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Freemasons' Hall.
Avautalour , country Brethren Ave are sure will readily acknowledge —and Ave are much mistaken if they will not as readily pay a small annual subscription ( not so much of course as the London Brethren ) to secure the advantage of a metropolitan home which they can at all times A-isit , as a right , Avith no obligation to spend one single shilling ivithont they desireand then only for such needful
refresh-, ment as they may require . The same Avritei * asserts that five sixths of the funds " ol' tire Craft come from the country . Hoiv far this is likely to bo founded on fact is shown by the cii'cumstance that there are one hundred and thirty-seven Lodges in the metropolitan district , and five hundred and seven in the provinces , the fee payable upon the initiation of each Brother in the metropolitan Lodges
being tAventy-ono shillings , aud in the country ten shillings and sixpence—and all fees ( with the exception of six shillings and sixpence for the certificate ) are regulated in the same proportion . Thus , supposing an equal number of members to be initiated in each Lodge , and Ave will take twenty ( a number certainly beyond tho average ) as an illustration of our argument , Ave should find the London Lodges contributing for the registration of its members to the fund of General
Purposes tivo thousand eig ht hundred and seventy seven pounds , against five thousand three hundred aud twenty three pounds ten shillings from the country , or : not quite four sixths , instead of five sixths , as asserted : so that in fact , though there are only a fraction over one sixth of the . English Lodges proper ( AVC use the term as excluding the colonies ) situated in the metropolitan districts , they
pay something more than one third of tlie amount raised forthe . Fund of General Purposes , and also for the Fund of Benevolence . Wc shall , however , endeavour to obtain more accurately the various proportions received from the London and country Lodges ; but even if the latter subscribed less than the former-, Ave would most strenuously oppose any scheme b ivhich the funds should be so expended as to
y g ive the metropolitan Brethren an undue advantage over those of the country ; though in these days of railways , steam , and universal travelling , we cannot believe that the establishment of a central Masonic library and refreshment room in the metropolis Avould be other than a most acceptable boon to our country Brethren . Moreover no undue advantage in thc way of accommodation is proposed to be
g iven to the London Lodges , as they Avill not be able to meet at the Hall under thc proposed alterations—as Ave understand thorn—Avithout paying a rent , to . be agreed upon , for their Lodge rooms .
BIOUKAI'IIV . —Man ' s sociality of nature evinces itself , in . spite of nil that can he said , with abundant evidence , hy this ouo fact , ivere there no other , the unspeakable delig ht he takes iu biography . It is written , "The proper study of mankind is man ; " to ivhich he applies himself nothing loth . —Cmiylc ,
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Freemasons' Hall.
Avautalour , country Brethren Ave are sure will readily acknowledge —and Ave are much mistaken if they will not as readily pay a small annual subscription ( not so much of course as the London Brethren ) to secure the advantage of a metropolitan home which they can at all times A-isit , as a right , Avith no obligation to spend one single shilling ivithont they desireand then only for such needful
refresh-, ment as they may require . The same Avritei * asserts that five sixths of the funds " ol' tire Craft come from the country . Hoiv far this is likely to bo founded on fact is shown by the cii'cumstance that there are one hundred and thirty-seven Lodges in the metropolitan district , and five hundred and seven in the provinces , the fee payable upon the initiation of each Brother in the metropolitan Lodges
being tAventy-ono shillings , aud in the country ten shillings and sixpence—and all fees ( with the exception of six shillings and sixpence for the certificate ) are regulated in the same proportion . Thus , supposing an equal number of members to be initiated in each Lodge , and Ave will take twenty ( a number certainly beyond tho average ) as an illustration of our argument , Ave should find the London Lodges contributing for the registration of its members to the fund of General
Purposes tivo thousand eig ht hundred and seventy seven pounds , against five thousand three hundred aud twenty three pounds ten shillings from the country , or : not quite four sixths , instead of five sixths , as asserted : so that in fact , though there are only a fraction over one sixth of the . English Lodges proper ( AVC use the term as excluding the colonies ) situated in the metropolitan districts , they
pay something more than one third of tlie amount raised forthe . Fund of General Purposes , and also for the Fund of Benevolence . Wc shall , however , endeavour to obtain more accurately the various proportions received from the London and country Lodges ; but even if the latter subscribed less than the former-, Ave would most strenuously oppose any scheme b ivhich the funds should be so expended as to
y g ive the metropolitan Brethren an undue advantage over those of the country ; though in these days of railways , steam , and universal travelling , we cannot believe that the establishment of a central Masonic library and refreshment room in the metropolis Avould be other than a most acceptable boon to our country Brethren . Moreover no undue advantage in thc way of accommodation is proposed to be
g iven to the London Lodges , as they Avill not be able to meet at the Hall under thc proposed alterations—as Ave understand thorn—Avithout paying a rent , to . be agreed upon , for their Lodge rooms .
BIOUKAI'IIV . —Man ' s sociality of nature evinces itself , in . spite of nil that can he said , with abundant evidence , hy this ouo fact , ivere there no other , the unspeakable delig ht he takes iu biography . It is written , "The proper study of mankind is man ; " to ivhich he applies himself nothing loth . —Cmiylc ,