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To The Editor.
of Ventnor , where a few years ago there were not more than half a dozen houses . Such are the gratifying prospects of the Craft in this locality , and who is there who knows anything of the Order , and who is a weltwisher of the good order of society and the well-being of his fellow-man , but must rejoice at this growing influence of Freemasonry . Some few years ago Masonry was at a very low ebb here , particularly in the town of Newportwhere the few brethren then constituting the
, Albany Lodge had several times met to take into consideration the necessity of giving up the charter and disposing of the furniture , & c . of the lodge ; such was strenuously and successfully opposed by a few of the brethren in the humblest ranks of life ; still did they beg for time , as they felt assured a change would take place in favour of the good old cause ; their hopes and expectations have been realized , and three of those worthy brothers still survive to see the good that has arisen from
their steady attachment to their lodge , which is now in as flourishing a state as any provincial lodge in England . On looking over one of the numbers of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review" for 1843 , I chanced upon a paragraph in which the Editor congratulates the fraternity at the reviving prospects of Freemasonry in the Albany Lodge , Isle of Wight , there having been THREE initiations during the past year . Yousirmay now extend congratulations
, , your still further , for the prospects of that lodge have so far improved under the guidance of its present Worshipful AIaster , who is a young Mason , although an old man , but one of the most zealous I ever met with , as to have TExV initiations during the ten months he has so ably filled the chair , and will no doubt complete the dozen before his year of office
expires . I am an old Mason , and have visited many lodges , but in none have I ever witnessed the ceremonies more fully and correctly performed , and the whole work of the lodge better conducted . It is rather a singular coincidence of a father and son being Masters of lodges at the same time , but such is the case , a son of our worthy Worshipful Master being at present Worshipful Master of St . Andrew ' s in the East Lodge , at Poona in Bombay . In the erection of the Freemasons' Hall in Newportthe brethren of
, the Albany Lodge , by whom it has been built , have evinced their attachment to the Craft , by having had a clause inserted in the deeds of the property , which for ever prevents the building being appropriated to any other purpose than that of Masonry . It being so settled , that in the event of the fraternity becoming so few in Newport as not to be able to support the establishment , the building then becomes the property , in trustof the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Englandfor masonic
, , purposes , until the brethren of Newport be again able to require it > as a lodge-room . The ceremony of the dedication of this hall , according to ancient form , to the purposes of Freemasonry , took place on the 5 th of October , 1848 , in the presence of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master for the Isle of Wight , Bro . J . Simeon , and a numerous assemblage of the brethren . The lodge-room has been decorated and furnished in the
most appropriate manner , and no expense or trouble was spared ( without any outward parade ) to give clue eclat to the ceremony . The lodge was opened in due form in the old lodge-room , in the three degrees , and then adjourned to the new masonic hall ; the charter being carried from the one to the other by a brother who has been forty-six years a member of the lodge . The Worshipful Aiaster , officers , and brethren VOL . VI . 3 II
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To The Editor.
of Ventnor , where a few years ago there were not more than half a dozen houses . Such are the gratifying prospects of the Craft in this locality , and who is there who knows anything of the Order , and who is a weltwisher of the good order of society and the well-being of his fellow-man , but must rejoice at this growing influence of Freemasonry . Some few years ago Masonry was at a very low ebb here , particularly in the town of Newportwhere the few brethren then constituting the
, Albany Lodge had several times met to take into consideration the necessity of giving up the charter and disposing of the furniture , & c . of the lodge ; such was strenuously and successfully opposed by a few of the brethren in the humblest ranks of life ; still did they beg for time , as they felt assured a change would take place in favour of the good old cause ; their hopes and expectations have been realized , and three of those worthy brothers still survive to see the good that has arisen from
their steady attachment to their lodge , which is now in as flourishing a state as any provincial lodge in England . On looking over one of the numbers of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review" for 1843 , I chanced upon a paragraph in which the Editor congratulates the fraternity at the reviving prospects of Freemasonry in the Albany Lodge , Isle of Wight , there having been THREE initiations during the past year . Yousirmay now extend congratulations
, , your still further , for the prospects of that lodge have so far improved under the guidance of its present Worshipful AIaster , who is a young Mason , although an old man , but one of the most zealous I ever met with , as to have TExV initiations during the ten months he has so ably filled the chair , and will no doubt complete the dozen before his year of office
expires . I am an old Mason , and have visited many lodges , but in none have I ever witnessed the ceremonies more fully and correctly performed , and the whole work of the lodge better conducted . It is rather a singular coincidence of a father and son being Masters of lodges at the same time , but such is the case , a son of our worthy Worshipful Master being at present Worshipful Master of St . Andrew ' s in the East Lodge , at Poona in Bombay . In the erection of the Freemasons' Hall in Newportthe brethren of
, the Albany Lodge , by whom it has been built , have evinced their attachment to the Craft , by having had a clause inserted in the deeds of the property , which for ever prevents the building being appropriated to any other purpose than that of Masonry . It being so settled , that in the event of the fraternity becoming so few in Newport as not to be able to support the establishment , the building then becomes the property , in trustof the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Englandfor masonic
, , purposes , until the brethren of Newport be again able to require it > as a lodge-room . The ceremony of the dedication of this hall , according to ancient form , to the purposes of Freemasonry , took place on the 5 th of October , 1848 , in the presence of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master for the Isle of Wight , Bro . J . Simeon , and a numerous assemblage of the brethren . The lodge-room has been decorated and furnished in the
most appropriate manner , and no expense or trouble was spared ( without any outward parade ) to give clue eclat to the ceremony . The lodge was opened in due form in the old lodge-room , in the three degrees , and then adjourned to the new masonic hall ; the charter being carried from the one to the other by a brother who has been forty-six years a member of the lodge . The Worshipful Aiaster , officers , and brethren VOL . VI . 3 II