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kindly presented to your notice , and as kindly welcomed , I return our united and grateful thanks , and those thanks are the more heartfelt from the circumstance , that it is not the first time we have received the approbation of our gallant brother in the chair , with whose permission I will now read the Report : —
REPORT . The Committee address the patrons ancl friends of the Asylum for Worthy Aged ancl Decayed Freemasons , for the thirteenth time , with added feelings of grateful confidence . Time—the great test of principle—has at length deigned to sanctify their hopes ; and while the Committee look with admiration on the courage evinced by their patrons under the most trying circumstances ,
they congratulate those patrons on the moral victory which that courage has ensured . If the past is thus presented to the thought , what does not the future open to the contemplation ? Hitherto the Committee have been sustained by Hope , they now rely on the Justice of the fraternity ! The Asylum—the parent home of the aged brother , the first in effort , ancl the first in the race of charity—backed by the unanimous
recommendation of the Grand Lodge , has , with a principle of high-mindedness worthy of the cause , avoided encroachment on the public funds . A labour of love should be rewarded by voluntary support , and it may be that the Committee will be rewarded by the most generous appreciation of their hopes . A site for the Building has been selected , and the design as approved is now on view . The sum required for the building is 4000 / . —an amount
so inconsiderable , in comparison with the means of a society embracing so many of the noble , the wealthy , and , above all , the generous , of this mighty empire , that the Committee look forward with justified expectation that they shall not have to draw upon their present resources for the expense of building , but that those resources may remain intact as an endowment , and they hopefully abide the issue . The financial statement is as follows : —
Three per cent , consols .... 3553 18 11 Savings' Bank 130 0 0 Dividend due in July . . . . 50 G 2 Deposit for purchase of land . . . 100 0 0 At the banker ' s 462 13 3 In the hands of the Treasurer . . . 5118
* 4348 0 0 The Committee in presenting this simple report , refrain from other comment , than that having cheerfully obeyed the directions given , they venture to hope that their stewardship having been faithfully performed , they may not be considered to be altogether undeserving of approbation . I venture to claim my usual privilege of adding a few remarks : the report itself , and the kind observations of the gallant Chairman , will ,
however , render it unnecessary for me to detain you long from the enjoyment of sociality . Bro . Rory O'More , of romantic ancl facetious , but I trust not altogether fictitious reputation , humourously observes , that there is luck in odd numbers , and having approached the " thirteenth anniversary of our endeavour to raise a superstructure , perfect in all its parts , ancl honourable to the builder , rely on your zeal that , in our case at least , Bro . Rory may not prove to be a false prophet . VOL . vi . 0 c
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kindly presented to your notice , and as kindly welcomed , I return our united and grateful thanks , and those thanks are the more heartfelt from the circumstance , that it is not the first time we have received the approbation of our gallant brother in the chair , with whose permission I will now read the Report : —
REPORT . The Committee address the patrons ancl friends of the Asylum for Worthy Aged ancl Decayed Freemasons , for the thirteenth time , with added feelings of grateful confidence . Time—the great test of principle—has at length deigned to sanctify their hopes ; and while the Committee look with admiration on the courage evinced by their patrons under the most trying circumstances ,
they congratulate those patrons on the moral victory which that courage has ensured . If the past is thus presented to the thought , what does not the future open to the contemplation ? Hitherto the Committee have been sustained by Hope , they now rely on the Justice of the fraternity ! The Asylum—the parent home of the aged brother , the first in effort , ancl the first in the race of charity—backed by the unanimous
recommendation of the Grand Lodge , has , with a principle of high-mindedness worthy of the cause , avoided encroachment on the public funds . A labour of love should be rewarded by voluntary support , and it may be that the Committee will be rewarded by the most generous appreciation of their hopes . A site for the Building has been selected , and the design as approved is now on view . The sum required for the building is 4000 / . —an amount
so inconsiderable , in comparison with the means of a society embracing so many of the noble , the wealthy , and , above all , the generous , of this mighty empire , that the Committee look forward with justified expectation that they shall not have to draw upon their present resources for the expense of building , but that those resources may remain intact as an endowment , and they hopefully abide the issue . The financial statement is as follows : —
Three per cent , consols .... 3553 18 11 Savings' Bank 130 0 0 Dividend due in July . . . . 50 G 2 Deposit for purchase of land . . . 100 0 0 At the banker ' s 462 13 3 In the hands of the Treasurer . . . 5118
* 4348 0 0 The Committee in presenting this simple report , refrain from other comment , than that having cheerfully obeyed the directions given , they venture to hope that their stewardship having been faithfully performed , they may not be considered to be altogether undeserving of approbation . I venture to claim my usual privilege of adding a few remarks : the report itself , and the kind observations of the gallant Chairman , will ,
however , render it unnecessary for me to detain you long from the enjoyment of sociality . Bro . Rory O'More , of romantic ancl facetious , but I trust not altogether fictitious reputation , humourously observes , that there is luck in odd numbers , and having approached the " thirteenth anniversary of our endeavour to raise a superstructure , perfect in all its parts , ancl honourable to the builder , rely on your zeal that , in our case at least , Bro . Rory may not prove to be a false prophet . VOL . vi . 0 c