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PG-P.754.008
15 Jan 1754:21,22 (1308)
New-York, December 31. On Thursday last, at a grand lodge
of the Ancient and Worshipful Fraternity of Free and
Accepted Masons, . . . [20 lines, procession, service,
entertainment, collection taken up for the Charity school
and indigent prisoners.] In the evening, by the particular
request of the Brethren, a comedy called the Conscious
Lovers, was presented at the Theatre in Nassau-street, to a
very crouded assembly. Several pieces of vocal musick, in
praise of the fraternity, were performed between the acts.
An epilogue, suitable to the occasion, was pronounced by
Mrs. Hallam, with all the graces of gesture, and propriety
of elocution, and met with universal and loud applause.
Quere. Whether the performance of publick and private
acts of beneficence, such as feeding the hungry, and
clothing the naked, be most correspondent to the genius of
Christianity, or to the institutions of the Prince of
Darkness?
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