purpose than that "We must recognize jbefor ^ we can negotiate . " Whilst we trust that no further warrants-will be granted for Lodges in any part of Canada West , we havo the fullest confidence that our Grand Master will take care
that the Masonic rights and privileges of our other provinces , and of the members of those Lodges in Canada West which still hold to the Grand Lodge of England , shall be fully recognized and respected by the Grand Lodge of Canada ; and that whilst no difficulty shall be laced in the
p way of their joining the newly formed body , that nothing , on the other hand , shall be done to compel them to do so , until they shall themselves desire it . With characteristic inconsistency , and as we believe in gross violation of tli 3 principles of our Order , we find exactly the contrary advice given in the Masonic Observer of March last , where the Grand Lod ^ e of Canada is recommended " to
refuse all intercourse with those English Lodges which decline to join them . " We trust that our Canadian Brethren will be far too wise and too just to adopt advice so opposed to the true spirit of Masonry as this . Whilst upon the subject of inconsistency , we cannot refrain from remarking on a charge of that nature preferred , wantonlv as we
think , against Bro . Havers ; we are not the advocates of that brother , and we have occasionally widely differed from his views , but from all that we have learned on the subject , and the real facts are now beginning to be pretty generally known , we are bound to say that there is no Brother who has more consistently and more earnestly laboured ,
through good and through evil report , to remedy the consequences arising from neglect of the well founded complaints of the Canadian Masons , or one who has been more ready to render them full justice ; and we venture to predict that the more that is known of the part he has played in this most difficult matter , the higher will be the public ^ timation of his stnu ghtforwardness and integrity . It was most unfortunate that -Canadian representations were entrusted to the wrong 3 y 2
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Gr^^ And The " (»
length received official notification—^ the hand of our younger Brother was held out , we intended to take it , and it was for us to say whether we would grasp it in true Masonic feeling , or coldly defer our recognition under the plea that we wanted time for consideration . The motion for recognition was one which ought to emanate from the chief , and not from a subordinate member of the Graft . The
Grand Master ,, therefore , In accordance with what has all along been hisknown inoehtion—an intention known by and agreed to twelve months ago , be it renqLembered , by Lord Carnarvon and-Bro . Portalproposed that recognition in a > graceful , becoming and fraternal spirit ; and :-. we believe that it will be hailed with satisfaction , not only by our Canadian Brethren , but by an overwiiclming majority of the Craffc here .
We could not but admire the masterly speech of the Grand Master , a , nd the clekr and distinct enunciation of those principles which must guide us in our future intercourse with the Grand Lodge of Canada , l ^ o words were ever uttered more to the purpose than that "We must recognize jbefor ^ we can negotiate . " Whilst we trust that no further warrants-will be granted for Lodges in any part of Canada West , we havo the fullest confidence that our Grand Master will take care
that the Masonic rights and privileges of our other provinces , and of the members of those Lodges in Canada West which still hold to the Grand Lodge of England , shall be fully recognized and respected by the Grand Lodge of Canada ; and that whilst no difficulty shall be laced in the
p way of their joining the newly formed body , that nothing , on the other hand , shall be done to compel them to do so , until they shall themselves desire it . With characteristic inconsistency , and as we believe in gross violation of tli 3 principles of our Order , we find exactly the contrary advice given in the Masonic Observer of March last , where the Grand Lod ^ e of Canada is recommended " to
refuse all intercourse with those English Lodges which decline to join them . " We trust that our Canadian Brethren will be far too wise and too just to adopt advice so opposed to the true spirit of Masonry as this . Whilst upon the subject of inconsistency , we cannot refrain from remarking on a charge of that nature preferred , wantonlv as we
think , against Bro . Havers ; we are not the advocates of that brother , and we have occasionally widely differed from his views , but from all that we have learned on the subject , and the real facts are now beginning to be pretty generally known , we are bound to say that there is no Brother who has more consistently and more earnestly laboured ,
through good and through evil report , to remedy the consequences arising from neglect of the well founded complaints of the Canadian Masons , or one who has been more ready to render them full justice ; and we venture to predict that the more that is known of the part he has played in this most difficult matter , the higher will be the public ^ timation of his stnu ghtforwardness and integrity . It was most unfortunate that -Canadian representations were entrusted to the wrong 3 y 2