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as easy , their hours of labour as short and their emolument at the rate of £ 880 per annum . 4 For these reasons , sir , I was and am satisfied that neither justice warrants , nor generosity requires , us to give another i : l 00 a year ^ ^ nd I cannot help remembering that the total emoluments to be now receivable by Bro . Farnfield will be larger than those ever received by Bro . White , after even fifty years ' service .
Another word r sir , and I will trouble you no longer . As it appeared to me , the Brethren who attended last evening had gone evidently determined to carry this vote , but I could not help being struck by the evident indisposition there was to listen to arguments which were unfavourable to the grant ( even when urged by those to whom is generally accorded an attentive hearing J , and by the frequent i nt erruptions which were 0 ffered even to bare statements of facts . It would have been better , perhaps , to have come to the vote at once , and so saved the discussion ; arid yet I should have been sorry to have lost those arguments , because although Grand Lodge is supreme in these matters , and vi can do what it likes wit
its own , " it cannot at any rate say that it has done it with its eyes shut . Whether the opinion of the Craft generally will be in accordance with that of the Brethren present last evening , it is not my business to in ( juire but there is this to be borhe in mind , and it seems to me to follovv as a natural consequence upon the vote of last night , that we cannot stop here ; that ; havihg sanctioned an increase of £ 100 a year to him who has the easiest duties to perform , common justice requires that we should give a corresponding increase to those who do the harder work ;
I will conclude with one remark upon a matter which was stated last evening , and I write now no longer as a member of Grand Lodge , but as a subscriber to the Annuity Society . If the fact be as the mover alleged , that Bro . Farnfield , our secretary , is engaged only some twenty minutes once a month at committee meetings , and half a day once a year at the general
meetings , I cannot help considering whether our charity would not be advantaged by getting a secretary who could and would give much more time to its interests , and . I cannot help comparing his position and that of our Annuity Fund with those of our indefatigable Bro . Crew , whose salary is , I am told , £ 20 per annum less , and whose charity is certainly in a widely different condition , Apologizing for so long a letter , I am , Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , June 17 th . 1858 . A Country Mason ,
BRO . MASON AND GRAND LODGE . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Worshipful Sir and Brother , —In supporting , at the last quarterly communication , the proposition of the Rev . Bro . Portal that a jewel should be presented to Bro . Thory Chapman as a token of the appreciation of his services by the Grand Master and the Craft at large , I took upon myself with some boldness , perhaps , but I hope at the same time with a due regard to fraternal feeling , to state that the proposition for conferring on Bro . Chapman the rank of Past Grand Deacon was inconsistent with Masonic ideas , and that inasmuch as that excellent Brother had not yet been a ;
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as easy , their hours of labour as short and their emolument at the rate of £ 880 per annum . 4 For these reasons , sir , I was and am satisfied that neither justice warrants , nor generosity requires , us to give another i : l 00 a year ^ ^ nd I cannot help remembering that the total emoluments to be now receivable by Bro . Farnfield will be larger than those ever received by Bro . White , after even fifty years ' service .
Another word r sir , and I will trouble you no longer . As it appeared to me , the Brethren who attended last evening had gone evidently determined to carry this vote , but I could not help being struck by the evident indisposition there was to listen to arguments which were unfavourable to the grant ( even when urged by those to whom is generally accorded an attentive hearing J , and by the frequent i nt erruptions which were 0 ffered even to bare statements of facts . It would have been better , perhaps , to have come to the vote at once , and so saved the discussion ; arid yet I should have been sorry to have lost those arguments , because although Grand Lodge is supreme in these matters , and vi can do what it likes wit
its own , " it cannot at any rate say that it has done it with its eyes shut . Whether the opinion of the Craft generally will be in accordance with that of the Brethren present last evening , it is not my business to in ( juire but there is this to be borhe in mind , and it seems to me to follovv as a natural consequence upon the vote of last night , that we cannot stop here ; that ; havihg sanctioned an increase of £ 100 a year to him who has the easiest duties to perform , common justice requires that we should give a corresponding increase to those who do the harder work ;
I will conclude with one remark upon a matter which was stated last evening , and I write now no longer as a member of Grand Lodge , but as a subscriber to the Annuity Society . If the fact be as the mover alleged , that Bro . Farnfield , our secretary , is engaged only some twenty minutes once a month at committee meetings , and half a day once a year at the general
meetings , I cannot help considering whether our charity would not be advantaged by getting a secretary who could and would give much more time to its interests , and . I cannot help comparing his position and that of our Annuity Fund with those of our indefatigable Bro . Crew , whose salary is , I am told , £ 20 per annum less , and whose charity is certainly in a widely different condition , Apologizing for so long a letter , I am , Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , June 17 th . 1858 . A Country Mason ,
BRO . MASON AND GRAND LODGE . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Worshipful Sir and Brother , —In supporting , at the last quarterly communication , the proposition of the Rev . Bro . Portal that a jewel should be presented to Bro . Thory Chapman as a token of the appreciation of his services by the Grand Master and the Craft at large , I took upon myself with some boldness , perhaps , but I hope at the same time with a due regard to fraternal feeling , to state that the proposition for conferring on Bro . Chapman the rank of Past Grand Deacon was inconsistent with Masonic ideas , and that inasmuch as that excellent Brother had not yet been a ;