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The Mas 0:11c Mire0r.
hoped he might be allowed to explain , that when , in the absence of a more Worthy or distinguished Brother , he was requested to take the chair at this festival , he felt it would be no less a duty than a pleasure to do so , humble as he felt he was , could he have positively said he would be present . His official duties in Ireland , however , would not enable him to make any such pledge , and it was only at four o ' clock on the previous day , by working hard , that he felt he would be enabled to meet the Brethren on this occasion . By travelling all night , however , he was amongst them , most happy to support his worthy colleague la the chair , feeling assured that under the circumstances he should not have been enabled so well to
perform its duties . He was most gratified in being enabled to make this explanation , and to congratulate them ori Bro . Portal being in the chair instead of himself .
The Children , whose appearance excited general admiration , were here introduced into the room amidst loud cheers , and ranged on the dais in front of the R . W . Chairman , who rose and said , when he looked around him and saw the happy and contented faces of the girls before him ^ -when he saw the number of ladies in the gallery testifying the interest they took in the scene—when he feaw
the large number of Brethren assembled together , more or less for the one purpose of supporting the institution of which these children were the inmates , he felt that it was scarcely within his power to do justice to the next toast" Success to the Freemasons * Girls' School . " But he owned he felt apride- ^ a just pride in having to propose such a toast . He saw around him niany old friends to whom it would be unneeessarv to sav anvthinsr relative to the growth and r > rowhom it would be unnecessary to say anything relative to the growth and
progress of the institution . Bat , for the information of the ladies and those Brethren who were newer to the Craft , he might be allowed to state that the school was originally established in the year 1788 , principally through the efforts of Bro . the Chevalier Huspini , owing to whose exertions , aided by those of a few friends they were enabled to receive and educate fifteen children . The memory of Chevalier Buspini must always be held in respect by the Brethren for what he had done in the establishment of so noble an institution . The children were
first received at a small house in Somers Town , and subsequently removed to St . George ' s Fields , where gradually the number of children was increased until it reached sixty ; and such were the mutations of society , that amongst the number educated there had been two of the grand-daughters of its founder , Bro . Euspini . Within the last three years the school had been again removed to Wandsworth , where it was most healthily placed . It could not be too fully impressed on the mind of every Brother present , that though the children admitted were those of poor and deceased Freemasons , the parents of many of
them had occupied positions in life as good as that of any Brother at the table that evening ; many of them had attended the festivals of the institution , liberally supported , and become life governors of it . Indeed , some of them had even made their children life governors , and there was one of the children now in the school a life governor in her own right , having contributed to the funds of the institution ; of which she was now enjoying the advantages . He could state , from what he knew of the management of the institution , that every care was taken to promote the comfort and bring up respectably the children
within its walls ; and though he hoped that the families of none of those present would ever require its advantages , he trusted they would remember that it was the children of Brethren they were educating , and that it was to the individual exertions of tho members of the Craft they must look for tho means of supporting the efficiency of the institution . He found that since the establishment of the school , no less than 720 children had been educated in it ; and it was most gratifying to find that not one of them had ever afforded to the governors a moment ' s
anxiety by her conduct in after life—a good proof of the moral training they had received . Doubtless many of tho Brethren present had seen an admirable report which had just been circulated , relative to the education afforded to the children .. J . f they had been at the trouble to read the report , and the letters appended to it , they would not be unmindful of many remarks they contained , evincing the gratitude of the children and their friends for the advantages they had received . For very many years the institution had been conducted by Mrs \
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The Mas 0:11c Mire0r.
hoped he might be allowed to explain , that when , in the absence of a more Worthy or distinguished Brother , he was requested to take the chair at this festival , he felt it would be no less a duty than a pleasure to do so , humble as he felt he was , could he have positively said he would be present . His official duties in Ireland , however , would not enable him to make any such pledge , and it was only at four o ' clock on the previous day , by working hard , that he felt he would be enabled to meet the Brethren on this occasion . By travelling all night , however , he was amongst them , most happy to support his worthy colleague la the chair , feeling assured that under the circumstances he should not have been enabled so well to
perform its duties . He was most gratified in being enabled to make this explanation , and to congratulate them ori Bro . Portal being in the chair instead of himself .
The Children , whose appearance excited general admiration , were here introduced into the room amidst loud cheers , and ranged on the dais in front of the R . W . Chairman , who rose and said , when he looked around him and saw the happy and contented faces of the girls before him ^ -when he saw the number of ladies in the gallery testifying the interest they took in the scene—when he feaw
the large number of Brethren assembled together , more or less for the one purpose of supporting the institution of which these children were the inmates , he felt that it was scarcely within his power to do justice to the next toast" Success to the Freemasons * Girls' School . " But he owned he felt apride- ^ a just pride in having to propose such a toast . He saw around him niany old friends to whom it would be unneeessarv to sav anvthinsr relative to the growth and r > rowhom it would be unnecessary to say anything relative to the growth and
progress of the institution . Bat , for the information of the ladies and those Brethren who were newer to the Craft , he might be allowed to state that the school was originally established in the year 1788 , principally through the efforts of Bro . the Chevalier Huspini , owing to whose exertions , aided by those of a few friends they were enabled to receive and educate fifteen children . The memory of Chevalier Buspini must always be held in respect by the Brethren for what he had done in the establishment of so noble an institution . The children were
first received at a small house in Somers Town , and subsequently removed to St . George ' s Fields , where gradually the number of children was increased until it reached sixty ; and such were the mutations of society , that amongst the number educated there had been two of the grand-daughters of its founder , Bro . Euspini . Within the last three years the school had been again removed to Wandsworth , where it was most healthily placed . It could not be too fully impressed on the mind of every Brother present , that though the children admitted were those of poor and deceased Freemasons , the parents of many of
them had occupied positions in life as good as that of any Brother at the table that evening ; many of them had attended the festivals of the institution , liberally supported , and become life governors of it . Indeed , some of them had even made their children life governors , and there was one of the children now in the school a life governor in her own right , having contributed to the funds of the institution ; of which she was now enjoying the advantages . He could state , from what he knew of the management of the institution , that every care was taken to promote the comfort and bring up respectably the children
within its walls ; and though he hoped that the families of none of those present would ever require its advantages , he trusted they would remember that it was the children of Brethren they were educating , and that it was to the individual exertions of tho members of the Craft they must look for tho means of supporting the efficiency of the institution . He found that since the establishment of the school , no less than 720 children had been educated in it ; and it was most gratifying to find that not one of them had ever afforded to the governors a moment ' s
anxiety by her conduct in after life—a good proof of the moral training they had received . Doubtless many of tho Brethren present had seen an admirable report which had just been circulated , relative to the education afforded to the children .. J . f they had been at the trouble to read the report , and the letters appended to it , they would not be unmindful of many remarks they contained , evincing the gratitude of the children and their friends for the advantages they had received . For very many years the institution had been conducted by Mrs \