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Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
DORSET . —POOLE . —On Thursday , August 23 rd , the Brethren of the province of Dorset , under the presidency of the R . W . Prov . G . M ., W . Tucker , Esq ., of Coryton Park , held in this town their annual meeting . The Brethren assembled to the number of nearly ninety , at the Townhall , where the Lodge was close tiled at 10 o ' clock , and at about a quarter before eleven they walked from thence to Churchin procession
, . Arrived at the church , prayers were impressively read by Bro . the Rev . J . C . Parr . The sermon was preached by Bro . the Rev . B . Maturin , curate of Ringwood , taking as his text , the Psalm 133 . The service being over , the Brethren again assembled in Lodge , when the Prov . G . M . appointed his officers for the ensuing year . In the course of the proceedings the R . W . P . G . M . delivered to the assembled Brethren the following
Charge . " My Brethren , —The time has again arrived , when it becomes my pleasin " duty to address you as your P . G . II ., and in so doing , I am sure , I cannot gratify , both yourselves , and myself , more than hy congratulating you all on the present flourishing condition and state of our Order ; flourishing I say in spite of all the various unfair and unhandsome attacks which have heen made , and are from time to time making against us ; still truth is truth , and it ever has , and will truth
ever prevail . On , immutable and sure , is our Order based : our great light is the Volume of the Sacred Law , and such being our foundation need we , I ask , ever fear any silly scribbler , or other enemy , who may choose to level his envenomed , but powerless shafts at us . Thus has the author of a work , published in the spring of 1849 , and entitled a "Letter on the Antichristian character of Preemasonry , " signally failed ; he has signed himself a vohmtary " seceder from the Order , " and were this all it were well , but his hook shows that he has "basely violated his vow , " and that he even glories in his shame .
Still , out of attempted evil springs good ; his recent and renewed attacks on us , in the spring of this year , on the occasion of the death of our lamented Brother Dr . Carwithcn , have called forth replies , which have shewn out our Order in the fall lustre of its purity and beauty , such as have induced many to seek a knowledge of us , and subsequently to join us , who previously never had their attention directed towards us . I will here recommend you all to read the article on this matter , published in the last number of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Eeview ; " it is ably writtenand I think will have the effect of silenciti "
, and quieting the seceder , whose great object seems to have been to make himself notorious , at the expense both of honour and principle . One event of the greatest import and in which every Brother must congratulate himself , has been achieved this year ; and that event is the union of our charities ; the Asylum for the reception of aged and decayed Freemasons , and the fund for the relief of our departed brothers' distressed widows , have been amalgamated with the other charities of our Order , and from henceforth there will be but one feeling , and but one interest prevailing throughout the whole that of an ardent desire to relieve
; distress , wherever found , on the purest principles of true Masonic brotherly love . We are now all unanimous , party feeling has no footing amongst us , each Brother receives his Brother as a Brother , and the principles of brotherly love , relief , and truth , will be henceforth exemplified even in more bright and resplendent colours VOL . r . 3 D
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Provincial.
PROVINCIAL .
DORSET . —POOLE . —On Thursday , August 23 rd , the Brethren of the province of Dorset , under the presidency of the R . W . Prov . G . M ., W . Tucker , Esq ., of Coryton Park , held in this town their annual meeting . The Brethren assembled to the number of nearly ninety , at the Townhall , where the Lodge was close tiled at 10 o ' clock , and at about a quarter before eleven they walked from thence to Churchin procession
, . Arrived at the church , prayers were impressively read by Bro . the Rev . J . C . Parr . The sermon was preached by Bro . the Rev . B . Maturin , curate of Ringwood , taking as his text , the Psalm 133 . The service being over , the Brethren again assembled in Lodge , when the Prov . G . M . appointed his officers for the ensuing year . In the course of the proceedings the R . W . P . G . M . delivered to the assembled Brethren the following
Charge . " My Brethren , —The time has again arrived , when it becomes my pleasin " duty to address you as your P . G . II ., and in so doing , I am sure , I cannot gratify , both yourselves , and myself , more than hy congratulating you all on the present flourishing condition and state of our Order ; flourishing I say in spite of all the various unfair and unhandsome attacks which have heen made , and are from time to time making against us ; still truth is truth , and it ever has , and will truth
ever prevail . On , immutable and sure , is our Order based : our great light is the Volume of the Sacred Law , and such being our foundation need we , I ask , ever fear any silly scribbler , or other enemy , who may choose to level his envenomed , but powerless shafts at us . Thus has the author of a work , published in the spring of 1849 , and entitled a "Letter on the Antichristian character of Preemasonry , " signally failed ; he has signed himself a vohmtary " seceder from the Order , " and were this all it were well , but his hook shows that he has "basely violated his vow , " and that he even glories in his shame .
Still , out of attempted evil springs good ; his recent and renewed attacks on us , in the spring of this year , on the occasion of the death of our lamented Brother Dr . Carwithcn , have called forth replies , which have shewn out our Order in the fall lustre of its purity and beauty , such as have induced many to seek a knowledge of us , and subsequently to join us , who previously never had their attention directed towards us . I will here recommend you all to read the article on this matter , published in the last number of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Eeview ; " it is ably writtenand I think will have the effect of silenciti "
, and quieting the seceder , whose great object seems to have been to make himself notorious , at the expense both of honour and principle . One event of the greatest import and in which every Brother must congratulate himself , has been achieved this year ; and that event is the union of our charities ; the Asylum for the reception of aged and decayed Freemasons , and the fund for the relief of our departed brothers' distressed widows , have been amalgamated with the other charities of our Order , and from henceforth there will be but one feeling , and but one interest prevailing throughout the whole that of an ardent desire to relieve
; distress , wherever found , on the purest principles of true Masonic brotherly love . We are now all unanimous , party feeling has no footing amongst us , each Brother receives his Brother as a Brother , and the principles of brotherly love , relief , and truth , will be henceforth exemplified even in more bright and resplendent colours VOL . r . 3 D