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Article THE FREEMASONRY QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasonry Quarterly Review.
Quarterly Review , quoting from the Book of Constitutions the following extract : — " No Brother shall presume to print or publish , or cause to be printed or published , the proceedings of any Lodge or any part thereof , or the names of any person present at such Lodge , without the direction of the Grand Master or Provincial Grand Master , under pain of being expelled
the Order . " But the Right Honourable Brother did not state any particular grievance caused by the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , he simply stated that he had scarcely ever seen it , and that it contained reports that were garbled and false . It is not difficult to deal in generals , but the Right Honourable
Brother ' s experience of Freemasonry , vast as it no doubt is , could not discover any particular passage that was either false or garbled , possibly because he felt that to be satisfied on the point , he must read the Review , and he would , in such case , find that he had uttered at random what he would stand self-convicted of , viz ., having of himself slated that which was not true . He concluded his address by suggesting to the Grand Master , in order to put an end at once to false and garbled statements , that reports of the proceedings of Grand Lodge should be authorized to be taken .
A debate ensued , and the Right Honourable Brother in reply , was much more subdued in his tone , for he had heard some wholesome truths from below the bar , at which he must have felt corrected ; still he gave himself credit for forbearance in having acted on a question of privilege in the way he did , instead of moving , as he said he could iiave done , for a committee of inquiry , by which the Editor of the
Freemasons' Quarterly Review could readily have been discovered . Are we under the protection of the laws of the British empire , or are we to be frightened by the old Bogie of a star-chamber ? AA ' e beg to tell the worthy rig ht honourable that he has altogether mistaken himself , his subject , arid the Craft . Himself no Solomon , his subject uncannie , and the Craft too intelligent for him . —he may smile at this , but he will also wince .
The law he quotes is like the standing orders of the other house , unimportant to us , or rather it is utterly at variance with the law of the land , enforce it , and How it came to blot our Constitutions is not our present business , we may hereafter enter at large into the subject . Finally , we tell our Right Honourable Brother , that to take Grand Lodge by surprise was uncandid ,
ungenerous , and unmasonic ; we do not envy him for the part be has acted . In March , 1841 , a similar ruse was played by a noble'Brother , who has since retired from the active duties -of-Freemasonry . His lordship never recovered from the consequences of-placing himself in a
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The Freemasonry Quarterly Review.
Quarterly Review , quoting from the Book of Constitutions the following extract : — " No Brother shall presume to print or publish , or cause to be printed or published , the proceedings of any Lodge or any part thereof , or the names of any person present at such Lodge , without the direction of the Grand Master or Provincial Grand Master , under pain of being expelled
the Order . " But the Right Honourable Brother did not state any particular grievance caused by the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , he simply stated that he had scarcely ever seen it , and that it contained reports that were garbled and false . It is not difficult to deal in generals , but the Right Honourable
Brother ' s experience of Freemasonry , vast as it no doubt is , could not discover any particular passage that was either false or garbled , possibly because he felt that to be satisfied on the point , he must read the Review , and he would , in such case , find that he had uttered at random what he would stand self-convicted of , viz ., having of himself slated that which was not true . He concluded his address by suggesting to the Grand Master , in order to put an end at once to false and garbled statements , that reports of the proceedings of Grand Lodge should be authorized to be taken .
A debate ensued , and the Right Honourable Brother in reply , was much more subdued in his tone , for he had heard some wholesome truths from below the bar , at which he must have felt corrected ; still he gave himself credit for forbearance in having acted on a question of privilege in the way he did , instead of moving , as he said he could iiave done , for a committee of inquiry , by which the Editor of the
Freemasons' Quarterly Review could readily have been discovered . Are we under the protection of the laws of the British empire , or are we to be frightened by the old Bogie of a star-chamber ? AA ' e beg to tell the worthy rig ht honourable that he has altogether mistaken himself , his subject , arid the Craft . Himself no Solomon , his subject uncannie , and the Craft too intelligent for him . —he may smile at this , but he will also wince .
The law he quotes is like the standing orders of the other house , unimportant to us , or rather it is utterly at variance with the law of the land , enforce it , and How it came to blot our Constitutions is not our present business , we may hereafter enter at large into the subject . Finally , we tell our Right Honourable Brother , that to take Grand Lodge by surprise was uncandid ,
ungenerous , and unmasonic ; we do not envy him for the part be has acted . In March , 1841 , a similar ruse was played by a noble'Brother , who has since retired from the active duties -of-Freemasonry . His lordship never recovered from the consequences of-placing himself in a