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To Correspondents.
NOT A GRAND OFFICER . —The second infringement upon decorum was more silly than the first : the third may subject the party to a rebuke . Public decency should prevent rudeness . A MASTER . —A stringent notice of motion would , for the future , bar any repetition of the abuse of time in Grand Lodge . P . M ., 525 . —No . 1 . The Senior Past Master of the Lodge is the party intended . If , however , there be no Past JIaster , the member by seniority , being a Past Master in the daft , is the fittest person . No . 2 . The re-election of a Master docs not alter the case of the immediate Past Master : both retain their position .
No . 3 . A Brother cannot be installed as a Past Master unless he has acted as Master . He may be requested to sit occasionally as one , but thereby obtains no rank . P . M . —Although a candidate for F . M . may be black-balled in one Lodge ; the Constitutions tlo not prevent his election as a candidate in another , provided ( see p . GO ) the articles are strictly enforced . Should the rejected of one Lodge afterwards present himself at such Lodge as a Mason , not being under suspension , he can claim admission to the service . " A Mason ' s Lodge is a Mason's Church . " Supposing that sound and consistent reasons barred his admission to Lodge A , those reasons might not weigh sufficiently with Lodge B ; the determination not to associate intimately may bo prudent in the one case , aud yet not consistent in the other .
If , however , the reasons for the black-ball were most stringent , and the party was unfit to be introduced into tlie Order ; in such ease , Lodge A , if they suspected his intention , should have apprised Lodge B of the facts , and thus have spared them , tne mortification of enrolling an improper person . As it is , Lodge A cannot refuse admission to the rejected one , unless they are prepared to support their ease at the Board ; but common sense , if not decency , should prompt the party not to disturb the harmony of a Lodge , if it has expressed its opinion upon sound and consistent principles . Bno . T . S . WALLIS . —A condensed account will be acceptable . A PROVINCIAL G . M . — " Military time" is becoming a phrase in provinces where Lodges meet most numerously .
ARCH MATTERS . A PROV . COMPANION , — -We see no advantage in having Chapters entitled otherwise than as the Lodge to which they are attached . P . S . —There is no order against Sunday meetings ; but the Grand Chapter will not grant a charter for such . A Git AS D OFPiCEit . —The Committee of Laws is now actively engaged in their vocation . A COMPANION is too innocent . Scarcely have four years elapsed , and many hundred pounds have been realized by certificates . Three hundred consols have been decreed to be invested for the Grand Chapter .
P- Z —A bit of a joke , surely . Five guineas to be charged for Grand Chapter meetings ! Next we shall have a charge for enlarging the Temple ! A COMPANION OF KENT . —The Hon . W . T . Fiennes was appointed G . St Bearer in 1823 . A MILITARY COMPANION . —A good idea . The chairs may he taken at five minutes after eight ( vide Laws , par . 2 , page 12 ) . Let this but be once done , and regularity will be ever after ensured ; messers and blackballs will bustle in to " military time . " BRO . SENIOR . —Vide p . 21 , Laws Gd . Ch ., for the preliminary course to obtain a charter . The three intended principals should be qualified ; as , otherwise , they could not convene a Chapter , nor act at all until installed . A TRUE EZRA . —A false prophet , say we , —the victim may prove the judge . ECCE . —Ego et rex meus ! True , but inadmissible . P . —The Professors ( two ) of the B . B . signed the hook , hut entered not . It is more than incorrect to sign the book without the intention to enter the Grand Chapter .
TEMPLARS . A CAPTAIN must be in error . We are not aware of any conclave having been held , at which the party named was elevated to the dignified station of ** Grand Master" of Knights Templars in England , except I-I . R . H . the Duke of Sussex . If any private meeting has taken place , no appointment therein made can be valid . Verb . Sat . P . E . C—The conferences may lead to a council , council to conclave , conclave to responsible government , which wi ' . l put an end to the present improper state of irresponsibility . A KNIGHT . — -The health of H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex is always given , not with Craft honours , hut as G . M . of Templars , and no other knight in England is entitled to a like compliment . II . —Let the party render his account ; we premiss him , if the account be just , it will be paid .
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To Correspondents.
NOT A GRAND OFFICER . —The second infringement upon decorum was more silly than the first : the third may subject the party to a rebuke . Public decency should prevent rudeness . A MASTER . —A stringent notice of motion would , for the future , bar any repetition of the abuse of time in Grand Lodge . P . M ., 525 . —No . 1 . The Senior Past Master of the Lodge is the party intended . If , however , there be no Past JIaster , the member by seniority , being a Past Master in the daft , is the fittest person . No . 2 . The re-election of a Master docs not alter the case of the immediate Past Master : both retain their position .
No . 3 . A Brother cannot be installed as a Past Master unless he has acted as Master . He may be requested to sit occasionally as one , but thereby obtains no rank . P . M . —Although a candidate for F . M . may be black-balled in one Lodge ; the Constitutions tlo not prevent his election as a candidate in another , provided ( see p . GO ) the articles are strictly enforced . Should the rejected of one Lodge afterwards present himself at such Lodge as a Mason , not being under suspension , he can claim admission to the service . " A Mason ' s Lodge is a Mason's Church . " Supposing that sound and consistent reasons barred his admission to Lodge A , those reasons might not weigh sufficiently with Lodge B ; the determination not to associate intimately may bo prudent in the one case , aud yet not consistent in the other .
If , however , the reasons for the black-ball were most stringent , and the party was unfit to be introduced into tlie Order ; in such ease , Lodge A , if they suspected his intention , should have apprised Lodge B of the facts , and thus have spared them , tne mortification of enrolling an improper person . As it is , Lodge A cannot refuse admission to the rejected one , unless they are prepared to support their ease at the Board ; but common sense , if not decency , should prompt the party not to disturb the harmony of a Lodge , if it has expressed its opinion upon sound and consistent principles . Bno . T . S . WALLIS . —A condensed account will be acceptable . A PROVINCIAL G . M . — " Military time" is becoming a phrase in provinces where Lodges meet most numerously .
ARCH MATTERS . A PROV . COMPANION , — -We see no advantage in having Chapters entitled otherwise than as the Lodge to which they are attached . P . S . —There is no order against Sunday meetings ; but the Grand Chapter will not grant a charter for such . A Git AS D OFPiCEit . —The Committee of Laws is now actively engaged in their vocation . A COMPANION is too innocent . Scarcely have four years elapsed , and many hundred pounds have been realized by certificates . Three hundred consols have been decreed to be invested for the Grand Chapter .
P- Z —A bit of a joke , surely . Five guineas to be charged for Grand Chapter meetings ! Next we shall have a charge for enlarging the Temple ! A COMPANION OF KENT . —The Hon . W . T . Fiennes was appointed G . St Bearer in 1823 . A MILITARY COMPANION . —A good idea . The chairs may he taken at five minutes after eight ( vide Laws , par . 2 , page 12 ) . Let this but be once done , and regularity will be ever after ensured ; messers and blackballs will bustle in to " military time . " BRO . SENIOR . —Vide p . 21 , Laws Gd . Ch ., for the preliminary course to obtain a charter . The three intended principals should be qualified ; as , otherwise , they could not convene a Chapter , nor act at all until installed . A TRUE EZRA . —A false prophet , say we , —the victim may prove the judge . ECCE . —Ego et rex meus ! True , but inadmissible . P . —The Professors ( two ) of the B . B . signed the hook , hut entered not . It is more than incorrect to sign the book without the intention to enter the Grand Chapter .
TEMPLARS . A CAPTAIN must be in error . We are not aware of any conclave having been held , at which the party named was elevated to the dignified station of ** Grand Master" of Knights Templars in England , except I-I . R . H . the Duke of Sussex . If any private meeting has taken place , no appointment therein made can be valid . Verb . Sat . P . E . C—The conferences may lead to a council , council to conclave , conclave to responsible government , which wi ' . l put an end to the present improper state of irresponsibility . A KNIGHT . — -The health of H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex is always given , not with Craft honours , hut as G . M . of Templars , and no other knight in England is entitled to a like compliment . II . —Let the party render his account ; we premiss him , if the account be just , it will be paid .