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The Ark Life Assurance Society.
THE ARK LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY .
TO R . W . JENNINGS , ESQ ., DEPUTY CHAIRMAN TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ARK LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . SIB—An attack , emanating from your Society , and , being appended to the Prospectus , carrying with it the implied sanction of the Presidents , Vice-Presidents , Directors , ancl other Officers , has been made upon the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , to which I feel myself urged to refer in terms of unmeasured indignation ; butas much within
, the limits of justice will serve the purpose , my reproof shall be as moderate as possible . I select you as the most proper person to address on this subject , because you have been connected with the Society from its earliest date , the 14 th November , 1838 , when " the Ark" was adopted as its title , and have been subsequently identified with every important change that has taken place in its objects or plan ; and because I believe you to have associated with in that
been the deceiver alike of many who are now you Society , as I know you to have been so of my excellent friend . Your production is dated the 12 th February , 1840 . I pass over its first three paragraphs , as merely introductory , and commence by quoting the fourth : — " When the present Directors joined this undertaking , they found it in a most precarious condition . The plan was crude , in some respects impracticable , and in others inconsistent alike with justice and prudence . Their first task was to remodel and purify the scheme . "
The words " the present Directors , " have no qualification of numbers in any part of the address , and mean , therefore , all the Directors referred to ; being those mentioned in your present prospectus . And yet of these , you , the Deputy Chairman of that Board of Directors , were embarked m the undertaking from the outset—you were present on the 2 nd Januarjr , 1839 , when the first announcement of what you now call a " crude plan , advertised in the Freemasons' Quarterly Review of the 31 st moved and carried the
December , 1838 , was confirmed—and you resolution , " That the announcement he printed on sheets of letter paper , and otherwise , for general distribution . " Your " first task , " therefore , was not "to remodel and purify the scheme , " but to fashion it ; and your second , to publish it ! u But you are not the only one of " the present Directors who sanctioned the announcement made on the 31 st December , 1838 . Another , at
whose name is published in your prospectus , was present a meeting held on the 6 th January , 1839 , when the minutes ofthe proceedings of the 2 nd January were confirmed . And , besides him , there was a second Director who joined on the 14 th March , a third on the 23 rd March , and a fourth on the 3 rd April , all of whom still remain your colleagues , and , with yourself , make not less than . / roe out of your present Board of ten Directors , who assisted in the proceedings of the Society , more or les abandoned
less , before the charitable and mutual benefit principwere ; and were parties to another prospectus , differing very materially from the one at present adopted ! . Passing the next paragraph , as extremely unimportant to this examination , I have now to quote the most offensive portion of your lucubra tion : — VOL . VII . 1
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The Ark Life Assurance Society.
THE ARK LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY .
TO R . W . JENNINGS , ESQ ., DEPUTY CHAIRMAN TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ARK LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY . SIB—An attack , emanating from your Society , and , being appended to the Prospectus , carrying with it the implied sanction of the Presidents , Vice-Presidents , Directors , ancl other Officers , has been made upon the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review , to which I feel myself urged to refer in terms of unmeasured indignation ; butas much within
, the limits of justice will serve the purpose , my reproof shall be as moderate as possible . I select you as the most proper person to address on this subject , because you have been connected with the Society from its earliest date , the 14 th November , 1838 , when " the Ark" was adopted as its title , and have been subsequently identified with every important change that has taken place in its objects or plan ; and because I believe you to have associated with in that
been the deceiver alike of many who are now you Society , as I know you to have been so of my excellent friend . Your production is dated the 12 th February , 1840 . I pass over its first three paragraphs , as merely introductory , and commence by quoting the fourth : — " When the present Directors joined this undertaking , they found it in a most precarious condition . The plan was crude , in some respects impracticable , and in others inconsistent alike with justice and prudence . Their first task was to remodel and purify the scheme . "
The words " the present Directors , " have no qualification of numbers in any part of the address , and mean , therefore , all the Directors referred to ; being those mentioned in your present prospectus . And yet of these , you , the Deputy Chairman of that Board of Directors , were embarked m the undertaking from the outset—you were present on the 2 nd Januarjr , 1839 , when the first announcement of what you now call a " crude plan , advertised in the Freemasons' Quarterly Review of the 31 st moved and carried the
December , 1838 , was confirmed—and you resolution , " That the announcement he printed on sheets of letter paper , and otherwise , for general distribution . " Your " first task , " therefore , was not "to remodel and purify the scheme , " but to fashion it ; and your second , to publish it ! u But you are not the only one of " the present Directors who sanctioned the announcement made on the 31 st December , 1838 . Another , at
whose name is published in your prospectus , was present a meeting held on the 6 th January , 1839 , when the minutes ofthe proceedings of the 2 nd January were confirmed . And , besides him , there was a second Director who joined on the 14 th March , a third on the 23 rd March , and a fourth on the 3 rd April , all of whom still remain your colleagues , and , with yourself , make not less than . / roe out of your present Board of ten Directors , who assisted in the proceedings of the Society , more or les abandoned
less , before the charitable and mutual benefit principwere ; and were parties to another prospectus , differing very materially from the one at present adopted ! . Passing the next paragraph , as extremely unimportant to this examination , I have now to quote the most offensive portion of your lucubra tion : — VOL . VII . 1