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Letters To The Editor.
founded , still rather than absent themselves from Masonry altogether ; they seek to obtain a new warrant , and their late associates , approving of the course taken , still differing with them on other points , cheerfully recommend their petition ; would it not be likely , that if , when the new Lodge was constituted , the recommending Lodge were to claim admission as members without ballot , that the former feuds would be renewed ? It is clear that all but those petitioning must undergo the ballot . We have dwelt at some length on this case , because our opinion given here will answer to two other correspondents on the very same point of discipline . " ]—ED
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I forward you a copy of an anonymous letter , which I know to have been circulated as generally as the author ' s inventive talent for mischief could desire ; ancl that you ancl your readers may see that in all cases the anonymous slanderer does not succeed . I also send you the best reply to his venomous attempt at the assassination of character . Yours & c , June -Sth , 1840 . A MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE CRAFT .
" To the W . Master of the Scientific Lodge , Cambridge" ¦ SIR AND BROTHER , —As there is a begging letterin circulation to get up a Tribute or Testimonial to a Brother Crucefix , for , as the writer says , services done to the Craft , —the whole is a delusion . All the claims the letter enumerates are acts of ambition . As to the Grancl Stewardshi p , hundreds are yearly seeking the honour . AVith respect to his presiding
at meetings , that has been long feeding his ambition . The Past Masters ' Club has been bane to the Order . In proof of the good lie has done , both Crucefix ancl J . Lee Stevens are suspended from all their Masonic functions , the first for six calendar months , ancl the latter for three months . So much for deserving a Testimonial , neither of these parties can enter a Loclge until the period of their disgrace has terminated , " I am , AV . M ., yours fraternally ,
" P . S . —My object in writing is that as an Honorary Member of the School of Plato , I feel a lively interest in the Lodges in Cambridge . " " 19 , Great St . Helens . " " " DEAR SIR , —1 am happy to inform you that the School of Plato Masonic Lodge , has agreed to subscribe ll . Is- towards the funds for
a Testimonial to Dr . Crucefix . I am , Dear Sir , yours truly , A PAST MASTER OF THE SCHOOL OF PLATO . Cambridge , May 23 rd .
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Letters To The Editor.
founded , still rather than absent themselves from Masonry altogether ; they seek to obtain a new warrant , and their late associates , approving of the course taken , still differing with them on other points , cheerfully recommend their petition ; would it not be likely , that if , when the new Lodge was constituted , the recommending Lodge were to claim admission as members without ballot , that the former feuds would be renewed ? It is clear that all but those petitioning must undergo the ballot . We have dwelt at some length on this case , because our opinion given here will answer to two other correspondents on the very same point of discipline . " ]—ED
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I forward you a copy of an anonymous letter , which I know to have been circulated as generally as the author ' s inventive talent for mischief could desire ; ancl that you ancl your readers may see that in all cases the anonymous slanderer does not succeed . I also send you the best reply to his venomous attempt at the assassination of character . Yours & c , June -Sth , 1840 . A MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE CRAFT .
" To the W . Master of the Scientific Lodge , Cambridge" ¦ SIR AND BROTHER , —As there is a begging letterin circulation to get up a Tribute or Testimonial to a Brother Crucefix , for , as the writer says , services done to the Craft , —the whole is a delusion . All the claims the letter enumerates are acts of ambition . As to the Grancl Stewardshi p , hundreds are yearly seeking the honour . AVith respect to his presiding
at meetings , that has been long feeding his ambition . The Past Masters ' Club has been bane to the Order . In proof of the good lie has done , both Crucefix ancl J . Lee Stevens are suspended from all their Masonic functions , the first for six calendar months , ancl the latter for three months . So much for deserving a Testimonial , neither of these parties can enter a Loclge until the period of their disgrace has terminated , " I am , AV . M ., yours fraternally ,
" P . S . —My object in writing is that as an Honorary Member of the School of Plato , I feel a lively interest in the Lodges in Cambridge . " " 19 , Great St . Helens . " " " DEAR SIR , —1 am happy to inform you that the School of Plato Masonic Lodge , has agreed to subscribe ll . Is- towards the funds for
a Testimonial to Dr . Crucefix . I am , Dear Sir , yours truly , A PAST MASTER OF THE SCHOOL OF PLATO . Cambridge , May 23 rd .