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Provincial.
hand of a kind Providence , the coming five years would pass over as satisfactoril y for the Province , with as much harmony and good feeling , as had the past . For this end no effort should be wanting on his part , and he would continue to carry out , to the utmost of his power , such measures as he considered ivould be most conducive to the interests of Alasonry . He believed that his ideas on this subject were in accordance with those of a majority of members of the Craftbut it was not to be
, expected that every individual would agree with all he did . Bro . AIAUNDERS ( P . G . J . W . and AV . M . of All Souls Lodge ) , in proposing the health of the Prov . Chaplain , the Rev . J . C . Parr , said that , the Biethren , ivho had attended the sacred services at the church in the morning could but feel the most sincere respect for the remarks which fell from him in the pulpit . His sermon was of a truly Alasonic characterand must have come home to the heart of every Alason
, present . The Rev . J . C . PARR , after thanking the Brethren for the compliment they had paid him , said that for many years past he had retired , he might say , from public life altogether , although it hacl been his honour and privilege in his younger days to have been an active Alason . As long as twenty-one years since he accepted the reading-desk in AVeymouth Churchat a Provincial Masonic meetingonly two years after
, , he hacl entered into holy orders . He had then every inducement to court publicity , but with him a domestic life always had peculiar charms , and he retired into privacy . Had it not been for his early recollections , and the manner in which he had been brought up by a kind parent , who was for very many years a most zealous and consistent Alason , who was
well-known to many present , he should have been unable to perforin the duties of this meeting . He came , feeling , that if it were permitted for those above to look down upon this world , and know what was here transpiring , his departed father ivould rejoice that he had attended this meeting . Bro . Parr added that his feelings would not have permitted him on that day to join in any conviviality , save that of a body of Freemasons , as , he said , he considered that as Alasons they were assembled to carry out the princiles of reliion ancl brotherlaffection . To attend
p g y in the performance of his duties that day he had left behind him a brother on the bed of sickness , and he felt that in attending the meeting he should have the prayers of every Mason present for his eternal welfare . In joining the party , he only did that which , were his brother able to express the wish , he would have heen most anxious for him to do , and were it in the power of his departed parent to speak here on earth , he would say , " you are doing well . " Had not such feelings supported
him , he should have been unable to have gone through the duties of the day , ancl he thanked God that he had been so supported . Had it pleased God that his brother should have been in health , he would have been present on this occasion , and accompanied by one of his sons , recently admitted to the privileges of the Craft , ( ancl a second he hoped would one day tread in the steps of his honoured grandfather . ) Bro . Parr having expressed a hope that every succeeding generation of his famil
y would successivel y be united as Masons with the Province of Dorset , begged the Brethren to accept his thanks for the toast , and added that though the services he had performed were but humble , they were wellintended and earnest . The P . G . Al . next proposed the health of the Officers of the Provincial Lodge , passed a compliment to them for their zeal in Alasonry , and
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Provincial.
hand of a kind Providence , the coming five years would pass over as satisfactoril y for the Province , with as much harmony and good feeling , as had the past . For this end no effort should be wanting on his part , and he would continue to carry out , to the utmost of his power , such measures as he considered ivould be most conducive to the interests of Alasonry . He believed that his ideas on this subject were in accordance with those of a majority of members of the Craftbut it was not to be
, expected that every individual would agree with all he did . Bro . AIAUNDERS ( P . G . J . W . and AV . M . of All Souls Lodge ) , in proposing the health of the Prov . Chaplain , the Rev . J . C . Parr , said that , the Biethren , ivho had attended the sacred services at the church in the morning could but feel the most sincere respect for the remarks which fell from him in the pulpit . His sermon was of a truly Alasonic characterand must have come home to the heart of every Alason
, present . The Rev . J . C . PARR , after thanking the Brethren for the compliment they had paid him , said that for many years past he had retired , he might say , from public life altogether , although it hacl been his honour and privilege in his younger days to have been an active Alason . As long as twenty-one years since he accepted the reading-desk in AVeymouth Churchat a Provincial Masonic meetingonly two years after
, , he hacl entered into holy orders . He had then every inducement to court publicity , but with him a domestic life always had peculiar charms , and he retired into privacy . Had it not been for his early recollections , and the manner in which he had been brought up by a kind parent , who was for very many years a most zealous and consistent Alason , who was
well-known to many present , he should have been unable to perforin the duties of this meeting . He came , feeling , that if it were permitted for those above to look down upon this world , and know what was here transpiring , his departed father ivould rejoice that he had attended this meeting . Bro . Parr added that his feelings would not have permitted him on that day to join in any conviviality , save that of a body of Freemasons , as , he said , he considered that as Alasons they were assembled to carry out the princiles of reliion ancl brotherlaffection . To attend
p g y in the performance of his duties that day he had left behind him a brother on the bed of sickness , and he felt that in attending the meeting he should have the prayers of every Mason present for his eternal welfare . In joining the party , he only did that which , were his brother able to express the wish , he would have heen most anxious for him to do , and were it in the power of his departed parent to speak here on earth , he would say , " you are doing well . " Had not such feelings supported
him , he should have been unable to have gone through the duties of the day , ancl he thanked God that he had been so supported . Had it pleased God that his brother should have been in health , he would have been present on this occasion , and accompanied by one of his sons , recently admitted to the privileges of the Craft , ( ancl a second he hoped would one day tread in the steps of his honoured grandfather . ) Bro . Parr having expressed a hope that every succeeding generation of his famil
y would successivel y be united as Masons with the Province of Dorset , begged the Brethren to accept his thanks for the toast , and added that though the services he had performed were but humble , they were wellintended and earnest . The P . G . Al . next proposed the health of the Officers of the Provincial Lodge , passed a compliment to them for their zeal in Alasonry , and