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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
mittee doing so , they seemed to imagine that they were supreme , that the School-house was entirely their matter , and that the M . W . the G . M . must do and act just as they thought fit to arrange and direct . Unfortunately , a worthy Brother , an influential member of the Committee , was prevented giving
such attention to the proceedings as , under the circumstances , was positively required : had he been able to be present when the Committee determined that this and that should be done , he would have told them at once , —whether he would have convinced them is quite another matter , —that
they would be guilty , not only of an act of discourtesy , but that they would act in disobedience to authority , by not taking the pleasure of the M . W . the G . M ., since it is impossible that any directions , as to Grand Lodge proceedings , should emanate from any other individual than its ruler .
Wanting such counsel and advice from such a Brother , to which the Committee might have perhaps deferred , they took their own course , and , by so doing , they well nigh prevented the dedication from taking place at all , as they had precluded the possibility of laying the first stone . The M . W . the
G . M ., however , had the interests of the Charity too much at heart , to permit folly like this to run its course . He was determined to hold a Grand Lodge , and therefore gave directions that its business might be transacted " in ample form , " so that the Committee had nothing else to do than to submit to his authority , with what grace they best might .
Thus far had the arrangements for the holding of a Grand Lodge gone , when the 2 nd of August arrived . It appeared advisable to the Committee that the proceedings of the day should be inaugurated by attendance at St . Mark ' s church , Wandsworth , where they wished the M . W . the G . M . and the
G . L . to have proceeded in procession . To this proposition , the G . M . was disinclined to assent , —he having a decided objection to a long Masonic procession outside the area of the grounds in which the new school-house is erected , —the site being so near to the metropolis , —independently of its being highly improper that such a procession should be formed at
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
mittee doing so , they seemed to imagine that they were supreme , that the School-house was entirely their matter , and that the M . W . the G . M . must do and act just as they thought fit to arrange and direct . Unfortunately , a worthy Brother , an influential member of the Committee , was prevented giving
such attention to the proceedings as , under the circumstances , was positively required : had he been able to be present when the Committee determined that this and that should be done , he would have told them at once , —whether he would have convinced them is quite another matter , —that
they would be guilty , not only of an act of discourtesy , but that they would act in disobedience to authority , by not taking the pleasure of the M . W . the G . M ., since it is impossible that any directions , as to Grand Lodge proceedings , should emanate from any other individual than its ruler .
Wanting such counsel and advice from such a Brother , to which the Committee might have perhaps deferred , they took their own course , and , by so doing , they well nigh prevented the dedication from taking place at all , as they had precluded the possibility of laying the first stone . The M . W . the
G . M ., however , had the interests of the Charity too much at heart , to permit folly like this to run its course . He was determined to hold a Grand Lodge , and therefore gave directions that its business might be transacted " in ample form , " so that the Committee had nothing else to do than to submit to his authority , with what grace they best might .
Thus far had the arrangements for the holding of a Grand Lodge gone , when the 2 nd of August arrived . It appeared advisable to the Committee that the proceedings of the day should be inaugurated by attendance at St . Mark ' s church , Wandsworth , where they wished the M . W . the G . M . and the
G . L . to have proceeded in procession . To this proposition , the G . M . was disinclined to assent , —he having a decided objection to a long Masonic procession outside the area of the grounds in which the new school-house is erected , —the site being so near to the metropolis , —independently of its being highly improper that such a procession should be formed at