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The Masonic Mirror.

EOR SUSTENTAT 10 N OE BUILDING . Balance , 31 st March , 'lS 5 S X 53 6 1 Subsequent Receipts 52 13 0 Balance on this Account .... 105 19 1 Total Balance £ 1 , 0 / 0 7 0

Stock standing in the names of Trustees : — For Males \ ®™ ° \ .... £ 6 , 150 \ .. - ( Reduced .... 5 , 100 S ; J 0 U u u

For Females i £ f , " • • W 1 8 , „ 0 ( . Reduced .... 1 , 300 / ' u u For Sustentation of Building , Consols 367 7 9 The report having been received and adopted , Bro . Stevenson was re-elected on the Committee of Management , and Bro . J . AV . Adams elected iu the room of Bro . Lyall , retiring . A vote of thanks was then iven to BroHenleythe medical officer of the insti

g . , - tution , lor his valuable professional assistance and unvarying kindness to the inmates ot the Asylum . Bro . Barrett moved that it was the opinion of the meeting that an annual festival would prove advantageous to the institution , whilst it would not lie injurious to the interests of the other charities . He considered that this institution ought to be placed on an equality with the other charities , which it never could be until it had an animal festival : and all experience had proved that , so far from their festivals injuring the other institutions

on the years in which they were field , those of the other chanties were more successful than upon the years when the friends ol the Benevolent Institution were not appealed to Bro Warren seconded the motion , lie did so because he was convinced that the only way of making any charity successful was to continually keen its claims before the public ihe festival , if of no other advantage , had this to recommend it-it gave them the opportunity of appealing to the Craftand that without

, any expense to the charit y , for they could always find stewards to take the expenses upon themselves . Moreover , it had always been found , that not only did they not get any donations in the years when there were no festivals , but the annual subscriptions toll off , and the longer the festival was delayed the more did they dimmish . J

Bro Savage , though not denying tho advantage of animal festivals , would remind them that _ last year they had determined in favour of biennial festivals instead of triennial , and it was scarcely fair to ask them now to determine in avour ot annual festivals until they had had some experience with regard to the biennial , the first of which had only just been held . Indeed , he doubted whether such a motion ought , under the circumstances , to havo been brought forward without notice . D BR , Warren wished to explain that he lindat the last

, meeting , give , notice of his intention to agitate the question at every animal meeting until it was carried . Bro Symonds felt a difficulty in opposing the motion , because , if the statements made by Bro barren relative to the falling off of subscriptions were true , there could be no doubt of the advantage of annual festivals , of ivhich , indeed , he had himself been in favour . The biennial festivals were , however , tho result of a compromise between the advocates of the triennial and annual festivals-that result having been arrived at at a meeting speciallconvened to consider

y the quesuou . _ J-lc would therefore move , as an amendment , that they should pass to the previous question . L Bro . Savage seconded the amendment . il WT ^ Il !!^ r ' ^ ! ° ° Tli , " otiol , ' alKl ' admitti "S «« compromise , said it had been most uusatisiactory to a Large bod y of the brethren . Bro . Hervey was as indisposed as any man to take any course which might

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1859-05-25, Page 28” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 31 March 2023, www.masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_25051859/page/28/.
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THE GRAND REGISTRAR AND PARTY TACTICS. Article 1
THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS. Article 6
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. Article 12
THE GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL. Article 17
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 18
THE SWEDISH RITE. Article 19
THE CONSECRATION AT GUILDFORD. Article 20
MASONIC HALLS. Article 21
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 22
METROPOLITAN. Article 30
PROVINCIAL. Article 32
OXFORDSHIRE. Article 36
ROYAL ARCH. Article 41
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 42
AMERICA. Article 42
THE WEEK. Article 43
Untitled Article 48
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 48
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The Masonic Mirror.

EOR SUSTENTAT 10 N OE BUILDING . Balance , 31 st March , 'lS 5 S X 53 6 1 Subsequent Receipts 52 13 0 Balance on this Account .... 105 19 1 Total Balance £ 1 , 0 / 0 7 0

Stock standing in the names of Trustees : — For Males \ ®™ ° \ .... £ 6 , 150 \ .. - ( Reduced .... 5 , 100 S ; J 0 U u u

For Females i £ f , " • • W 1 8 , „ 0 ( . Reduced .... 1 , 300 / ' u u For Sustentation of Building , Consols 367 7 9 The report having been received and adopted , Bro . Stevenson was re-elected on the Committee of Management , and Bro . J . AV . Adams elected iu the room of Bro . Lyall , retiring . A vote of thanks was then iven to BroHenleythe medical officer of the insti

g . , - tution , lor his valuable professional assistance and unvarying kindness to the inmates ot the Asylum . Bro . Barrett moved that it was the opinion of the meeting that an annual festival would prove advantageous to the institution , whilst it would not lie injurious to the interests of the other charities . He considered that this institution ought to be placed on an equality with the other charities , which it never could be until it had an animal festival : and all experience had proved that , so far from their festivals injuring the other institutions

on the years in which they were field , those of the other chanties were more successful than upon the years when the friends ol the Benevolent Institution were not appealed to Bro Warren seconded the motion , lie did so because he was convinced that the only way of making any charity successful was to continually keen its claims before the public ihe festival , if of no other advantage , had this to recommend it-it gave them the opportunity of appealing to the Craftand that without

, any expense to the charit y , for they could always find stewards to take the expenses upon themselves . Moreover , it had always been found , that not only did they not get any donations in the years when there were no festivals , but the annual subscriptions toll off , and the longer the festival was delayed the more did they dimmish . J

Bro Savage , though not denying tho advantage of animal festivals , would remind them that _ last year they had determined in favour of biennial festivals instead of triennial , and it was scarcely fair to ask them now to determine in avour ot annual festivals until they had had some experience with regard to the biennial , the first of which had only just been held . Indeed , he doubted whether such a motion ought , under the circumstances , to havo been brought forward without notice . D BR , Warren wished to explain that he lindat the last

, meeting , give , notice of his intention to agitate the question at every animal meeting until it was carried . Bro Symonds felt a difficulty in opposing the motion , because , if the statements made by Bro barren relative to the falling off of subscriptions were true , there could be no doubt of the advantage of annual festivals , of ivhich , indeed , he had himself been in favour . The biennial festivals were , however , tho result of a compromise between the advocates of the triennial and annual festivals-that result having been arrived at at a meeting speciallconvened to consider

y the quesuou . _ J-lc would therefore move , as an amendment , that they should pass to the previous question . L Bro . Savage seconded the amendment . il WT ^ Il !!^ r ' ^ ! ° ° Tli , " otiol , ' alKl ' admitti "S «« compromise , said it had been most uusatisiactory to a Large bod y of the brethren . Bro . Hervey was as indisposed as any man to take any course which might

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