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Valedictory Address To Our Readers , For The Year 1839.
Six years ago , and there was no Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason ; now , until the glorious edifice shall be erected—it spiritually exists—and the treasurer ' s house has become typical ofthe " Middle Chamber , " where the aged Craftsman receives quarterly , the moral
wages of his well-spent life . Six years ago , and complimentary tributes were few and rare , now merit rears its head , and gratitude is frequently recorded on the Minute Book , and in the heart of the Mason . The Illustrious Chief , himself , is among those whom it hath delig hted the Craft thus to honour , —the Fesall the Craft
tival of 1838 will live in the remembrance of , and during whatever life may remain , in our memory that eventful day will be ever a lesson , neither of yesterday nor of to-morrow . The pleasure with which we thus describe the ' change that has evolved by time and circumstance , it were vain to dwell upon ; no less so the pride with which we can state that scarcely a suggestion either from London or the Provinces , of which we have been the means of making public , but
has been productive of goodly fruit . MUCH HOWEVER REMAINS TO BE DONE . NIL ACTUM REPUTANS SI Q & ID SUPER ESSET AGENDUM . The Craft having judged for itself , will not , we opine , readilforego the 'vantage ground of experienceand it
y , may not require our continued services—services which although mentally an indulgence , are corporeally severe . A Quarterly Review requires annually four months' attention ; thus in six years ( the period of our labours ) TWO YEARS consumption of time has been devoted to this branch alone of Masonic dutyLet one of our readersfrom
our . any , His Royal Hig hness the Duke of Sussex ( who , we know , reads , aye , and studies us—we speak advisedly , ) downwards , honestly say , whether by any comparison he has thus devoted himself , and then , in the full honesty of his Masonic obligation , will he deny that we have not done OUR duty . We confess that we are appealing to a most indulthe of the courtit
gent jury ; but as we may not have ear , is therefore but politic in us to make the best of our case , inasmuch as our final valedictory address may be near at hand , for the following reasons : —Six years ago—then in the forty-fifth year of our natural , and in the fifth of our Masonic age—we made certain numerical calculations ( albeit , our VOL . vi . 3 G
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Valedictory Address To Our Readers , For The Year 1839.
Six years ago , and there was no Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason ; now , until the glorious edifice shall be erected—it spiritually exists—and the treasurer ' s house has become typical ofthe " Middle Chamber , " where the aged Craftsman receives quarterly , the moral
wages of his well-spent life . Six years ago , and complimentary tributes were few and rare , now merit rears its head , and gratitude is frequently recorded on the Minute Book , and in the heart of the Mason . The Illustrious Chief , himself , is among those whom it hath delig hted the Craft thus to honour , —the Fesall the Craft
tival of 1838 will live in the remembrance of , and during whatever life may remain , in our memory that eventful day will be ever a lesson , neither of yesterday nor of to-morrow . The pleasure with which we thus describe the ' change that has evolved by time and circumstance , it were vain to dwell upon ; no less so the pride with which we can state that scarcely a suggestion either from London or the Provinces , of which we have been the means of making public , but
has been productive of goodly fruit . MUCH HOWEVER REMAINS TO BE DONE . NIL ACTUM REPUTANS SI Q & ID SUPER ESSET AGENDUM . The Craft having judged for itself , will not , we opine , readilforego the 'vantage ground of experienceand it
y , may not require our continued services—services which although mentally an indulgence , are corporeally severe . A Quarterly Review requires annually four months' attention ; thus in six years ( the period of our labours ) TWO YEARS consumption of time has been devoted to this branch alone of Masonic dutyLet one of our readersfrom
our . any , His Royal Hig hness the Duke of Sussex ( who , we know , reads , aye , and studies us—we speak advisedly , ) downwards , honestly say , whether by any comparison he has thus devoted himself , and then , in the full honesty of his Masonic obligation , will he deny that we have not done OUR duty . We confess that we are appealing to a most indulthe of the courtit
gent jury ; but as we may not have ear , is therefore but politic in us to make the best of our case , inasmuch as our final valedictory address may be near at hand , for the following reasons : —Six years ago—then in the forty-fifth year of our natural , and in the fifth of our Masonic age—we made certain numerical calculations ( albeit , our VOL . vi . 3 G