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To The Editor.
Brother , who , himself a peer , presumes to treat an implied offence against the upper house at the bar of the lower ? No one , unless a witness , would have believed that those who sit in high places could exhibit or listen to such ignorance of Masonic propriety ; nor could Companion Ezra , when he penned his letter for your last number , have supposed the possibility of its being turned to such a ridiculous purpose . March 6 , 1841 . NEHEMIAII .
[ Such anomalies as these will necessarily occur when prejudice is allowed to predominate over reason . —En . F . Q . R . ] SIR AND BROTHER , —I reside at too great a distance from the metropolis to permit my attendance at the public meetings of the Craft , but , since the publication of your excellent periodicalI have been enabled
, to comprehend much which , previously , hacl been even to me a mystery—the published communications being generally barren of any information that interests the operative Freemason ; and I have felt most gratified to you for the fidelity of the reports , which have in almost every instance been vouched for b y Brethren on whose declaration I could rely , and whose examination in justice to you I thought it necessary to make .
Judge , then , of my surprise at hearing that an attack had been made on you , not personal it may be , but of that nature that makes it still more reprehensible . The Brethren who have sanctioned this proceeding are decidedly in error . The increasing intelligence of the times demands a more liberal policy . Secret conclaves and concealed proceedings might do very well for the fifteenth centurywhen the Inquisition was all potentor a
, ; couple of centuries later , when the Societies of llluminati and Veheme Gerichte struck terror to the world , but they will not go down with the people of England in the nineteenth century . Freemasonry , to be prosperous , must keep pace with the progress of every other institution ; and the advocates of the concealment system , will soon be made aware of this alteration in public feeling by the course of passing events . A PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER .
[ Our provincial Brother represents the feelings of the great body of the Craft in the country , or abroad—at least of all those who are not so careless or apathetic , as to come to a conclusion without possessing information sufficient to guide and form their opinion . Those who have read this publication attentively , number by number , are competent judges , and they are with us . —Er . F . Q . R . ] SIR AND BROTHER —As we areI presumeabout to approximate
, , , in some measure iu practice with a " certain legislative assembl y , " may I be permitted to inquire whether—as the Masonic Calendar is stated to be published by command of the Grand Master , after having been examined , revised , edited , & c , & c , by the Board of General Purposes and the Grand Secretary—whether it be not a breach of our privileges as " lieges Masonic , " that it should , instead of being a true and faithful directory , be most inaccurate , and in many respects defective . I particularly allude to the fact , that in this public directory of the Craft , the
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To The Editor.
Brother , who , himself a peer , presumes to treat an implied offence against the upper house at the bar of the lower ? No one , unless a witness , would have believed that those who sit in high places could exhibit or listen to such ignorance of Masonic propriety ; nor could Companion Ezra , when he penned his letter for your last number , have supposed the possibility of its being turned to such a ridiculous purpose . March 6 , 1841 . NEHEMIAII .
[ Such anomalies as these will necessarily occur when prejudice is allowed to predominate over reason . —En . F . Q . R . ] SIR AND BROTHER , —I reside at too great a distance from the metropolis to permit my attendance at the public meetings of the Craft , but , since the publication of your excellent periodicalI have been enabled
, to comprehend much which , previously , hacl been even to me a mystery—the published communications being generally barren of any information that interests the operative Freemason ; and I have felt most gratified to you for the fidelity of the reports , which have in almost every instance been vouched for b y Brethren on whose declaration I could rely , and whose examination in justice to you I thought it necessary to make .
Judge , then , of my surprise at hearing that an attack had been made on you , not personal it may be , but of that nature that makes it still more reprehensible . The Brethren who have sanctioned this proceeding are decidedly in error . The increasing intelligence of the times demands a more liberal policy . Secret conclaves and concealed proceedings might do very well for the fifteenth centurywhen the Inquisition was all potentor a
, ; couple of centuries later , when the Societies of llluminati and Veheme Gerichte struck terror to the world , but they will not go down with the people of England in the nineteenth century . Freemasonry , to be prosperous , must keep pace with the progress of every other institution ; and the advocates of the concealment system , will soon be made aware of this alteration in public feeling by the course of passing events . A PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER .
[ Our provincial Brother represents the feelings of the great body of the Craft in the country , or abroad—at least of all those who are not so careless or apathetic , as to come to a conclusion without possessing information sufficient to guide and form their opinion . Those who have read this publication attentively , number by number , are competent judges , and they are with us . —Er . F . Q . R . ] SIR AND BROTHER —As we areI presumeabout to approximate
, , , in some measure iu practice with a " certain legislative assembl y , " may I be permitted to inquire whether—as the Masonic Calendar is stated to be published by command of the Grand Master , after having been examined , revised , edited , & c , & c , by the Board of General Purposes and the Grand Secretary—whether it be not a breach of our privileges as " lieges Masonic , " that it should , instead of being a true and faithful directory , be most inaccurate , and in many respects defective . I particularly allude to the fact , that in this public directory of the Craft , the