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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Officers , whom it , may be the pleasure of the Grand Master to appoint on the Board , should be stated at the Committee of Masters ; there should be no concealment , no sudden declaration . It might be that the name of a Grand Officer
might appear in both lists—a fact not ivithout precedentive remember that a party ivas not returned by the Grand Lodge , but did afterwards appear in the return of the Grand Master . To one of the appointed Ave must take an
exception , and on the simple ground that , if he can perform any duty ivhatever at the Board , he can only do so , by the violation of his obligation as the Provincial ruler of a distant colony . Is this a sound system ?
THE MASONIC CHARITIES . —In no preceding year has the real principle of our Order been so nobly sustained as in the season 1844—all have prospered . The Boys' Festival in March , returned ^ 500 . The Gi rls' Festival , in May , upAvards of iJSOO . The Benevolent Annuity Fund is pro ~
gressing in a very satisfactory way ; and the cause of the Aged Freemasons' Asylum , on the 19 th of June , ivas advocated in a most triumphant mannev by Colonel , the Hon . George Anson , M . P ., ProA'incial Grand Master for
Staffordshire , whose address Avas one of the most characteristic of the principles of Freemasonry ever heard in our noble hall By the report we find that the subscriptions , since the last Festival and on the occasion , exceeded Four
Hundred Pounds , including a liberal donation from the Gallant and Honourable Chairman , of Twenty Guineas . Two most important declarations were announced , one , that Brother B . B . Cabbell had consented to take the chair at the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Officers , whom it , may be the pleasure of the Grand Master to appoint on the Board , should be stated at the Committee of Masters ; there should be no concealment , no sudden declaration . It might be that the name of a Grand Officer
might appear in both lists—a fact not ivithout precedentive remember that a party ivas not returned by the Grand Lodge , but did afterwards appear in the return of the Grand Master . To one of the appointed Ave must take an
exception , and on the simple ground that , if he can perform any duty ivhatever at the Board , he can only do so , by the violation of his obligation as the Provincial ruler of a distant colony . Is this a sound system ?
THE MASONIC CHARITIES . —In no preceding year has the real principle of our Order been so nobly sustained as in the season 1844—all have prospered . The Boys' Festival in March , returned ^ 500 . The Gi rls' Festival , in May , upAvards of iJSOO . The Benevolent Annuity Fund is pro ~
gressing in a very satisfactory way ; and the cause of the Aged Freemasons' Asylum , on the 19 th of June , ivas advocated in a most triumphant mannev by Colonel , the Hon . George Anson , M . P ., ProA'incial Grand Master for
Staffordshire , whose address Avas one of the most characteristic of the principles of Freemasonry ever heard in our noble hall By the report we find that the subscriptions , since the last Festival and on the occasion , exceeded Four
Hundred Pounds , including a liberal donation from the Gallant and Honourable Chairman , of Twenty Guineas . Two most important declarations were announced , one , that Brother B . B . Cabbell had consented to take the chair at the