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The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
THE ; EQ ¥ . AX MAS ONIC , BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
It is most gratifying to lis to be enabled to embrace the opportunity
of turning from those t ^ a debatable nature with which our attention , has , of late , been too much engrossed ,, to one on which there cannot be the slightest difference of opinion throughotit the Craftthe desirability of extending as far as possible to our poorer Brethren
the advantages derivable from the Eoyal Benevolent Institution for . Aged Masons and their Widows ; and this can only be done by increasing the support which has hitherto been-vouched to it . An opportunity of carrying out to some extent this beneyoloiit design is
almost immediately at hand in the approaching festival , which is fixed by the Most Worshipful Grand Master to take place on the 26 th of January , the eve of the natal clay of our late lamented Grand Master , H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , under whose auspices the institution
was established . We do not wish to accuse our provincial Brethren of supineness in supporting the institution , but we would remind them that of fifty-five stewards who , up to the time we write , have consented to act at the approaching festival , only eight or nine come
from the country . We are aware that to Brethren at a distance it would be a heavy tax to add to the ordinary expenses of a stewardship the cost of coming to and stopping in London , but we call their attention to the above disparity in the number of Stewards , in
order that during the festive period of the year we are so rapidly approaching , they may carefully look over ihe list of stewards which will be forthwith published , and entrust to them their donations and subscriptions to be announced at the festival , tlio list
of which we think will be as large , if not larger , than , on any former occasion . The necessity of further assistance is shown by the fact that , on the occasion of the last election , in May , we could only vol . v . 3 r
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The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
THE ; EQ ¥ . AX MAS ONIC , BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
It is most gratifying to lis to be enabled to embrace the opportunity
of turning from those t ^ a debatable nature with which our attention , has , of late , been too much engrossed ,, to one on which there cannot be the slightest difference of opinion throughotit the Craftthe desirability of extending as far as possible to our poorer Brethren
the advantages derivable from the Eoyal Benevolent Institution for . Aged Masons and their Widows ; and this can only be done by increasing the support which has hitherto been-vouched to it . An opportunity of carrying out to some extent this beneyoloiit design is
almost immediately at hand in the approaching festival , which is fixed by the Most Worshipful Grand Master to take place on the 26 th of January , the eve of the natal clay of our late lamented Grand Master , H . R . H . the Duke of Sussex , under whose auspices the institution
was established . We do not wish to accuse our provincial Brethren of supineness in supporting the institution , but we would remind them that of fifty-five stewards who , up to the time we write , have consented to act at the approaching festival , only eight or nine come
from the country . We are aware that to Brethren at a distance it would be a heavy tax to add to the ordinary expenses of a stewardship the cost of coming to and stopping in London , but we call their attention to the above disparity in the number of Stewards , in
order that during the festive period of the year we are so rapidly approaching , they may carefully look over ihe list of stewards which will be forthwith published , and entrust to them their donations and subscriptions to be announced at the festival , tlio list
of which we think will be as large , if not larger , than , on any former occasion . The necessity of further assistance is shown by the fact that , on the occasion of the last election , in May , we could only vol . v . 3 r