...for Grand Officers by means of circular letters, cards and other printed matter to be "Un-Masonic," that the office should seek the man and not the man the office ; further, that Recorders should draw warrants in payment of Grand Council dues and Treasurers should...

...corner of the world kept many a man from his duty by the credence it has won for the preposterous notion that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. This notion was for some time common, and can hardly yet be said to be uncommon, in the northeastern...

...seek a man. The positions in public service usually are sought for by men, and it is a very good maxim that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and so our public positions are the targets for office-seekers who don't hesitate to employ every kind...

...for all positions of trust; and to have carried out the principle which should always characterize every Patron, that 'The office should seek the man, and not the man the office'." While the Grange took no part in Elections it did, in later years, advocate certain political principles...

...right men to execute ; and that the right men are usually more surely found by observance of the maxim: "The office should seek the man, and not the man the office." The policy as to quarantining houses, in case yellow fever should ever again appear, should be very...

...mentioned for the position." Adams' anonymous letter followed. It opened by noting that the oft-stated rule that "the office should seek the man and not the man the office" was sound but had not been observed much in recent years. The rule implied, the author said, that the...

...to be president of the Southern Baptist Convention?" of genuine conviction. I have always believed the office should seek the man and not the man the office." Q: "The Peace Committee found a broad diversity [of beliefs] among Southern Baptists. How do you relate...

...apt to show no higher standards than did the men they usually denounced. One of their shibboleths was that the office should seek the man and not the man the office. This is entirely true of certain offices at certain times. It is entirely untrue when the circumstances...

...to have carried out the principles which should always characterize every grange member; the ofBce should seek the man, and not the man the office. We...broad principle that difference of opinion is no crime ; that progress towards truth is made by difference of opinion, while the fault lies in bitterness...

...which should always characterize every Patron, that THK OFFICE SHOULD SEEK THE MAN, AND NOT TIIK MANTUB OFFICE. We acknowledge the broad principle, that difference...crime, and hold that "progress toward truth is made by difference of opinion," while the "fault lies in bitterness of controversy." We desire a proper equality,...