Recommendatory

The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface.

If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?

That while it was optional with the Lodge as to whether or not it would grant a recommendatory certificate with a dimit, it is equally optional with the member applying for dimit whether or not he will accept a dimit without a recommendatory certificate.

Since it is now the CAO who determines when compliance has been reached, its findings can no longer be considered merely recommendatory.