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The Reporter.
offered to the hope , what had been denied to expectation ; yet , would it be believed , that among the objections to that excellent charity , was the prejudice that it was merely suggested for the purpose of providing for the Tylers ! Had it no other aim , we aver that to provide for the latter days of the honest , and upright servants of the Craft , would alone have been creditable to the institutors ; but the prejudice was , as is all prejudiceerroneous . The Tyleras such onlyhas no claimsany more
, , , , than even a grand officer ; but as AN HONEST MAN , THE NOBLEST WORK OF GOD , he is pre-eminently qualified ; and of this grand truth the last annual general meeting of the New Benevolent Institution affords a glorious example , whereat three T y lers were elected to participate in its benefits . Brother T ylers ! you have had predecessors whose example is worth hoarding in memory : be it your kindest care to hand down to grateful
successors the remembrance of your own merit . THE W ATER FROLICS , and other recreative festivities have been far less numerous than usual this season , owing , principally , to the lamented demise of the Grand Master . We have received some accounts , but have no space for their insertion ; one , however , ( the Regularity ) that took place at the Pier Hotel , Erith , was a chef d ' ceuvre , and Brother Warriner may well be proud of the praise of such an artist as Bro . Marlin .
Masonic Chit-Chat.
MASONIC CHIT-CHAT .
DUELLING . A MEETING of the committee of the Manchester and Salford Peace Society was held lately , when the following resolution was unanimously adopted , which the secretary was directed to send to the editors of the Manchester Times newspaper ;— " That this society takes occasion to record the following , as some of those deliberate and solemn convictions
which the late murder of Colonel Fawcett , by bis brother-in-law , perpetrated under the cloak of an inhuman and anti-christian conventionalism , has deepened and justifies . " 1 . —That this peculiarly unnatural transaction , in common with all duelling , shows that the vain and revengeful spirit of what is termed ' gentlemanly honour' is linked with a vicious immorality , of a description the most uncivilized and horrible ; that they whowhatever their
, title or rank , engage in an attack upon human life , in compliance with a falsely-imagined principle of dignity , merit not to be lauded for their valour , but , in the sentiment of Holy Writ , to be shunned and pitied , as the fratricide who was declared to be ' an accursed fugitive and vagabond . ' ( Gen . iv . c . 12 . ) " 2 . —That while the acknowledged power of public opinion , either to induce crime or to restrain its manifestations , devolves a deep
responsibility upon society at large , and ought to stimulate all to exert an influence favourable to morality , the encounter which has immediately prompted these declarations , proves that this weighty responsibility has been hitherto unfulfilled ; and it appears to this society that the crime
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The Reporter.
offered to the hope , what had been denied to expectation ; yet , would it be believed , that among the objections to that excellent charity , was the prejudice that it was merely suggested for the purpose of providing for the Tylers ! Had it no other aim , we aver that to provide for the latter days of the honest , and upright servants of the Craft , would alone have been creditable to the institutors ; but the prejudice was , as is all prejudiceerroneous . The Tyleras such onlyhas no claimsany more
, , , , than even a grand officer ; but as AN HONEST MAN , THE NOBLEST WORK OF GOD , he is pre-eminently qualified ; and of this grand truth the last annual general meeting of the New Benevolent Institution affords a glorious example , whereat three T y lers were elected to participate in its benefits . Brother T ylers ! you have had predecessors whose example is worth hoarding in memory : be it your kindest care to hand down to grateful
successors the remembrance of your own merit . THE W ATER FROLICS , and other recreative festivities have been far less numerous than usual this season , owing , principally , to the lamented demise of the Grand Master . We have received some accounts , but have no space for their insertion ; one , however , ( the Regularity ) that took place at the Pier Hotel , Erith , was a chef d ' ceuvre , and Brother Warriner may well be proud of the praise of such an artist as Bro . Marlin .
Masonic Chit-Chat.
MASONIC CHIT-CHAT .
DUELLING . A MEETING of the committee of the Manchester and Salford Peace Society was held lately , when the following resolution was unanimously adopted , which the secretary was directed to send to the editors of the Manchester Times newspaper ;— " That this society takes occasion to record the following , as some of those deliberate and solemn convictions
which the late murder of Colonel Fawcett , by bis brother-in-law , perpetrated under the cloak of an inhuman and anti-christian conventionalism , has deepened and justifies . " 1 . —That this peculiarly unnatural transaction , in common with all duelling , shows that the vain and revengeful spirit of what is termed ' gentlemanly honour' is linked with a vicious immorality , of a description the most uncivilized and horrible ; that they whowhatever their
, title or rank , engage in an attack upon human life , in compliance with a falsely-imagined principle of dignity , merit not to be lauded for their valour , but , in the sentiment of Holy Writ , to be shunned and pitied , as the fratricide who was declared to be ' an accursed fugitive and vagabond . ' ( Gen . iv . c . 12 . ) " 2 . —That while the acknowledged power of public opinion , either to induce crime or to restrain its manifestations , devolves a deep
responsibility upon society at large , and ought to stimulate all to exert an influence favourable to morality , the encounter which has immediately prompted these declarations , proves that this weighty responsibility has been hitherto unfulfilled ; and it appears to this society that the crime