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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
rjTrru EDITOR does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ~\
DEDICATION OF THE NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE OF THE ROYAL FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND REVIEW . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —
CONSIDERING the acknowledged and total failure of the Dedication Festival , to which you referred at some length in the last number of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Review , the Building Committee of the Girls' School would have acted , I think , wisely to have passed over the events of that day with the shortest possible reference . But from the following extract of the Report , which they presented at the last Quarterly General Court , it will
he seen that they have had the temerity to cast the blame of that failure , partly on the Grand Secretary and Grand Director of Ceremonies , and partly on the Brethren , who ( I was nearly saying , acted , but they were not permitted to do so ) offered to act as stewards : — " The Committee cannot close this Report without adverting to the dedication of the building , which took place on the 2 nd of August last . They beg to state that the day and hour of assembly were fixed
by the M . W . G . M ., that the ceremonies were under the sole direction of the Grand Secretary and Director of Ceremonies , that coll the Committee had to do with the arrangements was faithfully to comply with the directions they received . The Committee found that the expenses of the day would necessarily be large ; although the Quarterly General Court had most generously voted the sum of 400 £ . for the purpose of carrying out the ceremonies with due effect , it was felt by the Committee how important it was to avoid encroachingif possible
, , upon that sum , forming , as it did , a portion of the capital of the Institution . They therefore threw themselves upon the generosity and good feeling of the Craft , and endeavoured to enlist as many of the Brethren to serve as stewards upon the occasion as could be induced to come forward , and they have the satisfaction to state that upwards of two hundred Brethren most kindly responded to the application . Tickets were accordingly forwarded to them for
distribution , with a request to each that the number disposed of should be returned to the Secretary on or before a day fixed . On Saturday , 31 st July , two days before the ceremony took place , the Secretary had VOL . III . 3 S
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
rjTrru EDITOR does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ~\
DEDICATION OF THE NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE OF THE ROYAL FREEMASONS' CHARITY FOR FEMALE CHILDREN . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND REVIEW . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —
CONSIDERING the acknowledged and total failure of the Dedication Festival , to which you referred at some length in the last number of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Review , the Building Committee of the Girls' School would have acted , I think , wisely to have passed over the events of that day with the shortest possible reference . But from the following extract of the Report , which they presented at the last Quarterly General Court , it will
he seen that they have had the temerity to cast the blame of that failure , partly on the Grand Secretary and Grand Director of Ceremonies , and partly on the Brethren , who ( I was nearly saying , acted , but they were not permitted to do so ) offered to act as stewards : — " The Committee cannot close this Report without adverting to the dedication of the building , which took place on the 2 nd of August last . They beg to state that the day and hour of assembly were fixed
by the M . W . G . M ., that the ceremonies were under the sole direction of the Grand Secretary and Director of Ceremonies , that coll the Committee had to do with the arrangements was faithfully to comply with the directions they received . The Committee found that the expenses of the day would necessarily be large ; although the Quarterly General Court had most generously voted the sum of 400 £ . for the purpose of carrying out the ceremonies with due effect , it was felt by the Committee how important it was to avoid encroachingif possible
, , upon that sum , forming , as it did , a portion of the capital of the Institution . They therefore threw themselves upon the generosity and good feeling of the Craft , and endeavoured to enlist as many of the Brethren to serve as stewards upon the occasion as could be induced to come forward , and they have the satisfaction to state that upwards of two hundred Brethren most kindly responded to the application . Tickets were accordingly forwarded to them for
distribution , with a request to each that the number disposed of should be returned to the Secretary on or before a day fixed . On Saturday , 31 st July , two days before the ceremony took place , the Secretary had VOL . III . 3 S