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world; being fitted by an implanted disposition to live in
societies and establish themselves into distinct bodies, for the
more effectual promulging and propagating a communication
of arts, labor and industry, of which charity and mutual
friendship is the common bond. It is in this respeet only,
that all the human race stand upon a level, having all the
same wants and desires, and are all in the same need of each
others assistance; as by this common cement every one is
bound to look upon himself as a membef of this universal
community, and especially the rich and great; for the truly
noble disposition never shines so bright as when engaged in
the noble purposes of social Love, Charity, and Benevolence.
Influenced by these great and good principles, of the most
prudent and effectual method of collecting and disposing of
what money should be lodged with them in charity, towards
the Relief only of a true Brother, fallen into poverty and
decay; but of none else.
When it was resolved, That each particular Lodge might
dispose of their own charity for poor Brothers, according to
their own By-Laws, until it should by all the Lodges, in a
new regulation, to carry in the charity, collected by them,
to the Grand Lodge at the Quarterly or Annual Communi­
cation ; in order to make a common stock for the more hand­
some relief of poor brethren.—( 0. R. Art. 13.)
ART. 2. In consequence of which regulation, at the
Grand Lodge on November 21,1724, Charles Lennos, Duke
of Richmond, Lenox and Aubigny, being Grand Master;
Brother Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkirth, afterwards Duke of
Buckleugh, the last Grand Master, proposed that in order to
promote the charitable disposition of Free Masons, and to
render it more extensively beneficial to the Society, each
Lodge may make a certain collection, according to ability, to
be put into a joint stock, lodged in the hands of a Treasurer, at
every Quarterly Communication, for the relief of distressed