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Asylum For The Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
movement was graceful in the extreme ; while watching them we inwardly offered up our thanks that so much of the sweet enjoyments of life , should be thus blended with the holy thoughts of charity . More than once we caught ourselves wondering on the influence that poverty and worth , was , by the wisest purposes , made to exercise on the heart . The refreshments were excellent and abundant . The supporters of the Asylum may well feel proud of their stewards , ancl in particular of
the officers , Bros . Watkins , Wilson , Staples , and J . Lee Stevens ; the latter of whom , as Honorary Secretary , sustained his arduous duties with unremitting care . March 13 . —Ball Audit . Bro . Watkins , President ofthe Board , in the chair . After discharging every account , the net profits were declared to be 53 / . 15 s . 4 _/ ., which sum was immediately paid over to the Treasurer of the Institution ; and a resolution entered into to convene a timely meeting of the present stewards , as well as to enlist other friends to arrange proceedings for a future ball .
We briefly alluded in our last , to the sermon preached in the parish church of St . James ' s Clerkenwell , by our Rev . Brother Henry Raper Slade , LL . B ., on the 27 th December last ; and are requested to insert the following circular which was distributed among the congregation . THE ASYLUM POR AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS ; "Speculative reasoning may offer many delusive theoriesbut all
, vanish in the consciousness that there is a standard of comparison ; and that in youth ancl strength exist the best means of sowing the seeds of future misery , or of realizing the strength of thought and ' sight of mind' that can with serenity contemplate the last scene as the advent of a future life ;
This day a Minister of God—the expounder of His holy law—has undertaken to plead the cause of the AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASON in this temple , and to enlist the sympathy of the congregation in favour of that portion of a fraternity whom honour and integrity claim as their subjects , but whom adversity has surprised and for a time vanquished . Let the moral victory over circumstances which poverty could not control be won this day—and not merely won—but let the triumph be so signal as to be the precursor of many a future one in the cause of
guileless misery , wherein the benevolent , the generous and ardent may press forward to the high calling , ancl under the banner of Charity , fight the good fight of faith and hope , in aid of those who have no other staff than the blessing of God , ' which passeth man ' s understanding . ' The Mason ' s law is that of his Creator—to fear God—horiour the King—love the Brotherhood ; with the Mason to do unto his neighbour as he would be done by , is but the exercise of a vocation ; by acting
with him on the square , relieving his necessities , soothing his afflictionSj and hy rendering him every land office which justice or mercy may require . The Freemason needs not to be told that there is no stage of human existence , the real calamity of which is less known , unless to the sufferer , than in old age . To those who are not Freemasons some apology is due for this indistinct allusion to a mystery ; but the mystery of love will explain itself to the one better sex , whose practical vocation is the sweetest of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Asylum For The Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
movement was graceful in the extreme ; while watching them we inwardly offered up our thanks that so much of the sweet enjoyments of life , should be thus blended with the holy thoughts of charity . More than once we caught ourselves wondering on the influence that poverty and worth , was , by the wisest purposes , made to exercise on the heart . The refreshments were excellent and abundant . The supporters of the Asylum may well feel proud of their stewards , ancl in particular of
the officers , Bros . Watkins , Wilson , Staples , and J . Lee Stevens ; the latter of whom , as Honorary Secretary , sustained his arduous duties with unremitting care . March 13 . —Ball Audit . Bro . Watkins , President ofthe Board , in the chair . After discharging every account , the net profits were declared to be 53 / . 15 s . 4 _/ ., which sum was immediately paid over to the Treasurer of the Institution ; and a resolution entered into to convene a timely meeting of the present stewards , as well as to enlist other friends to arrange proceedings for a future ball .
We briefly alluded in our last , to the sermon preached in the parish church of St . James ' s Clerkenwell , by our Rev . Brother Henry Raper Slade , LL . B ., on the 27 th December last ; and are requested to insert the following circular which was distributed among the congregation . THE ASYLUM POR AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS ; "Speculative reasoning may offer many delusive theoriesbut all
, vanish in the consciousness that there is a standard of comparison ; and that in youth ancl strength exist the best means of sowing the seeds of future misery , or of realizing the strength of thought and ' sight of mind' that can with serenity contemplate the last scene as the advent of a future life ;
This day a Minister of God—the expounder of His holy law—has undertaken to plead the cause of the AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASON in this temple , and to enlist the sympathy of the congregation in favour of that portion of a fraternity whom honour and integrity claim as their subjects , but whom adversity has surprised and for a time vanquished . Let the moral victory over circumstances which poverty could not control be won this day—and not merely won—but let the triumph be so signal as to be the precursor of many a future one in the cause of
guileless misery , wherein the benevolent , the generous and ardent may press forward to the high calling , ancl under the banner of Charity , fight the good fight of faith and hope , in aid of those who have no other staff than the blessing of God , ' which passeth man ' s understanding . ' The Mason ' s law is that of his Creator—to fear God—horiour the King—love the Brotherhood ; with the Mason to do unto his neighbour as he would be done by , is but the exercise of a vocation ; by acting
with him on the square , relieving his necessities , soothing his afflictionSj and hy rendering him every land office which justice or mercy may require . The Freemason needs not to be told that there is no stage of human existence , the real calamity of which is less known , unless to the sufferer , than in old age . To those who are not Freemasons some apology is due for this indistinct allusion to a mystery ; but the mystery of love will explain itself to the one better sex , whose practical vocation is the sweetest of