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Quarterly Communication.
giveher relief . He should support the proposition of the Past Grand Registrar . Bro . J . LEE STEVENS , P . G . Steward , said he wished to make a few observations m support of the confirmation of the minute of proceedings , objected to by the P . G . Registrar . That very worshipful and learned brother , he thought , had not brought forward his motion fairly ; bebnot first of the vote
cause , y disposing of 200 / . in favour of the Benevolent Annuity Fund , the Grand Lod ge would be misled in supposing that the vote now under discussion was one which involved 500 / instead of only 300 / . per annum . Perhaps Bro . Henderson had passed over the proposed addition to the Benevolent Annuity Fund , to get rid of a paradox that would otherwise fatally affect his reasoning for that was a permanent vote out of what he had represented to be fund established for
a temporary relief onl y . Now it was quite evident that the grants alread y made to the Benevolent Annui ty Fund were so many precedents in favour of the collection of annuities to the widows of Freemasons . For this , then , he thanked the Grand Registrar and the Grand Lodge . He had also some anonymous compiler to thank , for an account of the income and expenditure of the Fund of Benevolence , for the six years , 1842 to 3 847 inclusive . That paper , intended to prove the contrary , gave the strongest possible evidence of tne ot
aramy - errand Lodge to allot 300 / . a year to widows . On the first year , 1842 , before masonic charity had well begun to be stimulated m favour of a new class of recipients , the surplus was only 84 / . 19 s . Id in 1843 it advanced to 228 / . 17 s . 10 c / ., in 1844 to 566 / . 7 s . Id ., in 1845 to 646 / . 5 s . id ., and in 1846 to 676 / . 18 s . 6 d . Could any progressive improvement be more gratifying ? Coulcl anything prove more decidedly that the charity of Freemasons was increased by the nature and extent of the calls it ? But in 1847 there la
upon was a - mentable falling off . An exception took place to the rule , and by that exception , and not to the rule , those who differed with him called upon the Grand Lodge to legislate . Was that fair ? Because famine , and high prices , and a money panic had ruined thousands in 1847 , and turned richness into pauperism , charity into coldness , benevolence into the beggary it had relieved—was 1847 to be , for these reasons , a type of every future year ? He called the Grancl Lodto f to
upon ge say , no such a monstrous absurdity . Why even in 1847 the contributions of lodges had increased , being stated at 1 , 399 / , 12 s . 10 d ., as compared with the 1 , 321 / . lis . of the preceding year . But the terrible run upon the Benevolent Fund , which all must be very thankful could well
Dear it , Had caused more than twice the usual amount of expenditure . Indeed the disbursement in 1847 exceeded , by 187 / ., that of 1845 and 1846 put together ; and was he to be told that the three masonic virtues were to be struck out of practice from the conclusion of 1847 ? Was there to be no faith in good works ? no hope of better times ? Was charity to be restricted for the future because misfortunes had absorbed so much in one ominous out of six ? Rather let Grand Lod
year ge say the widow must and shall be cared for , and the good work would be well and speedily done . lie supported the plan as a country Mason , as one initiated in one province , and then representing a Lodge held in another ; although now , perhaps , better known in Grand Lodge than in either ; and , as a country Mason , because if the Widows' Fund were established , the country Lodges would be entitled to vote b y
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Quarterly Communication.
giveher relief . He should support the proposition of the Past Grand Registrar . Bro . J . LEE STEVENS , P . G . Steward , said he wished to make a few observations m support of the confirmation of the minute of proceedings , objected to by the P . G . Registrar . That very worshipful and learned brother , he thought , had not brought forward his motion fairly ; bebnot first of the vote
cause , y disposing of 200 / . in favour of the Benevolent Annuity Fund , the Grand Lod ge would be misled in supposing that the vote now under discussion was one which involved 500 / instead of only 300 / . per annum . Perhaps Bro . Henderson had passed over the proposed addition to the Benevolent Annuity Fund , to get rid of a paradox that would otherwise fatally affect his reasoning for that was a permanent vote out of what he had represented to be fund established for
a temporary relief onl y . Now it was quite evident that the grants alread y made to the Benevolent Annui ty Fund were so many precedents in favour of the collection of annuities to the widows of Freemasons . For this , then , he thanked the Grand Registrar and the Grand Lodge . He had also some anonymous compiler to thank , for an account of the income and expenditure of the Fund of Benevolence , for the six years , 1842 to 3 847 inclusive . That paper , intended to prove the contrary , gave the strongest possible evidence of tne ot
aramy - errand Lodge to allot 300 / . a year to widows . On the first year , 1842 , before masonic charity had well begun to be stimulated m favour of a new class of recipients , the surplus was only 84 / . 19 s . Id in 1843 it advanced to 228 / . 17 s . 10 c / ., in 1844 to 566 / . 7 s . Id ., in 1845 to 646 / . 5 s . id ., and in 1846 to 676 / . 18 s . 6 d . Could any progressive improvement be more gratifying ? Coulcl anything prove more decidedly that the charity of Freemasons was increased by the nature and extent of the calls it ? But in 1847 there la
upon was a - mentable falling off . An exception took place to the rule , and by that exception , and not to the rule , those who differed with him called upon the Grand Lodge to legislate . Was that fair ? Because famine , and high prices , and a money panic had ruined thousands in 1847 , and turned richness into pauperism , charity into coldness , benevolence into the beggary it had relieved—was 1847 to be , for these reasons , a type of every future year ? He called the Grancl Lodto f to
upon ge say , no such a monstrous absurdity . Why even in 1847 the contributions of lodges had increased , being stated at 1 , 399 / , 12 s . 10 d ., as compared with the 1 , 321 / . lis . of the preceding year . But the terrible run upon the Benevolent Fund , which all must be very thankful could well
Dear it , Had caused more than twice the usual amount of expenditure . Indeed the disbursement in 1847 exceeded , by 187 / ., that of 1845 and 1846 put together ; and was he to be told that the three masonic virtues were to be struck out of practice from the conclusion of 1847 ? Was there to be no faith in good works ? no hope of better times ? Was charity to be restricted for the future because misfortunes had absorbed so much in one ominous out of six ? Rather let Grand Lod
year ge say the widow must and shall be cared for , and the good work would be well and speedily done . lie supported the plan as a country Mason , as one initiated in one province , and then representing a Lodge held in another ; although now , perhaps , better known in Grand Lodge than in either ; and , as a country Mason , because if the Widows' Fund were established , the country Lodges would be entitled to vote b y