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The Masonic Charitles.
THE MASONIC CHARITlES .
THE boys' and the girls' schools are about to make their annual appeal to the brethren for renewed assistance by means of their festivals , and judging from the list of stewards which each institution has obtained , there appears likely to be no falling oil" in the attendance with which they are usually honoured . But there is a third , and no less if not more important charity than the schools , which , though it appeals not through
the means of a festival this year , is equally deserving of the support , and greatly in want of renewed exertions on the part of the brethren , to p lace it on a footing consistent with the importance and position of the Craft . We need not say that we allude to the Boyal Benevolent
Institution for aged Freemasons aud their widows . The Asylum at Croydon has just been completed , and the building committee have resigned their trust into the hands of tlie general committee . But there yet remains a debt -upon the Asylum which calls aloud upon the brethren for immediate liquidation . The building committee in their report , which is dated the 19 th of January , state that at the termination of " their labours they have
great pleasure in laying a full statement of their proceedings before tlie general committee ( and , of course , through them , the Craft at large ) . The building committee commenced their labours on the 2-Sth of October , 1847 , and appointed Br . N . Fawdel as their chairman . The committee state , that from that timeuntil the amalgamation of the Eoyal Bene
, - volent Annuity Fund , the Widows' Pension Society , and the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons , the governors and subscribers of the latter charity were the only authorized body to whom the building committee reported . Alter several meetings , it was resolved by the governors and subscribers to the Asylum to confirm the union of the
charities , but to leave the building committee an independent body ; ancl in that position it remained until the 19 th of January of the present year , when , having terminated their labours , they , by their own vote L
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The Masonic Charitles.
THE MASONIC CHARITlES .
THE boys' and the girls' schools are about to make their annual appeal to the brethren for renewed assistance by means of their festivals , and judging from the list of stewards which each institution has obtained , there appears likely to be no falling oil" in the attendance with which they are usually honoured . But there is a third , and no less if not more important charity than the schools , which , though it appeals not through
the means of a festival this year , is equally deserving of the support , and greatly in want of renewed exertions on the part of the brethren , to p lace it on a footing consistent with the importance and position of the Craft . We need not say that we allude to the Boyal Benevolent
Institution for aged Freemasons aud their widows . The Asylum at Croydon has just been completed , and the building committee have resigned their trust into the hands of tlie general committee . But there yet remains a debt -upon the Asylum which calls aloud upon the brethren for immediate liquidation . The building committee in their report , which is dated the 19 th of January , state that at the termination of " their labours they have
great pleasure in laying a full statement of their proceedings before tlie general committee ( and , of course , through them , the Craft at large ) . The building committee commenced their labours on the 2-Sth of October , 1847 , and appointed Br . N . Fawdel as their chairman . The committee state , that from that timeuntil the amalgamation of the Eoyal Bene
, - volent Annuity Fund , the Widows' Pension Society , and the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons , the governors and subscribers of the latter charity were the only authorized body to whom the building committee reported . Alter several meetings , it was resolved by the governors and subscribers to the Asylum to confirm the union of the
charities , but to leave the building committee an independent body ; ancl in that position it remained until the 19 th of January of the present year , when , having terminated their labours , they , by their own vote L