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The Asylum.
Committee , who have zealously laboured to promote your wishes by fulfilling their trust . . " There has been a steady improvement m our funds . 1 he sum invested amounts to £ 2 , 030 . Three hundred pounds are invested in Exchequer Bills , ancl one hundred pounds in the Savings' Bank . There also remains about one hundred pounds at the bankers , and a like amount uncollected from subscriptions and donations . announced the intention to
" The Report of last year carry your benevolent object into effect by granting annuities until the Asylum itself should be erected and endowed . That object has been effected , and several annuitants have partaken of your bounty , and bless you as the instruments under Providence of cheering their evening of life . " Your liberality is not undeserved by them . You may rest assured that your aged friends , every one of them , do equal honour with yourselves to the noble princip le of Charity , in thus exemplifying the truth of that heavenly maxim , ' that the receiver and the donor are equaUy
UiGSSGll " Tlie correspondence is no less gratify ing . From every quarter , the hig h moral evidence of the utility of this institution stands out so clear and distinct , that we are much mistaken if before another year is past this Charity does not stand in the proud station of parentage to others ; for it is already in agitation to commence similar institutions in India and elsewhere . These happy circumstances may affect us a little in point of finance , "but they abundantly prove the hig h character of this
institution . . . " There is , however , some drawback on this otherwise successful statement ; but it is only to be discovered in that misunderstanding which has arisen out of falsehood , the effects of which no exertion could prevent but which effects your Committee have left no means miattempted to remove . They unite with your Trustees ancl Treasurer in congratulating you on the present state of your affairs , ancl confidently trust to your impartiality ancl justice for your approval of their conduct . " , The Doctor then advanced nearer the company , and addressed them
nearly as follows— »* -, ' " To say that he was unprepared for the generous burst of feeling that had followed the toast , which the Honourable Brother , the Chairman had proposed , would neither become him nor the friends he was addressin g It was a most delightful task to acknowledge so grateful a kindness ° ( if he mig ht be permitted so to speak ) as shewn to his colleagues and himself ; the former , at least , were not undeserving of it , and his feelings assured him that he could join heart and soul in
own offering their united thanks . ( Dr . Crucefix paused for some time evidently labouring under deep emotion , he however recovered and proceeded ) . A glance around that Hall painfully reminded him of manv past scenes , ancl as he then stood before the meeting , atone-not in desolation—but tlie one sing led out as a mark , he implored them for the sake of those whose humble advocate he had ever been , and ever must continue to benot to allow the interests of the Asylum to suffer by any
, presumed unworthiness of his . It did not follow , that because might had for a season overcome right , that justice would not yet be cone ; ancl he should abide the issue of time with that hopeful expectation which his conscience supplied , as a moral guard against self-reproach . The Honourable Brother in the chair , whose rank and station entitled
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The Asylum.
Committee , who have zealously laboured to promote your wishes by fulfilling their trust . . " There has been a steady improvement m our funds . 1 he sum invested amounts to £ 2 , 030 . Three hundred pounds are invested in Exchequer Bills , ancl one hundred pounds in the Savings' Bank . There also remains about one hundred pounds at the bankers , and a like amount uncollected from subscriptions and donations . announced the intention to
" The Report of last year carry your benevolent object into effect by granting annuities until the Asylum itself should be erected and endowed . That object has been effected , and several annuitants have partaken of your bounty , and bless you as the instruments under Providence of cheering their evening of life . " Your liberality is not undeserved by them . You may rest assured that your aged friends , every one of them , do equal honour with yourselves to the noble princip le of Charity , in thus exemplifying the truth of that heavenly maxim , ' that the receiver and the donor are equaUy
UiGSSGll " Tlie correspondence is no less gratify ing . From every quarter , the hig h moral evidence of the utility of this institution stands out so clear and distinct , that we are much mistaken if before another year is past this Charity does not stand in the proud station of parentage to others ; for it is already in agitation to commence similar institutions in India and elsewhere . These happy circumstances may affect us a little in point of finance , "but they abundantly prove the hig h character of this
institution . . . " There is , however , some drawback on this otherwise successful statement ; but it is only to be discovered in that misunderstanding which has arisen out of falsehood , the effects of which no exertion could prevent but which effects your Committee have left no means miattempted to remove . They unite with your Trustees ancl Treasurer in congratulating you on the present state of your affairs , ancl confidently trust to your impartiality ancl justice for your approval of their conduct . " , The Doctor then advanced nearer the company , and addressed them
nearly as follows— »* -, ' " To say that he was unprepared for the generous burst of feeling that had followed the toast , which the Honourable Brother , the Chairman had proposed , would neither become him nor the friends he was addressin g It was a most delightful task to acknowledge so grateful a kindness ° ( if he mig ht be permitted so to speak ) as shewn to his colleagues and himself ; the former , at least , were not undeserving of it , and his feelings assured him that he could join heart and soul in
own offering their united thanks . ( Dr . Crucefix paused for some time evidently labouring under deep emotion , he however recovered and proceeded ) . A glance around that Hall painfully reminded him of manv past scenes , ancl as he then stood before the meeting , atone-not in desolation—but tlie one sing led out as a mark , he implored them for the sake of those whose humble advocate he had ever been , and ever must continue to benot to allow the interests of the Asylum to suffer by any
, presumed unworthiness of his . It did not follow , that because might had for a season overcome right , that justice would not yet be cone ; ancl he should abide the issue of time with that hopeful expectation which his conscience supplied , as a moral guard against self-reproach . The Honourable Brother in the chair , whose rank and station entitled