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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW .
MARCH 31 , 1842 ,
THE ANNUITY PLAN . IN our preceding number we gave at length the rules and regulations prepared by the Board of General Purposes , with reference to the proposed plan of Annuities to Worthy Aged and Decayed Brethren , accompanied by such
amendments as we believed would tend to their general improvement , as well as to include the desired amalgamation of that plan with the pre-existing Annuity and Asylum Charity . And , in allusion to the intention of deliberating upon these forty-seven regulations , and whatever amendments might be
proposed at the Quarterly Communication — a Meeting of the Grand Lodge which is scarcely ever able to get through the current business of the quarter—we ventured to suggest
that it would be " more seemly and convenient to appoint , for the purpose , an Especial Grand Lodge on an early day . " This we did in the simplicity of our hearts , in the innocent supposition that the aim of our Masonic authorities would be , as it should be , directed to the achievement of universal
peace and good-will ; or , at least , to such a decent and deliberate examination of the subject , as should leave to none who dissented from the majority , any just grounds for assuming that the mutual respect ivhieh is due from man to man , and much more so from one Mason to another ,
had not been fully exercised towards them . A courteous attention to their reasoning , whatever might be their difference in Masonic rank—that is , their respective participation in Masonic favours —or their relative numbers , was surely VOL . IX . B
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW .
MARCH 31 , 1842 ,
THE ANNUITY PLAN . IN our preceding number we gave at length the rules and regulations prepared by the Board of General Purposes , with reference to the proposed plan of Annuities to Worthy Aged and Decayed Brethren , accompanied by such
amendments as we believed would tend to their general improvement , as well as to include the desired amalgamation of that plan with the pre-existing Annuity and Asylum Charity . And , in allusion to the intention of deliberating upon these forty-seven regulations , and whatever amendments might be
proposed at the Quarterly Communication — a Meeting of the Grand Lodge which is scarcely ever able to get through the current business of the quarter—we ventured to suggest
that it would be " more seemly and convenient to appoint , for the purpose , an Especial Grand Lodge on an early day . " This we did in the simplicity of our hearts , in the innocent supposition that the aim of our Masonic authorities would be , as it should be , directed to the achievement of universal
peace and good-will ; or , at least , to such a decent and deliberate examination of the subject , as should leave to none who dissented from the majority , any just grounds for assuming that the mutual respect ivhieh is due from man to man , and much more so from one Mason to another ,
had not been fully exercised towards them . A courteous attention to their reasoning , whatever might be their difference in Masonic rank—that is , their respective participation in Masonic favours —or their relative numbers , was surely VOL . IX . B