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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTERS . Our remarks on " the privileged and the restricted " classes of Freemasons were already in type , when our attention was accidentally directed to the recent
proceedings in the Witham Lodge ( of which we have elsewhere given a detailed report ) , in which there is a passage corroborating , in a remarkable manner , what we had previously written . For it would seem that , in the opinion of the R . W . the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire
, Masonic Officers of his class are privileged to fulfil or limit the performance of their duties , just as it shall please them The Brethren in that district , as , doubtless , in all others , agreeing with us in the necessity of at least annual provincial meetings , had so expressed themselves to their Prov .
G . Master ; and in the course of a very eloquent , and otherwise unexceptionable address , the R . W . Brother referred to that subject in terms we reprint from our own report , and of the correctness of which there can be no question , as they agree , verbatim , with the account of the transactions of the day , published by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master , a copy of which we have also before us :
" The Brethren at Lincoln were quite right in the respectful remonstrance which they had forwarded to him , in saying that according to the laws of Masonry the provincial meeting ought to be held every year , but that was rather recommendatory than compulsory ; circumstances sometimes made it desirable to intermit the meeting , and he would appeal to the worthy Brother on his right , who was a Provincial Grand Officer of Nottinghamshire , whether it was not the practice of Colonel Wildman , who is a most zealous Mason , to hold these meetings only once in three years . "
Whatever may be the literal construction of the law , whether it be " recommendatory , " or " compulsory , " there cannot be a difference of opinion as to its spirit—its true intent and meaning . It may be very easy for those who sit in judgment in their own case , either in Lincoln or in
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTERS . Our remarks on " the privileged and the restricted " classes of Freemasons were already in type , when our attention was accidentally directed to the recent
proceedings in the Witham Lodge ( of which we have elsewhere given a detailed report ) , in which there is a passage corroborating , in a remarkable manner , what we had previously written . For it would seem that , in the opinion of the R . W . the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire
, Masonic Officers of his class are privileged to fulfil or limit the performance of their duties , just as it shall please them The Brethren in that district , as , doubtless , in all others , agreeing with us in the necessity of at least annual provincial meetings , had so expressed themselves to their Prov .
G . Master ; and in the course of a very eloquent , and otherwise unexceptionable address , the R . W . Brother referred to that subject in terms we reprint from our own report , and of the correctness of which there can be no question , as they agree , verbatim , with the account of the transactions of the day , published by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master , a copy of which we have also before us :
" The Brethren at Lincoln were quite right in the respectful remonstrance which they had forwarded to him , in saying that according to the laws of Masonry the provincial meeting ought to be held every year , but that was rather recommendatory than compulsory ; circumstances sometimes made it desirable to intermit the meeting , and he would appeal to the worthy Brother on his right , who was a Provincial Grand Officer of Nottinghamshire , whether it was not the practice of Colonel Wildman , who is a most zealous Mason , to hold these meetings only once in three years . "
Whatever may be the literal construction of the law , whether it be " recommendatory , " or " compulsory , " there cannot be a difference of opinion as to its spirit—its true intent and meaning . It may be very easy for those who sit in judgment in their own case , either in Lincoln or in