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of things . "We write now to tbose good men and true who feel for Masonry , abroad and at home , as for some high delegated trust , some really important responsibility , some conscientious privilege to help the Brethren of all " people and languages ; " and we think that , as

to tbe season at which their strenuous exertions are required , when they peruse the following consideration of what our home abuses have led to in Canada , and the statement of persecution endured by the Maltese and West Indian Brethren , they will admit "it . is high time . We find , then , that as to Canada , forty-one Lodges , more than double the number ever associated to erect a new Grand Lodge , have united in the establishment of a Grand Lodge of Canada ; and

whilst we admit both the reasonableness of their act , and the decorum which characterizes its declaration , we think all must acknowledge , notwithstanding the potent argument of distance pperating to produce a necessary severance , that the latter would not have occurred had common courtesy been exhibited towards the primary representations of their condition , by their English parent . It is astonishing how much inconvenience men will readily submit to , if they are only

treated with civility , and their requirements candidly and promptly considered ; and how soon , on the other hand , evils , hitherto quietly endured , grow intolerable when inattention to their existence is manifested by those who have the means of cure . Granted , therefore , the inconvenience of distance ; the diversity of interests , resulting from Lodges hailing from no centre of union ; the injustice of distant provinces being mulcted to support a parent Lodge , from which they

are substantially alienated ; the unreasonableness of nomination of officers being vested in those who were ignorant of peculiar local requirements , which are the grievances set forth in the Canadian manifesto ; yet it is evident the head and front of the offence—that which broke down the last remnant of affinity to England—was the discourteous apathy , or unbusiness-like disregard , with which repeated communications from Canada were treated by the Grand Lodge , its

Secretary and Registrar . A short method of judging conduct in communities is simply to place them as man and man . Should we wonder at all loss of respect towards that person who , though respectfully addressed and repeatedly invited , could not even recollect the common rules of poJiteness so far as to answer a letter ? And if grievances were the subject to which sympathy was in the mildest terms solicited , who allowed them to exist , whilst he persevered in

stolid indifference or lofty inattention ? If the offices of Grand Master and other members of Grand Lodge are to become a mere sinecure , and to be perpetually maintained as vehicles of patronage for a few , we may rely upon it that not Canada only , but the West

Indies , and every other foreign Lodge hailing from us , will soon mark their proper contempt of oto inefficiency and neglect by getting rid of allegiance to what must in that case prove an incubus , not a benefit . It is impossible to read the Canadian address without a feeling of indignation that those who exemplify , in every line of their manifesto , the most true Masonic forbearance , should have been so

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LODGES IN THE WEST AND SOUTH, CANADA, MALTA, TRINIDAD-OUR DUTY. Article 1
FREEMASONRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Article 7
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 11
THE WONDERS OF NATURE. Article 14
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 19
FACES IN THE EIRE. Article 25
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 26
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZIN AND MASONIC MIRROR. Article 27
MASONIC CHARITIES. Article 29
NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 30
FINE ARTS. Article 30
THE MASONIC MIRROR. MASONIC REFORM Article 31
NOTICES OF MOTION. Article 36
THE BOYS' SCHOOL. Article 37
METROPOLITAN. Article 41
INSTRUCTION. Article 47
PROVINCIAL. Article 47
ROYAL ARCH. Article 54
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 55
SCOTLAND. Article 56
COLONIAL. Article 60
SWITZERLAND. Article 62
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR MARCH. Article 62
Obituary. Article 65
NOTICE. Article 68
TO COEEESPONDENTS. Article 68
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of things . "We write now to tbose good men and true who feel for Masonry , abroad and at home , as for some high delegated trust , some really important responsibility , some conscientious privilege to help the Brethren of all " people and languages ; " and we think that , as

to tbe season at which their strenuous exertions are required , when they peruse the following consideration of what our home abuses have led to in Canada , and the statement of persecution endured by the Maltese and West Indian Brethren , they will admit "it . is high time . We find , then , that as to Canada , forty-one Lodges , more than double the number ever associated to erect a new Grand Lodge , have united in the establishment of a Grand Lodge of Canada ; and

whilst we admit both the reasonableness of their act , and the decorum which characterizes its declaration , we think all must acknowledge , notwithstanding the potent argument of distance pperating to produce a necessary severance , that the latter would not have occurred had common courtesy been exhibited towards the primary representations of their condition , by their English parent . It is astonishing how much inconvenience men will readily submit to , if they are only

treated with civility , and their requirements candidly and promptly considered ; and how soon , on the other hand , evils , hitherto quietly endured , grow intolerable when inattention to their existence is manifested by those who have the means of cure . Granted , therefore , the inconvenience of distance ; the diversity of interests , resulting from Lodges hailing from no centre of union ; the injustice of distant provinces being mulcted to support a parent Lodge , from which they

are substantially alienated ; the unreasonableness of nomination of officers being vested in those who were ignorant of peculiar local requirements , which are the grievances set forth in the Canadian manifesto ; yet it is evident the head and front of the offence—that which broke down the last remnant of affinity to England—was the discourteous apathy , or unbusiness-like disregard , with which repeated communications from Canada were treated by the Grand Lodge , its

Secretary and Registrar . A short method of judging conduct in communities is simply to place them as man and man . Should we wonder at all loss of respect towards that person who , though respectfully addressed and repeatedly invited , could not even recollect the common rules of poJiteness so far as to answer a letter ? And if grievances were the subject to which sympathy was in the mildest terms solicited , who allowed them to exist , whilst he persevered in

stolid indifference or lofty inattention ? If the offices of Grand Master and other members of Grand Lodge are to become a mere sinecure , and to be perpetually maintained as vehicles of patronage for a few , we may rely upon it that not Canada only , but the West

Indies , and every other foreign Lodge hailing from us , will soon mark their proper contempt of oto inefficiency and neglect by getting rid of allegiance to what must in that case prove an incubus , not a benefit . It is impossible to read the Canadian address without a feeling of indignation that those who exemplify , in every line of their manifesto , the most true Masonic forbearance , should have been so

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