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Article ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS.* ← Page 5 of 9 →
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Asylum For Aged And Decayed Freemasons.*
litt le of their drinking it , unless they supported the subscription list . — - ( Cheers and laughter . ) " Prosperity to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons , " was then drunk with three times three , and much Brother Pitt then recited the following address , written for the occasion by Brother John F . Smith , most impressively , and drew from all and particularly from the ladies , the most enthusiastic applause .
" When Shinar ' s builders laboured on the plain To rear the lofty pile , yet toil'd in vain , Pride gave the thought—Ambition lent the power , To raise with impious skill the cloud-capp'd tower ; Fondly they sought from earth to Heaven to rise , And scale by human strength the distant skies . AVonder ye then the awful thunder roll'd ? told ?
That in the lightning ' s flash God ' s wrath was AVonder ye then the labour of their hands , Struck by His bolts , lay scattered o ' er the sands ? A sign to teach mankind how weak their skill , Ambition , passion , poised against His will . AVe , like the builders of time ' s earlier days , A pile , whose steps shall reach to Heaven , would raise ; But not like them , striving with foolish pride , To leap that arch , to human power denied , AVe rear not Babel ' s tower of earth and stone ,
Our steps to Heaven are moral steps alone ; Our earthly temple boasts a nobler plan , A humble home to shield the aged man ! A shelter for the grcij-hair'd Masons head , His ark for refuge and for daily bread ! _ Such are the steps by whicli we hope to rise , Span the broad vault , and reach the azure skies , dream is
Steps to conduct , when life ' s vain past , * Each faithful builder to his home at last . Say , shall our Brothers , who in early youth , Erect in honour , trod the paths of truth , Whose open hand , in affluence , freely gave , Find , in distress , no shelter but the grave ? Shall onlpoverty and blihting care
y g Shed round the good man ' s age their lone despair ? Ah , no ! the hearts I see around me here That feel for others' woes—will wipe the tear From honest age—preserve it from disgrace—And aid to rear the humble resting place .
Earth shall approve the deed—and in that clay AVhen all return into their kindred clay—The A RCHITECT divine , beyond the grave , Shall pay with interest back each g ift we gave . The CHAIRMAN again rose , ancl said he must crave particular attention to the toast which he now had to propoSe .- ( Hear . ) He had already ventured to dilate on the progress which tbe msUtuUon had made ; and in proposing the present toast , he should be guilty of great injustice
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Asylum For Aged And Decayed Freemasons.*
litt le of their drinking it , unless they supported the subscription list . — - ( Cheers and laughter . ) " Prosperity to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons , " was then drunk with three times three , and much Brother Pitt then recited the following address , written for the occasion by Brother John F . Smith , most impressively , and drew from all and particularly from the ladies , the most enthusiastic applause .
" When Shinar ' s builders laboured on the plain To rear the lofty pile , yet toil'd in vain , Pride gave the thought—Ambition lent the power , To raise with impious skill the cloud-capp'd tower ; Fondly they sought from earth to Heaven to rise , And scale by human strength the distant skies . AVonder ye then the awful thunder roll'd ? told ?
That in the lightning ' s flash God ' s wrath was AVonder ye then the labour of their hands , Struck by His bolts , lay scattered o ' er the sands ? A sign to teach mankind how weak their skill , Ambition , passion , poised against His will . AVe , like the builders of time ' s earlier days , A pile , whose steps shall reach to Heaven , would raise ; But not like them , striving with foolish pride , To leap that arch , to human power denied , AVe rear not Babel ' s tower of earth and stone ,
Our steps to Heaven are moral steps alone ; Our earthly temple boasts a nobler plan , A humble home to shield the aged man ! A shelter for the grcij-hair'd Masons head , His ark for refuge and for daily bread ! _ Such are the steps by whicli we hope to rise , Span the broad vault , and reach the azure skies , dream is
Steps to conduct , when life ' s vain past , * Each faithful builder to his home at last . Say , shall our Brothers , who in early youth , Erect in honour , trod the paths of truth , Whose open hand , in affluence , freely gave , Find , in distress , no shelter but the grave ? Shall onlpoverty and blihting care
y g Shed round the good man ' s age their lone despair ? Ah , no ! the hearts I see around me here That feel for others' woes—will wipe the tear From honest age—preserve it from disgrace—And aid to rear the humble resting place .
Earth shall approve the deed—and in that clay AVhen all return into their kindred clay—The A RCHITECT divine , beyond the grave , Shall pay with interest back each g ift we gave . The CHAIRMAN again rose , ancl said he must crave particular attention to the toast which he now had to propoSe .- ( Hear . ) He had already ventured to dilate on the progress which tbe msUtuUon had made ; and in proposing the present toast , he should be guilty of great injustice