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Article MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. ← Page 9 of 14 →
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Masonic Intelligence.
Lodges , who might be unacquainted with the real facts . That the Grand Master was the author of all the proceedings of which Brother R . T . Crueefix complains , instead of their originating in four Members of the Craft , without even
the knowledge of the Grand Master , and investigated by the known authorities of the Craft , and finally decided against Brother R . T . Crueefix by the most numerous Grand Lodge which had ever assembled , in which ninety-ei ght Lodges were represented .
"The Board of General Purposes cannot avoid noticing a misconception in which Brother R . T . Crueefix seems to rest his ground of complaint against the Grand Master , for not permitting him to proceed on the Srd day of June . The Grand Master sits only to see that
the Laws and Constitutions are regularly observed and administered , so that justice may he done to all ; he has no power to dispense with the law , and could not permit Brother Crueefix to proceed without injustice to the Board , whose
decision was appealed against ; and the Board also doubt whether the Grand Lodge even could , while a trial was proceeding , dispense with the law for the particular purpose of the trial . " The Board then received
distinct proof of another wilful falsehood in the letter of the llth June to the M . W . Grand Master , in which it is stated that a ' prevention of justice was intentionally inflicted on him , by his being suffered to remain in error as to the
defect in his appeal , although the Grand Secretary was advised with upon it . ' Without adverting to any question as to whether the Grand Secretary is bound in any
Where or by whom was the Grand Master thus charged ? The Members ofthe Board try hard to prove an affirmative by a negative
Why this stress upon numbers , andninety-eight Lodges ? It would have been honest to have stated the means adopted to obtain those numbers ; ancl how those who seldom attend the Grand Lodge were on this occasion brought up to
exercise an uncharitable privilege . So , then , all this lengthy paragraph is confessedly grounded upon what even the Board acknowledges to be a misconception—( proh pudor . ' )
Wilful falsehood ! Hard words these , gentlemen ; but where is THE PROOF ? will it appear in the following ? Immediately on receiving the copy of the sentence , Dr . Crueefix appealedand called at the Grand
, Secretary ' s offi ce on the 24 th March , being the day on which the Board met for the purpose of being satisfied that the course taken was correct . The clerk in the office knew he was in attendance at three
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Masonic Intelligence.
Lodges , who might be unacquainted with the real facts . That the Grand Master was the author of all the proceedings of which Brother R . T . Crueefix complains , instead of their originating in four Members of the Craft , without even
the knowledge of the Grand Master , and investigated by the known authorities of the Craft , and finally decided against Brother R . T . Crueefix by the most numerous Grand Lodge which had ever assembled , in which ninety-ei ght Lodges were represented .
"The Board of General Purposes cannot avoid noticing a misconception in which Brother R . T . Crueefix seems to rest his ground of complaint against the Grand Master , for not permitting him to proceed on the Srd day of June . The Grand Master sits only to see that
the Laws and Constitutions are regularly observed and administered , so that justice may he done to all ; he has no power to dispense with the law , and could not permit Brother Crueefix to proceed without injustice to the Board , whose
decision was appealed against ; and the Board also doubt whether the Grand Lodge even could , while a trial was proceeding , dispense with the law for the particular purpose of the trial . " The Board then received
distinct proof of another wilful falsehood in the letter of the llth June to the M . W . Grand Master , in which it is stated that a ' prevention of justice was intentionally inflicted on him , by his being suffered to remain in error as to the
defect in his appeal , although the Grand Secretary was advised with upon it . ' Without adverting to any question as to whether the Grand Secretary is bound in any
Where or by whom was the Grand Master thus charged ? The Members ofthe Board try hard to prove an affirmative by a negative
Why this stress upon numbers , andninety-eight Lodges ? It would have been honest to have stated the means adopted to obtain those numbers ; ancl how those who seldom attend the Grand Lodge were on this occasion brought up to
exercise an uncharitable privilege . So , then , all this lengthy paragraph is confessedly grounded upon what even the Board acknowledges to be a misconception—( proh pudor . ' )
Wilful falsehood ! Hard words these , gentlemen ; but where is THE PROOF ? will it appear in the following ? Immediately on receiving the copy of the sentence , Dr . Crueefix appealedand called at the Grand
, Secretary ' s offi ce on the 24 th March , being the day on which the Board met for the purpose of being satisfied that the course taken was correct . The clerk in the office knew he was in attendance at three