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Article THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 8 of 8
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
Our present number presents many interesting features , on each of which we should have enlarged with great satisfaction , had not our space been chiefly devoted to the most pressing subject . In London the most enlivening scene was illustrative of pleasure and profit , by which the presence of
the ladies at a ball conduced to pour into the treasury of the Asylum for the Aged and Decayed Mason upwards of seventy pounds . We may observe that the festival of that very excellent institution is fixed for the 15 th of June , of which we hope in our next to render a good account . The
Festival of the Boys' School was more productive than ever known , and there is every prospect of a good harvest from the Girls' Festival in May . How the pseudo-prophets must stare to find their croakings have been unavailing to injure these charities . In Scotland , among many interesting reports , that of a
monument to " Highland Mary " conveys a pleasing moral , and the Emerald Isle gives gladsome tidings of its Masonic Ball , at Cork , in aid of the Orphan School . In Paris , the distinctions of "Le Rite Ecossais , " and i : Grand Orient , " no longer exist— a union of the two Grand
Lodges have been effected chiefly by the perseverance of Brother D . Rosenberg , —and the happiest results may be expected . But in India—the glowing Ind—what a glorious change ! Three years since , and Masonry drooped in despondency ;
now she has revived by the blessed influence of the waters of life ; and in her own hall were lately assembled her beloved Grand Master , supported by the Bishop of Calcutta , the Chief Justice of Bengal , and the leading authorities , at the celebration of laying the foundation-stone of
almshouses for all classes . Did the modern Babylon ever Masonically rival such a scene ? Reader ! peruse the report , and answer .
Our Obituary is a sad commentary ; but our duty would be imperfectly performed if we neglected a tribute to the memory of deceased Masons .
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
Our present number presents many interesting features , on each of which we should have enlarged with great satisfaction , had not our space been chiefly devoted to the most pressing subject . In London the most enlivening scene was illustrative of pleasure and profit , by which the presence of
the ladies at a ball conduced to pour into the treasury of the Asylum for the Aged and Decayed Mason upwards of seventy pounds . We may observe that the festival of that very excellent institution is fixed for the 15 th of June , of which we hope in our next to render a good account . The
Festival of the Boys' School was more productive than ever known , and there is every prospect of a good harvest from the Girls' Festival in May . How the pseudo-prophets must stare to find their croakings have been unavailing to injure these charities . In Scotland , among many interesting reports , that of a
monument to " Highland Mary " conveys a pleasing moral , and the Emerald Isle gives gladsome tidings of its Masonic Ball , at Cork , in aid of the Orphan School . In Paris , the distinctions of "Le Rite Ecossais , " and i : Grand Orient , " no longer exist— a union of the two Grand
Lodges have been effected chiefly by the perseverance of Brother D . Rosenberg , —and the happiest results may be expected . But in India—the glowing Ind—what a glorious change ! Three years since , and Masonry drooped in despondency ;
now she has revived by the blessed influence of the waters of life ; and in her own hall were lately assembled her beloved Grand Master , supported by the Bishop of Calcutta , the Chief Justice of Bengal , and the leading authorities , at the celebration of laying the foundation-stone of
almshouses for all classes . Did the modern Babylon ever Masonically rival such a scene ? Reader ! peruse the report , and answer .
Our Obituary is a sad commentary ; but our duty would be imperfectly performed if we neglected a tribute to the memory of deceased Masons .