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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
of Fullarton , who so ably sustain the credit of the Older in that district and keep up the high character of the mother-lodge Kilwinning . The office-bearers of the Lodge St . Mark will certainly hail with lively satisfaction the opportunity of reciprocating the compliment on the Lodge Kilwinning festival , annually celebrated on the Feast of St . Thomas . It is with much pleasure we have to record that the Lodge St . Mark has been for several years advancingwith steady progressionin
influ-, , ence and usefulness in this quarter , and fully maintaining the prestige of its early reputation . Even iis aged members , the laudatorcs temporis acti , the privileged grumblers of the Craft , redundantly eloquent in their narrations of its ancient triumphs in the days when " George the Third was king , " are compelled to admit that at no former period was its influence greater or more efficiently exercised for the benefit of the Order . Never before did it so rigidly adhere to the letter or more fully develope
the spirit of our catholic association . The ordinary communications of this lodge take place monthly , on the first Monday of the month , from October to April inclusive . A general meeting is held on the festival of St . John the Evangelist , for the election of office-bearers chiefly ; another on that of St . John the Baptist , for the consideration of matters of more than ordinary masonic importance ; while the meeting on St . Mark ' s day is purely festive .
At the ordinary monthly meetings a paper on some scientific , or other interesting and instructive subject , is read by one of the members , and the prelection generally having a masonic bearing , is afterwards discussed or commented on in a friendly and brotherl y spirit . B y this means , much variety and interest are given to these meetings ; a moderate refreshment follows from their own stores ; the judgment is satisfied , the mind cultivated , and the heart improved . The lodge is closed precisely at , or as near as possible to , eleven o ' clock ; and few visiting brethren who have once had the privilege of attending do not regard with satisfaction the prospect of renewing the intercourse and increasing the
acquaintance . Initiations , or advancements , seldom take place on these monthly communications , but only , or at least with rare exception , on special evenings duly announced and set apart for the purpose . The candidate for admission makes application in terms of a printed formula , specifying age , designation , and address . He must be vouched for by two of the members , and generally acceptable to the others . We regret to add that the other lodges of this province are scarcely
in that flourishing and prosperous condition which the friends of our Order could desire . That fine old lodge , the Glasgow Kilwinning , No . 4 , is considerably in the back ground at present . A fatal mistake was committed by it about four years ago , in allowing the opportunity to escape of having at its head Bro . Ramsey , Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow , a gentleman scarcely less universally popular than was his late colleague , Bro . Sir D . K , Sandford , under whom when
W . M . of the same lodge he acted as Senior Warden . Bro . Ramsey , on the occasion referred to , had allowed himself to be put in nomination for the office of Master , at the urgent request of several of the most influential members , who never once doubted that the election would be unanimous and acclamatory in his favour . They were however miserably disappointed . The present Master , an able and experienced Mason indeed , and one who had worked bis way up by efficient servitude through most of lhe subordinate offices , was so injudicious as to permit his own
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
of Fullarton , who so ably sustain the credit of the Older in that district and keep up the high character of the mother-lodge Kilwinning . The office-bearers of the Lodge St . Mark will certainly hail with lively satisfaction the opportunity of reciprocating the compliment on the Lodge Kilwinning festival , annually celebrated on the Feast of St . Thomas . It is with much pleasure we have to record that the Lodge St . Mark has been for several years advancingwith steady progressionin
influ-, , ence and usefulness in this quarter , and fully maintaining the prestige of its early reputation . Even iis aged members , the laudatorcs temporis acti , the privileged grumblers of the Craft , redundantly eloquent in their narrations of its ancient triumphs in the days when " George the Third was king , " are compelled to admit that at no former period was its influence greater or more efficiently exercised for the benefit of the Order . Never before did it so rigidly adhere to the letter or more fully develope
the spirit of our catholic association . The ordinary communications of this lodge take place monthly , on the first Monday of the month , from October to April inclusive . A general meeting is held on the festival of St . John the Evangelist , for the election of office-bearers chiefly ; another on that of St . John the Baptist , for the consideration of matters of more than ordinary masonic importance ; while the meeting on St . Mark ' s day is purely festive .
At the ordinary monthly meetings a paper on some scientific , or other interesting and instructive subject , is read by one of the members , and the prelection generally having a masonic bearing , is afterwards discussed or commented on in a friendly and brotherl y spirit . B y this means , much variety and interest are given to these meetings ; a moderate refreshment follows from their own stores ; the judgment is satisfied , the mind cultivated , and the heart improved . The lodge is closed precisely at , or as near as possible to , eleven o ' clock ; and few visiting brethren who have once had the privilege of attending do not regard with satisfaction the prospect of renewing the intercourse and increasing the
acquaintance . Initiations , or advancements , seldom take place on these monthly communications , but only , or at least with rare exception , on special evenings duly announced and set apart for the purpose . The candidate for admission makes application in terms of a printed formula , specifying age , designation , and address . He must be vouched for by two of the members , and generally acceptable to the others . We regret to add that the other lodges of this province are scarcely
in that flourishing and prosperous condition which the friends of our Order could desire . That fine old lodge , the Glasgow Kilwinning , No . 4 , is considerably in the back ground at present . A fatal mistake was committed by it about four years ago , in allowing the opportunity to escape of having at its head Bro . Ramsey , Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow , a gentleman scarcely less universally popular than was his late colleague , Bro . Sir D . K , Sandford , under whom when
W . M . of the same lodge he acted as Senior Warden . Bro . Ramsey , on the occasion referred to , had allowed himself to be put in nomination for the office of Master , at the urgent request of several of the most influential members , who never once doubted that the election would be unanimous and acclamatory in his favour . They were however miserably disappointed . The present Master , an able and experienced Mason indeed , and one who had worked bis way up by efficient servitude through most of lhe subordinate offices , was so injudicious as to permit his own