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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE WIDOW ' S PETITION . Charity has triumphed , thanks to the honest zeal and patient examination of the Board of General Purposes , as well as to the indomitable resolution and perseverance of the W . Brother who first brought the question under
consideration , and who , for a period of nearly two years , has given it the most unfaltering support . At the last Quarterly Communication a vote of £ 50 consummated the truly Masonic effort . It appears that after the most minute investigation , every
allegation contained in the petition was proved , to the unanimous satisfaction of the Board of General Purposes ! And , consequently , every declaration to the contrary , previously and by ichosoever made , was as distinctly disproved . This must have been highly gratifying to the W . Brother who
supported the petition ; and who may be said to have been put upon his trial , as well as the worthy petitioner and the scores of eminent Masons who verified the truth of her
statements . Most honourably now are all acquitted , except the hasty youth who would have rejected the petition without any inquiry into its merits , upon the mere ground that nothing could be good which was not sanctioned by royalty , —the unmasonic person who imputed to the widow's friend
that surreptitious mode of " getting up evidence , " in which he is said to be so singular an adept himself—or those two great men in Grand Lodge , who , disagreeing so materially with each other , disagree also , but on different grounds , with every body else , fulsome flatterers and cringing
followers always excepted . Without a word of apology from or for either of them , they must stand self-abased and universally condemned . We cannot close these remarks without expressing an opinion , that there is yet another member of Grand Lodge
—one of the most favoured among the purple badgeswhose feelings must be any thing but pleasant , when he reflects on the uncharitable part he performed when the
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE WIDOW ' S PETITION . Charity has triumphed , thanks to the honest zeal and patient examination of the Board of General Purposes , as well as to the indomitable resolution and perseverance of the W . Brother who first brought the question under
consideration , and who , for a period of nearly two years , has given it the most unfaltering support . At the last Quarterly Communication a vote of £ 50 consummated the truly Masonic effort . It appears that after the most minute investigation , every
allegation contained in the petition was proved , to the unanimous satisfaction of the Board of General Purposes ! And , consequently , every declaration to the contrary , previously and by ichosoever made , was as distinctly disproved . This must have been highly gratifying to the W . Brother who
supported the petition ; and who may be said to have been put upon his trial , as well as the worthy petitioner and the scores of eminent Masons who verified the truth of her
statements . Most honourably now are all acquitted , except the hasty youth who would have rejected the petition without any inquiry into its merits , upon the mere ground that nothing could be good which was not sanctioned by royalty , —the unmasonic person who imputed to the widow's friend
that surreptitious mode of " getting up evidence , " in which he is said to be so singular an adept himself—or those two great men in Grand Lodge , who , disagreeing so materially with each other , disagree also , but on different grounds , with every body else , fulsome flatterers and cringing
followers always excepted . Without a word of apology from or for either of them , they must stand self-abased and universally condemned . We cannot close these remarks without expressing an opinion , that there is yet another member of Grand Lodge
—one of the most favoured among the purple badgeswhose feelings must be any thing but pleasant , when he reflects on the uncharitable part he performed when the