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The W. Brother John Savage, P. M. No. 19 & 805.
virtuous obstinacy—that will never allow the sophisticated cunning of party to warp his judgment , nor the meretricious seductions of power to compromise his integrity of action . To thus describe our Brother John Savage , is not to offer the incense of fulsome adulation : it is the homage of truth to sentiment—the devotion of judgment to merit—the debt due from the many to the excellencies of the one .
Desirous at all times to make the accuracy of our portraits the paramount object of our labours , we must not omit to notice a defect which belongs to the picture of our brother . In his speeches at the Grand Lodge , he is ever and anon disfiguring them with " My Lord , " " Your Lordship , " & c . Now although etiquette and the conventional rules of good society require that a Lord—a live Lord—should be , imprimis ,
properly apostrophized , yet by the same rule , to be guilty of a frequent repetition of these epithets as expletives or even as titular , is no less an offence against good breeding than the rules of correct elocution .
Brother Savage is a munificent supporter of the several eleemosynary institutions of our Order . Although a Vice-President of the Royal Annuity Benevolent Fund , he is also a liberal contributor to its rival in excellence , —the Aged Masons' Asylum . Yet with all these qualities adorning and dignifying the masonic character , and which stand out on the canvass in bold relief , our brother , although a Mason of long standing
and surpassing excellence , remains without any of those outward and visible signs from the Grand Master , which denote the just recognition and reward of merit 1 We are apprehensive his destiny in this respect , may be assimilated to that so eloquently and touchingly described by STERNE at Yorick ' s death , —
" Alas ! my friend , said Yorick to Eugenius , let me tell you , if Mitres were suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail , no one would be found to fit my head . " Substituting purple aprons for mitres , our friend ' s case runs on all fours with Yorick ' s . His manly independence of action has so misshapen all the imperial symbols that none can at present be found to fit him ! But
he is more than compensated , by being universally acknowledged and esteemed as one off the most able exponents of public principle , and zealous supporters of the interests of the Craft at large . JUSTITIA .
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The W. Brother John Savage, P. M. No. 19 & 805.
virtuous obstinacy—that will never allow the sophisticated cunning of party to warp his judgment , nor the meretricious seductions of power to compromise his integrity of action . To thus describe our Brother John Savage , is not to offer the incense of fulsome adulation : it is the homage of truth to sentiment—the devotion of judgment to merit—the debt due from the many to the excellencies of the one .
Desirous at all times to make the accuracy of our portraits the paramount object of our labours , we must not omit to notice a defect which belongs to the picture of our brother . In his speeches at the Grand Lodge , he is ever and anon disfiguring them with " My Lord , " " Your Lordship , " & c . Now although etiquette and the conventional rules of good society require that a Lord—a live Lord—should be , imprimis ,
properly apostrophized , yet by the same rule , to be guilty of a frequent repetition of these epithets as expletives or even as titular , is no less an offence against good breeding than the rules of correct elocution .
Brother Savage is a munificent supporter of the several eleemosynary institutions of our Order . Although a Vice-President of the Royal Annuity Benevolent Fund , he is also a liberal contributor to its rival in excellence , —the Aged Masons' Asylum . Yet with all these qualities adorning and dignifying the masonic character , and which stand out on the canvass in bold relief , our brother , although a Mason of long standing
and surpassing excellence , remains without any of those outward and visible signs from the Grand Master , which denote the just recognition and reward of merit 1 We are apprehensive his destiny in this respect , may be assimilated to that so eloquently and touchingly described by STERNE at Yorick ' s death , —
" Alas ! my friend , said Yorick to Eugenius , let me tell you , if Mitres were suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail , no one would be found to fit my head . " Substituting purple aprons for mitres , our friend ' s case runs on all fours with Yorick ' s . His manly independence of action has so misshapen all the imperial symbols that none can at present be found to fit him ! But
he is more than compensated , by being universally acknowledged and esteemed as one off the most able exponents of public principle , and zealous supporters of the interests of the Craft at large . JUSTITIA .