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Correspondence.
COMESPONUENCE .
/¦ .. . -.- PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —The leading article in your publication of the 28 th of April contains sentiments respecting Provincial Grand Lodges , to & ome of which in my mind there are serious and strong objections . *
[ The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions : entertained by Correspondents . ]
By the manner in which the Prov . Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire is mentioned , I infer that the copy of the proposed code of by-laws recently submitted to the Prov . Grand Lodge , and printed in the usual circular , has given rise to your observations . If such be the case , and your general
remarks are principally intended to apply to the before named Provincial Grand Lodge , I beg respectfully to offer a few comments thereon , and for the sake of brevity , I shall adopt your own arrangement , by first touching upon the general question ; and , in the second place , upon such
as apply to the province of West Yorkshire in particular . I cannot agree with you as to the opening of a Provincial Grand Lodge within a private Lodge , as I fail to see any loss of dignity in that practice as we have it , viz ., of first requiring the Worshipful Master and Officers of the private Lodge where the meeting is intended to be held , to open such Lodge in the three Degrees , whereby an opportunity is afforded for all Master Masons to be duly examined and admitted without confusion during the time the Provincial Grand Officers are clothing and
otherwise making their necessary arrangements . The question of superiority of the Provincial Grand Lodge is perfectly patent , for on the entry thereof into the private Lodge ( the Brethren all standing to receive it ) , the Worshipful Master and Officers of the latter immediately give place to the Provincial Grand Officers , after which the Provincial Grand Lodge is opened in the form due to the rank of its presiding officer . The business being over , the Provincial Grand Lodge is then closed , its Officers retire in Masonic order of procession and the Officers of the private Lodge resume their functions ( the Brethren respectfully standing as before ) ,
tints preventing the unseemly appearance of Brethren disrobing in the Grand Lodge . To put a small , or even any private Lodge to expense , on account of the meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge in its locality , must at all times be reprehensible and lowering to the dignity of the latter , and it affords me satisfaction to say that the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire has always paid out of its funds all expenses necessarily and fairly arising out of the same being held .
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Correspondence.
COMESPONUENCE .
/¦ .. . -.- PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —The leading article in your publication of the 28 th of April contains sentiments respecting Provincial Grand Lodges , to & ome of which in my mind there are serious and strong objections . *
[ The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions : entertained by Correspondents . ]
By the manner in which the Prov . Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire is mentioned , I infer that the copy of the proposed code of by-laws recently submitted to the Prov . Grand Lodge , and printed in the usual circular , has given rise to your observations . If such be the case , and your general
remarks are principally intended to apply to the before named Provincial Grand Lodge , I beg respectfully to offer a few comments thereon , and for the sake of brevity , I shall adopt your own arrangement , by first touching upon the general question ; and , in the second place , upon such
as apply to the province of West Yorkshire in particular . I cannot agree with you as to the opening of a Provincial Grand Lodge within a private Lodge , as I fail to see any loss of dignity in that practice as we have it , viz ., of first requiring the Worshipful Master and Officers of the private Lodge where the meeting is intended to be held , to open such Lodge in the three Degrees , whereby an opportunity is afforded for all Master Masons to be duly examined and admitted without confusion during the time the Provincial Grand Officers are clothing and
otherwise making their necessary arrangements . The question of superiority of the Provincial Grand Lodge is perfectly patent , for on the entry thereof into the private Lodge ( the Brethren all standing to receive it ) , the Worshipful Master and Officers of the latter immediately give place to the Provincial Grand Officers , after which the Provincial Grand Lodge is opened in the form due to the rank of its presiding officer . The business being over , the Provincial Grand Lodge is then closed , its Officers retire in Masonic order of procession and the Officers of the private Lodge resume their functions ( the Brethren respectfully standing as before ) ,
tints preventing the unseemly appearance of Brethren disrobing in the Grand Lodge . To put a small , or even any private Lodge to expense , on account of the meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge in its locality , must at all times be reprehensible and lowering to the dignity of the latter , and it affords me satisfaction to say that the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire has always paid out of its funds all expenses necessarily and fairly arising out of the same being held .