The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine (Volume 3)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt: ... On his virtues as a Mason I will be permitted to dwell for a few moments. Of the charities of the Order he was ever mindful. He was always among the first to move the appropriation of the funds to this legitimate object. The destitute Brother, his widow or his orphan, never from him sought relief in vain. Charity, the brightest geui that can adorn the profession of a Freemason, shone in him with undimmed lustre. The impressive lesson he had received at his Initiation was not forgotten, and true to his lesson, was the practice of his Masonic life. With him the deserving Brother was never sent empty away. To the diligence with which he cultivated Masonic knowledge I have already alluded. As he was ever ready to dispense light and knowledge to his uninformed Brethren, so was he ever anxious to receive it from those who were better instructed than himself. On his election to the responsible office of Senior Warden in St. Andrew's Lodge, looking forward to the promotion to which that office when its duties are well performed, always entitles its possessor, he began with commendable, but alas not often practised diligence to prepare himself for the higher and more difficult duties of a Master. He devoted himself with activity to the acquisition of proper views of Masonry as a Science, the only light in which a Master of a Lodge should regard it, if he seeks pleasure for himself, or profit to the Fraternity. He sought advice and information on Masonic subjects from all who were able or willing to bestow them, for he seemed ever conscious that to be a worthy Master in Israel, he must not only be in virtue, eminent, but in knowledge surpassing.. As in the South the undeviating rectitude of his conduct had given additional Beadty to the column entrusted to his c...