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A Charge Delivered To The Members Of The Union Lodge,
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION LODGE ,
REGULARLY CONSTITUTED , AXD HELD AT THE UNION PUNCH HOUSE , PRINCES STREET , BRISTOL ^ A . L . $ 767 .
B Y BROTHER ALEXANDER SHEDDENR . "VV . M .
MY WORTHY BRETHREN , ^ TPHIS being our second quarterly meeting , since I had the honour ¦ - " ¦ to sit in this chair , I embrace the opportunity again to return you my sincere thanks for that honour ; and to assure 3 ^ ou 1 am determined , to the utmost of my power , to execute the great trust which you continue to repose in me , with freedom , fervency , and
zeal . That I may be enabled so to do , let us unanimously concur in cultivating peace , harmony , and perfect friendship , striving who shall excel in brotherly love and benignity ; then I doubt not , but with the assistance of my brother officers , I may be enabled to conduct the business of the Lodge , and discharge my duty , to your satisfaction . . To accomplish these desirable ends , let me , in the first place ,
info-eat your strict attention to our bye laws , ever keeping in view thegeneral regulations , constitutions , and orders , of our ancient and honourable Society . Let due regard be paid to your officers in their respective stations , whose duty it is to . regulate the proceedings of the Lodge , and-to carry the laws into execution ; and may the only contention amongst us bea laudable emulation , in cultivating the
,, Royal Art , and endeavouring to excel each other in whatever is good and great . The moral and social duties of life we should make a principal subject of contemplation : for thereby we shall be enabled to subdue our passions , and cultivate fraternal affection , the glory and cement of thisjinstitution ; " .. laying aside all malice , and all guile , and hypocrisiesand enviesand all evil-speakings ; " manifesting our
love-, , one to another : for " love is of God ; and he that loveth God , loveth . his brother also . And he that saith he is in the light , and hateth hi * brother , is in darkness until now . " Suffer nothing to be heard within the sacred walls of this Lodge , but the heavenl y sounds of Truth , Peace , and Concord , with a cheerful harmonv of social and innocent mirth ; and , " be ye
likeminded , having the same love , being of one-accord and of one mind : let nothing be done through strife or vain glory ; but in lowliness of mind , let each- esteem other better than themselves . " Never give cause for it to be said , that we , who are solemnly connected by the strictest laws of amity , should ever omit the . practice of forbearance , and allow our passions to control as , when one great end' proposed Wv our meeting here , is to subdue them . Let us not sit down con-
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A Charge Delivered To The Members Of The Union Lodge,
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION LODGE ,
REGULARLY CONSTITUTED , AXD HELD AT THE UNION PUNCH HOUSE , PRINCES STREET , BRISTOL ^ A . L . $ 767 .
B Y BROTHER ALEXANDER SHEDDENR . "VV . M .
MY WORTHY BRETHREN , ^ TPHIS being our second quarterly meeting , since I had the honour ¦ - " ¦ to sit in this chair , I embrace the opportunity again to return you my sincere thanks for that honour ; and to assure 3 ^ ou 1 am determined , to the utmost of my power , to execute the great trust which you continue to repose in me , with freedom , fervency , and
zeal . That I may be enabled so to do , let us unanimously concur in cultivating peace , harmony , and perfect friendship , striving who shall excel in brotherly love and benignity ; then I doubt not , but with the assistance of my brother officers , I may be enabled to conduct the business of the Lodge , and discharge my duty , to your satisfaction . . To accomplish these desirable ends , let me , in the first place ,
info-eat your strict attention to our bye laws , ever keeping in view thegeneral regulations , constitutions , and orders , of our ancient and honourable Society . Let due regard be paid to your officers in their respective stations , whose duty it is to . regulate the proceedings of the Lodge , and-to carry the laws into execution ; and may the only contention amongst us bea laudable emulation , in cultivating the
,, Royal Art , and endeavouring to excel each other in whatever is good and great . The moral and social duties of life we should make a principal subject of contemplation : for thereby we shall be enabled to subdue our passions , and cultivate fraternal affection , the glory and cement of thisjinstitution ; " .. laying aside all malice , and all guile , and hypocrisiesand enviesand all evil-speakings ; " manifesting our
love-, , one to another : for " love is of God ; and he that loveth God , loveth . his brother also . And he that saith he is in the light , and hateth hi * brother , is in darkness until now . " Suffer nothing to be heard within the sacred walls of this Lodge , but the heavenl y sounds of Truth , Peace , and Concord , with a cheerful harmonv of social and innocent mirth ; and , " be ye
likeminded , having the same love , being of one-accord and of one mind : let nothing be done through strife or vain glory ; but in lowliness of mind , let each- esteem other better than themselves . " Never give cause for it to be said , that we , who are solemnly connected by the strictest laws of amity , should ever omit the . practice of forbearance , and allow our passions to control as , when one great end' proposed Wv our meeting here , is to subdue them . Let us not sit down con-