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Ninth Anniversary Festial Of The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
this meeting , and may those fair tenants of the gallery , like spirits oi a better world , reward your labours by their approbation . How true it is that , — " Want is a bitter and a hateful good , Because its virtues are not understood . ' ( Loud and long continued cheering . )
Brother SHAW next rose . He said that it was an old and trite saying , that good wine needed no bush , and it might , with equal truth be averred , that a good toast needed very little compliment —( cheers ) . He should not , therefore , preface the toast further than by say ing that lie was confident that it would be responded to with that spirit which always animated them when assembled together for so sacred a purpose as the present—( cheers ) . He would at once propose to them the health well how
of their AVorshipful Chairman —( loud cheers . ) He knew full that toast would be received —( renewed cheers ) . The remarks which their excellent Chairman had addressed to them , they had already received in such a manner as convinced him ( Bro . Shaw , ) that his merits and talents had made a sensible impression upon them ; and he l < neiv at once how they ivould respond to his call —( cheers ) . Those the who were not members of the fraternitybut who
among company , attended there that night in the high and holy cause of charity , though a charity exclusively devoted to one particular class of men—felt gratitude to their AVorshipful Chairman , for the manner in which he had presided over them , - ( cheers)—and how much more deeply ought the Brethren , so far as the Institution was concerned , to feel towards him for his conduct in the chair this evening —( renewed cheers ) . It had been well said , that tlie time seemed to be approaching when they should
attain to that object which they all had so much at heart —( cheers ) . Now , he begged to say , that he had never been absent from an anniversary festival of this Institution since the project of the Asy lum had been first set on foot —( cheers ) . But he must say , that his hopes had never been so much brightened with the prospect of success , as at the present moment —( loud cheers)—and this was not only because all difficulties were likely henceforward to be removed , but because no one who had the
previously come among them had produced such an effect as AVorshipful Brother who now presided —( protracted cheering ) . The rank and standing , and further , the honest disposition which he possessed , ought to strengthen their confidence , —( cheers)—their Chairman was another and important addition to their strength , for he had the means to elo them good , and the will to apply the means to proper purposes—( renewed cheers ) . AAlthout one word morehe would call upon them
, to return their grateful thanks to the Chairman for presiding over them , and to join him in expressing a hope that he ivould continue to the Institution his valuable support , and thus help them to accomplish the very desirable object they had in view . He concluded by giving the health of the Worshipful Chairman , with three times three . The toast was drunk with all the honours , anel the loudest demonstrations of enthusiastic and fraternal feeling .
The Rt . AVorshipful CHAIRMAN rose to return thanks . He was indeed most grateful for the kind reception which they bad given to this toast—( cheers ) . He could not but say that he felt very much flattered , but he should be ashamed of taking all the honour to himself , because he had only done that which every person in his position ought to do
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Ninth Anniversary Festial Of The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
this meeting , and may those fair tenants of the gallery , like spirits oi a better world , reward your labours by their approbation . How true it is that , — " Want is a bitter and a hateful good , Because its virtues are not understood . ' ( Loud and long continued cheering . )
Brother SHAW next rose . He said that it was an old and trite saying , that good wine needed no bush , and it might , with equal truth be averred , that a good toast needed very little compliment —( cheers ) . He should not , therefore , preface the toast further than by say ing that lie was confident that it would be responded to with that spirit which always animated them when assembled together for so sacred a purpose as the present—( cheers ) . He would at once propose to them the health well how
of their AVorshipful Chairman —( loud cheers . ) He knew full that toast would be received —( renewed cheers ) . The remarks which their excellent Chairman had addressed to them , they had already received in such a manner as convinced him ( Bro . Shaw , ) that his merits and talents had made a sensible impression upon them ; and he l < neiv at once how they ivould respond to his call —( cheers ) . Those the who were not members of the fraternitybut who
among company , attended there that night in the high and holy cause of charity , though a charity exclusively devoted to one particular class of men—felt gratitude to their AVorshipful Chairman , for the manner in which he had presided over them , - ( cheers)—and how much more deeply ought the Brethren , so far as the Institution was concerned , to feel towards him for his conduct in the chair this evening —( renewed cheers ) . It had been well said , that tlie time seemed to be approaching when they should
attain to that object which they all had so much at heart —( cheers ) . Now , he begged to say , that he had never been absent from an anniversary festival of this Institution since the project of the Asy lum had been first set on foot —( cheers ) . But he must say , that his hopes had never been so much brightened with the prospect of success , as at the present moment —( loud cheers)—and this was not only because all difficulties were likely henceforward to be removed , but because no one who had the
previously come among them had produced such an effect as AVorshipful Brother who now presided —( protracted cheering ) . The rank and standing , and further , the honest disposition which he possessed , ought to strengthen their confidence , —( cheers)—their Chairman was another and important addition to their strength , for he had the means to elo them good , and the will to apply the means to proper purposes—( renewed cheers ) . AAlthout one word morehe would call upon them
, to return their grateful thanks to the Chairman for presiding over them , and to join him in expressing a hope that he ivould continue to the Institution his valuable support , and thus help them to accomplish the very desirable object they had in view . He concluded by giving the health of the Worshipful Chairman , with three times three . The toast was drunk with all the honours , anel the loudest demonstrations of enthusiastic and fraternal feeling .
The Rt . AVorshipful CHAIRMAN rose to return thanks . He was indeed most grateful for the kind reception which they bad given to this toast—( cheers ) . He could not but say that he felt very much flattered , but he should be ashamed of taking all the honour to himself , because he had only done that which every person in his position ought to do