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Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
this more than ourselves ; but whilst we thus allude to their nonattendance , we feel it is scarcely to be expected tbat those , who consider order and decorum to be amongst the first principles of Masonry , will attend any meetings where the majority of the Brethren g ive way to noise and disturbance to such an extent as to call for severe rebuke from those who take a most active part in the
pro ceedings , and exert themselves for the benefit of the Institution . The Brethren on this occasion seemed quite to have forgotten that the M . W . the G . M . was in the chair , and that at the sound of his H . it was the imperative duty of each to be at once silent , and to give the greatest attention to tbe proceedings . It is quite absurd to assert that in so large a company it is not to be expected that silence
can be observed , since at the last Grand Festival , as we have recorded , nothing could be more decorous than the conduct of those who were present . We are very much inclined to think that the Stewards might have enforced the order , which is so requisite , on this occasion , had not so many crowded the dais , but had sat down with those Brethren who were arranged under their respective banners , and acted towards them as a host ivould have presided over his
guests . All would then have gone on smoothly . If the Stewards ought to have thus acted , the Brethren ought also to have recollected that the eyes of their wives , daughters , and female friends were upon them , and that it must be difficult to make these ladies believe , tbat when Masons met in Lodge they conducted themselves with propriety and good order . It was impossible that they could do so when they saw the assembled Brethren acting in so noisy , and we must add , so inconsiderate a manner , as was alike painfully the case on this , as on the last occasion of the Girls' School Festival .
The Charities. Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution
THE CHARITIES . ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
FOB AGED EEEEMASONS AND THEIB WIDOWS . REPOBT of the Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting , held at Freemasons' Hall , London , on Friday , the 20 th day of May , 1853 , the Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , M . AV . G . M . in the chair : — The Minutes ofthe Annual General Meeting on the 21 st of May , 1852 , were read and approved . The following Report of Audit was read , and ordered to be entered on the Minutes , viz .: — " The undersigned , having audited the Treasurer's Accounts from
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Royal Freemasons' Girls' School.
this more than ourselves ; but whilst we thus allude to their nonattendance , we feel it is scarcely to be expected tbat those , who consider order and decorum to be amongst the first principles of Masonry , will attend any meetings where the majority of the Brethren g ive way to noise and disturbance to such an extent as to call for severe rebuke from those who take a most active part in the
pro ceedings , and exert themselves for the benefit of the Institution . The Brethren on this occasion seemed quite to have forgotten that the M . W . the G . M . was in the chair , and that at the sound of his H . it was the imperative duty of each to be at once silent , and to give the greatest attention to tbe proceedings . It is quite absurd to assert that in so large a company it is not to be expected that silence
can be observed , since at the last Grand Festival , as we have recorded , nothing could be more decorous than the conduct of those who were present . We are very much inclined to think that the Stewards might have enforced the order , which is so requisite , on this occasion , had not so many crowded the dais , but had sat down with those Brethren who were arranged under their respective banners , and acted towards them as a host ivould have presided over his
guests . All would then have gone on smoothly . If the Stewards ought to have thus acted , the Brethren ought also to have recollected that the eyes of their wives , daughters , and female friends were upon them , and that it must be difficult to make these ladies believe , tbat when Masons met in Lodge they conducted themselves with propriety and good order . It was impossible that they could do so when they saw the assembled Brethren acting in so noisy , and we must add , so inconsiderate a manner , as was alike painfully the case on this , as on the last occasion of the Girls' School Festival .
The Charities. Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution
THE CHARITIES . ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
FOB AGED EEEEMASONS AND THEIB WIDOWS . REPOBT of the Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting , held at Freemasons' Hall , London , on Friday , the 20 th day of May , 1853 , the Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , M . AV . G . M . in the chair : — The Minutes ofthe Annual General Meeting on the 21 st of May , 1852 , were read and approved . The following Report of Audit was read , and ordered to be entered on the Minutes , viz .: — " The undersigned , having audited the Treasurer's Accounts from