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Article ASYLUM FOR AGED FREEMASONS. ← Page 6 of 11 →
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Asylum For Aged Freemasons.
join me in drinking to Lord Southampton , to the better health of the Treasurer , and to the health of the other Officers of the Institution . The toast was drunk amidst loud cheers , the ladies in the gallery waving their handkerchiefs . DR . CRUCEFIX , who was received with loud and long-continued cheers , rose and said—When the tongue is anxious to slake its thirst , how refreshing is the draught presented by kindness and good-will
how gratefully is the chalice held to the lip , when gratitude dictates the reply to a compliment of no ordinary nature offered to the noble President of our institution , and the colleagues associated with his lordship in a most sacred duty ! On the part of all those brethren I beg leave to return briefly but sincerely our united and grateful acknowledgments . I could enlarge on this subject , but time presses , and further , I have a personal largess to beg at your hands—namely , to deliver , as best I
may be able to do , a few sentences on the immediate position of our beloved institution , for by us it is indeed beloved ; we have fought for it with a fervid zeal , and , as has been remarked , with a desperate fidelity . I fear to become prolix , but pray remember , my kind friends , the observation of a most distinguished brother , Sir Walter Scott , that " Old men may be permitted to speak long , because , in the common course of nature , they cannot have long to speak . " Here the Doctor felt too exhausted to continue ; he sat down to recover himself , and Bro . WHITMORE read the following Report : —
REPORT . " In their last annual address , the Committee , justly buoyant with hope of the final accomplishment of the task delegated to them by the patrons and friends of the institution , presented a faithful , but not a florid , view of its position . They expressed their firm reliance on the justice of the fraternity , and in that respect they have not been disappointed . " The assurance that the erection of an Asylum for Deserving and
Aged Masons was beyond all doubt , was hailed in the provinces , and even in foreign districts , as a happy omen that at length shelter and protection would be given to age and distress . The apathetic , the lukewarm , and the disappointed , all united in one simultaneous expression of joy and rejoicing . " Thus encouraged , a Building Committee was nominated , to commencesuperintendand complete the building , under the auspices of
, , Bro . Daukes , the architect , and Bro . Patrick , the builder . This Committee was further directed to arrange the programme of the august ceremonial . " All appeared to be progressing in so satisfactory a manner , that nothing remained but to solicit at the hands of the Grand Master the high honour of his sanction to the union of the two charities for the aged Mason , and that he would be graciously pleased to lay the
foundation stone . "The preliminaries were so acceptable , that the Grand Master expressed himself at the Grand Festival , not only pleased with the proposed union , but that it should receive his warm support . " What remained , then , but to fix the day for the ceremony of laying the foundation stone on the 31 st of May ? " The day was subsequently postponed until the 14 th of June , for the following reasons—that , after the preliminaries for a union were arranged , a report was made to the Grand Master , that the site selected
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Asylum For Aged Freemasons.
join me in drinking to Lord Southampton , to the better health of the Treasurer , and to the health of the other Officers of the Institution . The toast was drunk amidst loud cheers , the ladies in the gallery waving their handkerchiefs . DR . CRUCEFIX , who was received with loud and long-continued cheers , rose and said—When the tongue is anxious to slake its thirst , how refreshing is the draught presented by kindness and good-will
how gratefully is the chalice held to the lip , when gratitude dictates the reply to a compliment of no ordinary nature offered to the noble President of our institution , and the colleagues associated with his lordship in a most sacred duty ! On the part of all those brethren I beg leave to return briefly but sincerely our united and grateful acknowledgments . I could enlarge on this subject , but time presses , and further , I have a personal largess to beg at your hands—namely , to deliver , as best I
may be able to do , a few sentences on the immediate position of our beloved institution , for by us it is indeed beloved ; we have fought for it with a fervid zeal , and , as has been remarked , with a desperate fidelity . I fear to become prolix , but pray remember , my kind friends , the observation of a most distinguished brother , Sir Walter Scott , that " Old men may be permitted to speak long , because , in the common course of nature , they cannot have long to speak . " Here the Doctor felt too exhausted to continue ; he sat down to recover himself , and Bro . WHITMORE read the following Report : —
REPORT . " In their last annual address , the Committee , justly buoyant with hope of the final accomplishment of the task delegated to them by the patrons and friends of the institution , presented a faithful , but not a florid , view of its position . They expressed their firm reliance on the justice of the fraternity , and in that respect they have not been disappointed . " The assurance that the erection of an Asylum for Deserving and
Aged Masons was beyond all doubt , was hailed in the provinces , and even in foreign districts , as a happy omen that at length shelter and protection would be given to age and distress . The apathetic , the lukewarm , and the disappointed , all united in one simultaneous expression of joy and rejoicing . " Thus encouraged , a Building Committee was nominated , to commencesuperintendand complete the building , under the auspices of
, , Bro . Daukes , the architect , and Bro . Patrick , the builder . This Committee was further directed to arrange the programme of the august ceremonial . " All appeared to be progressing in so satisfactory a manner , that nothing remained but to solicit at the hands of the Grand Master the high honour of his sanction to the union of the two charities for the aged Mason , and that he would be graciously pleased to lay the
foundation stone . "The preliminaries were so acceptable , that the Grand Master expressed himself at the Grand Festival , not only pleased with the proposed union , but that it should receive his warm support . " What remained , then , but to fix the day for the ceremony of laying the foundation stone on the 31 st of May ? " The day was subsequently postponed until the 14 th of June , for the following reasons—that , after the preliminaries for a union were arranged , a report was made to the Grand Master , that the site selected