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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
London , to construe the law in their own favour . This is part of their peculiar privilege ; but neither common sense , nor Masonic justice , will be thus hood-winked . A plain , unprivileged member of the Craft is prompted to say , why not carry the principle farther ? Why not proceed until ^ it terminates in the axiom , that the most zealous Provincial Grand Master is he who never holds , or never will hold a
meeting in his district ? According to the reasoning of the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , the Provincial Grand Master for Nottinghamshire evinces his zeal , as a Mason , by holding " those meetings only once in three years . " If so , how Master for
great must be the zeal of the Provincial Grand Staffordshire , who , having been appointed for three years , has held none ? And' how superlative that of the Provincial Grand Master for Sumatra , who , we believe , never has , and we are quite certain is never likely to preside over
a district meeting there ? We wonder how the last mentioned Rig ht Worshipful Brother can sustain the excess of honour which must oppress him , in the contemplation of his Masonic stewardship ?
THE CHARITIES .
Most liberal additions have been made to the respective funds of the Boys' School , the Girls' School , and the Asylum—so many new and solid proofs that charity is reproductive . Sailing along on the full tide of prosperity , with only an
occasional side-wind to ruffle their course , the two former of the Three Masonic Charities , require but little aid from the journalist . Opposition , striving against it in an unceasing storm , for some time placed the goodly ark of the Asylum in peril ; and there are still bursts , not frequent certainly , but yet sufficiently unfavourable to cause a careful look-out to be kept , and to require some advice and much
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
London , to construe the law in their own favour . This is part of their peculiar privilege ; but neither common sense , nor Masonic justice , will be thus hood-winked . A plain , unprivileged member of the Craft is prompted to say , why not carry the principle farther ? Why not proceed until ^ it terminates in the axiom , that the most zealous Provincial Grand Master is he who never holds , or never will hold a
meeting in his district ? According to the reasoning of the Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , the Provincial Grand Master for Nottinghamshire evinces his zeal , as a Mason , by holding " those meetings only once in three years . " If so , how Master for
great must be the zeal of the Provincial Grand Staffordshire , who , having been appointed for three years , has held none ? And' how superlative that of the Provincial Grand Master for Sumatra , who , we believe , never has , and we are quite certain is never likely to preside over
a district meeting there ? We wonder how the last mentioned Rig ht Worshipful Brother can sustain the excess of honour which must oppress him , in the contemplation of his Masonic stewardship ?
THE CHARITIES .
Most liberal additions have been made to the respective funds of the Boys' School , the Girls' School , and the Asylum—so many new and solid proofs that charity is reproductive . Sailing along on the full tide of prosperity , with only an
occasional side-wind to ruffle their course , the two former of the Three Masonic Charities , require but little aid from the journalist . Opposition , striving against it in an unceasing storm , for some time placed the goodly ark of the Asylum in peril ; and there are still bursts , not frequent certainly , but yet sufficiently unfavourable to cause a careful look-out to be kept , and to require some advice and much