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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
we had been induced to make them , provided it could be shown that we had been in the smallest particular mistaken . We intimated— -and again repeat the intimationthat information had been communicated to us , which we could have no reason whatever either for doubting or
disbelieving ; and that consequently , anxious as we were to remove every occasion of offence , until that information was officially contradicted , and it could be satisfactorily proved to be erroneous , we could not be , with any appearance of justice , blamed for the maintenance of the position we had
taken up . To assert that our statements were false , —and assertion went as far as this—unmasonic as such conduct was—is a very different thing from proving them to be so ; and that has not yet been done . But , it may be asked , why refer to this matter at all ?
Why not let it be for ever buried in oblivion ? Why stir up an old grievance ? We have a full answer to give to such questions : —Because the end has been as faulty as the
beginning ; because an opportunity for largely benefitting the Craft , ancl showing Masonry to be something better them a fiction , has been lost by mismanagement , and the most absurd blundering . As the matter commenced , so it has terminated . It was a mistake at the commencement;—it was something
worse in the conclusion ! For the . first time , we imagine , since Freemasonry has been in existence , a building exclusively for Masonic purposes , has been built and completed without the laying of the cornerstone ! We stated last year , that the following Resolution ,
relative to this matter , had been recorded on the minutes of the proceedings of the Committee : — " That there not being time , ( I ) the laying of the first stone should be postponed Till NEXT YEAR , the WORKS IN THE MEANWHI 1 E TO PROCEED VIGOROUSLY ! "
The absurdity of such a resolution was self-evident ; we believe that such a resolution teas passed , and shall continue to do so , until it is contradicted in such a manner as to show to the Craft and ourselves , that the information upon which we
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
we had been induced to make them , provided it could be shown that we had been in the smallest particular mistaken . We intimated— -and again repeat the intimationthat information had been communicated to us , which we could have no reason whatever either for doubting or
disbelieving ; and that consequently , anxious as we were to remove every occasion of offence , until that information was officially contradicted , and it could be satisfactorily proved to be erroneous , we could not be , with any appearance of justice , blamed for the maintenance of the position we had
taken up . To assert that our statements were false , —and assertion went as far as this—unmasonic as such conduct was—is a very different thing from proving them to be so ; and that has not yet been done . But , it may be asked , why refer to this matter at all ?
Why not let it be for ever buried in oblivion ? Why stir up an old grievance ? We have a full answer to give to such questions : —Because the end has been as faulty as the
beginning ; because an opportunity for largely benefitting the Craft , ancl showing Masonry to be something better them a fiction , has been lost by mismanagement , and the most absurd blundering . As the matter commenced , so it has terminated . It was a mistake at the commencement;—it was something
worse in the conclusion ! For the . first time , we imagine , since Freemasonry has been in existence , a building exclusively for Masonic purposes , has been built and completed without the laying of the cornerstone ! We stated last year , that the following Resolution ,
relative to this matter , had been recorded on the minutes of the proceedings of the Committee : — " That there not being time , ( I ) the laying of the first stone should be postponed Till NEXT YEAR , the WORKS IN THE MEANWHI 1 E TO PROCEED VIGOROUSLY ! "
The absurdity of such a resolution was self-evident ; we believe that such a resolution teas passed , and shall continue to do so , until it is contradicted in such a manner as to show to the Craft and ourselves , that the information upon which we