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Masonic Interlopers.
and interleaved , and he turned to the same and stared that as neither of their names were to be found therein he must decline to' introduce them unless they produced the certificate issued by THE SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL , when they declared " they didn ' t hnoio there was a Supreme , Grand Council ,
"for Bro . never told them anything about it when he made " them . " Very little explanation followed , as the Londoner refused to hold any parley with * " them as Hose Croix brethren ; but at the close of the interview one of them , highly indignant , denounced in no measured terms the individual referred to , and put the pertinent question : — " If we are unable to " visit a Eose Croix chapter either here , or abroad , what is
" the use of Bro . pretending to give us that degree 1 Pelf has been suggested as the cause of this obliquity of masonic vision in the provincial alluded to , but such an idea ought not to be entertained for one instant , because it is so uncharitable towards the wrong-doer , who—wrong-headed as
he is—is yet a gentleman pure , but not sans o-eproehe . We do not , however , stop to inquire , or conjecture , what can be his motives . The fact—the stubborn fact—ought to be known to every member of the higher grades , that there is an individual brother exercising powers which are now — by the
prescriptive right of adhesion , universal recognition , and the common-law period of undisputed possession—vested only in our SUPREME G RAND COUNCIL OF THE xxxnf .
Nor ought our brethren to overlook very objectionable proceedings which have taken place in consequence of some of the Western brethren having put themselves under THE SUPREME GRAND C OUNCIL , Petty annoyances , in other degrees in which the irresponsible holds sway , have been accumulated against
these legitimate S . Ps . E . ^ ., and a mild system of persecution has commenced , but whether it will be developed into intensity time alone will resolve . Still , a wail of distress has gone forth , and it is the duty of us all to sympathize , and endeavour to alleviate the sorrows of those who are adhering
to the right path . To that appeal neither we , nor THE SUPREME C OUNCIL , ought to remain dumb , but measures should H 2
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Masonic Interlopers.
and interleaved , and he turned to the same and stared that as neither of their names were to be found therein he must decline to' introduce them unless they produced the certificate issued by THE SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL , when they declared " they didn ' t hnoio there was a Supreme , Grand Council ,
"for Bro . never told them anything about it when he made " them . " Very little explanation followed , as the Londoner refused to hold any parley with * " them as Hose Croix brethren ; but at the close of the interview one of them , highly indignant , denounced in no measured terms the individual referred to , and put the pertinent question : — " If we are unable to " visit a Eose Croix chapter either here , or abroad , what is
" the use of Bro . pretending to give us that degree 1 Pelf has been suggested as the cause of this obliquity of masonic vision in the provincial alluded to , but such an idea ought not to be entertained for one instant , because it is so uncharitable towards the wrong-doer , who—wrong-headed as
he is—is yet a gentleman pure , but not sans o-eproehe . We do not , however , stop to inquire , or conjecture , what can be his motives . The fact—the stubborn fact—ought to be known to every member of the higher grades , that there is an individual brother exercising powers which are now — by the
prescriptive right of adhesion , universal recognition , and the common-law period of undisputed possession—vested only in our SUPREME G RAND COUNCIL OF THE xxxnf .
Nor ought our brethren to overlook very objectionable proceedings which have taken place in consequence of some of the Western brethren having put themselves under THE SUPREME GRAND C OUNCIL , Petty annoyances , in other degrees in which the irresponsible holds sway , have been accumulated against
these legitimate S . Ps . E . ^ ., and a mild system of persecution has commenced , but whether it will be developed into intensity time alone will resolve . Still , a wail of distress has gone forth , and it is the duty of us all to sympathize , and endeavour to alleviate the sorrows of those who are adhering
to the right path . To that appeal neither we , nor THE SUPREME C OUNCIL , ought to remain dumb , but measures should H 2