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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 6 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
and Ireland , instead of assisting me in building my parsonage . Tlie hungry must first be fed before one can think of building parsonages oi churches . Your most affectionate Brother , JOSEPH WOLFF . Isle Brewers , near Langport , in Somersetshire , Jan . 15 , 11147 .
We much regret that a notice of motion that stood on the business paper of the Grand Lodge of England at its last meeting , for a grant of one thousand pounds to the suffering poor of Ireland and Scotland , was prevented from being entertained in consequence of the hour for nesv motions having elapsed . We knosv not whether the standing order in such a case might not have been suspended ; but surely this svas a case
of such stringent necessity , that the breach of the lasv svould have been its best observance . Let us hope that the notice of motion itself svill operate as a moral direction to the Freemasons over the svhole svorld , to do their duty at any rate , and that by the next meeting of the Grand Lodge there will be such a glorious evidence of the charity of Freemasons , that the Grand Lodge of England , instead of having had the honour of leading the van of charity , may bring up her reserve in the fulness of a grateful and glorious success in the great cause of mankind .
Since these remarks svere svritten , many Lodges have subscribed . The India Lodges—the svealthy Hindoos—and republican America , have enlisted their sympathies ; and there is hopeful prospect that svhatever difference of opinion there may exist as to notions of political economy , there is among Freemasons but one thought , but one mind , svhen such a calamity prevails .
Under the English constitution there are registered 7 GS Lodges ; svere each to contribute but ten pounds , there svould from this source he collected 7 , G 80 / ., a small sum in itself , but large in effect , for it svould tend to create a general impulse among individual members ; and it is not too much to calculate that the merchant princes of England , most of them Masons , svould remove the taunt of Napoleon , that wondrous man and
Mason , svho in his political svrath denounced us as a nation of shopkeepers . Let aid be sought in every source , and the motto svill be proved , " Juncta juvant . "
THE HESVLETT FUND . —We refer our readers to the quarterly obituary , as svell as to our advertising columns , for the particulars of a sad and distressing case svhich has occurred by the lamented decease of a most svorthy Brother , the Rev . J . T . Hesvlett , svho died recently and suddenly , leaving nine motherless children , destitute of any other means of existence than what the alternative of the " union" provided . As an
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
and Ireland , instead of assisting me in building my parsonage . Tlie hungry must first be fed before one can think of building parsonages oi churches . Your most affectionate Brother , JOSEPH WOLFF . Isle Brewers , near Langport , in Somersetshire , Jan . 15 , 11147 .
We much regret that a notice of motion that stood on the business paper of the Grand Lodge of England at its last meeting , for a grant of one thousand pounds to the suffering poor of Ireland and Scotland , was prevented from being entertained in consequence of the hour for nesv motions having elapsed . We knosv not whether the standing order in such a case might not have been suspended ; but surely this svas a case
of such stringent necessity , that the breach of the lasv svould have been its best observance . Let us hope that the notice of motion itself svill operate as a moral direction to the Freemasons over the svhole svorld , to do their duty at any rate , and that by the next meeting of the Grand Lodge there will be such a glorious evidence of the charity of Freemasons , that the Grand Lodge of England , instead of having had the honour of leading the van of charity , may bring up her reserve in the fulness of a grateful and glorious success in the great cause of mankind .
Since these remarks svere svritten , many Lodges have subscribed . The India Lodges—the svealthy Hindoos—and republican America , have enlisted their sympathies ; and there is hopeful prospect that svhatever difference of opinion there may exist as to notions of political economy , there is among Freemasons but one thought , but one mind , svhen such a calamity prevails .
Under the English constitution there are registered 7 GS Lodges ; svere each to contribute but ten pounds , there svould from this source he collected 7 , G 80 / ., a small sum in itself , but large in effect , for it svould tend to create a general impulse among individual members ; and it is not too much to calculate that the merchant princes of England , most of them Masons , svould remove the taunt of Napoleon , that wondrous man and
Mason , svho in his political svrath denounced us as a nation of shopkeepers . Let aid be sought in every source , and the motto svill be proved , " Juncta juvant . "
THE HESVLETT FUND . —We refer our readers to the quarterly obituary , as svell as to our advertising columns , for the particulars of a sad and distressing case svhich has occurred by the lamented decease of a most svorthy Brother , the Rev . J . T . Hesvlett , svho died recently and suddenly , leaving nine motherless children , destitute of any other means of existence than what the alternative of the " union" provided . As an