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The Charities.
BROTHER Dr . CRUCEFIX then proceeded to read the following REPORT . " ' Your Treasurer ' s Report will be as brief as he trusts it will be satisfactory . " ' The Subscriptions and Donations of the current year abundantly prove the high estimation in which this Institution is held by the Craft . " ' Last year the Report announced a Capital of Twelve Hundred
Pounds . That Capital has now increased to Two Thousand Pounds , invested in the public funds . " ' Since our last meeting , many Provincial and Metropolitan Lodges have subscribed , and the correspondence from every quarter breathes the most gratifying sentiments of congratulation and support . " ' The labours of your Managing Committee , having been directed bGeneral Meetingsto carry into effect a plan of operation whereby
y , the necessities of their worthy Aged and Decayed Brethren may in some measure be alleviated , it has been determined that several Annuities of Ten Pounds shall be granted on the 31 st of July next , until the Asylum itself shall , by the extended liberality of the Craft , be erected and endowed . " ' The most gratifying part of my duty , is to report that there no longer exists any impediment to the carrying out of the great principle
of the Asylum , that the desire of the Subscribers not to engage prematurely in the erection of a building until they shall be possessed of adequate means , has removed the doubts which His Royal Highness the Grand Master , and other Brethren had entertained ; and that in future there can only be a generous rivalry as to who shall be " foremost in the throng . '
" ¦ ' The particulars relating to the forthcoming election m July are in the hands of all present , and must be read with unmixed satisfaction by those who hitherto have nobly stood forward in aid of the unfortunate , as also by others who now are for the first time assembled , and find the principle of active Masonic Benevolence thus far practically illustrated . ' Dr . CRUCEFIX then spoke as follows : " For the fourth time , I am called to address Brethrendeeplimpressed with gratitude for their
upon my , y kindness to myself and colleagues . Believe me , vie axe truly sensible of the generous manner in which the sentiments of the Chairman have been been hailed—and I am not , perhaps , very much out in saying , that having entertained hopes of some such demonstration , we are not disappointed in their realization . " Hitherto I have thrown myself upon the attention of kind friends with a joy amounting to exultation ; my heart has bounded -with an
ardour befitting a younger man , but labour became light , for success justified the impulse . " I find , by experience , that the difficulty is not so great when obstacles are to be surmounted , as when they are surmounted ; comparative ease makes us all comparatively indifferent , and we are apt to lose that keen sense of superiority to danger which a determination to overcome danger creates in the human mind .
" The excellent Chairman has told you , that if only the young are to be supported , and not the old , you would not do your duty either to God or to man —( hear , hear)—and that without impairing the stability of the moral edifice , an advance towards the great object of your solicitude has been anticipated , by rendering the means which may in themselves be as yet unequal to the full completion of your work , sufficiently con-VOL VI . EE
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The Charities.
BROTHER Dr . CRUCEFIX then proceeded to read the following REPORT . " ' Your Treasurer ' s Report will be as brief as he trusts it will be satisfactory . " ' The Subscriptions and Donations of the current year abundantly prove the high estimation in which this Institution is held by the Craft . " ' Last year the Report announced a Capital of Twelve Hundred
Pounds . That Capital has now increased to Two Thousand Pounds , invested in the public funds . " ' Since our last meeting , many Provincial and Metropolitan Lodges have subscribed , and the correspondence from every quarter breathes the most gratifying sentiments of congratulation and support . " ' The labours of your Managing Committee , having been directed bGeneral Meetingsto carry into effect a plan of operation whereby
y , the necessities of their worthy Aged and Decayed Brethren may in some measure be alleviated , it has been determined that several Annuities of Ten Pounds shall be granted on the 31 st of July next , until the Asylum itself shall , by the extended liberality of the Craft , be erected and endowed . " ' The most gratifying part of my duty , is to report that there no longer exists any impediment to the carrying out of the great principle
of the Asylum , that the desire of the Subscribers not to engage prematurely in the erection of a building until they shall be possessed of adequate means , has removed the doubts which His Royal Highness the Grand Master , and other Brethren had entertained ; and that in future there can only be a generous rivalry as to who shall be " foremost in the throng . '
" ¦ ' The particulars relating to the forthcoming election m July are in the hands of all present , and must be read with unmixed satisfaction by those who hitherto have nobly stood forward in aid of the unfortunate , as also by others who now are for the first time assembled , and find the principle of active Masonic Benevolence thus far practically illustrated . ' Dr . CRUCEFIX then spoke as follows : " For the fourth time , I am called to address Brethrendeeplimpressed with gratitude for their
upon my , y kindness to myself and colleagues . Believe me , vie axe truly sensible of the generous manner in which the sentiments of the Chairman have been been hailed—and I am not , perhaps , very much out in saying , that having entertained hopes of some such demonstration , we are not disappointed in their realization . " Hitherto I have thrown myself upon the attention of kind friends with a joy amounting to exultation ; my heart has bounded -with an
ardour befitting a younger man , but labour became light , for success justified the impulse . " I find , by experience , that the difficulty is not so great when obstacles are to be surmounted , as when they are surmounted ; comparative ease makes us all comparatively indifferent , and we are apt to lose that keen sense of superiority to danger which a determination to overcome danger creates in the human mind .
" The excellent Chairman has told you , that if only the young are to be supported , and not the old , you would not do your duty either to God or to man —( hear , hear)—and that without impairing the stability of the moral edifice , an advance towards the great object of your solicitude has been anticipated , by rendering the means which may in themselves be as yet unequal to the full completion of your work , sufficiently con-VOL VI . EE