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India.
tions to secure that peace , happiness and prosperity which now pervade the whole of British India , have been attended by so untoward a result as the serious impairment of your health . AA e trust , however , that the salubrity of our island air , will tend to affect that change so desirable and so essential to the interests of the vast empire , whose destinies you have been called to direct . In offering you a most hearty welcome , suffer us to add our humble meed of praise and admiration of the distinguished services you have
rendered to your country . The announcement of your Lordships appointment to the high post you now fill , was hailed with the utmost enthusiasm by all classes in India , hut by no body of men was it more gratefully or more enthusiastically received than by your Brethren in Masonry . You were looked upon as tbe harbinger of peace and prosperity to a country vast in extent , fertile in soil , and rich beyond almost all other countries in its natural resources . That you have fulfilled the high mission to which were called—that
you you have secured those blessings so earnestly hoped for and so confidently expected from you , we need not aver . These are points which are already recorded in the History of your Country , in whose enduring pages those brilliant achievements which have marked the course of your Administration in India , will be banded down to posterity among the brightest examples of British valour and of British statesmanship . My Lord , permit us to congratulate you on these auspicious events which
have attended your rule , and to offer our best and warmest thanks for your noble exertion in the cause of humanity , in securing by your wise counsels the inestimable blessings of peace and happiness to so large a portion of our fellow-men . AVith much toil , and labour , we have sought to raise up the Temple of Masonry in this isolated spot separated from the rest of the Masonic world , on the very confines of civilization ; and it affords us unspeakable satisfaction to be enabled now to report to your Lordship , as the Grand
Patron of Masonry in India , that our efforts have been eminently successful ; and that the cause is advancing in this distant region with rapid strides . My Lord , we rejoice at its progress , because we feel a conviction of the beneficial influence it exercises over mankind of its tendency to promote moral advancement , and to engender human happiness . In conclusion , my Lord , we beg to offer you our best wishes for your speedy restoration to health . May the Great Giver of all good—the Grand Architect of the Universeprosper all your undertakings for the
, honor of your Country , and the welfare of those committed to your charge . May His all seeing eye watch over you , and guard you and yours from every impending danger—that you may long continue to occupy that high post that you now fill , and to pursue that wise and honourable course you have hitherto adopted , so essentially beneficial to the interests of that vast population over whom you rule . On behalf of the Members of Lodge Zetland in the East No . 748 . M . F . DAVIDSON , Master .
Reply . Worshipful Master and Brethren all , I pray you to believe , that I am grateful for your most kindly welcome , and am deeply sensible of the friendly feeling which has led you to express yourselves towards me , in the terms with which you have honoured me . I congratulate you on the success which has already attended your efforts for the foundation of your Lodge . I rejoice in the encouraging prospect you see before you , and I heartily wish you good speed in the further extension of the principles of tbe Cvai ' t , which in each community in which they are established , tends to deeds of charity , and to a spirit of good fellowship and good will .
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India.
tions to secure that peace , happiness and prosperity which now pervade the whole of British India , have been attended by so untoward a result as the serious impairment of your health . AA e trust , however , that the salubrity of our island air , will tend to affect that change so desirable and so essential to the interests of the vast empire , whose destinies you have been called to direct . In offering you a most hearty welcome , suffer us to add our humble meed of praise and admiration of the distinguished services you have
rendered to your country . The announcement of your Lordships appointment to the high post you now fill , was hailed with the utmost enthusiasm by all classes in India , hut by no body of men was it more gratefully or more enthusiastically received than by your Brethren in Masonry . You were looked upon as tbe harbinger of peace and prosperity to a country vast in extent , fertile in soil , and rich beyond almost all other countries in its natural resources . That you have fulfilled the high mission to which were called—that
you you have secured those blessings so earnestly hoped for and so confidently expected from you , we need not aver . These are points which are already recorded in the History of your Country , in whose enduring pages those brilliant achievements which have marked the course of your Administration in India , will be banded down to posterity among the brightest examples of British valour and of British statesmanship . My Lord , permit us to congratulate you on these auspicious events which
have attended your rule , and to offer our best and warmest thanks for your noble exertion in the cause of humanity , in securing by your wise counsels the inestimable blessings of peace and happiness to so large a portion of our fellow-men . AVith much toil , and labour , we have sought to raise up the Temple of Masonry in this isolated spot separated from the rest of the Masonic world , on the very confines of civilization ; and it affords us unspeakable satisfaction to be enabled now to report to your Lordship , as the Grand
Patron of Masonry in India , that our efforts have been eminently successful ; and that the cause is advancing in this distant region with rapid strides . My Lord , we rejoice at its progress , because we feel a conviction of the beneficial influence it exercises over mankind of its tendency to promote moral advancement , and to engender human happiness . In conclusion , my Lord , we beg to offer you our best wishes for your speedy restoration to health . May the Great Giver of all good—the Grand Architect of the Universeprosper all your undertakings for the
, honor of your Country , and the welfare of those committed to your charge . May His all seeing eye watch over you , and guard you and yours from every impending danger—that you may long continue to occupy that high post that you now fill , and to pursue that wise and honourable course you have hitherto adopted , so essentially beneficial to the interests of that vast population over whom you rule . On behalf of the Members of Lodge Zetland in the East No . 748 . M . F . DAVIDSON , Master .
Reply . Worshipful Master and Brethren all , I pray you to believe , that I am grateful for your most kindly welcome , and am deeply sensible of the friendly feeling which has led you to express yourselves towards me , in the terms with which you have honoured me . I congratulate you on the success which has already attended your efforts for the foundation of your Lodge . I rejoice in the encouraging prospect you see before you , and I heartily wish you good speed in the further extension of the principles of tbe Cvai ' t , which in each community in which they are established , tends to deeds of charity , and to a spirit of good fellowship and good will .