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the character of every human being that is brought into the world , the agency of women for the first years of existence is almost alone employed . Yes , ladies , the Almighty has entrusted wholly to your sex the first developement of the human mind , ancl yours is the sacred and responsible duty—yours the exalted honour of forming and training the character of that whole species to which you belong . AVho are those who move the great springs of every national or public institution for
the relief or welfare of their fellow-creatures , whore Christian benevolence , and sacrifice , and exertion are required ? They are women ! AVho , rejecting the fastidiousness of rank and the blandishments of pleasure , visit the school ancl the hospital , and the hovel , and the ptison , become conversant with misery in all her forms , ancl are neither repelled nor disgusted by the most frightful ? The answer is again , women ! AA ho protect every weakness , ancl palliate every suffering from the cry
of the infant orphan , to the wailing of dotage ancl decrepitude ? AVho furnish instruction for the ignorant , refuge for the destitute , and an asylum even for repentant vice ? Who are those , who in our great towns and cities , where crime and wretchedness prevail , open a thousand doors of mercy , and hover like presiding angels over those institutions which they have consecrated by their benevolence ?—They are women ! If we look from social to domestic lifesuch is the felicity of the female
, character , that the nearer it is inspected the more advantageously it appears . In domestic life , it is woman on whom we are dependent for the first years of our existence , and all their future joys . It is she who tends us in sickness , who soothes us in care , who consoles us in calamity ; to whom the heart instinctively turns in the hour of suffering , and never
turns in vain . It is she , who , alienate neither by misfortune , nor even vice , follows us to prison , adjusts the straw bed , earns ancl prepares the scanty fare , which she refuses to partake , but hides the tear that moistens it , lest it should seem to reproach the author of her wretchedness . Brethren , I here feel that I have arrived at the acme of my sketch , and that if I give but a single touch more of the heart ' s inspired pencil to this faithful , though unfinished picture , I may chance to obscure those
bright tints of sincerity and truth which now form its chief , nay only , merit . I , therefore , again call upon you to unite with me in drinking to the health and happiness of every lady around us ; with our sincere wishes that their sex may ever create in the heart of man those warm feelings of attachment and regard which we now profess , ami most ardently feel . Drunk with rapture . On the departure of the ladies , the Brethren resumed the formalities
of their Lodge ; and the health of " Her Majesty the Queen" was again proposed , and drunk with Masonic honours . " His Royal Hig hness the Duke of Sussex , Most Worship ful Grand Master . " The Deputy Provincial prefaced this toast in the following quotation from the pamphlet recording the Masonic offering to his Royal Highness : —It was observed ban eloquent and talented member of our
y Order upon the recent representation of a Masonic offering to illustrious worth , " That public men are public property . The good they do lives after them . Their virtues ancl talents descend in beneficial operation to other times , ancl survive for the improvement ancl gratitude of posterity . Athens , Sparta , Rome , live and will live in the memory of ages yet unborn ; not because they became cities of monumental pride , but because man , even heathen man , gave them the priceless legacy of his intellect .
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Provincial.
the character of every human being that is brought into the world , the agency of women for the first years of existence is almost alone employed . Yes , ladies , the Almighty has entrusted wholly to your sex the first developement of the human mind , ancl yours is the sacred and responsible duty—yours the exalted honour of forming and training the character of that whole species to which you belong . AVho are those who move the great springs of every national or public institution for
the relief or welfare of their fellow-creatures , whore Christian benevolence , and sacrifice , and exertion are required ? They are women ! AVho , rejecting the fastidiousness of rank and the blandishments of pleasure , visit the school ancl the hospital , and the hovel , and the ptison , become conversant with misery in all her forms , ancl are neither repelled nor disgusted by the most frightful ? The answer is again , women ! AA ho protect every weakness , ancl palliate every suffering from the cry
of the infant orphan , to the wailing of dotage ancl decrepitude ? AVho furnish instruction for the ignorant , refuge for the destitute , and an asylum even for repentant vice ? Who are those , who in our great towns and cities , where crime and wretchedness prevail , open a thousand doors of mercy , and hover like presiding angels over those institutions which they have consecrated by their benevolence ?—They are women ! If we look from social to domestic lifesuch is the felicity of the female
, character , that the nearer it is inspected the more advantageously it appears . In domestic life , it is woman on whom we are dependent for the first years of our existence , and all their future joys . It is she who tends us in sickness , who soothes us in care , who consoles us in calamity ; to whom the heart instinctively turns in the hour of suffering , and never
turns in vain . It is she , who , alienate neither by misfortune , nor even vice , follows us to prison , adjusts the straw bed , earns ancl prepares the scanty fare , which she refuses to partake , but hides the tear that moistens it , lest it should seem to reproach the author of her wretchedness . Brethren , I here feel that I have arrived at the acme of my sketch , and that if I give but a single touch more of the heart ' s inspired pencil to this faithful , though unfinished picture , I may chance to obscure those
bright tints of sincerity and truth which now form its chief , nay only , merit . I , therefore , again call upon you to unite with me in drinking to the health and happiness of every lady around us ; with our sincere wishes that their sex may ever create in the heart of man those warm feelings of attachment and regard which we now profess , ami most ardently feel . Drunk with rapture . On the departure of the ladies , the Brethren resumed the formalities
of their Lodge ; and the health of " Her Majesty the Queen" was again proposed , and drunk with Masonic honours . " His Royal Hig hness the Duke of Sussex , Most Worship ful Grand Master . " The Deputy Provincial prefaced this toast in the following quotation from the pamphlet recording the Masonic offering to his Royal Highness : —It was observed ban eloquent and talented member of our
y Order upon the recent representation of a Masonic offering to illustrious worth , " That public men are public property . The good they do lives after them . Their virtues ancl talents descend in beneficial operation to other times , ancl survive for the improvement ancl gratitude of posterity . Athens , Sparta , Rome , live and will live in the memory of ages yet unborn ; not because they became cities of monumental pride , but because man , even heathen man , gave them the priceless legacy of his intellect .