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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
and steadily in the current of public opinion , not opposing but regulating , by his zeal and his talent , the events which must inevitably result , but which , in their useful operation , require both his zeal and his talent . All this we state —freely and at length .
We now approach a subject-matter of the deepest importance to the welfare of the Asylum—it is the letter of the Grand Master addressed to the Grand Lodge on the evening of discussion . * Perhaps no document that was ever issued to the Craft required graver consideration
—it is the document of a wise man seemingly swayed by opinions at variance with his own conviction—this we can so readily prove , that lengthened comment is not necessary . We may state , that at no period were the Children's
Charities so flourishing , while in the recollection of the oldest Mason , the claims of honest old age were never so numerous nor so pressing . Neither were the Boards of Stewards at any former period assembled with so little difficulty , nor with such powerful accession of numbers . Ancl in
comment upon the concluding paragraph we may observe , that any Mason who can so easily obtain entrance to other charitable foundations , would not , as a Mason , become burthensome to that Institution ( for in such case he would be burthensome ) the benefit of which his Brother in the
Craft may require . For ourselves , we write it with truth , and without hesitation , that unless at the portal of the Asylum , we know not where to knock for entrance should misfortune overtake us—and our own case may be that of hundreds .
The letter in question is a public document , it is circulated among the Craft ; and there may be many not so well informed as ourselves upon the merits of the case ; who have not had the consciousness of being able to declare
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
and steadily in the current of public opinion , not opposing but regulating , by his zeal and his talent , the events which must inevitably result , but which , in their useful operation , require both his zeal and his talent . All this we state —freely and at length .
We now approach a subject-matter of the deepest importance to the welfare of the Asylum—it is the letter of the Grand Master addressed to the Grand Lodge on the evening of discussion . * Perhaps no document that was ever issued to the Craft required graver consideration
—it is the document of a wise man seemingly swayed by opinions at variance with his own conviction—this we can so readily prove , that lengthened comment is not necessary . We may state , that at no period were the Children's
Charities so flourishing , while in the recollection of the oldest Mason , the claims of honest old age were never so numerous nor so pressing . Neither were the Boards of Stewards at any former period assembled with so little difficulty , nor with such powerful accession of numbers . Ancl in
comment upon the concluding paragraph we may observe , that any Mason who can so easily obtain entrance to other charitable foundations , would not , as a Mason , become burthensome to that Institution ( for in such case he would be burthensome ) the benefit of which his Brother in the
Craft may require . For ourselves , we write it with truth , and without hesitation , that unless at the portal of the Asylum , we know not where to knock for entrance should misfortune overtake us—and our own case may be that of hundreds .
The letter in question is a public document , it is circulated among the Craft ; and there may be many not so well informed as ourselves upon the merits of the case ; who have not had the consciousness of being able to declare