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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER , —I am of that class of Brethren known as commercial travellers . I feel , in common with yourself , a strong yearning towards the Masons' Asylum , and have more than once paid into the Treasurer ' s snuff-box , and have also collected several pounds on the Spencerean collection . But I do not consider my duty done , neither clo I consider that your
duty has ended . I beg , through the medium of your excellent Review , to suggest to all commercial travellers , to devote many trifling surplusages of collections upon bills , and various other collections , to this cause . Let a friendly rubber of whist be played for , the winnings may be thus devoted ; and even wagers that often occur in a commercial-room , would amount in time to something handsome . There is scarcely a town where
these deposits cannot be safely made , and transmitted to the treasurer . I have read all your remarks upon the subject , but do not think that you have sufficiently impressed upon the nobility and gentry of Masons , the necessity of accounting for their neglect of this meritorious Institution , while their names are so prominently paraded amongst others , with which they clo not profess to claim so close a connection , as with the Order of Freemasonry . I hope you will insert this , if not , you must
not expect any further communication from Your obedient servant and Brother , A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER . [ We readily insert the letter , —to free ourselves from a sly charge ; and recommend our Brother to read over again our " remarks upon the subject . " He will find that at any rate we are not answerable for the want of liberality in others , owing ' to any lack of calling attention to the wants of the Asylum . " ]
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In your number for December , 1838 , my name was appended to an advertisement of the then Ark Association , as Secretary pro tern . ; in the present number it will appear similarly connected with the prospectus ' of the Masonic Life Assurance and Savings' Jiank Association ; ancl as this may appear somewhat singular to many of your readers—among whom I may reckon at least a few friends—I beg the favour of iving a lace to this letter brief
your g p , as a explanation of the reason . Until the commencement of July last , I fully expected that the business of the Ark Society would be founded on such a deviation only from the original announcement , as would still embrace mutuality of benefit between it and the Craft , and such a modification of the plan as would
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR AND BROTHER , —I am of that class of Brethren known as commercial travellers . I feel , in common with yourself , a strong yearning towards the Masons' Asylum , and have more than once paid into the Treasurer ' s snuff-box , and have also collected several pounds on the Spencerean collection . But I do not consider my duty done , neither clo I consider that your
duty has ended . I beg , through the medium of your excellent Review , to suggest to all commercial travellers , to devote many trifling surplusages of collections upon bills , and various other collections , to this cause . Let a friendly rubber of whist be played for , the winnings may be thus devoted ; and even wagers that often occur in a commercial-room , would amount in time to something handsome . There is scarcely a town where
these deposits cannot be safely made , and transmitted to the treasurer . I have read all your remarks upon the subject , but do not think that you have sufficiently impressed upon the nobility and gentry of Masons , the necessity of accounting for their neglect of this meritorious Institution , while their names are so prominently paraded amongst others , with which they clo not profess to claim so close a connection , as with the Order of Freemasonry . I hope you will insert this , if not , you must
not expect any further communication from Your obedient servant and Brother , A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER . [ We readily insert the letter , —to free ourselves from a sly charge ; and recommend our Brother to read over again our " remarks upon the subject . " He will find that at any rate we are not answerable for the want of liberality in others , owing ' to any lack of calling attention to the wants of the Asylum . " ]
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In your number for December , 1838 , my name was appended to an advertisement of the then Ark Association , as Secretary pro tern . ; in the present number it will appear similarly connected with the prospectus ' of the Masonic Life Assurance and Savings' Jiank Association ; ancl as this may appear somewhat singular to many of your readers—among whom I may reckon at least a few friends—I beg the favour of iving a lace to this letter brief
your g p , as a explanation of the reason . Until the commencement of July last , I fully expected that the business of the Ark Society would be founded on such a deviation only from the original announcement , as would still embrace mutuality of benefit between it and the Craft , and such a modification of the plan as would