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taken him in His arms , He said unto them , ' Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my Name , " receiveth Me . ' And this feeling of sympathy and desire for moral welfare has always been the same with the best of men . They , too , remember that none of the days of their life can surpass those
far-off , happy times that are no more , when they had no enemies and few troubles ; when the encircling love of father and mother shielded them from all evil , and made every day bright , because it was well spent ; and duties were easily fulfilled , and the hours of play were radiant with a sunshine which can never again come on
hill or valley . They , too , delight in the inexhaustible freshness of children , and can never thank God enough for letting them still have round them these beautiful young natures new from His hand , still unsuspicious , still unwarped by the world , still warm with honest and simple enthusiasms , still capable of thorough
unreserved enjoyment , and when they see their own boys with all the grace of a well-matured God-fearing home about them , with all the fair promise of a healthy mind in a healthy body looking forth from eyes which as yet know no shame , and foreheads still smooth , and true , and uncrossed by care or evil , as they throw
themselves heart and soul into their cricket and othermanly games , the thoughts of father and mother shape themselves with grateful love into the prayer of Jacob ; ' God , before Whom my father did walk , the God which fed me all my life long unto this day , the Angel which redeemed me from all evil , bless the lads !'
There is no man who has the least drop of the milk of human kindness in him , "who , as the years roll on , and the happy memories of old times recede ever farther into the golden past , does not feel touched with good wishes and hearty aspirations as each new generation of his younger brothers sets forth with high
hopes and healthy looks on their preparation for the race of life . O that God may keep their hearts pure , their hands strong , their hearts true ! And when any of us who have had the highest available educational advantages realise the inestimable debt which we owe to such great blessings , and reflect that those who
have enjoyed them are only a small minority of the community , and that there are hundreds of thousands of young lives whose responsibilities are in a different way as great , whose- opportunities for influence amongst their own associates are as wide , and whose power for good or evil in the country is beyond calculation ,
then we cannot help earnestly desiring that the same kind of opportunities which the difference of circumstances will allow should be provided for them as well , wherever they are to be found . It was at an age when many of them leave their elementary instruction for good , that we first began to go to the
great public school . There we remained as boys almost to the time when many of them began to think of marrying . All those sunny years we were under the care of the wisest , best , and most christian Head Master that could be found ; one of the first men of his age and generation . It was on the direct acknowledgment
of christian principles that all the institutions of the place were founded . It was to the orderly and christian development of body , mind and spirit that all were directed . Who can say what he owed to the School Chapel , with all its solemn and touching associations ; the stillness of the common worship , the penetrating words of the great teacher who so thoroughly understood our
needs and difficulties , the soaring union of fresh young voices in common praise , the remembranced bygone heroes with whose characters and examples it was an inspiration to be associated ? So we were prepared to enter on our English citizenship ; so our characters were formed ; so there was provided for us a steady and universal discouragement of weakness , folly , unmanliness , worldliness , luxury , and vice .
It was something of this spirit that inspired Brother William Buiwood , and other members of the United Mariners Lodge , just 100 years ago , to establish an Institution for clothing and educating the sons of indigent Freemasons . At first provision was only made for six . Then the Athol Grand Lodge took the
matter up , and increased the number . In 1809 it voted money to enable the Governors to commemorate King George IPs Jubilee by increasing the number of children to fifty . In 1817 another and similar Institution founded by Bro . Columbine Daniel , of the
Royal Naval Lodge of Independence was united . In 1832 King William IV . became Patron , and the Institution was entitled Royal . In 1841 the number of children , which had been fixed at Beventy in 1818 , but which had been reduced , was raised again to seventy .
So the work grew . We read of Committees in 1843 and 1850 to enlarge the scheme of education . In 1852 ten acres of land were bought at Tottenham , and in 1857 twenty-five of the boys were received into the school as boarders . Next year the whole of the seventy children , except two , were boarded in the
school . In 1861 and the following years the success was so great that it was resolved to build a new school , for at least 100 boys . Iu 1865 Lord de Grey and Eipon inaugurated the new building . In 1866 a gymnasism and library were established , and a speech day instituted . In 1869 and 1870 the mortgage of £ 10 , 000 was paid off . In 1874 the number of boys was increased to 153 , and
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the education further improved . In 1877 a new house and grounds were bought for an Infirmary , and to increase the number by thirty-two . In 1883 the Festival produced £ 23 , 000 , and enabled the Committee to carry out their scheme of a preparatory school . The memorial stone was laid by Baroness Burdett Coutts , and the number of pupils further increased by fifty . In 1890 an
improvement was made in the administration , by substituting the present Board of thirty Life Governors for the old House and Audit Committees . At the same time were introduced sundry branches of Technical Education . Since then the School has gone oh flourishing , and the confidence of English Freemasons in the management is thoroughly renewed .
A scheme to retain deserving boys beyond the ordinary leaving term of fifteen years has worked admirably , and has been the means of enabling many such boys to take a better position in life on leaving the school . It has also enabled the older boys to enter for the Senior Cambridge Local Examinations , and obtain a better educational stamp .
Great care has been taken to preserve good health in the school , and the out-door as well as the home life of the boys has been vastly improved . New games have been introduced , and every encouragement given for the physical development of the lads , who have shown by their successes in the football and cricket field how much they appreciate these improvements .
The growth of the school in numbers is shown by the simple record of the past few years , for in the last eleven an increase of sixty-five has been made , and there are now 280 on the foundation . Accommodation in the present buildings can , even by straining
every resource , only be found for 259 , so that twenty-one of the boys have to be educated ouside the Institution . Admirable as the existing buildings are in many respects , they were never intended for so large a number . Playing ground accommodation has to be found at a considerable distance from
the school , involving serious loss of time and lack of discipline . The modern system of education , to meet the requirements of the age , would demand additions to the premises in the form of a Science Lecture hall , class rooms , a swimming bath , and other things . The Board of Management for six years past , acting on the suggestion of the Pro Grand Master at the Festival
of 1891 , has had under most serious consideration these facts , and the questionable policy of spending more money among the surroundings of Wood Green , which , since our present buildings were erected , has become a town rather than a suburb . They have received full power from the Subscribers to dispose of the present premises , andjjto erect a new school elsewhere .
In October 1896 the Board and the Subscribers approved of the purchase of a new site of sixty-seven acres amongst the beautiful and healthy slopes , fields and woods of Bushey , in Hertfordshire , close to an important station on the London and North Western Railway , and within twenty minutes distance of
Euston ; and steps are being energetically taken for a new and enlarged school in that delightful locality . The sum of £ 100 , 000 is being asked for this purpose in this the 100 th year ; and such is the proverbial generosity of Masons that we have strong hopes that you will raise it .
During the 100 years in which the Institution has been in existence , as many as 2 , 298 boys have been elected to receive its benefits . The number now on the books of the School is , as you have heard , 280 , and over fifty boys are to be elected during the present year .
In order to celebrate fitly this Centenary year , the General Court of Subscribers , held on the 13 th April last , resolved to make an allowance at the rate of £ 20 per annum to each of the unsuccessful candidates at this year ' s elections , towards their education and maintenance at approved schools outside the Institution , until such time as they are elected and admitted .
" He took a child , and set him in the midst of them , and when He had taken him in His arms , He said unto them : Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My Name , receiveth Me . "
It is indeed a noble scheme , but it will need a very strong united effort to carry it out . Your support is earnestly besought because the invested capital is only £ 60 , 000 , and the absolutely certain income is only £ 1 , 750 . The average annual ordinary
expenditure is £ 13 , 250 . A sum of £ 11 , 500 is therefore required to be raised by voluntary contributions each year . This year we need £ 100 , 000 , to enable the new and enlarged school to be built at Bushey .
The generosity of Masons is proverbial . No really good scheme , with a Masonic sanction , ever fails to receive their ample support . The number of Masous has , under the Grand Mastership of H . E . H . the Prince of Wales , surpassed all precedent . Every year it increases . Every year in consequence the
number of those Masons also increases who have been overtaken by unexpected death or undeserved misfortune . By the dread ties of our Masonic Brotherhood ; by our common loyalty to the Founder of the Spiritual Temple in the Heaven not made with hands , Our Lord Jesus Christ ; b y our essential sympathy with
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taken him in His arms , He said unto them , ' Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my Name , " receiveth Me . ' And this feeling of sympathy and desire for moral welfare has always been the same with the best of men . They , too , remember that none of the days of their life can surpass those
far-off , happy times that are no more , when they had no enemies and few troubles ; when the encircling love of father and mother shielded them from all evil , and made every day bright , because it was well spent ; and duties were easily fulfilled , and the hours of play were radiant with a sunshine which can never again come on
hill or valley . They , too , delight in the inexhaustible freshness of children , and can never thank God enough for letting them still have round them these beautiful young natures new from His hand , still unsuspicious , still unwarped by the world , still warm with honest and simple enthusiasms , still capable of thorough
unreserved enjoyment , and when they see their own boys with all the grace of a well-matured God-fearing home about them , with all the fair promise of a healthy mind in a healthy body looking forth from eyes which as yet know no shame , and foreheads still smooth , and true , and uncrossed by care or evil , as they throw
themselves heart and soul into their cricket and othermanly games , the thoughts of father and mother shape themselves with grateful love into the prayer of Jacob ; ' God , before Whom my father did walk , the God which fed me all my life long unto this day , the Angel which redeemed me from all evil , bless the lads !'
There is no man who has the least drop of the milk of human kindness in him , "who , as the years roll on , and the happy memories of old times recede ever farther into the golden past , does not feel touched with good wishes and hearty aspirations as each new generation of his younger brothers sets forth with high
hopes and healthy looks on their preparation for the race of life . O that God may keep their hearts pure , their hands strong , their hearts true ! And when any of us who have had the highest available educational advantages realise the inestimable debt which we owe to such great blessings , and reflect that those who
have enjoyed them are only a small minority of the community , and that there are hundreds of thousands of young lives whose responsibilities are in a different way as great , whose- opportunities for influence amongst their own associates are as wide , and whose power for good or evil in the country is beyond calculation ,
then we cannot help earnestly desiring that the same kind of opportunities which the difference of circumstances will allow should be provided for them as well , wherever they are to be found . It was at an age when many of them leave their elementary instruction for good , that we first began to go to the
great public school . There we remained as boys almost to the time when many of them began to think of marrying . All those sunny years we were under the care of the wisest , best , and most christian Head Master that could be found ; one of the first men of his age and generation . It was on the direct acknowledgment
of christian principles that all the institutions of the place were founded . It was to the orderly and christian development of body , mind and spirit that all were directed . Who can say what he owed to the School Chapel , with all its solemn and touching associations ; the stillness of the common worship , the penetrating words of the great teacher who so thoroughly understood our
needs and difficulties , the soaring union of fresh young voices in common praise , the remembranced bygone heroes with whose characters and examples it was an inspiration to be associated ? So we were prepared to enter on our English citizenship ; so our characters were formed ; so there was provided for us a steady and universal discouragement of weakness , folly , unmanliness , worldliness , luxury , and vice .
It was something of this spirit that inspired Brother William Buiwood , and other members of the United Mariners Lodge , just 100 years ago , to establish an Institution for clothing and educating the sons of indigent Freemasons . At first provision was only made for six . Then the Athol Grand Lodge took the
matter up , and increased the number . In 1809 it voted money to enable the Governors to commemorate King George IPs Jubilee by increasing the number of children to fifty . In 1817 another and similar Institution founded by Bro . Columbine Daniel , of the
Royal Naval Lodge of Independence was united . In 1832 King William IV . became Patron , and the Institution was entitled Royal . In 1841 the number of children , which had been fixed at Beventy in 1818 , but which had been reduced , was raised again to seventy .
So the work grew . We read of Committees in 1843 and 1850 to enlarge the scheme of education . In 1852 ten acres of land were bought at Tottenham , and in 1857 twenty-five of the boys were received into the school as boarders . Next year the whole of the seventy children , except two , were boarded in the
school . In 1861 and the following years the success was so great that it was resolved to build a new school , for at least 100 boys . Iu 1865 Lord de Grey and Eipon inaugurated the new building . In 1866 a gymnasism and library were established , and a speech day instituted . In 1869 and 1870 the mortgage of £ 10 , 000 was paid off . In 1874 the number of boys was increased to 153 , and
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the education further improved . In 1877 a new house and grounds were bought for an Infirmary , and to increase the number by thirty-two . In 1883 the Festival produced £ 23 , 000 , and enabled the Committee to carry out their scheme of a preparatory school . The memorial stone was laid by Baroness Burdett Coutts , and the number of pupils further increased by fifty . In 1890 an
improvement was made in the administration , by substituting the present Board of thirty Life Governors for the old House and Audit Committees . At the same time were introduced sundry branches of Technical Education . Since then the School has gone oh flourishing , and the confidence of English Freemasons in the management is thoroughly renewed .
A scheme to retain deserving boys beyond the ordinary leaving term of fifteen years has worked admirably , and has been the means of enabling many such boys to take a better position in life on leaving the school . It has also enabled the older boys to enter for the Senior Cambridge Local Examinations , and obtain a better educational stamp .
Great care has been taken to preserve good health in the school , and the out-door as well as the home life of the boys has been vastly improved . New games have been introduced , and every encouragement given for the physical development of the lads , who have shown by their successes in the football and cricket field how much they appreciate these improvements .
The growth of the school in numbers is shown by the simple record of the past few years , for in the last eleven an increase of sixty-five has been made , and there are now 280 on the foundation . Accommodation in the present buildings can , even by straining
every resource , only be found for 259 , so that twenty-one of the boys have to be educated ouside the Institution . Admirable as the existing buildings are in many respects , they were never intended for so large a number . Playing ground accommodation has to be found at a considerable distance from
the school , involving serious loss of time and lack of discipline . The modern system of education , to meet the requirements of the age , would demand additions to the premises in the form of a Science Lecture hall , class rooms , a swimming bath , and other things . The Board of Management for six years past , acting on the suggestion of the Pro Grand Master at the Festival
of 1891 , has had under most serious consideration these facts , and the questionable policy of spending more money among the surroundings of Wood Green , which , since our present buildings were erected , has become a town rather than a suburb . They have received full power from the Subscribers to dispose of the present premises , andjjto erect a new school elsewhere .
In October 1896 the Board and the Subscribers approved of the purchase of a new site of sixty-seven acres amongst the beautiful and healthy slopes , fields and woods of Bushey , in Hertfordshire , close to an important station on the London and North Western Railway , and within twenty minutes distance of
Euston ; and steps are being energetically taken for a new and enlarged school in that delightful locality . The sum of £ 100 , 000 is being asked for this purpose in this the 100 th year ; and such is the proverbial generosity of Masons that we have strong hopes that you will raise it .
During the 100 years in which the Institution has been in existence , as many as 2 , 298 boys have been elected to receive its benefits . The number now on the books of the School is , as you have heard , 280 , and over fifty boys are to be elected during the present year .
In order to celebrate fitly this Centenary year , the General Court of Subscribers , held on the 13 th April last , resolved to make an allowance at the rate of £ 20 per annum to each of the unsuccessful candidates at this year ' s elections , towards their education and maintenance at approved schools outside the Institution , until such time as they are elected and admitted .
" He took a child , and set him in the midst of them , and when He had taken him in His arms , He said unto them : Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My Name , receiveth Me . "
It is indeed a noble scheme , but it will need a very strong united effort to carry it out . Your support is earnestly besought because the invested capital is only £ 60 , 000 , and the absolutely certain income is only £ 1 , 750 . The average annual ordinary
expenditure is £ 13 , 250 . A sum of £ 11 , 500 is therefore required to be raised by voluntary contributions each year . This year we need £ 100 , 000 , to enable the new and enlarged school to be built at Bushey .
The generosity of Masons is proverbial . No really good scheme , with a Masonic sanction , ever fails to receive their ample support . The number of Masous has , under the Grand Mastership of H . E . H . the Prince of Wales , surpassed all precedent . Every year it increases . Every year in consequence the
number of those Masons also increases who have been overtaken by unexpected death or undeserved misfortune . By the dread ties of our Masonic Brotherhood ; by our common loyalty to the Founder of the Spiritual Temple in the Heaven not made with hands , Our Lord Jesus Christ ; b y our essential sympathy with