He may never do so, or he may in three months, in a year, or in five years.

The members are, therefore, no more prepared to expect this renewed application at any particular meeting of the lodge, than they are to anticipate any entirely new petition of a profane.

If, therefore, the second application is not made at one regular meeting and laid over to the next, the possibility is that the lodge may be taken by surprise, and in the words of the old Regulation, "a turbulent member may be imposed on it." The inexpediency of any other course may be readily seen, from a suppositions case.

We will assume that in a certain lodge, A, who is a Fellow Craft, applies regularly for advancement to the third degree.

On this occasion, for good and sufficient reasons, two of the members, B and C, express their dissent by depositing black balls.