-
Articles/Ads
Article PERSECUTION Page 1 of 21 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Persecution
PERSECUTION
01 ? BROS . ALDERMAN THOMAS WOOD , JOHN LEE STEVENS , AND ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , M . D . " Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Asltelun ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice ; lest the daughters of the uneircumcised triumph . "—2 SAM . i . 20 .
" And Felix trembled " ACTS xxiv . 25 . " To-morrow my appeal comes on , Without your help my cause is gone . " SWIFT . " Lydford law—First hang and draw . Then sit in judgment after . " BLOUNT ' S POPULAR TENURES .
IN order to make our readers fully acquainted with the particulars of a case of persecution , hitherto , thank God ! without its parallel in Masonry , ( for even that ofthe deceased Brother Preston bears no analogy to the present , and that of Brother Bonnor , as referred to by the Grand Master on the 29 th of April last , is equally out of comparison , ) we refer our readers to our Twenty-fourth Number , page 461 , containing proceedings of a general meeting , under date the 9 th of October 1839 , whereat a letter , dated 26 th Augustaddressed by the Grand Master to certain Biethrenin reply to a
, , note from Brother Crucefix , containing resolutions passed at a previous general meeting of the Governors of the Asylum for the "Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason , was read . To which follow certain consequent resolutions , drawn up with logical perspicuity , and embodying sound argument with equal respect and decision . The meeting was numerously attended , and the resolutions were carried against a puny minority of five . A motion to print and circulate the Grand Master ' s letterwith the
reso-, lutions thereon , was also carried—the minority again being onlyyzzK . On the 13 th of November , pursuant to notice , an especial meeting was held , for the purpose of confirming the previous resolutions , which meeting was still more numerously attended , for probably between eighty or ninety were present . Dr . Crucefix was called to the chair , and the following is an extract from the minutes , as recorded in the handwriting of the late Secretary Brother "Wm . Farnfield . *
( Extract from Minute Book , page 193 ) . " ASYLUM FOR WORTHY AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS . At a Special General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers , holden at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , Blaekfriars , Wednesday , November 13 , 1839 , BROTHER ROBERT T . CRUCEFIX IN THE CHAIR , An anonymous printed paper ( a copy of which is filed with the papers of this Institution ) having been circulated by one of the waiters , he was questioned as to the authority by which he acted , he replied that a gentleman ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Persecution
PERSECUTION
01 ? BROS . ALDERMAN THOMAS WOOD , JOHN LEE STEVENS , AND ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , M . D . " Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Asltelun ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice ; lest the daughters of the uneircumcised triumph . "—2 SAM . i . 20 .
" And Felix trembled " ACTS xxiv . 25 . " To-morrow my appeal comes on , Without your help my cause is gone . " SWIFT . " Lydford law—First hang and draw . Then sit in judgment after . " BLOUNT ' S POPULAR TENURES .
IN order to make our readers fully acquainted with the particulars of a case of persecution , hitherto , thank God ! without its parallel in Masonry , ( for even that ofthe deceased Brother Preston bears no analogy to the present , and that of Brother Bonnor , as referred to by the Grand Master on the 29 th of April last , is equally out of comparison , ) we refer our readers to our Twenty-fourth Number , page 461 , containing proceedings of a general meeting , under date the 9 th of October 1839 , whereat a letter , dated 26 th Augustaddressed by the Grand Master to certain Biethrenin reply to a
, , note from Brother Crucefix , containing resolutions passed at a previous general meeting of the Governors of the Asylum for the "Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason , was read . To which follow certain consequent resolutions , drawn up with logical perspicuity , and embodying sound argument with equal respect and decision . The meeting was numerously attended , and the resolutions were carried against a puny minority of five . A motion to print and circulate the Grand Master ' s letterwith the
reso-, lutions thereon , was also carried—the minority again being onlyyzzK . On the 13 th of November , pursuant to notice , an especial meeting was held , for the purpose of confirming the previous resolutions , which meeting was still more numerously attended , for probably between eighty or ninety were present . Dr . Crucefix was called to the chair , and the following is an extract from the minutes , as recorded in the handwriting of the late Secretary Brother "Wm . Farnfield . *
( Extract from Minute Book , page 193 ) . " ASYLUM FOR WORTHY AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS . At a Special General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers , holden at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , Blaekfriars , Wednesday , November 13 , 1839 , BROTHER ROBERT T . CRUCEFIX IN THE CHAIR , An anonymous printed paper ( a copy of which is filed with the papers of this Institution ) having been circulated by one of the waiters , he was questioned as to the authority by which he acted , he replied that a gentleman ,