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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 5 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
it should not be—when mark ! a second amendment was moved , that a committee , consisting ot the President , Vice-President of the Board of General Purposes , and the Grand Secretary , should take the case into immediate consideration , and if they were satisfied , they should draw a check for the amount . The check did the business—aided
certainly by the opinion of the Deputy Grand Master , who although but a youthful practitioner in our noble science , we regret to state lent the influence of his high position in favour of the pharisaical amendments . And thus the delicacy of a lady ' s position was cast aside , her petition doubted , the opinions of the Lodge and of the Board of
Benevolence treated with indifference , and the solemn declarations of those who vouched for the truth of the case , all cast on the tender mercies of such an amendment . But let our readers judge for themselves—at the time we write , * the
committee , after three weeks consideration , have not yet visited the widow and her fatherless family , although she has remained at home in daily expectation of the inquisitorial visit and , indeed , unless they shall deign to perform their gracious office in a few days , the lady , whose hapless destitution has thus placed her under obligation , will have left a residence afforded her by a non-masonic friend during her momentous
trial , and may not readily be found . Oh , woman , woman ! how art thou dealt with , when men forget the kindness of their mother . Not the brightest part of this affair is the ready attention paid by some medical Brethren to the tongue of " false report . " May their widows ever lack such pharisaical reasoning—may the spirit of the tomb , not rise in
judgment , but in mercy , on their unmasonic conduct ! they may feign indifference to this aspiration , but we do not envy them . There is a homely proverb applicable to those who travel somewhat out of the record— " Ne sutor ultra crepidam . "
A SAD CASE . —At the Board of Benevolence in July last , the case of an unhappy Irish Brother , desirous of a passage to America , was considered * he was born to better prospects , and was highly educated ; the case was about tp be liberally treated , when it was proved that he was addicted to inebriety , and he received but a very trifling aid . His case leads
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
it should not be—when mark ! a second amendment was moved , that a committee , consisting ot the President , Vice-President of the Board of General Purposes , and the Grand Secretary , should take the case into immediate consideration , and if they were satisfied , they should draw a check for the amount . The check did the business—aided
certainly by the opinion of the Deputy Grand Master , who although but a youthful practitioner in our noble science , we regret to state lent the influence of his high position in favour of the pharisaical amendments . And thus the delicacy of a lady ' s position was cast aside , her petition doubted , the opinions of the Lodge and of the Board of
Benevolence treated with indifference , and the solemn declarations of those who vouched for the truth of the case , all cast on the tender mercies of such an amendment . But let our readers judge for themselves—at the time we write , * the
committee , after three weeks consideration , have not yet visited the widow and her fatherless family , although she has remained at home in daily expectation of the inquisitorial visit and , indeed , unless they shall deign to perform their gracious office in a few days , the lady , whose hapless destitution has thus placed her under obligation , will have left a residence afforded her by a non-masonic friend during her momentous
trial , and may not readily be found . Oh , woman , woman ! how art thou dealt with , when men forget the kindness of their mother . Not the brightest part of this affair is the ready attention paid by some medical Brethren to the tongue of " false report . " May their widows ever lack such pharisaical reasoning—may the spirit of the tomb , not rise in
judgment , but in mercy , on their unmasonic conduct ! they may feign indifference to this aspiration , but we do not envy them . There is a homely proverb applicable to those who travel somewhat out of the record— " Ne sutor ultra crepidam . "
A SAD CASE . —At the Board of Benevolence in July last , the case of an unhappy Irish Brother , desirous of a passage to America , was considered * he was born to better prospects , and was highly educated ; the case was about tp be liberally treated , when it was proved that he was addicted to inebriety , and he received but a very trifling aid . His case leads