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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
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THE GLOBE LODGE ,
TO THE EDITOK OE THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC JUltllOl .. " You promise that no visitor shall bo received into your Lodge ivithout due examination , and producing proper vouchers of bis having been initiated in a regular Lodge . " " Do you submit to , aud promise to support those charges and regulations , as Masters have done hi all ages ? " —Fide " ASTIEST CHAIIUES AND BEGUI / A ' HONS , " Booh of Constitutions .
DISAB Sin AND BROTHEI ! , —Iii your number for December 29 th , 185 S , page 1287 , 1 find a charge brought against me " of a want of courtesy in refusing admission to firo . Henry AVilson , ( of the Lodge of Friendship , No . 117 , Great Yarmouth , ) into the Globe Lodge . " The facts of the case are these : —
Just as the AV . M . had risen for the first time , a visitor was announced , " who was not personally known , recommended , or well vouched for . " I ivas desired by the AV . M . to examine , and report . In the adjoining room I saw a stranger , clothed , whom I asked for his certificate . He said that he had not brought it from the country with him . I asked him a few simple questions , which he answered with mueh hesitation , something in this way : — "Let me see—I don't quite remember , —I think , — " "Is this what
you mean ? " " This is right , is ' nt it ? " Being unwilling to refuse him admission on my own responsibility , I requested the Tyler , Bro . Crawley , ( than whom there is not a more experienced Tyler or Mason in the Craft ) , to try him , ancl give me bis opinion . In the examination by the Tyler in the third degree , there were some important 2 > oiiils , of which the visitor professed himself to be ignorant , ancl the Tyler declared that the examination was not at all satisfactory . I then told Bro . AVilson that I could not
admit him into the Lodge , that I was very sorry for his disappointment , but the fault was with himself ; that , however , the disappointment would not be very great , for if his object were to see the working of a London Lodge , he would not have had the opportunity of gratifying himself on the jiresent occasion , as business was completely over , the Lodge would be closed on my return , ancl in a few minutes the Lodge-room would be cleared . He wished to go in and see the closing of the Lodge . I told him that I could not suft ' er him to see any portion of the working , as he had produced no certificate , and the proofs he hacl given of being a Mason Avere , in my opinion , most unsatisfactory . He ivas angry at being refused ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ T HE EDITOR cfoes itoS hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ]
THE GLOBE LODGE ,
TO THE EDITOK OE THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC JUltllOl .. " You promise that no visitor shall bo received into your Lodge ivithout due examination , and producing proper vouchers of bis having been initiated in a regular Lodge . " " Do you submit to , aud promise to support those charges and regulations , as Masters have done hi all ages ? " —Fide " ASTIEST CHAIIUES AND BEGUI / A ' HONS , " Booh of Constitutions .
DISAB Sin AND BROTHEI ! , —Iii your number for December 29 th , 185 S , page 1287 , 1 find a charge brought against me " of a want of courtesy in refusing admission to firo . Henry AVilson , ( of the Lodge of Friendship , No . 117 , Great Yarmouth , ) into the Globe Lodge . " The facts of the case are these : —
Just as the AV . M . had risen for the first time , a visitor was announced , " who was not personally known , recommended , or well vouched for . " I ivas desired by the AV . M . to examine , and report . In the adjoining room I saw a stranger , clothed , whom I asked for his certificate . He said that he had not brought it from the country with him . I asked him a few simple questions , which he answered with mueh hesitation , something in this way : — "Let me see—I don't quite remember , —I think , — " "Is this what
you mean ? " " This is right , is ' nt it ? " Being unwilling to refuse him admission on my own responsibility , I requested the Tyler , Bro . Crawley , ( than whom there is not a more experienced Tyler or Mason in the Craft ) , to try him , ancl give me bis opinion . In the examination by the Tyler in the third degree , there were some important 2 > oiiils , of which the visitor professed himself to be ignorant , ancl the Tyler declared that the examination was not at all satisfactory . I then told Bro . AVilson that I could not
admit him into the Lodge , that I was very sorry for his disappointment , but the fault was with himself ; that , however , the disappointment would not be very great , for if his object were to see the working of a London Lodge , he would not have had the opportunity of gratifying himself on the jiresent occasion , as business was completely over , the Lodge would be closed on my return , ancl in a few minutes the Lodge-room would be cleared . He wished to go in and see the closing of the Lodge . I told him that I could not suft ' er him to see any portion of the working , as he had produced no certificate , and the proofs he hacl given of being a Mason Avere , in my opinion , most unsatisfactory . He ivas angry at being refused ,