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funds ; the leading cause , however , is attributable to the general depression , which necessarily affects all charitable institutions that depend on voluntary contributions for their support . " The funds of the Asylum amounted to £ 3685 is . id . " The Brethren , who are annuitants , have received their pensions to the current quarter ; and , considering their advanced age and increasing infirmitiesare in a state of comparative health .
, " The Committee beg to express their warmest acknowledgments to the Alasonic and popular world , for the liberal aid hitherto bestowed ; and they look forward with anxious hope to the time when the more extended and permanent shelter of the Asylum shall enable them to carry into the fullest effect the benevolent aspirations of its faithful supporters . " Bro . CRUCEFIX resumed his remarks . It would seem , he said , that
time had passed with lenient hand over the objects of their benevolence , who were spared to enjoy the evening of their life in calmness and tranquillity , freed from the bitterness of want—( hear ) . But since they had last met in that hall , death , who with relentless indifference snatched its victims from the palace and the cottage , had taken from them an aged Brother of illustrious rank , who for thirty years had presided over their Fraternity as Grand Master —( hearhear ) . That illustrious person had
, surrendered to the awful fiat . This loss ivould , hoivever , be more severely felt if they did not thereby learn a lesson in life , teaching them not to mourn unceasingly , but as men who viewed such warnings as the foretypes of eternity , directing them also to perform their allotted task while it was yet day —( hear ) .
There was nothing presented to the mind in these events , or in the approach of age , of a cheerless or unhappy nature ; on the contrary , disappointments in life lose their severity , and the mind was thus enabled to observe more correctly the false and the true , whether as regarded moral or physical circumstances —( hear ) . Even the illusions of the imagination ceased in the contemplation of such occurrences , and the mind of man was brought to a more healthy state—( hear ) .
As the accredited officer of their institution , it became his duty to solace old age , and he found that it had the power to soften and enrich the remainder of life , until , as it approached the contemplation of the great change of worlds , it assumed the purity and innocence of childhood , and claimed as its natural and best associates and protectors on this side the grave , the ardent , the generous , and the young . Youth , therefore , if it had its enjoymentsmiht feel assured that age had its privilegesand
, g , those privileges they were all bound to protect . He should observe , and with great propriety , that this Institution was protected by the unanimous recommendation of Grand Lodge to the favourable consideration of the Craft —{ cheers ); and he called upon them to bear in mind that very important and unqualified certificate , in order that they might rescue '' the Order " from the reproach of being the only institution which as yet had not contributed its quota toivards
the number of those great temples ivhich adorned the length anil breadth of this mighty empire —( hear)—and he was quite aware that the time had come when all considered that a Freemasons' Asylum ought to exist —( cheers ); and there was but little doubt that this Asylum would , by the blessing ofthe Great Architect , in due time be erected—( renewed cheers ) . If , as Masons , they did not disclose to the world their " signs and tokens , " they ought at least to give some outward and
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funds ; the leading cause , however , is attributable to the general depression , which necessarily affects all charitable institutions that depend on voluntary contributions for their support . " The funds of the Asylum amounted to £ 3685 is . id . " The Brethren , who are annuitants , have received their pensions to the current quarter ; and , considering their advanced age and increasing infirmitiesare in a state of comparative health .
, " The Committee beg to express their warmest acknowledgments to the Alasonic and popular world , for the liberal aid hitherto bestowed ; and they look forward with anxious hope to the time when the more extended and permanent shelter of the Asylum shall enable them to carry into the fullest effect the benevolent aspirations of its faithful supporters . " Bro . CRUCEFIX resumed his remarks . It would seem , he said , that
time had passed with lenient hand over the objects of their benevolence , who were spared to enjoy the evening of their life in calmness and tranquillity , freed from the bitterness of want—( hear ) . But since they had last met in that hall , death , who with relentless indifference snatched its victims from the palace and the cottage , had taken from them an aged Brother of illustrious rank , who for thirty years had presided over their Fraternity as Grand Master —( hearhear ) . That illustrious person had
, surrendered to the awful fiat . This loss ivould , hoivever , be more severely felt if they did not thereby learn a lesson in life , teaching them not to mourn unceasingly , but as men who viewed such warnings as the foretypes of eternity , directing them also to perform their allotted task while it was yet day —( hear ) .
There was nothing presented to the mind in these events , or in the approach of age , of a cheerless or unhappy nature ; on the contrary , disappointments in life lose their severity , and the mind was thus enabled to observe more correctly the false and the true , whether as regarded moral or physical circumstances —( hear ) . Even the illusions of the imagination ceased in the contemplation of such occurrences , and the mind of man was brought to a more healthy state—( hear ) .
As the accredited officer of their institution , it became his duty to solace old age , and he found that it had the power to soften and enrich the remainder of life , until , as it approached the contemplation of the great change of worlds , it assumed the purity and innocence of childhood , and claimed as its natural and best associates and protectors on this side the grave , the ardent , the generous , and the young . Youth , therefore , if it had its enjoymentsmiht feel assured that age had its privilegesand
, g , those privileges they were all bound to protect . He should observe , and with great propriety , that this Institution was protected by the unanimous recommendation of Grand Lodge to the favourable consideration of the Craft —{ cheers ); and he called upon them to bear in mind that very important and unqualified certificate , in order that they might rescue '' the Order " from the reproach of being the only institution which as yet had not contributed its quota toivards
the number of those great temples ivhich adorned the length anil breadth of this mighty empire —( hear)—and he was quite aware that the time had come when all considered that a Freemasons' Asylum ought to exist —( cheers ); and there was but little doubt that this Asylum would , by the blessing ofthe Great Architect , in due time be erected—( renewed cheers ) . If , as Masons , they did not disclose to the world their " signs and tokens , " they ought at least to give some outward and