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The Tenth Anniversary Festival Of The Asyluam For Aged Freemasons ,
moment when the spirit of benevolence is directing the will and disposing the heart to charity . Alany charitable testaments are delayed until the approach of dissolution of life . I can conceive nothing more sublime than that hour thus passed in the presence of bright ministering angels , who are awaiting to conduct the soul on parting from its earthly tenement to a blissful eternity . Pardon this allusion , it may for a moment dim the cheerfulness of a
happy hour , but the momentary contrast will only make the remainder of the evening pass with the more delightful enjoyment . Brethren , it is true the Asylum is not yet erected ; but we may safely bide our time . I confidentl y hope to enter the gates of the temple , not as the claimant of your bounty , but as the servant of it , to carry into full effect your benevolent views . This is the contemplated reward of many years Alasonic service ; and I glory in the hope of its accomplishment .
Ladies , once more I address you ; and will borrow from Brother Brewster ' s excellent address —Thanks for the past , ancl thank you for your support . This Institution you have made your own , having nobly repelled the imputation attached by too many of the popular world against Freemasonry , by your advocacy of an Institution in which the friend , brother , father , ancl husband , are all connected . Thanks for the present . As tenants of that gallery , you shed a happy approval on our labours . Hope for the future . I implore you not to withdraw that fostering kindness so essential to the aged Alason . AVith your aid here and at home ,
' Then let the old man smile at SPUING—enjoy the SIXMM _ . ' S might—Partake of AUTUMN ' blessed gifts—defv the IVrNTEr . ' s spite . And whilst you sooth poor fellow-men , low bent on age ' s crutch , Oil ! think how quick—how great their change , —GOD ' S angels are of such . " Dr . Crucefix ' s address riveted the attention—was only interrupted by rfequent cheers , and at its conclusion was welcomed by the most enthusiastic cheering—both in the hall and the ladies' gallery . BRO . DR . LANE next roseand said that he was quite sure the toast
, which he was about to propose , would be received with the utmost enthusiasm ; and he doubted not that they would readily anticipate what it was , namely , "the health of their worshipful and excellent Chairman . " ( Loud cheers . ) They would agree with him , that that excellent Brother was the friend of every man in England , so far as charitable feeling was concerned , whether a Mason or not a Mason . ( Cheers . ) There was not one who could not claim him as a Brother , whatever his position in
life might be . ( Renewed cheers . ) The Chairman had spoken of a union of some of their charitable institutions , ancl of carrying out the principle of their charities to a further point than hitherto : he had suggested that they should not only support the sons and the daughters of Masons , ancl the aged ancl decayed of their body , but that they should extend their care to the widows of those who hacl helped them in the cause of charity in days that were past . ( Hear , hear . ) He deemed
himself bound to support those views , and he trusted that there would be no difference of opinion on the subject , but that they should be united in one feeling of catholic charity . ( Cheers . ) Of his excellent friend and Brother , the worshipful Chairman , what could he say with which they were not already perfectly acquainted ? ( Cheers . ) Nothing . It had been said by a learned friend of his ( Coke ) of another learned . . friend of his ( Lyttleton ) , that he was not the name of law , but law
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Tenth Anniversary Festival Of The Asyluam For Aged Freemasons ,
moment when the spirit of benevolence is directing the will and disposing the heart to charity . Alany charitable testaments are delayed until the approach of dissolution of life . I can conceive nothing more sublime than that hour thus passed in the presence of bright ministering angels , who are awaiting to conduct the soul on parting from its earthly tenement to a blissful eternity . Pardon this allusion , it may for a moment dim the cheerfulness of a
happy hour , but the momentary contrast will only make the remainder of the evening pass with the more delightful enjoyment . Brethren , it is true the Asylum is not yet erected ; but we may safely bide our time . I confidentl y hope to enter the gates of the temple , not as the claimant of your bounty , but as the servant of it , to carry into full effect your benevolent views . This is the contemplated reward of many years Alasonic service ; and I glory in the hope of its accomplishment .
Ladies , once more I address you ; and will borrow from Brother Brewster ' s excellent address —Thanks for the past , ancl thank you for your support . This Institution you have made your own , having nobly repelled the imputation attached by too many of the popular world against Freemasonry , by your advocacy of an Institution in which the friend , brother , father , ancl husband , are all connected . Thanks for the present . As tenants of that gallery , you shed a happy approval on our labours . Hope for the future . I implore you not to withdraw that fostering kindness so essential to the aged Alason . AVith your aid here and at home ,
' Then let the old man smile at SPUING—enjoy the SIXMM _ . ' S might—Partake of AUTUMN ' blessed gifts—defv the IVrNTEr . ' s spite . And whilst you sooth poor fellow-men , low bent on age ' s crutch , Oil ! think how quick—how great their change , —GOD ' S angels are of such . " Dr . Crucefix ' s address riveted the attention—was only interrupted by rfequent cheers , and at its conclusion was welcomed by the most enthusiastic cheering—both in the hall and the ladies' gallery . BRO . DR . LANE next roseand said that he was quite sure the toast
, which he was about to propose , would be received with the utmost enthusiasm ; and he doubted not that they would readily anticipate what it was , namely , "the health of their worshipful and excellent Chairman . " ( Loud cheers . ) They would agree with him , that that excellent Brother was the friend of every man in England , so far as charitable feeling was concerned , whether a Mason or not a Mason . ( Cheers . ) There was not one who could not claim him as a Brother , whatever his position in
life might be . ( Renewed cheers . ) The Chairman had spoken of a union of some of their charitable institutions , ancl of carrying out the principle of their charities to a further point than hitherto : he had suggested that they should not only support the sons and the daughters of Masons , ancl the aged ancl decayed of their body , but that they should extend their care to the widows of those who hacl helped them in the cause of charity in days that were past . ( Hear , hear . ) He deemed
himself bound to support those views , and he trusted that there would be no difference of opinion on the subject , but that they should be united in one feeling of catholic charity . ( Cheers . ) Of his excellent friend and Brother , the worshipful Chairman , what could he say with which they were not already perfectly acquainted ? ( Cheers . ) Nothing . It had been said by a learned friend of his ( Coke ) of another learned . . friend of his ( Lyttleton ) , that he was not the name of law , but law