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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE CHARITIES . —The Schools are in a prosperous state . Many communications have reached us , treating of the best means of sustaining the Asylum . To those friends who justly argue that a recommendatory resolution of Grand
Lodge may be looked upon as little worth , unless it shall tend to produce pecuniary aid—it is only necessary to reply , that our interpretation of that resolution is , that it is intended to operate as a sanction to collect funds by the customary
Masonic means ; and that , therefore , any Mason who feels disposed to do honour to that resolution is emphatically told the manner by which its intention can be carried out . If after a resolution so unanimously passed and confirmed , any
Brother shall withhold his benevolence upon the plea that a recommendation is not a command , he may , if he please , take credit for special pleading , at the cost of Masonic consistency . True benevolence requires no other command
than what proceeds from the heart—the most unbounded sanction and advocacy will fail of fructifying where all is sterile .
THE PROVINCES . —As far as we can judge , the state of the provinces is much as usual ; but we regret to observe that a Provincial Grand Lodge will not be held this year in Lincolnshire . Whence the cause of this default we are not informed ; but hope our friends in that province are not
relaxing in their discipline , which will not be upheld by dispensing with the honourable formalities of the Order . Several addresses have been reported which are highly creditable to those who delivered them : the leading topics
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE CHARITIES . —The Schools are in a prosperous state . Many communications have reached us , treating of the best means of sustaining the Asylum . To those friends who justly argue that a recommendatory resolution of Grand
Lodge may be looked upon as little worth , unless it shall tend to produce pecuniary aid—it is only necessary to reply , that our interpretation of that resolution is , that it is intended to operate as a sanction to collect funds by the customary
Masonic means ; and that , therefore , any Mason who feels disposed to do honour to that resolution is emphatically told the manner by which its intention can be carried out . If after a resolution so unanimously passed and confirmed , any
Brother shall withhold his benevolence upon the plea that a recommendation is not a command , he may , if he please , take credit for special pleading , at the cost of Masonic consistency . True benevolence requires no other command
than what proceeds from the heart—the most unbounded sanction and advocacy will fail of fructifying where all is sterile .
THE PROVINCES . —As far as we can judge , the state of the provinces is much as usual ; but we regret to observe that a Provincial Grand Lodge will not be held this year in Lincolnshire . Whence the cause of this default we are not informed ; but hope our friends in that province are not
relaxing in their discipline , which will not be upheld by dispensing with the honourable formalities of the Order . Several addresses have been reported which are highly creditable to those who delivered them : the leading topics