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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 6 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
devoutly hope that his Lordship may be restored to better health , and the exercise of his high talents . THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . —This department of the executive has undergone its annual mutation . To
the events of some of the past transactions , we shall not advert here ; they are commented on at some length in their proper place , and they may call forth a few remarks hereafter . It is not an agreeable task to speak of the probable future ; we confess that our hope , more than our confidence , is with the present members . And it is with a deep regard
to the interests of the Craft , that we charge them , in the name of . peace , kindness and good order , to do no act that is likely in the slightest degree to require interference ; that thereby the labours of the Board may not be made weightier than shall grow out of the easy and simple performance of
routine duty . It is with a feeling of pardonable pride that we have to state , that every case submitted to the opinion of " our own Private Board of General Purposes " has been satisfactorily arranged , and that we have prevented more cases reaching
the Board than they have themselves sat upon , whereby secresy has been observed —; fidelity exemplified—and obedience proved .
Our court remains open at all times , and undergoes no annual mutation .
The Financial department is in a most flourishing state . THE CHARITIES . —The reports from the Schools are highly favourable . The Festival of the Girls' School produced nearly eight hundred pounds !
THE ASYLUM . —This noble institution , whose opponents could never urge a better reason for the prejudice by which they assailed it , than that it must to a certainty injure the
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
devoutly hope that his Lordship may be restored to better health , and the exercise of his high talents . THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES . —This department of the executive has undergone its annual mutation . To
the events of some of the past transactions , we shall not advert here ; they are commented on at some length in their proper place , and they may call forth a few remarks hereafter . It is not an agreeable task to speak of the probable future ; we confess that our hope , more than our confidence , is with the present members . And it is with a deep regard
to the interests of the Craft , that we charge them , in the name of . peace , kindness and good order , to do no act that is likely in the slightest degree to require interference ; that thereby the labours of the Board may not be made weightier than shall grow out of the easy and simple performance of
routine duty . It is with a feeling of pardonable pride that we have to state , that every case submitted to the opinion of " our own Private Board of General Purposes " has been satisfactorily arranged , and that we have prevented more cases reaching
the Board than they have themselves sat upon , whereby secresy has been observed —; fidelity exemplified—and obedience proved .
Our court remains open at all times , and undergoes no annual mutation .
The Financial department is in a most flourishing state . THE CHARITIES . —The reports from the Schools are highly favourable . The Festival of the Girls' School produced nearly eight hundred pounds !
THE ASYLUM . —This noble institution , whose opponents could never urge a better reason for the prejudice by which they assailed it , than that it must to a certainty injure the