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The Masonic Institutions And Their Prospects.
THE MASONIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PROSPECTS .
EOR all practical purposes as regards finances the current year may be said to be over . True we have , from to-day , still three weeks to run ere the total record for the year is set down , but to those who are conversant with the working of our three Central Institutions the task will not be a hard
one to forecast the result . It would be a difficult , indeed a somewhat hopeless task , did we attempt to question or in any way to disparage what has been done by those who have so zealously and consistently banded themselves together to find the necessary funds demanded heretofore by = the Institutions for
current yearly expenses , but inasmuch as it is continuously being urged upon us that the poor are always with us , we must not close our ears to the
wails of those who have been overtaken by misfortune and who in their downhill of life can look forward only to such assistance as the Craft may be able to provide for them . It is on behalf of this large constituency therefore that on this occasion we exercise our pen .
First , then , let us take a retrospective glance at the work done during the current year , which year opened with a cheery prospect that the efforts made to adequately celebrate the Jubilee Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution were receiving
the attention so important an event , in the history of our Institution demanded . In the year 1891 the total amount subscribed for the youngest of our Institutions was returned at £ 22 , 238 14 s 5 d . The 1892 Festival was fixed for the 24 th February ; Bro . Terry and his Committee had secured the services of the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Deputy Grand
Master , for Chairman . But now came the crucial question , where shall the Festival be held ? After this knotty point had received due consideration , the aid of Sir Augustus Harris was invoked , and that
worthy brother suggested that it certain technical difficulties could be overcome , he was prepared to place at the disposal of the Festival Committee Covent Garden Theatre . It is now matter of history that in due course the Festival was held , and the result , from a financial point of view , was far beyond anything that hadbeen anticipated . The second Festival
of the year , that on behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , was held on the 18 th May , under the presidency of His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., P . G . M ., and the result of the exertions of the Board of Stewards who supported His Royal Highness on that occasion was returned
at £ 10 , 000 . On the 29 th June the third Festival was celebrated , that on , behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and here the services of Sir Michael E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., Prov . Grand Master for Gloucestershire , had been secured , while the result of the Festival showed that £ 12 , 212 had been
The Masonic Institutions And Their Prospects.
contributed . In the year 1891 the Boys' School may be said to have had its innings , the total subscribed from all sources being returned at £ 27 , 333 lis 8 d , this desirable result having been achieved in some measure throngh the filip given to the Stewards '
exertions by the fact that a new regime was inaugurated in regard to the management of the Charity . Now , when we combine these results we cannot be insensible to the munificence displayed by the Craft in its corporate capacity , but the future is before us , and it was the future we desired to look into when we entered upon our task for to-day .
Well , then , the Festival for Bro . Terry's Institution , the Benevolent , will take place in February next , and , according to the precedent laid down , and
we may say universally accepted , that the Festival next on the rota should claim our first care , we look now to the prospect . At the time of writing we learn that Bro . Terry has not yet secured the services of a Chairman ; that the number of Stewards who have as
yet handed in their names is far below what the average has been in recent years at the same period , and the list of applicants for the benefits of the Institution is abnormally large , while the vacancies to be filled in May next are but eleven . Clearly then there is a good field for earnest workers , and we trust that many such will enrol themselves before we reach the close of the year .
Both the Scholastic Institutions may be said to be better circumstanced ; in each case a Chairman has declared himself , and the champions are doing all they can by preliminary work to command
tnat success we all so ardently desire shall attend the efforts made . The Girls' School Festival will be held in May , and on that occasion the Right Hon . the Earl of Euston , D . L ., R . W . Prov . Grand
Master Norths and Hunts will preside . For the Boys' School Festival , to be held in June , Bro . J . M . McLeod , the Secretary , announces that Lord Brooke , Provincial Grand Master for Essex , has kindly offered his services . Both these brethren are popular , not only in their respective Provinces but throughout the Craft , and we confidently look forward to both being able to secure a strong following .
We wonld remind our readers of the lecture on " The degrees of Ancient ( pre-1717 ) Freemasonry , " to be delivered by Bro . G . W . Speth P . M ., Secretary of tha Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , this ( Satnrday )
afternoon , in The Great City Lodge , No . 1426 , at . Cannon Street Hotel , and which Master Masons , members of other Lodges , may attend . The Lodge will be opened at 4 * 15 p . m ., and the lecture will commence at 4 * 30 , and terminate at about six o ' clock .
Bro . W . J . Fisher S . W . was elected W . M . of the Savage Club Lodge , No . 2190 , on the 6 th inst ,
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The Masonic Institutions And Their Prospects.
THE MASONIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PROSPECTS .
EOR all practical purposes as regards finances the current year may be said to be over . True we have , from to-day , still three weeks to run ere the total record for the year is set down , but to those who are conversant with the working of our three Central Institutions the task will not be a hard
one to forecast the result . It would be a difficult , indeed a somewhat hopeless task , did we attempt to question or in any way to disparage what has been done by those who have so zealously and consistently banded themselves together to find the necessary funds demanded heretofore by = the Institutions for
current yearly expenses , but inasmuch as it is continuously being urged upon us that the poor are always with us , we must not close our ears to the
wails of those who have been overtaken by misfortune and who in their downhill of life can look forward only to such assistance as the Craft may be able to provide for them . It is on behalf of this large constituency therefore that on this occasion we exercise our pen .
First , then , let us take a retrospective glance at the work done during the current year , which year opened with a cheery prospect that the efforts made to adequately celebrate the Jubilee Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution were receiving
the attention so important an event , in the history of our Institution demanded . In the year 1891 the total amount subscribed for the youngest of our Institutions was returned at £ 22 , 238 14 s 5 d . The 1892 Festival was fixed for the 24 th February ; Bro . Terry and his Committee had secured the services of the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , Deputy Grand
Master , for Chairman . But now came the crucial question , where shall the Festival be held ? After this knotty point had received due consideration , the aid of Sir Augustus Harris was invoked , and that
worthy brother suggested that it certain technical difficulties could be overcome , he was prepared to place at the disposal of the Festival Committee Covent Garden Theatre . It is now matter of history that in due course the Festival was held , and the result , from a financial point of view , was far beyond anything that hadbeen anticipated . The second Festival
of the year , that on behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , was held on the 18 th May , under the presidency of His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught , K . G ., P . G . M ., and the result of the exertions of the Board of Stewards who supported His Royal Highness on that occasion was returned
at £ 10 , 000 . On the 29 th June the third Festival was celebrated , that on , behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , and here the services of Sir Michael E . Hicks-Beach , Bart ., Prov . Grand Master for Gloucestershire , had been secured , while the result of the Festival showed that £ 12 , 212 had been
The Masonic Institutions And Their Prospects.
contributed . In the year 1891 the Boys' School may be said to have had its innings , the total subscribed from all sources being returned at £ 27 , 333 lis 8 d , this desirable result having been achieved in some measure throngh the filip given to the Stewards '
exertions by the fact that a new regime was inaugurated in regard to the management of the Charity . Now , when we combine these results we cannot be insensible to the munificence displayed by the Craft in its corporate capacity , but the future is before us , and it was the future we desired to look into when we entered upon our task for to-day .
Well , then , the Festival for Bro . Terry's Institution , the Benevolent , will take place in February next , and , according to the precedent laid down , and
we may say universally accepted , that the Festival next on the rota should claim our first care , we look now to the prospect . At the time of writing we learn that Bro . Terry has not yet secured the services of a Chairman ; that the number of Stewards who have as
yet handed in their names is far below what the average has been in recent years at the same period , and the list of applicants for the benefits of the Institution is abnormally large , while the vacancies to be filled in May next are but eleven . Clearly then there is a good field for earnest workers , and we trust that many such will enrol themselves before we reach the close of the year .
Both the Scholastic Institutions may be said to be better circumstanced ; in each case a Chairman has declared himself , and the champions are doing all they can by preliminary work to command
tnat success we all so ardently desire shall attend the efforts made . The Girls' School Festival will be held in May , and on that occasion the Right Hon . the Earl of Euston , D . L ., R . W . Prov . Grand
Master Norths and Hunts will preside . For the Boys' School Festival , to be held in June , Bro . J . M . McLeod , the Secretary , announces that Lord Brooke , Provincial Grand Master for Essex , has kindly offered his services . Both these brethren are popular , not only in their respective Provinces but throughout the Craft , and we confidently look forward to both being able to secure a strong following .
We wonld remind our readers of the lecture on " The degrees of Ancient ( pre-1717 ) Freemasonry , " to be delivered by Bro . G . W . Speth P . M ., Secretary of tha Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 , this ( Satnrday )
afternoon , in The Great City Lodge , No . 1426 , at . Cannon Street Hotel , and which Master Masons , members of other Lodges , may attend . The Lodge will be opened at 4 * 15 p . m ., and the lecture will commence at 4 * 30 , and terminate at about six o ' clock .
Bro . W . J . Fisher S . W . was elected W . M . of the Savage Club Lodge , No . 2190 , on the 6 th inst ,