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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
widow's petition was first mentioned to any of the constituted authorities . To him it must be a subject of deep regret to remember that many and many a month sincemonths that to the feeble , the aged and distressed petitioner must have appeared to be so many weary years , lengthened
by despondency and deprivation , and only varied by the Bickerings and failings of hope , and the heart-rending musings of despair— it was in his power to have put the case under the immediate consideration of the Grand Lodge . Foreseeing the difficulty of bringing on any motion' in
Grand Lodge , at an early meeting , by the usual routine of notice , and knowing that reports of the Board of Benevolence and of General Purposes very properly take precedence of all other business , Brother Lee Stevens , we are informed , read the petition at a Board of Benevolence
presided over by the R . W . Brother in question ; and , having observed that he was aware that , from the peculiarity of the case , the Board could not enter upon its merits , or come to any decision without permission of the Grand Lodge , he begged that the petition might be
appended to the report of the Board , with such a simple reference to it as might justify the Grand Lodge in dealing with it at once , or putting it in such a train as would be likely to ensure a speedy decision . This request was refused point blank ! It was not within the law ! There was no
precedent ! And thus was inculcated the unseemly lesson , that Masons must not step out of any beaten course to perform an office of charity I The more thanks—the heartier gratitude to another R . W . Brother—to the Deputy Grand Master—for carrying out so fully the motion of reference proposed by the President of the Board of General Purposes !
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
widow's petition was first mentioned to any of the constituted authorities . To him it must be a subject of deep regret to remember that many and many a month sincemonths that to the feeble , the aged and distressed petitioner must have appeared to be so many weary years , lengthened
by despondency and deprivation , and only varied by the Bickerings and failings of hope , and the heart-rending musings of despair— it was in his power to have put the case under the immediate consideration of the Grand Lodge . Foreseeing the difficulty of bringing on any motion' in
Grand Lodge , at an early meeting , by the usual routine of notice , and knowing that reports of the Board of Benevolence and of General Purposes very properly take precedence of all other business , Brother Lee Stevens , we are informed , read the petition at a Board of Benevolence
presided over by the R . W . Brother in question ; and , having observed that he was aware that , from the peculiarity of the case , the Board could not enter upon its merits , or come to any decision without permission of the Grand Lodge , he begged that the petition might be
appended to the report of the Board , with such a simple reference to it as might justify the Grand Lodge in dealing with it at once , or putting it in such a train as would be likely to ensure a speedy decision . This request was refused point blank ! It was not within the law ! There was no
precedent ! And thus was inculcated the unseemly lesson , that Masons must not step out of any beaten course to perform an office of charity I The more thanks—the heartier gratitude to another R . W . Brother—to the Deputy Grand Master—for carrying out so fully the motion of reference proposed by the President of the Board of General Purposes !