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The "Sussex Wing" Of The Royal Free Hospital.
opportunity ol attending our public Hospitals , know how much of good ,, how much of holy feeling frequently lies at the bottom of the heart of many tin afflicted fellow creature , apparently sunk in the lowest depths of vice and misery , and those who have listened to their dying tale , have not failed deeply to sympathise in their miseries , and to feel that they have indeed been "more sinned against than sinning . " For the succour of such as these no better Institution than the Eoyal Free Hospital could have been devised , and sure we are that could H . E . H . have been consulted
as to what would be most gratifying to his own feelings as a memorial , he would have said , " Let me not live in bronze or marble , but in the grateful hearts of our poor fellow-creatures , all of whom I' regard as my brothers , through the means of some charity , which adopting my name may relieve their wants and alleviate their miseries . " Such as we have stated , we are convinced , would have been the sentiment of H . E . H ., and
glad we are that they are r . ow being so well carried out , the fund having been held in the hands of trustees until the Hospital Committee coidd raise sufficient funds to complete the intended wing .
We will not say anything here relative to the rise and progress of this Hospital , because that will he found so fully and eloquently described in the speech of its benevolent founder , Dr . Marsden , in another page of the "Masonic Mirror , " that we kel any words of our own , could oidy tend to weaken its effect . We may , however , he allowed to express our regret that more advantage was not taken b y the Joint Committee of the
Hospital and the Committee of the Fund—rare opportunity of seeing a foundation stone laid with Masonic honours ( especially in the metropolis ) , to benefit the funds of the Institution . Had more publicity of the intended ceremony been given ; had greater preparations been made for the accommodation of visitors ; had the procession been allowed to extend over a greater space of ground than about the thirty yards leading from
the Welsh School to the spot where the stone was laid ; had the ladies of the brethren and other friends of the charity been invited to lay their purses upon the foundation stone ; had tickets been sold for the dinner in the evening , aided by the excellent appeals of Br . Dobie , Br . Pritchard , the Eev . Br . Dr . Bowles , Dr . Marsden , and others , at least 1000 / . might have been added to the funds .
lite opportunity , however , has been allowed to pass , hut we trust that those brethren who can afford to aid the Institution , will therefore feel themselves the more called upon to forward their subscriptions to the able Secretary of the Institution , our excellent and respected Br . Fenn , We vouch for it they will be thankfully received , and faithfully applied . We much regret that our beloved G . M . was prevented from being
present at the ceremony , in consequence of the severe illness of his excellent countess—whom we pray the G . A . of the TJ . speedily to restore to health—and that regret was further enhanced hy the knowledge that our highly estimable D . G . M .. was only slowly recovering from a very serious attackof indisposition , which rendered it impossible for him to be " present . In their absence , however , we are convinced there could not have been found a better representative than our Br . Dobie , Pl . G . M . for Surrev ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The "Sussex Wing" Of The Royal Free Hospital.
opportunity ol attending our public Hospitals , know how much of good ,, how much of holy feeling frequently lies at the bottom of the heart of many tin afflicted fellow creature , apparently sunk in the lowest depths of vice and misery , and those who have listened to their dying tale , have not failed deeply to sympathise in their miseries , and to feel that they have indeed been "more sinned against than sinning . " For the succour of such as these no better Institution than the Eoyal Free Hospital could have been devised , and sure we are that could H . E . H . have been consulted
as to what would be most gratifying to his own feelings as a memorial , he would have said , " Let me not live in bronze or marble , but in the grateful hearts of our poor fellow-creatures , all of whom I' regard as my brothers , through the means of some charity , which adopting my name may relieve their wants and alleviate their miseries . " Such as we have stated , we are convinced , would have been the sentiment of H . E . H ., and
glad we are that they are r . ow being so well carried out , the fund having been held in the hands of trustees until the Hospital Committee coidd raise sufficient funds to complete the intended wing .
We will not say anything here relative to the rise and progress of this Hospital , because that will he found so fully and eloquently described in the speech of its benevolent founder , Dr . Marsden , in another page of the "Masonic Mirror , " that we kel any words of our own , could oidy tend to weaken its effect . We may , however , he allowed to express our regret that more advantage was not taken b y the Joint Committee of the
Hospital and the Committee of the Fund—rare opportunity of seeing a foundation stone laid with Masonic honours ( especially in the metropolis ) , to benefit the funds of the Institution . Had more publicity of the intended ceremony been given ; had greater preparations been made for the accommodation of visitors ; had the procession been allowed to extend over a greater space of ground than about the thirty yards leading from
the Welsh School to the spot where the stone was laid ; had the ladies of the brethren and other friends of the charity been invited to lay their purses upon the foundation stone ; had tickets been sold for the dinner in the evening , aided by the excellent appeals of Br . Dobie , Br . Pritchard , the Eev . Br . Dr . Bowles , Dr . Marsden , and others , at least 1000 / . might have been added to the funds .
lite opportunity , however , has been allowed to pass , hut we trust that those brethren who can afford to aid the Institution , will therefore feel themselves the more called upon to forward their subscriptions to the able Secretary of the Institution , our excellent and respected Br . Fenn , We vouch for it they will be thankfully received , and faithfully applied . We much regret that our beloved G . M . was prevented from being
present at the ceremony , in consequence of the severe illness of his excellent countess—whom we pray the G . A . of the TJ . speedily to restore to health—and that regret was further enhanced hy the knowledge that our highly estimable D . G . M .. was only slowly recovering from a very serious attackof indisposition , which rendered it impossible for him to be " present . In their absence , however , we are convinced there could not have been found a better representative than our Br . Dobie , Pl . G . M . for Surrev ,