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Article THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 8 →
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
their due . Alas ! how mistaken are those who reckon upon the results of Masonic polity , through the medium of Masonic feelings ! But our unsophisticated natures led us into more errors than these . Not only were we wrong in our estimate of
Masonic motives—we were equally wrong in calculating upon Masonic means . Freemasonry , in the case before us , was not merely violated by the dishonest sacrifice of Masonic feeling , but also by an unjust perversion of the Masonic law . Brotherly love was sneered at as an
impossible thing—the practical and solid offers of charity contemptuously refused , as a needless boon—and the Book of Constitutions set at naught and trampled upon , as if it were a compilation of ridiculous fallacies . To make these assertions clear , it is necessary that we should state the facts . Our readers are already aware , from the contents of our last number , that the negociation—any
longer to term it a conference is absurd —between the Sub-Committee of the Asylum and the Board of General Purposes , had arrived at a stage wherein a tender had been made by the former to transfer the Annuity Fund without reference to the Building Fund . But even this proposal , — -
one that , taking into account the charge now upon the Annuity Fund for existing pensions , would have left a large balance in favour of the new scheme , —was rejected by the Board of General Purposes ; that body , actuated by an appreciation of the Masonic-virtues we have sometimes
believed to be peculiarly its own , being only disposed "to receive and consider any proposition that may be made , having reference to the application of the entire fund to Annuities ; " and this , in the face of the reiterated declaration from the Sub-Committee of the Asylum , " that to
appropriate the Building Fund of this Institution to any other purpose than that of erecting an Asylum , would be a breach of faith with the subscribers , as had been previously intimated by the Sub-Committee to the Board of General
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
their due . Alas ! how mistaken are those who reckon upon the results of Masonic polity , through the medium of Masonic feelings ! But our unsophisticated natures led us into more errors than these . Not only were we wrong in our estimate of
Masonic motives—we were equally wrong in calculating upon Masonic means . Freemasonry , in the case before us , was not merely violated by the dishonest sacrifice of Masonic feeling , but also by an unjust perversion of the Masonic law . Brotherly love was sneered at as an
impossible thing—the practical and solid offers of charity contemptuously refused , as a needless boon—and the Book of Constitutions set at naught and trampled upon , as if it were a compilation of ridiculous fallacies . To make these assertions clear , it is necessary that we should state the facts . Our readers are already aware , from the contents of our last number , that the negociation—any
longer to term it a conference is absurd —between the Sub-Committee of the Asylum and the Board of General Purposes , had arrived at a stage wherein a tender had been made by the former to transfer the Annuity Fund without reference to the Building Fund . But even this proposal , — -
one that , taking into account the charge now upon the Annuity Fund for existing pensions , would have left a large balance in favour of the new scheme , —was rejected by the Board of General Purposes ; that body , actuated by an appreciation of the Masonic-virtues we have sometimes
believed to be peculiarly its own , being only disposed "to receive and consider any proposition that may be made , having reference to the application of the entire fund to Annuities ; " and this , in the face of the reiterated declaration from the Sub-Committee of the Asylum , " that to
appropriate the Building Fund of this Institution to any other purpose than that of erecting an Asylum , would be a breach of faith with the subscribers , as had been previously intimated by the Sub-Committee to the Board of General