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India.
strong as if he had been both one and the other , and when his name is mentioned I do not doubt that it will be duly honoured , as it deserves . There cannot be a Brother here who has not heard of the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review—( cheers ) . It is a publication which is not only an honour to the Craft , speakingin a literary point of view , but whichhas been of the greatest utility to Masonry . It has been the means of collecting all the scattered rays of Masonry into a focus thus illuminating sub
, every - ject , and illustrating every point , wherein information was required . This Review , so beneficial to Masonry , has been supported almost solel y by the Editor , to whom it has been but slightly beneficial , in a pecuniary point of view ; but the Brother cares for none of these things , or for any personal sacrifice , provided the interests of Masonry are promoted—( loud cheers ) .
In many Lodges m London , so general is the conviction of the utility of the Editor ' s efforts , that the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , is a standing toast never received but with great applause . This toast 1 should have thus given , if I had not seen in the news last received from England , that all concealment on the subject has been dropped , and the Editor has appeared under the much honored appellation of Dr . Robert Thomas Crucefix ( great cheers )
, . _ To eulogise this excellent ancl worthy man and Mason according to his deserts is indeed a difficult task . We who have been able to see and experience his excellencies can alone value them . Excelling in all Masonic lore , he is ever most read y to communicate all he knows ; and he was ever prompt to forward any end , aim , or object in Masonry , to which we directed our efforts . I appeal to Brotlier Grant . Secretary .
on this subject , who can bear ample testimony to the correctness of what I say . On us , indeed , Brother Crucefix has a further claim , ancl that of no light kind . It is in fact also to him we owe the opportunity of meeting as we this day do , and of having a Provincial Grand Lodge in Bengal , ( cheers ) . Others no doubt contributed very powerfully to this end , but Dr . Crucefix first set forth the awful consequences entailed on Masonry in Bengal by a total absence of all superintending authoritancl
y , thus caused the Grand Master to cast his eyes about for an officer to whom he might delegate his authority ; and happy are we that the lot has fallen on that most excellent and estimable Brother whom we have this day first saluted in open Lodge as Grand Master of Bengal —( renewed cheers ) .
Much Brethren as we thus stand indebted to Brother Crucefix , whether as a benefactor to the Craft , or to India Masonry in particular , it is not to him in those characters that I wish more particularly to drink his health;—I propose it in the glorious capacity of the founder of the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons —( loud applause ) . On this subject it is necessary to make a few words of explanation , that the nature of the case may be known . We have for a long lime had in London two most excellent
Charities , the Boys' School , and the Girls ' , where the children of destitute Brethren were educated . But for old and destitute Brethren there was no receptacle . Many Brethren who had formerly been in respectable and flourishing circumstance , had been reduced to poverty , and went from Lodge to Lodge seeking relief ; while as it may be said their tattered garments ancl grey hairs shamed the Institution of which they had been worth y Members —( cries of hear ) . To remedy this crying evil Brother Crucefix bent the energies of his
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India.
strong as if he had been both one and the other , and when his name is mentioned I do not doubt that it will be duly honoured , as it deserves . There cannot be a Brother here who has not heard of the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review—( cheers ) . It is a publication which is not only an honour to the Craft , speakingin a literary point of view , but whichhas been of the greatest utility to Masonry . It has been the means of collecting all the scattered rays of Masonry into a focus thus illuminating sub
, every - ject , and illustrating every point , wherein information was required . This Review , so beneficial to Masonry , has been supported almost solel y by the Editor , to whom it has been but slightly beneficial , in a pecuniary point of view ; but the Brother cares for none of these things , or for any personal sacrifice , provided the interests of Masonry are promoted—( loud cheers ) .
In many Lodges m London , so general is the conviction of the utility of the Editor ' s efforts , that the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , is a standing toast never received but with great applause . This toast 1 should have thus given , if I had not seen in the news last received from England , that all concealment on the subject has been dropped , and the Editor has appeared under the much honored appellation of Dr . Robert Thomas Crucefix ( great cheers )
, . _ To eulogise this excellent ancl worthy man and Mason according to his deserts is indeed a difficult task . We who have been able to see and experience his excellencies can alone value them . Excelling in all Masonic lore , he is ever most read y to communicate all he knows ; and he was ever prompt to forward any end , aim , or object in Masonry , to which we directed our efforts . I appeal to Brotlier Grant . Secretary .
on this subject , who can bear ample testimony to the correctness of what I say . On us , indeed , Brother Crucefix has a further claim , ancl that of no light kind . It is in fact also to him we owe the opportunity of meeting as we this day do , and of having a Provincial Grand Lodge in Bengal , ( cheers ) . Others no doubt contributed very powerfully to this end , but Dr . Crucefix first set forth the awful consequences entailed on Masonry in Bengal by a total absence of all superintending authoritancl
y , thus caused the Grand Master to cast his eyes about for an officer to whom he might delegate his authority ; and happy are we that the lot has fallen on that most excellent and estimable Brother whom we have this day first saluted in open Lodge as Grand Master of Bengal —( renewed cheers ) .
Much Brethren as we thus stand indebted to Brother Crucefix , whether as a benefactor to the Craft , or to India Masonry in particular , it is not to him in those characters that I wish more particularly to drink his health;—I propose it in the glorious capacity of the founder of the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons —( loud applause ) . On this subject it is necessary to make a few words of explanation , that the nature of the case may be known . We have for a long lime had in London two most excellent
Charities , the Boys' School , and the Girls ' , where the children of destitute Brethren were educated . But for old and destitute Brethren there was no receptacle . Many Brethren who had formerly been in respectable and flourishing circumstance , had been reduced to poverty , and went from Lodge to Lodge seeking relief ; while as it may be said their tattered garments ancl grey hairs shamed the Institution of which they had been worth y Members —( cries of hear ) . To remedy this crying evil Brother Crucefix bent the energies of his