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I hope you will give my ideas a place in your Magazine ^ , ^ o that they may come under the notice of the committee and provm ^ § iey approves of it will , I trust , signify their approval to the committee ; and I hope that your influence will be exerted in its behalf ^^ ^ a will be of considerable advantage to country Masons , whose avocations , like
niine , seldom call them away from home , but who would oftener attend Grand Lodge and the festivals , if sleeping accommodation in a house of their own were provided at a moderate charge . I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , P . M .
REGENT DIFFERENCES OF NEW YORK MASONS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . De ah Sir and Brother ,- —The action of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York , having for its object the union of the two par ties in litigation ,
was finally consumated last week , by the action of the joint commn ^ tee appointed at that time for the purpose ; all properties , and the evidences of debt , together with all the archives and documents , were surrendered to the proper officers of the Grand Lodge , thereby consummating the union achieved in June last .
This has been effected in a manner satisfactory to all parties ; , all pledges and promises have been fulfilled , and the fraternity are now , in the jurisdiction , a united and harmonious body . Long and grievous has been the conflict—those who should have been drawn together in the bonds of fraternal love have been estranged , and their peace destroyed , by the quarrels of
those who rather than submit to the will of the majority , arbitrary as it might have been , conducted themselves in such a manner that a reconciliation seemed impossible and scarcely to be . hoped for , until it was announced on the floor of the Grand Lodge by the committee of conference , at the last June communication .
The great relief which the whole fraternity now are realizing can only be appreciated fully by those who were compelled to endure the evils which grew out of the condition of things existing during the estrangement . Your readers are all interested in this matter , because it serves as a landmark to point out the power of the interior principles of the institution itself ,
which wrought this mighty deliverance . The power of love has manifested itself triumphantly , and the result is peace and harmony . This achievement was not accomplished by force or strife—there was a determination on the part of the minority to submit tacitly to the action of the Grand Lodge , where the representatives from the country had a decided majority when united , as they generally were upon all local questions .
As many of your readers are not in a position to fully understand all the local influences which bear upon our actions here , it seems to me to be necessary to make a brief allusion to certain conditions which exist in our midst , and I do this only on account of the little that is known about these
conditions abroad . In tracing the history of the fraternity in this jurisdiction for a series of years back into the past quarter century , we find a party who resisted the constituted authorities of that period , on account of certain rules and regulations which prohibited Masonic processions in public without special permission first having been obtained . An application for
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G011esfoidei6e
I hope you will give my ideas a place in your Magazine ^ , ^ o that they may come under the notice of the committee and provm ^ § iey approves of it will , I trust , signify their approval to the committee ; and I hope that your influence will be exerted in its behalf ^^ ^ a will be of considerable advantage to country Masons , whose avocations , like
niine , seldom call them away from home , but who would oftener attend Grand Lodge and the festivals , if sleeping accommodation in a house of their own were provided at a moderate charge . I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , P . M .
REGENT DIFFERENCES OF NEW YORK MASONS . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . De ah Sir and Brother ,- —The action of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York , having for its object the union of the two par ties in litigation ,
was finally consumated last week , by the action of the joint commn ^ tee appointed at that time for the purpose ; all properties , and the evidences of debt , together with all the archives and documents , were surrendered to the proper officers of the Grand Lodge , thereby consummating the union achieved in June last .
This has been effected in a manner satisfactory to all parties ; , all pledges and promises have been fulfilled , and the fraternity are now , in the jurisdiction , a united and harmonious body . Long and grievous has been the conflict—those who should have been drawn together in the bonds of fraternal love have been estranged , and their peace destroyed , by the quarrels of
those who rather than submit to the will of the majority , arbitrary as it might have been , conducted themselves in such a manner that a reconciliation seemed impossible and scarcely to be . hoped for , until it was announced on the floor of the Grand Lodge by the committee of conference , at the last June communication .
The great relief which the whole fraternity now are realizing can only be appreciated fully by those who were compelled to endure the evils which grew out of the condition of things existing during the estrangement . Your readers are all interested in this matter , because it serves as a landmark to point out the power of the interior principles of the institution itself ,
which wrought this mighty deliverance . The power of love has manifested itself triumphantly , and the result is peace and harmony . This achievement was not accomplished by force or strife—there was a determination on the part of the minority to submit tacitly to the action of the Grand Lodge , where the representatives from the country had a decided majority when united , as they generally were upon all local questions .
As many of your readers are not in a position to fully understand all the local influences which bear upon our actions here , it seems to me to be necessary to make a brief allusion to certain conditions which exist in our midst , and I do this only on account of the little that is known about these
conditions abroad . In tracing the history of the fraternity in this jurisdiction for a series of years back into the past quarter century , we find a party who resisted the constituted authorities of that period , on account of certain rules and regulations which prohibited Masonic processions in public without special permission first having been obtained . An application for