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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
SEPTEMBER SO , 1852 .
DEDICATION OF THE NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE OF THE ROYAL FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN .
IT will be remembered , that at this time last year we felt it necessary to comment upon the strange proceedings of the General Court and Sub-Committee of the Freemasons' Girls ' School , for having determined to proceed with the building of a new school-house at Wandsworth Common , without having
taken the necessary steps for the first stone being laid Masonically . Our comments provoked many remarks , as might have been anticipated . They were denounced as scurrilous ; they were branded with all kinds of opprobrious epithets ; they were twisted into an intention of personality to individuals ,
and vilified in terms anything but in accordance with those of brotherly love . It was quite useless—indeed , it was a work of supererogation—for us to assure those who were so angry with us , that if we had " anything extenuated , " or , if it could be proved , that " we had set down aught in malice , " we were
ready to make the amende honorable , and that nothing should prevent the contradiction of our statements as positively as VOL . in . 2 o
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
SEPTEMBER SO , 1852 .
DEDICATION OF THE NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE OF THE ROYAL FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN .
IT will be remembered , that at this time last year we felt it necessary to comment upon the strange proceedings of the General Court and Sub-Committee of the Freemasons' Girls ' School , for having determined to proceed with the building of a new school-house at Wandsworth Common , without having
taken the necessary steps for the first stone being laid Masonically . Our comments provoked many remarks , as might have been anticipated . They were denounced as scurrilous ; they were branded with all kinds of opprobrious epithets ; they were twisted into an intention of personality to individuals ,
and vilified in terms anything but in accordance with those of brotherly love . It was quite useless—indeed , it was a work of supererogation—for us to assure those who were so angry with us , that if we had " anything extenuated , " or , if it could be proved , that " we had set down aught in malice , " we were
ready to make the amende honorable , and that nothing should prevent the contradiction of our statements as positively as VOL . in . 2 o