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Notice.
NOTICE .
The Editor requests that all communications may be sent to him at 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields , by the 20 th of each month at latest , to insure their insertion .
Some Subsceibebs having experienced a difficulty in obtaining the Magazine regularly , we beg to inform them that in future the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine and Masonic Mirror will be sent direct , for twelve months , to any address , at the commencement of each month , upon receipt of an Order upon the General Post-Ofnce , Charing-cross , for 10 s . 6 dL , payable to Mr . Henry George Warren , 2 , Red Lion-court , Fleet-street , by whom the same will be acknowledged .
To Coeeespondents.
TO COEEESPONDENTS .
"W . B ., " Dudley . — -A Brother holding office in a Prov . Grand Lodge can wear his apron of that office in Grand Lodge . W . B ., in a letter , the length of which alone prevents its publication , urges with great force the necessity of establishing Funds of Benevolence in connection with every private Lodge , in order that the claims upon the charity of the Brethren might be more promptly and liberally met than at present . He concludes thus : — "We will take a Lodge
of fifty members , suppose they were each to subscribe £ 1 a piece , —that would realize £ 50 to start with ; and I would propose that each member of the Lodge afterwards do subscribe five shillings annually , which would be for the whole £ 12 . 10 s . per annum ; and this money , at compound interest , at 3 per cent ., would , in five years ( supposing that no claims were made upon it ) , realize the sum of £ 124 odd . If the general funds of the Lodge were in such a state as to admit of it , I would suggest that an annual donation be presented therefrom to
this private Fund of Benevolence , which of course would make it so much the better . If this or a similar plan was adopted , every Lodge in the kingdom would , in a few years , have such means at hand as , in the event of unforeseen misfortune and calamity overtaking a brother of their number , to enable the Lodge to which he belonged to assist him , either by a donation or loan , o , o xnighc be deemed advisable , such as would perhaps enable him to retrieve his position ,
and thus lead him to bless the day he saw the light of Masonry , instead of as now , after having subscribed to a Lodge for a great number of years , being compelled , in his declining years , from circumstances over which he had no control , to withdraw therefrom , with reflections as painful as unavailing , that had he been a subscribing member to some other Order he might have had something to fall hack upon in bis hour of need . "
" Subscriber , " Kidderminster . —Five are sufficient to confirm the minutes , although seven must he present to initiate . " J . Mott Thearle . " —The legend is unavoidably postponed . " Orim , " Glasgow , is thanked . His communication shall be attended to . " A . V . R , " Georgetown , is thanked . —We are glad to hear of the settlement of the differences between the two Lodges . Certainly , there can be no excuse for the Grand Secretary leaving nineteen communications unanswered . We trust a reform will be effected in this ere long . The list of Office-bearers did not come to hand with the kind communication of our Brother .
The communication of our Correspondents at St . Christopher , relative to the Mount Horeh Itoyal Arch Chapter , which is not in the Kalendar , shall be attended to . We may however remark , that the Lodges here appear to be in abeyance , No . 69 having made no return to Grand Lodge since 1815 , nor No . GOO since 1835 . Have any candidates been initiated since those dates ? If so , they should understand that they would not be acknowledged as hh-eemasons in other parts of the world , for want of their certificates . « Old Dundee / ' next month ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notice.
NOTICE .
The Editor requests that all communications may be sent to him at 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields , by the 20 th of each month at latest , to insure their insertion .
Some Subsceibebs having experienced a difficulty in obtaining the Magazine regularly , we beg to inform them that in future the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine and Masonic Mirror will be sent direct , for twelve months , to any address , at the commencement of each month , upon receipt of an Order upon the General Post-Ofnce , Charing-cross , for 10 s . 6 dL , payable to Mr . Henry George Warren , 2 , Red Lion-court , Fleet-street , by whom the same will be acknowledged .
To Coeeespondents.
TO COEEESPONDENTS .
"W . B ., " Dudley . — -A Brother holding office in a Prov . Grand Lodge can wear his apron of that office in Grand Lodge . W . B ., in a letter , the length of which alone prevents its publication , urges with great force the necessity of establishing Funds of Benevolence in connection with every private Lodge , in order that the claims upon the charity of the Brethren might be more promptly and liberally met than at present . He concludes thus : — "We will take a Lodge
of fifty members , suppose they were each to subscribe £ 1 a piece , —that would realize £ 50 to start with ; and I would propose that each member of the Lodge afterwards do subscribe five shillings annually , which would be for the whole £ 12 . 10 s . per annum ; and this money , at compound interest , at 3 per cent ., would , in five years ( supposing that no claims were made upon it ) , realize the sum of £ 124 odd . If the general funds of the Lodge were in such a state as to admit of it , I would suggest that an annual donation be presented therefrom to
this private Fund of Benevolence , which of course would make it so much the better . If this or a similar plan was adopted , every Lodge in the kingdom would , in a few years , have such means at hand as , in the event of unforeseen misfortune and calamity overtaking a brother of their number , to enable the Lodge to which he belonged to assist him , either by a donation or loan , o , o xnighc be deemed advisable , such as would perhaps enable him to retrieve his position ,
and thus lead him to bless the day he saw the light of Masonry , instead of as now , after having subscribed to a Lodge for a great number of years , being compelled , in his declining years , from circumstances over which he had no control , to withdraw therefrom , with reflections as painful as unavailing , that had he been a subscribing member to some other Order he might have had something to fall hack upon in bis hour of need . "
" Subscriber , " Kidderminster . —Five are sufficient to confirm the minutes , although seven must he present to initiate . " J . Mott Thearle . " —The legend is unavoidably postponed . " Orim , " Glasgow , is thanked . His communication shall be attended to . " A . V . R , " Georgetown , is thanked . —We are glad to hear of the settlement of the differences between the two Lodges . Certainly , there can be no excuse for the Grand Secretary leaving nineteen communications unanswered . We trust a reform will be effected in this ere long . The list of Office-bearers did not come to hand with the kind communication of our Brother .
The communication of our Correspondents at St . Christopher , relative to the Mount Horeh Itoyal Arch Chapter , which is not in the Kalendar , shall be attended to . We may however remark , that the Lodges here appear to be in abeyance , No . 69 having made no return to Grand Lodge since 1815 , nor No . GOO since 1835 . Have any candidates been initiated since those dates ? If so , they should understand that they would not be acknowledged as hh-eemasons in other parts of the world , for want of their certificates . « Old Dundee / ' next month ,