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endeavour to have them all housed , and receiving an education worthy of the Craft which professed to cultivate the arts and sciences . The following is a list of the prizes and the boys to whom they were awarded ; — Writing ( Silver Medal ) , Roland Horatio Ward . History ( Annals of the Hebrew Nation ) , Alfred James Crichton . Geography ( Ninevehand its Palaces ) , Joseph Gray . General Information ( a Million of Facts ) , Frederick Kislingbury , Arithmetic ( Wonders of Science ) , Joseph Gray . French ( Repertoire des Brosateurs Franeais ) , Louis Gamauf . Ditto , Frederick IQslingbury .
The boys who had been awarded prizes were then severally presented to his lordship , and received from him kind words of congratulation and encouragement . The Il . W . Chairman then rose to propose the toast of the evening ,. " ¦ Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boy s / ' coupled with the health of the B . W . Bro . Bond Cabbell , M . P ., Treasurer ; and in doing so > said— '\ Brethren , I have now to propose to you ar toast which is intimately connected with the object which has
called us together . The sight which we have just witnessed must be always a pleasant one , for who can deny that it is pleasant to be brought face to face with those youths , engaged as they are in a system of intellectual and moral training , to fit them for taking a place in society , ( Cheers . ) I trust these young lads will form the future generation of Freemasons when we shall have passed away , and I hope the remembrance of your kindness will impress on them the value of that Order which has afford-ed them the means of education . The Boyal Masonic
Institution for boys has , as you are all aware , been in existence for no less a period than sixty years . At the present moment it stands at a turning point in its history ; for after five years' exertions on the part of the committee , a building fund has been raised , which has enabled them to purchase a mansion in the neighbourhood of Hornsey as the school-house of the institution , in which they now propose to make the commencement of an establishment , in which the boys will be both lodged and instructed . Bro . Cox has told us some truths not very
palatable . ( Hear , hear . ) It seems to me that the best remedy for these defects will be found in the establishment of such an institution as that which is proposed at Lordship Lodge . At the present moment the committee are not able to receive within that building more than twenty-five boys ; and as there are altogether as many as seventy on the books of the charity , it must be clear to you all that it is but a small portion of them we are at present able to accommodate in the manner we wish . It seems to me , Brethren , that it ought to be the first
object of the Craft , by a great effort , to extend the usefulness of these premises by rendering them more complete . Lord Yarborough has in that respect set us a worthy example . ( Hear , hear . ) Let us follow it , and not rest satisfied until we are able to say that the boys of the Boyal Masonic Institution are all educated under our own eyes , and in a manner which enables us to control their moral training . ( Hear , hear . ) In these days no one can doubt that the spread of education is one of the most important matters that can engage our attention .
Unhappily , in another place ( laughter ) , we are more inclined to quarrel than to agree upon any particular system . This , however , only makes it the more imperative upon the friends of education , to devote themselves with more zeal to the promotion of it . ( Hear , hear . ) We know that among those nations which take the lead in civilization , we shall soon lag in the race 01 * human progress if we overlook the importance of education . It is on behalf of an institution which
seeks to realize this we are this evening met together , and I call upon you to support it with that spirit and self-denial from which the great and noble principles of our Order take their rise . ( Cheers . ) Those cheers tell me that you do not misinterpret the appeal which I have made to the Craft . Brethren , I call upon you to drink with me , ' Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys / coupling with it the health of Bro . Cabbell . "
Bro . John Hervey , in the absence of Bro . Cabbell , replied to the toast , and handed in that worthy Brother ' s thirtieth subscription of XI 0 . 10 s . The B . W . Chairman then said , that they should not forget that the toast which they had just drunk was that of the only charity connected with the festival of the evening , nor overlook the other charities of the Order , and he would therefore
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endeavour to have them all housed , and receiving an education worthy of the Craft which professed to cultivate the arts and sciences . The following is a list of the prizes and the boys to whom they were awarded ; — Writing ( Silver Medal ) , Roland Horatio Ward . History ( Annals of the Hebrew Nation ) , Alfred James Crichton . Geography ( Ninevehand its Palaces ) , Joseph Gray . General Information ( a Million of Facts ) , Frederick Kislingbury , Arithmetic ( Wonders of Science ) , Joseph Gray . French ( Repertoire des Brosateurs Franeais ) , Louis Gamauf . Ditto , Frederick IQslingbury .
The boys who had been awarded prizes were then severally presented to his lordship , and received from him kind words of congratulation and encouragement . The Il . W . Chairman then rose to propose the toast of the evening ,. " ¦ Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boy s / ' coupled with the health of the B . W . Bro . Bond Cabbell , M . P ., Treasurer ; and in doing so > said— '\ Brethren , I have now to propose to you ar toast which is intimately connected with the object which has
called us together . The sight which we have just witnessed must be always a pleasant one , for who can deny that it is pleasant to be brought face to face with those youths , engaged as they are in a system of intellectual and moral training , to fit them for taking a place in society , ( Cheers . ) I trust these young lads will form the future generation of Freemasons when we shall have passed away , and I hope the remembrance of your kindness will impress on them the value of that Order which has afford-ed them the means of education . The Boyal Masonic
Institution for boys has , as you are all aware , been in existence for no less a period than sixty years . At the present moment it stands at a turning point in its history ; for after five years' exertions on the part of the committee , a building fund has been raised , which has enabled them to purchase a mansion in the neighbourhood of Hornsey as the school-house of the institution , in which they now propose to make the commencement of an establishment , in which the boys will be both lodged and instructed . Bro . Cox has told us some truths not very
palatable . ( Hear , hear . ) It seems to me that the best remedy for these defects will be found in the establishment of such an institution as that which is proposed at Lordship Lodge . At the present moment the committee are not able to receive within that building more than twenty-five boys ; and as there are altogether as many as seventy on the books of the charity , it must be clear to you all that it is but a small portion of them we are at present able to accommodate in the manner we wish . It seems to me , Brethren , that it ought to be the first
object of the Craft , by a great effort , to extend the usefulness of these premises by rendering them more complete . Lord Yarborough has in that respect set us a worthy example . ( Hear , hear . ) Let us follow it , and not rest satisfied until we are able to say that the boys of the Boyal Masonic Institution are all educated under our own eyes , and in a manner which enables us to control their moral training . ( Hear , hear . ) In these days no one can doubt that the spread of education is one of the most important matters that can engage our attention .
Unhappily , in another place ( laughter ) , we are more inclined to quarrel than to agree upon any particular system . This , however , only makes it the more imperative upon the friends of education , to devote themselves with more zeal to the promotion of it . ( Hear , hear . ) We know that among those nations which take the lead in civilization , we shall soon lag in the race 01 * human progress if we overlook the importance of education . It is on behalf of an institution which
seeks to realize this we are this evening met together , and I call upon you to support it with that spirit and self-denial from which the great and noble principles of our Order take their rise . ( Cheers . ) Those cheers tell me that you do not misinterpret the appeal which I have made to the Craft . Brethren , I call upon you to drink with me , ' Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys / coupling with it the health of Bro . Cabbell . "
Bro . John Hervey , in the absence of Bro . Cabbell , replied to the toast , and handed in that worthy Brother ' s thirtieth subscription of XI 0 . 10 s . The B . W . Chairman then said , that they should not forget that the toast which they had just drunk was that of the only charity connected with the festival of the evening , nor overlook the other charities of the Order , and he would therefore