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respectability . . -of the Grand Lodge of Canada . He hoped that Grand Lodge would consider the point , and let it stand over for further consideration . Let them not be guilty of an act of injustice to those who owed allegiance to them . The laws of the new Grand Lodge of Canada provided that those who did not unite with that Grand Lodge should have no right to enter it at all . He would like the Grand Lodge of Canada recognized as it should be . They would be proceeding too rapidly if they did it that night . He would rather postpone it till the next Grand Lodge . Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon : — " Like the Worshipful Brother who just sat down , I intended to have made one or two remarks . Like him , your lordship ' s observations have come upon me with surprise . Like him I can say , that while hearing with perhaps as great satisfaction as any other member of Grand Lodge the announcement * which your lordship has just made—while concurring in it as heartily as any one in the room can concur in it , because it has been the course which I have all along thought desirable and right , and which I have proposed to Grand Lodge , sorn . etim . es perhaps with too much pertinacity- — -at the same time
I agree with the worthy Brother who has just sat down , and would respectfully request your lordship to reconsider the motion , ^ with , the vie w : of bringing it forward at the next quarterly communication . Nobody ' more thoroughly heartily agrees with the substance of that motion than I do ; but , for that very reason , I would invest the announcement with all the deliberation and all the solemnity which it can possibly have , and therefore I would earnestly press on your lordship the importance of giving formal notice of it now , and bringing it forward at the next quarterly communication , that it may be carried , as it * deserves to be , with complete and entire unanimity . There is one single remark more
which I would make , and that is , that 1 trust that the announcement which you have just made may be in many respects the close of these . differences which have embittered the discussions of the last year and a hal £ I trust that whatever may have been the causes which have led to the separation of the Canadian Lodges , and no one regrets them more than I do—no one has spoken more freely concerning them than I have—still , whatever these causes may have been , I trust that though we may henceforth be separate as bodies , we may , in heart , be one—having the . same common object—that we may still be united by ties as strong , and as enduring as those bonds which unite us socially and politically with the Canadian
dependencies of the British crown . " Bro . Havers , P . S . G . D .: — "I feel , as every one who is placed in my position must feel , a certain degree of difficulty . We have here a proposition to recognize the Grand Lodge of Canada , couched in Masonic terms ; and yet , from the lips of him who has been the chief , the most eloquent advocate of the claims of Canada , we have an opposition to that motion . Most Worshipful sir , it has been within the knowledge of all the Masons of this country , or at least within the knowledge of all those who take an interest in its progress , that so far back as July last we were aware of the
existence of this Grand Lodge , although it was not till yesterday that our Grand Secretary received an official intimation of the fact . Shall we ignore all that we have known of their doings ? Shall we take no notice of all that has been placed before us in print , aud in communications published by ourselves , with respect to the cordial and fraternal spirit which governed these two Grand Lodges in their union , and in the expression of tlieir' feelings to us . ^ I have never denied the shortcomings of the Grand Lodge of England towards the Canadian Brethren . Without going a step further than what the Grand Master proposes , by recognizing the Grand Lodge of Canada ,, . reserving unto himself tho mode in which that recognition shall" be made , —you will do an act worthy of the Grand Lodge of England ,
ancj . grateful to the feelings of your Canadian Brethren—an act which will serve tocement at once and for ever that cordiality which happily now exists . You do not bind yourselves as to any specific act further than that which justice demands at your hands-, and you reserves to yourselves the distinct jurisdiction over Quebec ,
Montreal , and St . John ' s , New Brunswick , giving the Grand Lodge oi Canada , numbering a hundred Lodges , full jurisdiction over Canada West , but at the aamo time reserving mont carefully and moot ; explicitly—as we are bound as honest men to do—tho protection of the Grand Lodge of England for those Lodges which have
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Tie Ii So Nic Mill Or
respectability . . -of the Grand Lodge of Canada . He hoped that Grand Lodge would consider the point , and let it stand over for further consideration . Let them not be guilty of an act of injustice to those who owed allegiance to them . The laws of the new Grand Lodge of Canada provided that those who did not unite with that Grand Lodge should have no right to enter it at all . He would like the Grand Lodge of Canada recognized as it should be . They would be proceeding too rapidly if they did it that night . He would rather postpone it till the next Grand Lodge . Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon : — " Like the Worshipful Brother who just sat down , I intended to have made one or two remarks . Like him , your lordship ' s observations have come upon me with surprise . Like him I can say , that while hearing with perhaps as great satisfaction as any other member of Grand Lodge the announcement * which your lordship has just made—while concurring in it as heartily as any one in the room can concur in it , because it has been the course which I have all along thought desirable and right , and which I have proposed to Grand Lodge , sorn . etim . es perhaps with too much pertinacity- — -at the same time
I agree with the worthy Brother who has just sat down , and would respectfully request your lordship to reconsider the motion , ^ with , the vie w : of bringing it forward at the next quarterly communication . Nobody ' more thoroughly heartily agrees with the substance of that motion than I do ; but , for that very reason , I would invest the announcement with all the deliberation and all the solemnity which it can possibly have , and therefore I would earnestly press on your lordship the importance of giving formal notice of it now , and bringing it forward at the next quarterly communication , that it may be carried , as it * deserves to be , with complete and entire unanimity . There is one single remark more
which I would make , and that is , that 1 trust that the announcement which you have just made may be in many respects the close of these . differences which have embittered the discussions of the last year and a hal £ I trust that whatever may have been the causes which have led to the separation of the Canadian Lodges , and no one regrets them more than I do—no one has spoken more freely concerning them than I have—still , whatever these causes may have been , I trust that though we may henceforth be separate as bodies , we may , in heart , be one—having the . same common object—that we may still be united by ties as strong , and as enduring as those bonds which unite us socially and politically with the Canadian
dependencies of the British crown . " Bro . Havers , P . S . G . D .: — "I feel , as every one who is placed in my position must feel , a certain degree of difficulty . We have here a proposition to recognize the Grand Lodge of Canada , couched in Masonic terms ; and yet , from the lips of him who has been the chief , the most eloquent advocate of the claims of Canada , we have an opposition to that motion . Most Worshipful sir , it has been within the knowledge of all the Masons of this country , or at least within the knowledge of all those who take an interest in its progress , that so far back as July last we were aware of the
existence of this Grand Lodge , although it was not till yesterday that our Grand Secretary received an official intimation of the fact . Shall we ignore all that we have known of their doings ? Shall we take no notice of all that has been placed before us in print , aud in communications published by ourselves , with respect to the cordial and fraternal spirit which governed these two Grand Lodges in their union , and in the expression of tlieir' feelings to us . ^ I have never denied the shortcomings of the Grand Lodge of England towards the Canadian Brethren . Without going a step further than what the Grand Master proposes , by recognizing the Grand Lodge of Canada ,, . reserving unto himself tho mode in which that recognition shall" be made , —you will do an act worthy of the Grand Lodge of England ,
ancj . grateful to the feelings of your Canadian Brethren—an act which will serve tocement at once and for ever that cordiality which happily now exists . You do not bind yourselves as to any specific act further than that which justice demands at your hands-, and you reserves to yourselves the distinct jurisdiction over Quebec ,
Montreal , and St . John ' s , New Brunswick , giving the Grand Lodge oi Canada , numbering a hundred Lodges , full jurisdiction over Canada West , but at the aamo time reserving mont carefully and moot ; explicitly—as we are bound as honest men to do—tho protection of the Grand Lodge of England for those Lodges which have