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Iidia,
said Lodge , " St . George , " which is not only not in subjection either to the Grand Lodge rif Scotland or the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India , but actually antagonistic thereto , which it evinced by its letter to this Lodge , dated the 16 th May , 1855 .
Lodge Perseverance having taken this position , and repudiated the claim of Worshipful Bro . Lawford Acland , the Master of the said English Lodge , "St . George , " to membership in Lodge Perseverance , in which he had not been affiliated , and thereby having ignored his right to hold the office of Deputy ProT . Grand Master , or in fact any office in the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India , the Prov . Grand Master , on the 13 th May , 1856 , threatened that , unless certain resolutions passed by this Lodge in this matter were rescinded , he would " close "
or " shut up" ( Anglice suspend ) the Lodge . Under these circumstances , the majority of its members considered it advisable to place tbe Lodge at once under the immediate protection of its Supreme head , the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and in doing so , entered minutely into their ground of action . A copy of their appeal was , in conformity with the Constitutions , duly served on the Prov . Grand Master , and notwithstanding such service , the " Besolutions , " against which the accompanying Memorial is a faithful protest , wprp nn . asorl
w » -w ^ v ^ MMUVVUI By command of the Worshipful Master , Bombay , 28 ih June , 1856 . J . G . Laurence , Secretary . We have received the Memorial , which is too long for publication and the subject in dispute is sufficiently explained in the Memorandum . ]
THAYETMYO . " Since my last letter , everything Masonic has been going on well here . The most fraternal feeling prevails between our two Lodges . All the Brethren of her Majesty ' s 29 th Regiment have been nominated , in a very flattering minute , honorary members of Lodge Astrsea , and have , in their turn , presented that Lodge with a very beautiful copy of the Sacred Volume . The members of Astrse are also members , either subscribing or honorary , of the Irish Lodge . I wrote to you that a collection was made on St . John the Evangelist ' s day by the Brethren of No . 322 , for the Irish orphans . The last mail brought an acknowledgment of the same in a very handsome letter from the governors of the charity , who seem to have been extremely surprised and pleased with the donation . "—Lndian Freemasons Friend , for July .
America.
AMERICA .
CONVENTION AT HAETEOED
The Conventions of the Ceneral Grand Bodies having finished their labours , they adjourned , to meet at Chicago in 1859 . Serious thoughts have arisen in the minds of many delegates as to the utility of these hodies . The question has been asked : You have tnet , you have adjourned—what benefit has the Craft derived from your labours ? You have settled two or three questions of
jurisprudence ; you have made a new Constitution in the encampment . In tbe Chapter , you have decided that the work offered by Companion Lovell , of Massachusetts , in 1850 , which was laid on the table in 1853 , is not the work for tbe Chapters ; after passing a resolution , in 1850 , that ,, so far as the work was
exemplified , it should be the standard—making confusion worse confounded . But , as a companion stated , there was imbecility in your counsels ; you were afraid to take the lead , lest some States should be offended . All eyes were turned on you ; men of most transcendant abilities , orators of the first class , lawyers whose names had resounded throughout the States for consummate ability ; and what was the cause ? They were fettered by a Constitution ; the
least alteration would involve three years before it could be called up for adjudication . Why , in that time , the actors might be in their graves or their places
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Iidia,
said Lodge , " St . George , " which is not only not in subjection either to the Grand Lodge rif Scotland or the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India , but actually antagonistic thereto , which it evinced by its letter to this Lodge , dated the 16 th May , 1855 .
Lodge Perseverance having taken this position , and repudiated the claim of Worshipful Bro . Lawford Acland , the Master of the said English Lodge , "St . George , " to membership in Lodge Perseverance , in which he had not been affiliated , and thereby having ignored his right to hold the office of Deputy ProT . Grand Master , or in fact any office in the Prov . Grand Lodge of Western India , the Prov . Grand Master , on the 13 th May , 1856 , threatened that , unless certain resolutions passed by this Lodge in this matter were rescinded , he would " close "
or " shut up" ( Anglice suspend ) the Lodge . Under these circumstances , the majority of its members considered it advisable to place tbe Lodge at once under the immediate protection of its Supreme head , the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and in doing so , entered minutely into their ground of action . A copy of their appeal was , in conformity with the Constitutions , duly served on the Prov . Grand Master , and notwithstanding such service , the " Besolutions , " against which the accompanying Memorial is a faithful protest , wprp nn . asorl
w » -w ^ v ^ MMUVVUI By command of the Worshipful Master , Bombay , 28 ih June , 1856 . J . G . Laurence , Secretary . We have received the Memorial , which is too long for publication and the subject in dispute is sufficiently explained in the Memorandum . ]
THAYETMYO . " Since my last letter , everything Masonic has been going on well here . The most fraternal feeling prevails between our two Lodges . All the Brethren of her Majesty ' s 29 th Regiment have been nominated , in a very flattering minute , honorary members of Lodge Astrsea , and have , in their turn , presented that Lodge with a very beautiful copy of the Sacred Volume . The members of Astrse are also members , either subscribing or honorary , of the Irish Lodge . I wrote to you that a collection was made on St . John the Evangelist ' s day by the Brethren of No . 322 , for the Irish orphans . The last mail brought an acknowledgment of the same in a very handsome letter from the governors of the charity , who seem to have been extremely surprised and pleased with the donation . "—Lndian Freemasons Friend , for July .
America.
AMERICA .
CONVENTION AT HAETEOED
The Conventions of the Ceneral Grand Bodies having finished their labours , they adjourned , to meet at Chicago in 1859 . Serious thoughts have arisen in the minds of many delegates as to the utility of these hodies . The question has been asked : You have tnet , you have adjourned—what benefit has the Craft derived from your labours ? You have settled two or three questions of
jurisprudence ; you have made a new Constitution in the encampment . In tbe Chapter , you have decided that the work offered by Companion Lovell , of Massachusetts , in 1850 , which was laid on the table in 1853 , is not the work for tbe Chapters ; after passing a resolution , in 1850 , that ,, so far as the work was
exemplified , it should be the standard—making confusion worse confounded . But , as a companion stated , there was imbecility in your counsels ; you were afraid to take the lead , lest some States should be offended . All eyes were turned on you ; men of most transcendant abilities , orators of the first class , lawyers whose names had resounded throughout the States for consummate ability ; and what was the cause ? They were fettered by a Constitution ; the
least alteration would involve three years before it could be called up for adjudication . Why , in that time , the actors might be in their graves or their places