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Suggestions On Raising The Funds Necessa...
Suggestions on raising the funds necessary for that purpose , and for its future endowment , in connection with a Masonic Asylum for thc Orphans and Children of deceased and indigent Freemasons . " It is evident that he did not entertain a doubt but the undertaking would be readily adopted by the Grand Lodgo , as a popular and efficient means of rewarding meritand providing for the wants
, and necessities of indigence ancl misfortune , after thc season of active life is over . And , therefore , his preliminary address in the pages of tho same miscellany suggests several plans for raising thc money as a building fund , amongst which the following occupy a prominent situation : — " That a dutiful address may be presented to his Most Gracious Majesty , our illustrious Grand Patron , and
also to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , the patroness of thc Female School , setting forth the several circumstances of our ease . That the natal day of our illustrious Grand Master be further commemorated as a festival in aid of the Aged Mason ' s Asylum , for which subscriptions and donations will be received as on the other days of festivity . That a subscription be opened at large in aid of a Building Fund for the erection of the Boys and Aged Masons '
Asylum , and for tho effectual repair of the Girls' School-house . That the Grand Lodge be requested to direct the payment annually of one shilling from each London member of the Order , and sixpence from each country member in aid of this object , " & c . t I am not , however , writing a history of the Asylum , although a very interesting volume might be produced from tho occurrences which accompanied its establishment ; yet it will be impossible to
disconnect it altogether from the subject of our memoir , because it formed the one great business of his Masonic life . ' . He thought , and very justly , that it was a great omission in the constitution of thc Order , that the active Mason , whose earlier years have been passed in the exercise of his avocations , whose summer has been warmed by friendship and cherished by hope , should , in the winter of his
life , find no haven to receive him . Suffice it to say , at present , that every succeeding year furnished Dr . Crueefix with an accession of great and noble names ; and , after sixteen years of strenuous exertion , which materially injured his health , he had the satisfaction —not to see , for he was laid on the bed of sickness—but to know that thc work was completed . And being able to say , as a Most Excellent
Master" All hail to the morning that bids us rejoice ; The Temple ' s completed , exalt high each voice ; The cape stone is finished—our labour is o ' er , The sound of the gavel shall hail us no more , " he confessed that the chief purpose of his existence was accom-
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Suggestions On Raising The Funds Necessa...
Suggestions on raising the funds necessary for that purpose , and for its future endowment , in connection with a Masonic Asylum for thc Orphans and Children of deceased and indigent Freemasons . " It is evident that he did not entertain a doubt but the undertaking would be readily adopted by the Grand Lodgo , as a popular and efficient means of rewarding meritand providing for the wants
, and necessities of indigence ancl misfortune , after thc season of active life is over . And , therefore , his preliminary address in the pages of tho same miscellany suggests several plans for raising thc money as a building fund , amongst which the following occupy a prominent situation : — " That a dutiful address may be presented to his Most Gracious Majesty , our illustrious Grand Patron , and
also to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen , the patroness of thc Female School , setting forth the several circumstances of our ease . That the natal day of our illustrious Grand Master be further commemorated as a festival in aid of the Aged Mason ' s Asylum , for which subscriptions and donations will be received as on the other days of festivity . That a subscription be opened at large in aid of a Building Fund for the erection of the Boys and Aged Masons '
Asylum , and for tho effectual repair of the Girls' School-house . That the Grand Lodge be requested to direct the payment annually of one shilling from each London member of the Order , and sixpence from each country member in aid of this object , " & c . t I am not , however , writing a history of the Asylum , although a very interesting volume might be produced from tho occurrences which accompanied its establishment ; yet it will be impossible to
disconnect it altogether from the subject of our memoir , because it formed the one great business of his Masonic life . ' . He thought , and very justly , that it was a great omission in the constitution of thc Order , that the active Mason , whose earlier years have been passed in the exercise of his avocations , whose summer has been warmed by friendship and cherished by hope , should , in the winter of his
life , find no haven to receive him . Suffice it to say , at present , that every succeeding year furnished Dr . Crueefix with an accession of great and noble names ; and , after sixteen years of strenuous exertion , which materially injured his health , he had the satisfaction —not to see , for he was laid on the bed of sickness—but to know that thc work was completed . And being able to say , as a Most Excellent
Master" All hail to the morning that bids us rejoice ; The Temple ' s completed , exalt high each voice ; The cape stone is finished—our labour is o ' er , The sound of the gavel shall hail us no more , " he confessed that the chief purpose of his existence was accom-