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good Mason to be a gentleman . Brethren , I have great pleasure in proposing the health of tbe P . Prov . Officers . Bro . C . 0 . BAETLETT ( AVareham ) . —I beg to return my sincere thanks for tbe Avay in which my health has been proposed and responded to . Though I have had many years' experience as a Mason , yet , I am sorry to say , that my numerous avocations have
prevented me from giving that attention to the study of Masonry that it deserves . However , I am happy at all times to do anything in my povrer to promote the good of Masonry , and I beg to return my sincere thanks and to drink your healths . Bro . AVILLETT , Prov . G . M . —Brethren , the next toast I have to propose is the health of the two distinguished Brethren AA'ho have
done me the favour of accepting the office of AVardens . I feel assured that by their exertions the cause of Masonry in this Province will be greatly promoted . Bro . J . B . HAEVEY , Prov . G . S . W . —R . AV . Sir , I rise with great diffidence to return my gratitude and thanks for the honour Avhich you have done rne in appointing me your S . G . AV . Believe meSir
, , it Avill be my constant study to discharge my duties hi a satisfactory manner . I beg to say hoAV much I am indebted to my own Lodge for then' kind consideration of me , and how grateful I am to them for recommending me to your notice .
Bro . R . A . L . PHILLIPS , P . G . J . AV . —R . W . Sir , I regret that I am unexpectedly obliged to return thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health . Iliad hoped that the Prov . S . G . W . would have responded both for himself and for ine ; but as it seems he has left me to answer to the toast , I beg to return my sincere thanks to you for proposing , and to the Brethren for the kind way in which they have received my health . AA'ith regard to the honour which you have this day conferred upon me , I hold it as a pledge for the faithful discharge of my Masonic duties . Although I cannot look back , as one Brother
boasts , on my half-century of Masonry , or even on my Brother Warden ' s twenty years , and can only claim a shorter connection with it , yet I hope to have it granted that I have somewhat exerted myself in the cause . Bro . AVILLKT , P . G . M . —I have great pleasure in proposing the health of the Prov . G . Chaplain . I have never had greater pleasure in proposing a toast . After the very excellent sermon which Bro . Pearce delivered this morning , I trust we may all be benefited by it . Rev . Bro . PEARCE . —In consideration of the long time that I detained you this
morning , I shall not trouble you much now . I beg to thank you for your kind attention to my sermon this morning . I have always felt that I should be unworthy of the office of a Christian minister if I could recognise any Masonry which was unconnected with it . There is no Brother who would more cheerfully defer to the authority ofthe G . L . or of that of this Province than I would ; but if I were told by either that , as a Mason , or as advocating the cause of Masonry , I was to separate Christianity from it , I would publicly lay down my badge . But it is not so , and I will show you how impossible it is that it should be so . I would ask the Grand
Lodge , if Masonry is not Christian , why do they appoint Grand Chaplains ? Why use the volume of the Sacred Law ? Why permit Christian ministers to advocate the cause of Masonry in Christian churches ? I have received much kindness and attention in foreign Lodges of different denominations . I did not feel myself prevented from going there because we did not meet there as Christians ; but here , as a clergyman of the established Church , I could only meet you as a Christian ; and , believe me , I never would meet you but as such , because it would be impossible for me otherwise to maintain my position . I became a Mason upon this understand-
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Provincial.
good Mason to be a gentleman . Brethren , I have great pleasure in proposing the health of tbe P . Prov . Officers . Bro . C . 0 . BAETLETT ( AVareham ) . —I beg to return my sincere thanks for tbe Avay in which my health has been proposed and responded to . Though I have had many years' experience as a Mason , yet , I am sorry to say , that my numerous avocations have
prevented me from giving that attention to the study of Masonry that it deserves . However , I am happy at all times to do anything in my povrer to promote the good of Masonry , and I beg to return my sincere thanks and to drink your healths . Bro . AVILLETT , Prov . G . M . —Brethren , the next toast I have to propose is the health of the two distinguished Brethren AA'ho have
done me the favour of accepting the office of AVardens . I feel assured that by their exertions the cause of Masonry in this Province will be greatly promoted . Bro . J . B . HAEVEY , Prov . G . S . W . —R . AV . Sir , I rise with great diffidence to return my gratitude and thanks for the honour Avhich you have done rne in appointing me your S . G . AV . Believe meSir
, , it Avill be my constant study to discharge my duties hi a satisfactory manner . I beg to say hoAV much I am indebted to my own Lodge for then' kind consideration of me , and how grateful I am to them for recommending me to your notice .
Bro . R . A . L . PHILLIPS , P . G . J . AV . —R . W . Sir , I regret that I am unexpectedly obliged to return thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health . Iliad hoped that the Prov . S . G . W . would have responded both for himself and for ine ; but as it seems he has left me to answer to the toast , I beg to return my sincere thanks to you for proposing , and to the Brethren for the kind way in which they have received my health . AA'ith regard to the honour which you have this day conferred upon me , I hold it as a pledge for the faithful discharge of my Masonic duties . Although I cannot look back , as one Brother
boasts , on my half-century of Masonry , or even on my Brother Warden ' s twenty years , and can only claim a shorter connection with it , yet I hope to have it granted that I have somewhat exerted myself in the cause . Bro . AVILLKT , P . G . M . —I have great pleasure in proposing the health of the Prov . G . Chaplain . I have never had greater pleasure in proposing a toast . After the very excellent sermon which Bro . Pearce delivered this morning , I trust we may all be benefited by it . Rev . Bro . PEARCE . —In consideration of the long time that I detained you this
morning , I shall not trouble you much now . I beg to thank you for your kind attention to my sermon this morning . I have always felt that I should be unworthy of the office of a Christian minister if I could recognise any Masonry which was unconnected with it . There is no Brother who would more cheerfully defer to the authority ofthe G . L . or of that of this Province than I would ; but if I were told by either that , as a Mason , or as advocating the cause of Masonry , I was to separate Christianity from it , I would publicly lay down my badge . But it is not so , and I will show you how impossible it is that it should be so . I would ask the Grand
Lodge , if Masonry is not Christian , why do they appoint Grand Chaplains ? Why use the volume of the Sacred Law ? Why permit Christian ministers to advocate the cause of Masonry in Christian churches ? I have received much kindness and attention in foreign Lodges of different denominations . I did not feel myself prevented from going there because we did not meet there as Christians ; but here , as a clergyman of the established Church , I could only meet you as a Christian ; and , believe me , I never would meet you but as such , because it would be impossible for me otherwise to maintain my position . I became a Mason upon this understand-