Consecrations.

CONSECRATIONS .

— : o : — EDWARD TERRY LODGE .

' TA 7 *^ * - " •¦*** P rouc ** - to have our-names associated with VV that of Edward Terry . " Every member of the Craft , who has the pleasure ofthe acquaintance of this highly esteemed and beloved gentleman , must agree with this

opinion of Bro . John Strachan , Q . C , Grand Registrar of England , expressed upon the occasion of the consecration of the Edward Terry Lodge , No . 2722 , which took place on the 8 th inst ., at the Cleveland Hall , Barnes , S . W .

Bro . Edward Letchworth , F . S . A ., Grand Secretary kindly undertook to perform the ceremony , and was assisted by Bros . J . Strachan as S . W ., J . D . Langton P . D . G . D . C . as J . W ., Rev . J . S . Brownrigg P . G . C . as Chaplain , James Hy . Matthews P . B . B . as Director of Ceremonies , and Major Thos . C . Walls P . G . S . B . as I . G .

Among those present were the twenty-five Founders , viz . : Bros . Edward Terry P . G . Treas . P . M . 29 , William Hunt P . M . 172 I . P . M . 2512 2702 , Maurice Roche 172 , Samuel Case 40 1539 , Stampa Walter Lambert P . Prov . G . Reg . Surrey P . M . 1556 , John Eustace Anderson P . M . 18 255 ,

William Thomas Peat P . Prov . G . Org . Middlesex P . M . 1656 , C . T . Rotheram S . W . 907 , Hugh Shirreff 704 , Thomas Grylls 975 , Gerald Spencer Hertslet 1656 , John Spencer 823 , James Hill 975 , P . E . Metzner 2029 , W . G . Woodward 1656 ,

N . Courlander 975 , Frederic de Groot 946 , R . W . Simpson P . M . 1656 , L . Goodacre 172 2192 , H . J . Bond P . M . 1656 , W . Wainwright 1656 , R . T . Hughes 1656 , W . N . Crowhurst P . Prov . G . Purs . Bucks P . M . 1894 , Sidney Marler 1261 , Hy . Woodham 1559 .

The Lodge was opened in the three degrees , and the beautiful ceremony proceeded on the usual lines , being most impressively rendered by Bro . Letchworth . The oration on the nature and principles of the Institution

was delivered by the Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , in which he insisted upon the necessity of work , unselfishness , and the practice of religion in all ranks of life , if we desired to become fit and proper members of the Craft .

The Lodge having been Consecrated " to the Glory of God and the Royal Solomon , " was then formally constituted , and the ceremony concluded with the Patriarchal Benediction . The musical arrangements were under the direction of Bro . Herbert Schartau P . P . G . O . Middx ., who was assisted by Bros . Frank Tebbutt , and John Josey .

The next business was the installation of the Worshipful Master , and a Board of Installed Masters having been constituted , Bro . Edward Terry was regularly placed in the

chair as the first ruler . Upon the return of the Brethren Brother Terry was proclaimed and saluted in the various degrees , and the Warrant of the new Lodge was entrusted to his keeping .

The following Officers were then appointed and invested : Bros . William Hunt to act as I . P . M ., Stampa Walter Lambert S . W ., John Eustace Anderson J . W ., Richard William Simpson ( elected by ballot ) Treasurer , W . T . Peat

Secretary , C . T . Rotheram S . D ., Gerald Spencer Hertslet J . D ., John Spencer I . G ., Samuel Case D . C , James Hill , R . T . Hughes , W . G . Woodward , Norton Courlander , and Percy E . Metzner Stewards , and W . H . Hobbs Tyler .

The Addresses were admirably rendered by Brother Letchworth , and elicited the hearty applause of those present . A Committee of the Officers was appointed to frame the Bye-laws .

The business of the evening having terminated , the customary compliments ensued . The W . M . thanked Bro . Letchworth for so kindly coming down to perform the double ceremony , and asked his acceptance ot the Lodge jewel , which had been designed for the occasion . Brother Letchworth returned thanks for the handsome

present . By a vote of the Lodge all the Consecrating Officers were elected Honorary Members . Brother Strachan expressed the thanks of his colleagues for the compliment , which they gladly accepted , and made

use of the words quoted at the commencement of this notice . Several candidates for initiation were proposed ( among them being the Vicar of Barnes , and the son of the W . M . ) and the names of many joining members were submitted for approval .

The Lodge was then closed , and the occasion terminated with a superb banquet in the large hall . Brother Edward Terry W . M ., in proposing the toast of

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the M . W . G . M . said he had just received a telegram from Sandringham , " I thank the Grand Officers and Brethren for their kind and fraternal greetings—Albert Edward . " This proved the very great interest the Prince of Wales took in a Masonic function down at Barnes .

Sir John B . Monckton P . G . W . responded to the toast of the Deputy Grand Master , & c . Bro . Terry , in proposing the Consecrating Officers , said the Brethren of the Edward Terry Lodge were

particularly grateful to the Consecrating Officers for coming down to Barnes , and helping them to get up that meeting . He could only express for the Founders their thanks for the beautiful performance of the cerernony .

Bro . E . Letchworth Grand Secretary , in acknowledging the compliment , said that as the mouthpiece of the other Consecrating Officers , and for himself , he could say it had given * them great pleasure to take part in the Consecration of the Edward Terry Lodge . He returned his warmest thanks

for the toast proposed in such kind terms by the W . M . They were perfectly sure that under the able rule of their W . M . the Lodge would be a very great success . It was a source of regret to them that Bros . Monckton and Richardson were not able to take part in the ceremony ; they were prevented

by very important engagements from coming in time , but he had to thank those who stepped in their places , and discharged their duties in such an admirable manner . He was expressing the feelings of those with whom he had been that evening associated , when he said he wished the Lodge might have a very happy and successful future .

Bro . John Strachan , Q . C , G . Registrar proposed the Worshipful Master . He said not long ago a minister—and ministers did not generally say that which was

untrueinformed him that when Daniel was placed in the den of lions his great consolation was that he would not have to make an after-dinner speech . He ( Bro . Strachan ) thought that if Daniel had known that he would be entrusted with

such a toast as he ( Bro . Strachan ) had been privileged to propose that night , he would have gone through the horrors of the lions' den . The toast was that of the Worshipful Master , one of his old friends when they were boys together , little boys , about thirty or forty years ago . In those days

Bro . Terry thought he was an actor . He really did ! He thought he could act ! And he ( Bro . Strachan ) remembered the first occasion upon which he saw him , he thought it was in an oratorio , it had some singing in it , at any rate ; and the next time he saw him he thought it was in " Hamlet ; " it was a

peculiar Hamlet , because at the end of every line he went off like a cuckoo clock tooral looral , but the more he tried , the more the people laughed at him , as he went up and down the platform . He was speaking of bygone days , when Brother Terry used to go acting . The present generation

scarcely believed he had been on the stage , at any rate it had not been known in London that his friends were only desirous to know when he was coming back again . It was not always that comicality distinguished their friend . Bro . Terry had in him some of the tenderest emotions , not only

in his own heart , but he had the power of touching the hearts of others . It was not by things at which people laughed that Bro . Terry was to be most thoroughly well spoken of ; it was by those lovely touches of human nature which he had by his great art been enabled to give , by which

he could sway great masses of men , women , and childrenbecause he loved children , and a man who did not love children was hardly worth calling a man . But the great thing he had to find fault with in Bro . Terry was that he did not allow him to be able to say that Masonry had made a

good man of him . No , because he was a good man before he was a Mason . He had spoken of Bro . Terry in his younger manhood . They were all young men . He ought to remind the Brethren of this , that all who knew Bro . Terry knew that he was a good citizen , and always had

been known as a good citizen , promoting the good of his fellow-men . He had known Bro . Terry to be a good son , a good , loving , and affectionate son ; an affectionate and loving husband and father ; a thoroughly good friend to those who had the pleasure and honour of his friendship ; and , lastly , he came to that which had endeared him still more to their

hearts , a thoroughly good Mason , having begun as a good man and kept up being a good man to the end . There was not one of the list of Masonic Subscribers to Charities they looked at but when they came to the name of Edward

Terry they saw it like a Railway Station denoted by lights in the shape of stars . Bro . Terry was an older Mason than he , because he was in the Lodge when he ( Bro . Strachan ) was initiated . He had always fpundBro . Terry a good Mason in