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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
passed off in the most admirable manner , under the direction of the Hon . Col . Anson , who took the Chair at an immediate notice . The subscription was liberal , considering that this Charity is almost beyond the reach of want . We refer the reader to the particulars , which are given at length .
The unanimous resolution of the Grand Lodsre in December last , recommending the Asylum for the Worth }* , Aged , and Decayed Freemason , to the favourable consideration of the Craft , having been as unanimously con * - firmed on the 7 th instant , by the most numerous Grand
Lodge that has assembled for these twenty years past , demands from us , on behalf of its supporters , the most grateful acknowledgments . Our thanks are as sincere as have been our labours ; the boon is a payment , a noble payment , for the past , while the kind and considerate manner in which that boon has been granted , will enspirit the Brethren to future exertion .
We here should probably have closed our observations ; but the question of the Asylum is no ordinary one , it embraces , in fact , much of the general polity of our Order . It is not merely the educating and clothing of the dependent boy , nor the protection of the helpless girl ; the impulse of
common humanity has effected those points , and will continue the goodly work ; but the reference embraces the conduct of those who are to carry out the great leading principles of the Order , and who , if ever overtaken by misfortune , shall be found worthy of promotion in the sanctuary of the Temple .
To be enabled to carry out these principles in London may not be difficult , where , under the fostering care of the Royal Chief , we are always reminded as to the best means of so doing ; but in the provinces , where the Brethren have not in general the same advantages , the stimulus to emulation is
less observable . There is , in fact , no greater truth than this , that when the provinces are superintended by activity and zeal on the . part of the immediate Ruler , the Brethren evince the full spirit of emulation , and almost a chivalrous VOL . v . B
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
passed off in the most admirable manner , under the direction of the Hon . Col . Anson , who took the Chair at an immediate notice . The subscription was liberal , considering that this Charity is almost beyond the reach of want . We refer the reader to the particulars , which are given at length .
The unanimous resolution of the Grand Lodsre in December last , recommending the Asylum for the Worth }* , Aged , and Decayed Freemason , to the favourable consideration of the Craft , having been as unanimously con * - firmed on the 7 th instant , by the most numerous Grand
Lodge that has assembled for these twenty years past , demands from us , on behalf of its supporters , the most grateful acknowledgments . Our thanks are as sincere as have been our labours ; the boon is a payment , a noble payment , for the past , while the kind and considerate manner in which that boon has been granted , will enspirit the Brethren to future exertion .
We here should probably have closed our observations ; but the question of the Asylum is no ordinary one , it embraces , in fact , much of the general polity of our Order . It is not merely the educating and clothing of the dependent boy , nor the protection of the helpless girl ; the impulse of
common humanity has effected those points , and will continue the goodly work ; but the reference embraces the conduct of those who are to carry out the great leading principles of the Order , and who , if ever overtaken by misfortune , shall be found worthy of promotion in the sanctuary of the Temple .
To be enabled to carry out these principles in London may not be difficult , where , under the fostering care of the Royal Chief , we are always reminded as to the best means of so doing ; but in the provinces , where the Brethren have not in general the same advantages , the stimulus to emulation is
less observable . There is , in fact , no greater truth than this , that when the provinces are superintended by activity and zeal on the . part of the immediate Ruler , the Brethren evince the full spirit of emulation , and almost a chivalrous VOL . v . B