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India.
initials were figured sums of five , ten , sixteen , twenty , or thirty rupees . The sum never exceeded thirty or fell under five , as if the lady had conceived it utterly improbable that any person would offer a less slim to her ladyship . " That this moral or rather immoral anomaly has altogether disappeared , we owe entirely to that excellent Institution the District Charitable Society . Through the able and enlightened measures of this Society ,
public charity has assumed the regularity and effect of a well considered and consolidated system . " You will now understand that the Alms' House also includes a workhouse for those who are able to work , for there is no reason whatever why the poor man should eat this bread of idleness if he is able to work and can procure work . It is the condition of his being that with the sweat of his brow man should earn his bread . This may to the superficial appear a hard case , but if you examine it for a moment ; you will perceive it fraught with divine mercy , for next to religion itself the best safeguard against temptation , vice , and crime , are labour and occupation .
" To the ladies who have graced this occasion by becoming spectators of our solemnity , I beg to observe , that however ungallant the exclusion of the fair from Masonic mysteries may appear , that it really arose from no unworth y distrust in their discretion or fidelity , but from the most careful and affectionate solicitude . There were times of old when the knowledge of these secrets exposed their possessors to the most imminent peril , and even to death itself , from the suspicion or
misapprehension of tyrants , and it was to preserve woman in all her dear relations of mother , sister , wife , and daughter , that this apparently ungracious exclusion took place . Would it conld be put an end to , but , alas ! it is not in my power to alter what has become fixed by old prescription . - " My Lord Bishop—for myself and the Masonic Fraternity here assembled , I beg to express to your Lordship the grateful sense we entertain of the favour you have conferred upon us by honouring this
ceremonial with your presence . We are well aware what a lively interest your Lordship has taken in the matter of this Alms' House of which we have just laid the corner stone . Permit me to add in all Christian sincerity , that no one who knows your Lordship , but must feel the conviction , that whatever is just , whatever is right , whatever is good , kindly and generous , whatever is devout , holy and eminently charitable in the highest sense of the termfinds not onlan authoritative and eloquent
, y teacher , a powerful and impressive expositor , but a cordial , devoted , downright , thorough , indeed I may say , enthusiastic exemplar in the Bishop of Calcutta . I conclude with the earnest prayer that your Lordship may be spared for many , many happy years to enlighten , to edify , to strengthen , and to console thousands . " The Lord Bishop returned thanks for the compliment paid him , and said that he was infinitely more indebted to the kindly feelings of Dr .
John Grant , for the flattering expressions to which he had given utterance , than to any virtue in himself . He certainly was in a degree enthusiastic in whatever he undertook , for he believed that without at least some degree of enthusiasm nothing good was ever yet accomplished ; but with respect to the Alms' House in particular . Sir Edward Ryan was the man to whom all honour was due . Every body would regret the departure from Calcutta of such a truly excellent and enthusiastic man ; for none had been more prominently instrumental in the ' VOL . IX . p
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India.
initials were figured sums of five , ten , sixteen , twenty , or thirty rupees . The sum never exceeded thirty or fell under five , as if the lady had conceived it utterly improbable that any person would offer a less slim to her ladyship . " That this moral or rather immoral anomaly has altogether disappeared , we owe entirely to that excellent Institution the District Charitable Society . Through the able and enlightened measures of this Society ,
public charity has assumed the regularity and effect of a well considered and consolidated system . " You will now understand that the Alms' House also includes a workhouse for those who are able to work , for there is no reason whatever why the poor man should eat this bread of idleness if he is able to work and can procure work . It is the condition of his being that with the sweat of his brow man should earn his bread . This may to the superficial appear a hard case , but if you examine it for a moment ; you will perceive it fraught with divine mercy , for next to religion itself the best safeguard against temptation , vice , and crime , are labour and occupation .
" To the ladies who have graced this occasion by becoming spectators of our solemnity , I beg to observe , that however ungallant the exclusion of the fair from Masonic mysteries may appear , that it really arose from no unworth y distrust in their discretion or fidelity , but from the most careful and affectionate solicitude . There were times of old when the knowledge of these secrets exposed their possessors to the most imminent peril , and even to death itself , from the suspicion or
misapprehension of tyrants , and it was to preserve woman in all her dear relations of mother , sister , wife , and daughter , that this apparently ungracious exclusion took place . Would it conld be put an end to , but , alas ! it is not in my power to alter what has become fixed by old prescription . - " My Lord Bishop—for myself and the Masonic Fraternity here assembled , I beg to express to your Lordship the grateful sense we entertain of the favour you have conferred upon us by honouring this
ceremonial with your presence . We are well aware what a lively interest your Lordship has taken in the matter of this Alms' House of which we have just laid the corner stone . Permit me to add in all Christian sincerity , that no one who knows your Lordship , but must feel the conviction , that whatever is just , whatever is right , whatever is good , kindly and generous , whatever is devout , holy and eminently charitable in the highest sense of the termfinds not onlan authoritative and eloquent
, y teacher , a powerful and impressive expositor , but a cordial , devoted , downright , thorough , indeed I may say , enthusiastic exemplar in the Bishop of Calcutta . I conclude with the earnest prayer that your Lordship may be spared for many , many happy years to enlighten , to edify , to strengthen , and to console thousands . " The Lord Bishop returned thanks for the compliment paid him , and said that he was infinitely more indebted to the kindly feelings of Dr .
John Grant , for the flattering expressions to which he had given utterance , than to any virtue in himself . He certainly was in a degree enthusiastic in whatever he undertook , for he believed that without at least some degree of enthusiasm nothing good was ever yet accomplished ; but with respect to the Alms' House in particular . Sir Edward Ryan was the man to whom all honour was due . Every body would regret the departure from Calcutta of such a truly excellent and enthusiastic man ; for none had been more prominently instrumental in the ' VOL . IX . p