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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLYREVIEW, ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterlyreview,
at the will of its wearer ? Or that the annual election of a Grand Master is to be held to be an election for life ? It is true that the brother who was the special pleader in favour of the Grand Master ' s infallibility , as compared with our more human imperfections , called him a " Masonic king , " in the course of his address ; but , as one swallow does not make a summer , so one royalist Mason cannot convert
the entire Craft into masonic subjects . As to our rival—for we have one in an authorised version of the proceedings in Grand Lodge—we express , more in sorrow than in anger , our bitter disappointment , that it does not promise aught to satisfy enquiry , or to ensure peace .
Having relieved our responsibility by admission of error—it is due to our consistency , to inform our readers that the following article was written and given out before the meeting of the last Grand Lodge . We do not withdraw it in consequence , hut , on the contrary , publish it without alteration , to show that we had no personal hostility to the Grand Master to gratify ; and further , excepting that , in deference to public
opinion , we have made the admission of error in judgment , that we are anxious not to endanger the purity of opinion . Since the publication of the March number of the " Freemasons ' Quarterly Review , " three Grand Lodges , or rather three meetings of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons have taken place ; and as the
practical masonic year may be said to terminate on the annual installation of a Grand Master and appointment of Grand Officers , it may not be out of place here to take a short view of the eventful period preceding the last grand festival . In doing so , we can enter upon the subject with feelings subdued by time , from any harshness that may have influenced us while writing immediately after witnessing an angry debate , or feeling
that strict impartiality had not been practised by every Mason toward his brother—admitting that we have seen this—we are not indisposed to yield , that we likewise may have been led to break , in the heat of the moment , that great and pure masonic motto , " do to others as you would have them clo unto you ; " and we trust that past experience may teach every member of the fraternity , be he high or low , noble or bumble , to
practise the virtues he professes to admire . First in importance , as in station , stands evidently before us our Most Worshipful Grand Master . It is also in the rotation of events our province to allude to the Quarterly Communication of June in last year , in which he took so prominent a part . We do not intend here to re-discuss settled questions , but we may speak of their practicability . On that occasion , the Grand Master de-
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The Freemasons' Quarterlyreview,
at the will of its wearer ? Or that the annual election of a Grand Master is to be held to be an election for life ? It is true that the brother who was the special pleader in favour of the Grand Master ' s infallibility , as compared with our more human imperfections , called him a " Masonic king , " in the course of his address ; but , as one swallow does not make a summer , so one royalist Mason cannot convert
the entire Craft into masonic subjects . As to our rival—for we have one in an authorised version of the proceedings in Grand Lodge—we express , more in sorrow than in anger , our bitter disappointment , that it does not promise aught to satisfy enquiry , or to ensure peace .
Having relieved our responsibility by admission of error—it is due to our consistency , to inform our readers that the following article was written and given out before the meeting of the last Grand Lodge . We do not withdraw it in consequence , hut , on the contrary , publish it without alteration , to show that we had no personal hostility to the Grand Master to gratify ; and further , excepting that , in deference to public
opinion , we have made the admission of error in judgment , that we are anxious not to endanger the purity of opinion . Since the publication of the March number of the " Freemasons ' Quarterly Review , " three Grand Lodges , or rather three meetings of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons have taken place ; and as the
practical masonic year may be said to terminate on the annual installation of a Grand Master and appointment of Grand Officers , it may not be out of place here to take a short view of the eventful period preceding the last grand festival . In doing so , we can enter upon the subject with feelings subdued by time , from any harshness that may have influenced us while writing immediately after witnessing an angry debate , or feeling
that strict impartiality had not been practised by every Mason toward his brother—admitting that we have seen this—we are not indisposed to yield , that we likewise may have been led to break , in the heat of the moment , that great and pure masonic motto , " do to others as you would have them clo unto you ; " and we trust that past experience may teach every member of the fraternity , be he high or low , noble or bumble , to
practise the virtues he professes to admire . First in importance , as in station , stands evidently before us our Most Worshipful Grand Master . It is also in the rotation of events our province to allude to the Quarterly Communication of June in last year , in which he took so prominent a part . We do not intend here to re-discuss settled questions , but we may speak of their practicability . On that occasion , the Grand Master de-