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The Asylum For Aged Masons.
THE ASYLUM FOR AGED MASONS .
The following extracts from a circular are so pointed and effective ^ that we think it our duty to extend their publicity . GRAND MASONIC BALL . SIR AND BROTBR , —I have the pleasure to inform you , that the Annual Ball in aid of the Funds of the " Asylum for Worthy , Aged , and Decayed Freemasons" is appointed to take lace at Alrnack's Rooms ,
, p King-street , St . James ' s , on Wednesday the 28 th of February next . To commemorate the auspicious commencement of the building , the foundation stone of which will be laid early in the spring , a great number of gentlemen and brethren have kindly consented to officiate as stewards , and have resolved to put in requisition every available resource that may contribute to render this one of the most delightful and best conducted Balls of the season .
The President and Board of Stewards respectfully request your cooperation in this pleasing work of charity , and if they presume to anticipate a hig hly successful result to this application , it is because they feel that charity in the abstract , must necessarily have the support of every high-minded and unprejudiced Mason . The other truly excellent charities of our Order , give the most gratifing evidences of masonic liberalityand it would be unworthy that
y ; comprehensive benevolence which Fremasonry teaches , were they to assume a limit to its sphere of action , or to suppose that an institution , which provides a home for the worthy infirm and destitute of our Order , should lack its fair share of patronage and protection . To those poor aged brethren who have outlived friends and connexions , and whose home is the wide world , ( and how many hundreds of such are there ) the Asylum to become the resting placewhere in
proposes , honourable retirement , in complaisant ease , and in the indulgence of those social comforts which masonic bounty will not fail to provide them , they may pass the evening of their days happy and contented . I remain , Sir and brother , yours very respectfully and fraternally , J . WHITMORE , 12 S , Oxford-street , January 29 , 3810 . Hon . Sec .
The Ball was conducted in a most delig htful manner , it was not so numerously attended as on some former occasions , but the day had been most inauspicious , and deterred those from being present whose health might suffer . The Stewards' arrangements were admirable , and gave the highest satisfaction .
TURNING OF THE SOD , Feb . 19 . —This day was the first grand movement . The sod of the soil on which the Asylum is to be built , was turned at Croydon , at the north east corner of tbe intended structure , — by Bros . Wilson , AV . L . Wright , Patrick , Whitmore , Barrett , and the assistant architect . The ground having been marked out and measured according to usual system , the party gave three hearty cheers for the success of the
undertaking . Never were hearts more sensitively impressed with honesty of purpose or holiness of object . The cheers were as " Hallelujahs , "— ¦ spontaneous and life-like . Heart gave them expression , and truth wafted them as best she could upwards , in token of her own testimony in favour
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The Asylum For Aged Masons.
THE ASYLUM FOR AGED MASONS .
The following extracts from a circular are so pointed and effective ^ that we think it our duty to extend their publicity . GRAND MASONIC BALL . SIR AND BROTBR , —I have the pleasure to inform you , that the Annual Ball in aid of the Funds of the " Asylum for Worthy , Aged , and Decayed Freemasons" is appointed to take lace at Alrnack's Rooms ,
, p King-street , St . James ' s , on Wednesday the 28 th of February next . To commemorate the auspicious commencement of the building , the foundation stone of which will be laid early in the spring , a great number of gentlemen and brethren have kindly consented to officiate as stewards , and have resolved to put in requisition every available resource that may contribute to render this one of the most delightful and best conducted Balls of the season .
The President and Board of Stewards respectfully request your cooperation in this pleasing work of charity , and if they presume to anticipate a hig hly successful result to this application , it is because they feel that charity in the abstract , must necessarily have the support of every high-minded and unprejudiced Mason . The other truly excellent charities of our Order , give the most gratifing evidences of masonic liberalityand it would be unworthy that
y ; comprehensive benevolence which Fremasonry teaches , were they to assume a limit to its sphere of action , or to suppose that an institution , which provides a home for the worthy infirm and destitute of our Order , should lack its fair share of patronage and protection . To those poor aged brethren who have outlived friends and connexions , and whose home is the wide world , ( and how many hundreds of such are there ) the Asylum to become the resting placewhere in
proposes , honourable retirement , in complaisant ease , and in the indulgence of those social comforts which masonic bounty will not fail to provide them , they may pass the evening of their days happy and contented . I remain , Sir and brother , yours very respectfully and fraternally , J . WHITMORE , 12 S , Oxford-street , January 29 , 3810 . Hon . Sec .
The Ball was conducted in a most delig htful manner , it was not so numerously attended as on some former occasions , but the day had been most inauspicious , and deterred those from being present whose health might suffer . The Stewards' arrangements were admirable , and gave the highest satisfaction .
TURNING OF THE SOD , Feb . 19 . —This day was the first grand movement . The sod of the soil on which the Asylum is to be built , was turned at Croydon , at the north east corner of tbe intended structure , — by Bros . Wilson , AV . L . Wright , Patrick , Whitmore , Barrett , and the assistant architect . The ground having been marked out and measured according to usual system , the party gave three hearty cheers for the success of the
undertaking . Never were hearts more sensitively impressed with honesty of purpose or holiness of object . The cheers were as " Hallelujahs , "— ¦ spontaneous and life-like . Heart gave them expression , and truth wafted them as best she could upwards , in token of her own testimony in favour