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Provincial.
25 th June last . R . W . Bro . Roden , D . P . G . M ., occupied the chair , and installed Bro . N . W . Hodges , P . G . Secretary , as Master for the ensuing year . A more delightful evening was never spent . BBOMSGROVE . —On Wednesday the Uth of July ; 1849 , the pleasing occurrence took place of the institution of a lodge of the time honoured society of Freemasons in this town . It is now many years since the last Lodge of Masons held here was finally closed , owing to what circumstances we know not , but we are certain that the witnesses of the revival of the Craft here will not speedily forget the day spent by them in assisting at the planting again of its glorious flag of peace in this ancient town .
The ceremonies of consecration and installation were performed by the officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire , presided over by the D . P . G . M . Bro . Roden , M . D ., Mayor of Kidderminster , who discharged his arduous duties in a most engaging and accurate manner . The lodge was held in the Townhall , a circumstance , as it happens , most certainly not to be regretted for a moment in any respect , but which was nevertheless in a considerable degree the result of an extraordinary hallucination ( we may almost ) on the part of an
insay dividual . The promoters of the Clive Lodge , acting in the usual way , wished to attach it to the most respectable inn in the town , and which , as it happened in this case , was exceedingly well adapted for their purpose . The proprietor , however , entertained a most erroneous notion of the society ; it seems to have been regarded by him as little better than an affiliated branch of the terrible Vehme-Gerichte , or ¦ ' tribunal of secret avengers . " He would have nothing to do with secret societies ;
nor would he be reasoned into a belief in the innocence and worth y objects of an institution which numbered among its most active members the father of her gracious Majesty , and has only lately been deprived by death of the careful , zealous , and truly fraternal superintendence of her Majesty ' s beloved uncle , the Duke of Sussex . Shut out from taking their ease in an inn , the brethren found refuge in the Town-hall , the
use of which was most liberally granted to them by the respected trustees , on the solicitation of Bro . Maund , one of their members . The scene presented b y the solemn convocation and religious nature of the rites performed in the hall on this occasion , contrasted curiously in the mind ' s-eye with our remembrance , from repeated experience , of passages of justice between man and man , or between our Sovereign Lady the Queen and divers of her erring lieges , which we had witnessed in
that room . In the one the purest philanthropy breathed in every aspiration ; good will to man and humble faith to God met the ear in every intonation ; while in the other , alas ! hatred and malice toward man , neglect of and irreverence to the Deity , were too frequently the chief characteristics . To us , the contrast of the scene was trul y impressive and grateful . Most of the brethren having arrived soon after two o ' clock , a
selection of officers for the day from different lodges in the province , took place in the adjoining room , when a procession to the lodge room was formed , the visitors being previously seated , and the members of the new lodge silting immediately round the lodge in the centre , which was properly covered . The lodge having been opened in the first degree , the preliminary prayer was offered up by the Chaplain ( Bro . the Rev . X . Pascowitz ) , and an ode , " Hail Universal Lord , " was sung by the brethren . The
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Provincial.
25 th June last . R . W . Bro . Roden , D . P . G . M ., occupied the chair , and installed Bro . N . W . Hodges , P . G . Secretary , as Master for the ensuing year . A more delightful evening was never spent . BBOMSGROVE . —On Wednesday the Uth of July ; 1849 , the pleasing occurrence took place of the institution of a lodge of the time honoured society of Freemasons in this town . It is now many years since the last Lodge of Masons held here was finally closed , owing to what circumstances we know not , but we are certain that the witnesses of the revival of the Craft here will not speedily forget the day spent by them in assisting at the planting again of its glorious flag of peace in this ancient town .
The ceremonies of consecration and installation were performed by the officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire , presided over by the D . P . G . M . Bro . Roden , M . D ., Mayor of Kidderminster , who discharged his arduous duties in a most engaging and accurate manner . The lodge was held in the Townhall , a circumstance , as it happens , most certainly not to be regretted for a moment in any respect , but which was nevertheless in a considerable degree the result of an extraordinary hallucination ( we may almost ) on the part of an
insay dividual . The promoters of the Clive Lodge , acting in the usual way , wished to attach it to the most respectable inn in the town , and which , as it happened in this case , was exceedingly well adapted for their purpose . The proprietor , however , entertained a most erroneous notion of the society ; it seems to have been regarded by him as little better than an affiliated branch of the terrible Vehme-Gerichte , or ¦ ' tribunal of secret avengers . " He would have nothing to do with secret societies ;
nor would he be reasoned into a belief in the innocence and worth y objects of an institution which numbered among its most active members the father of her gracious Majesty , and has only lately been deprived by death of the careful , zealous , and truly fraternal superintendence of her Majesty ' s beloved uncle , the Duke of Sussex . Shut out from taking their ease in an inn , the brethren found refuge in the Town-hall , the
use of which was most liberally granted to them by the respected trustees , on the solicitation of Bro . Maund , one of their members . The scene presented b y the solemn convocation and religious nature of the rites performed in the hall on this occasion , contrasted curiously in the mind ' s-eye with our remembrance , from repeated experience , of passages of justice between man and man , or between our Sovereign Lady the Queen and divers of her erring lieges , which we had witnessed in
that room . In the one the purest philanthropy breathed in every aspiration ; good will to man and humble faith to God met the ear in every intonation ; while in the other , alas ! hatred and malice toward man , neglect of and irreverence to the Deity , were too frequently the chief characteristics . To us , the contrast of the scene was trul y impressive and grateful . Most of the brethren having arrived soon after two o ' clock , a
selection of officers for the day from different lodges in the province , took place in the adjoining room , when a procession to the lodge room was formed , the visitors being previously seated , and the members of the new lodge silting immediately round the lodge in the centre , which was properly covered . The lodge having been opened in the first degree , the preliminary prayer was offered up by the Chaplain ( Bro . the Rev . X . Pascowitz ) , and an ode , " Hail Universal Lord , " was sung by the brethren . The