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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The Boys' Festival on the 13 th of this month was fully as productive as an average contribution ; that excellent supporter of Charity , Brother Benj . B . Cabbell , V . P ., presided , at a very short notice ; and the result of his Chairmanship and of the Stewards' exertions , was an award of from the Stewards
380 / ., to which mig ht have been added 25 / . of a Ball held in aid of Masonic Charity , which produced 75 / ., one-third of which was allotted to this institution , and the declaration of which award would have made the contribution upwards of FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS !—sad prospect this for tite Charities !
While on this point ( and we shall touch upon it as lightly as possible , perhaps too much so , as our gentler hints avail not , with such whose position in the institution may make somewhat prominent ) we enter our protest , as Governors of the Charity , against an assumption of influence with the high executive , which assumption does not tend to improve the
character and interests ofthe school—we allude to the indelicate mode of referring matters to the President—we emphatically say , that the mode in which circumstances are stated , and the opinions that accompany them , are not in the best taste . Courtesy would put a kindly construction upon matters of delicacy , which pride , in its vanity , does not
comprehend ; but no pride , no fallacy , can interrupt the flood-tide of Charity , and we can admire the spirited determination of the Ball-Stewards , who having sustained a diseovmesy themselves , ave only anxious that the mind of their Grand Master should be disabused of any intended disrespect on their part , while actively engaged in promoting
the interests of all the Charities . What an opportunity of Masonic explanation did all the circumstances afford to a benevolent heart and persuasive manners—what an opportunity has been lost , because " Charity" was absent ! We have refrained from g iving other publicity to this untoward conduct , and have withheld an ample report with which we have heen furnished .
The Festival of the Girls' School is fixed for the 22 d of May—the Board of Stewards is forming , and there is every prospect of an abundant harvest resulting from the refreshing dews of Benevolence and Charity .
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The Boys' Festival on the 13 th of this month was fully as productive as an average contribution ; that excellent supporter of Charity , Brother Benj . B . Cabbell , V . P ., presided , at a very short notice ; and the result of his Chairmanship and of the Stewards' exertions , was an award of from the Stewards
380 / ., to which mig ht have been added 25 / . of a Ball held in aid of Masonic Charity , which produced 75 / ., one-third of which was allotted to this institution , and the declaration of which award would have made the contribution upwards of FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS !—sad prospect this for tite Charities !
While on this point ( and we shall touch upon it as lightly as possible , perhaps too much so , as our gentler hints avail not , with such whose position in the institution may make somewhat prominent ) we enter our protest , as Governors of the Charity , against an assumption of influence with the high executive , which assumption does not tend to improve the
character and interests ofthe school—we allude to the indelicate mode of referring matters to the President—we emphatically say , that the mode in which circumstances are stated , and the opinions that accompany them , are not in the best taste . Courtesy would put a kindly construction upon matters of delicacy , which pride , in its vanity , does not
comprehend ; but no pride , no fallacy , can interrupt the flood-tide of Charity , and we can admire the spirited determination of the Ball-Stewards , who having sustained a diseovmesy themselves , ave only anxious that the mind of their Grand Master should be disabused of any intended disrespect on their part , while actively engaged in promoting
the interests of all the Charities . What an opportunity of Masonic explanation did all the circumstances afford to a benevolent heart and persuasive manners—what an opportunity has been lost , because " Charity" was absent ! We have refrained from g iving other publicity to this untoward conduct , and have withheld an ample report with which we have heen furnished .
The Festival of the Girls' School is fixed for the 22 d of May—the Board of Stewards is forming , and there is every prospect of an abundant harvest resulting from the refreshing dews of Benevolence and Charity .