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Article BRO. BINCKES ON THINGS IN GENERAL. ← Page 4 of 4 Article SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.—IV. Page 1 of 5 →
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Bro. Binckes On Things In General.
¦ A the executive , and all the Masonic world , for failing to recognize in him the genius of peace , and the most illused of gentle mortals . Wc take leave of this subject , we trust never to renew it , by observing that Bro . Binckes ' s letter is like his speeches—high sounding and occasionally soaring to the rhetorical ; his arguments irrational and inconclusive , whilst his use of "big words" and his lofty
eloquence , all "sound and fury signifying nothing , " continually remind us , when listening to him , of the learned pedant so truthfully described by Goldsmith , whose lines slightly altered , would read thus : — "In arguing , too , the parson owned his skill , For e'en though vanquished he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the lauqhing brothers ranged around . "
Secret Societies Of The Middle Ages.—Iv.
SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES . —IV .
THE VEH 1 IIQUE TBIBUNAL ( CONTINUED ) . THE election of the sovereign pontiff , Cardinal Wiseman says , involving as it does the choice of the head of the universal church , and also the sovereignty of the Papal States , has frequently been the occasion of bringing into play among the conclave , various and combative opinions on political and ecclesiastical matters . Such was the
case perhaps in the election of Leo XII . That of the reigning pontiff is an instance of nuauimity and promptness almost without a parallel . Two thirds of the votes are required for a . valid election , and as this majority is often not easily obtained , the cardinals sometimes remains whole months in conclave . Cardinal Wiseman speaks of a conclave of twenty-five days us a short one , The mode of voting is generally
as follows : —The name of the person voted for is written on a ticket so arranged that the voter ' s name cannot bo seen ; and each cardinal , on entering the chapel , places his ' volirig paper in a large chalice on the altar . These papers are then examined in the presence of all , and if the votes given to any one do not amount to two thirds of the entire number , they are burned in such a . manner that the smoke ,
issuing through a flue , is visible to the expectant crowd outside the Quirinal Palace . * Some day instead of this usual signal to disperse is heard the cry of " Non v' e fumo ! " there is no smoke!—that is to say , " We have a pope . " When several trials of this method have been made in vain , recourse is sometimes had to what is called accession . If , for instance , a cardinal perceives that one or a very few votes are wanting to any one for whom he had not voted on that occasion , he may say that he
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Bro. Binckes On Things In General.
¦ A the executive , and all the Masonic world , for failing to recognize in him the genius of peace , and the most illused of gentle mortals . Wc take leave of this subject , we trust never to renew it , by observing that Bro . Binckes ' s letter is like his speeches—high sounding and occasionally soaring to the rhetorical ; his arguments irrational and inconclusive , whilst his use of "big words" and his lofty
eloquence , all "sound and fury signifying nothing , " continually remind us , when listening to him , of the learned pedant so truthfully described by Goldsmith , whose lines slightly altered , would read thus : — "In arguing , too , the parson owned his skill , For e'en though vanquished he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the lauqhing brothers ranged around . "
Secret Societies Of The Middle Ages.—Iv.
SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES . —IV .
THE VEH 1 IIQUE TBIBUNAL ( CONTINUED ) . THE election of the sovereign pontiff , Cardinal Wiseman says , involving as it does the choice of the head of the universal church , and also the sovereignty of the Papal States , has frequently been the occasion of bringing into play among the conclave , various and combative opinions on political and ecclesiastical matters . Such was the
case perhaps in the election of Leo XII . That of the reigning pontiff is an instance of nuauimity and promptness almost without a parallel . Two thirds of the votes are required for a . valid election , and as this majority is often not easily obtained , the cardinals sometimes remains whole months in conclave . Cardinal Wiseman speaks of a conclave of twenty-five days us a short one , The mode of voting is generally
as follows : —The name of the person voted for is written on a ticket so arranged that the voter ' s name cannot bo seen ; and each cardinal , on entering the chapel , places his ' volirig paper in a large chalice on the altar . These papers are then examined in the presence of all , and if the votes given to any one do not amount to two thirds of the entire number , they are burned in such a . manner that the smoke ,
issuing through a flue , is visible to the expectant crowd outside the Quirinal Palace . * Some day instead of this usual signal to disperse is heard the cry of " Non v' e fumo ! " there is no smoke!—that is to say , " We have a pope . " When several trials of this method have been made in vain , recourse is sometimes had to what is called accession . If , for instance , a cardinal perceives that one or a very few votes are wanting to any one for whom he had not voted on that occasion , he may say that he