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Quarterly Communication.
. Past Grand Officers , AV . Bros . Shadbolt . Gascoign , Crucefix , M'Mullen , Goldsworthy , Chandler , Thomson , Norris , & c . & c . ; also several Grand Stewards—thc Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of the Grand Stewards Lodge , and the same of many subordinate Lodges . The minutes of the past Grand Lodge and of the especial Grand Lodge were read and confirmed . The Grand Master then stated that the R . W . Bro . Eliot had resigned
his office of Provincial Grand Master for the province of Dorset , and that he had conferred the appointment on Bro . Wm . Tucker , the present Senior Grand Deacon . A vacancy having been thus caused in the ( . rand Deaconship , his lordship directed that Dr . Roive , the Junior Grand Deacon , should become the Senior , and that Bro . Thos . Parkinson , should be the Junior Grand Deacon ; that Brother was then introduced and invested accordingly .
The . Grand Master then moved that Bro . H . B . Webb , the late Grand Sword Bearer , shall be entitled to the rank and privilege of past Grand Sword Bearer—the motion was carried unanimously . The Grand Master then directed the correspondence between the Grand Secretaries of England and of the Royal York , of Berlin , as well as between himself and the Grand Master of the said Grand Lodge Royal York , to be read ;* which having been done , his lordship
expressed his regret that he was compelled to move that his representative at the Grand Lodge of Berlin should be withdrawn from such appointment , and that the representative of the said Grand Lodge should withdraw as such from the Grand Lodge of England At the same time his
lordship observed , that in their private relations as Masons , those brethren were entitled to every respect , esteem , and regard ; and he trusted that they would always be received with due honour . On the motion being put , Bro . FAUOEL rose and addressed the Grand Lodge . He felt deeply impressed with tlle importance of the subject involved in the motion of the M . W . Grand Master , to whom he respectfully tendered his unfeigned thanks for the very courteous manner in which his lordship had treated
him , both as regarded correspondence and personally in the Grand Lodge ; he would also tender thus humbly the thanks of many absent Brethren , who confided to the impartiality of their Grand Master their interests and their hopes ; he would boldly declare that the entire Masonic body , irrespective of country , were under the deepest obligations to the Grand Master of England , whose firm un temporizing conduct had saved the Order from a most dangerous and threatening position .
The course adopted by that noble Brother was the only one tbat could with honour have been taken . As Freemasons of England , while presided over by so distinguished a ruler—associated with noblemen of equal honour and ability—we need not fear any apprehension of being mistaken in our position , if we were not in haste to retaliate for unprovoked injury . It was the consciousness of our moral strength that induced him ( Bro . Faudel ) to implore of the noble Grand Master to make yet one effort more
in the hope of conciliating those who had so grossly mistaken the construction of pure Masonic principles . The step he would humbly recommend would be to direct a third letter to be written to the Grand Lodge at Berlin , pointing out that they themselves must ultimately be the only sufferers by their own folly , inasmuch as instead of causing the expulsion
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Quarterly Communication.
. Past Grand Officers , AV . Bros . Shadbolt . Gascoign , Crucefix , M'Mullen , Goldsworthy , Chandler , Thomson , Norris , & c . & c . ; also several Grand Stewards—thc Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens of the Grand Stewards Lodge , and the same of many subordinate Lodges . The minutes of the past Grand Lodge and of the especial Grand Lodge were read and confirmed . The Grand Master then stated that the R . W . Bro . Eliot had resigned
his office of Provincial Grand Master for the province of Dorset , and that he had conferred the appointment on Bro . Wm . Tucker , the present Senior Grand Deacon . A vacancy having been thus caused in the ( . rand Deaconship , his lordship directed that Dr . Roive , the Junior Grand Deacon , should become the Senior , and that Bro . Thos . Parkinson , should be the Junior Grand Deacon ; that Brother was then introduced and invested accordingly .
The . Grand Master then moved that Bro . H . B . Webb , the late Grand Sword Bearer , shall be entitled to the rank and privilege of past Grand Sword Bearer—the motion was carried unanimously . The Grand Master then directed the correspondence between the Grand Secretaries of England and of the Royal York , of Berlin , as well as between himself and the Grand Master of the said Grand Lodge Royal York , to be read ;* which having been done , his lordship
expressed his regret that he was compelled to move that his representative at the Grand Lodge of Berlin should be withdrawn from such appointment , and that the representative of the said Grand Lodge should withdraw as such from the Grand Lodge of England At the same time his
lordship observed , that in their private relations as Masons , those brethren were entitled to every respect , esteem , and regard ; and he trusted that they would always be received with due honour . On the motion being put , Bro . FAUOEL rose and addressed the Grand Lodge . He felt deeply impressed with tlle importance of the subject involved in the motion of the M . W . Grand Master , to whom he respectfully tendered his unfeigned thanks for the very courteous manner in which his lordship had treated
him , both as regarded correspondence and personally in the Grand Lodge ; he would also tender thus humbly the thanks of many absent Brethren , who confided to the impartiality of their Grand Master their interests and their hopes ; he would boldly declare that the entire Masonic body , irrespective of country , were under the deepest obligations to the Grand Master of England , whose firm un temporizing conduct had saved the Order from a most dangerous and threatening position .
The course adopted by that noble Brother was the only one tbat could with honour have been taken . As Freemasons of England , while presided over by so distinguished a ruler—associated with noblemen of equal honour and ability—we need not fear any apprehension of being mistaken in our position , if we were not in haste to retaliate for unprovoked injury . It was the consciousness of our moral strength that induced him ( Bro . Faudel ) to implore of the noble Grand Master to make yet one effort more
in the hope of conciliating those who had so grossly mistaken the construction of pure Masonic principles . The step he would humbly recommend would be to direct a third letter to be written to the Grand Lodge at Berlin , pointing out that they themselves must ultimately be the only sufferers by their own folly , inasmuch as instead of causing the expulsion