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Masonic God Save The King.
MASONIC FESTIVAL . —The celebration of St . John ' s day by the Brethren of our Kilkenny Masonic Lodge , 642 , on the 27 th December , was observed with all accustomed forms , and the mystic ceremonial of installing the AVorshi pful Master and other officers elect , was conducted with due solemnity . AA e shall not here be thought to speak too strongly of the influences of Freemasonry , in the moral
government of society , when it is considered how powerful an agent it has ever been , within its sphere of action , in the support ancl propagation of those great religious principles on ivhich it has been constructed . In an ancient " Charge" which we had annexed to the published Bylaws of this respectable Lodge , the spirit and design of Masonry are so well defined , and its leading duties so very forcibly inculcated , that we shall on an early occasion be happy to give the document additional
circulation through our columns . At half past six o ' clock about thirty of the Brethren assembled at the social board . The very judicious arrangements of the evening greatly conduced to the comfort , order , and good fellowship of as joyous an assemblage as ever met on any similar festivity . The usual series of Masonic toasts were given with "all the honors , " prefaced in each case with a suitable introduction , by the AV . Master , towards whom the kindest regards of the Lodge were repeatedly
manifested during the night . Three of the noble House of Mountgarrett are members of Lodge 642 . One of them , T . Butler , Esq . was present . Some capital songs were sung in the course of the evening , and the happy party broke up at twelve o ' clock . To the excessive severity of the weather , we learn , is to be attributed the absence of several members of the Lodge anxious to have availed
themselves of the festivities of the evening . By the kindness of some of the Brethren we were enabled to view the Lodge Rooms before dinner , which were brilliantly lighted up . The dinner room was very appropriately decorated with banners of the several Orders of Masonry , suitabl y inscribed , which produced a striking effect . It is with infinite satisfaction that we are enabled to announce on the best authority , the still increasing prosperity of this ancient Lodge , ivhich
occupies so very high a place amongst the provincial institutions of the Order in Ireland . —Abridged from " the Kilkenny Moderator . " . The Brethren have taken a hall for themselves that they may work with the strictest discipline . GALWAY . —Lodge 9 . — " Three years since we could hardly make a Lodge , and now we muster nearly all the rank and respectability of this populous town . AVe have memorialised the Grand Lodge ( sixty-one of us ) requesting to he constituted into a Provincial Grand Lodge . "
CORK . NO . 1— " Two years from the time 1 write , scarcely twelve of us met , we now are sixty strong , and have also opened a Royal Arch Chapter . We intend also to apply for a warrant to open a Knight Templar Encampment . The Review " has greatly contributed to awaken us from our slumber . "
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Masonic God Save The King.
MASONIC FESTIVAL . —The celebration of St . John ' s day by the Brethren of our Kilkenny Masonic Lodge , 642 , on the 27 th December , was observed with all accustomed forms , and the mystic ceremonial of installing the AVorshi pful Master and other officers elect , was conducted with due solemnity . AA e shall not here be thought to speak too strongly of the influences of Freemasonry , in the moral
government of society , when it is considered how powerful an agent it has ever been , within its sphere of action , in the support ancl propagation of those great religious principles on ivhich it has been constructed . In an ancient " Charge" which we had annexed to the published Bylaws of this respectable Lodge , the spirit and design of Masonry are so well defined , and its leading duties so very forcibly inculcated , that we shall on an early occasion be happy to give the document additional
circulation through our columns . At half past six o ' clock about thirty of the Brethren assembled at the social board . The very judicious arrangements of the evening greatly conduced to the comfort , order , and good fellowship of as joyous an assemblage as ever met on any similar festivity . The usual series of Masonic toasts were given with "all the honors , " prefaced in each case with a suitable introduction , by the AV . Master , towards whom the kindest regards of the Lodge were repeatedly
manifested during the night . Three of the noble House of Mountgarrett are members of Lodge 642 . One of them , T . Butler , Esq . was present . Some capital songs were sung in the course of the evening , and the happy party broke up at twelve o ' clock . To the excessive severity of the weather , we learn , is to be attributed the absence of several members of the Lodge anxious to have availed
themselves of the festivities of the evening . By the kindness of some of the Brethren we were enabled to view the Lodge Rooms before dinner , which were brilliantly lighted up . The dinner room was very appropriately decorated with banners of the several Orders of Masonry , suitabl y inscribed , which produced a striking effect . It is with infinite satisfaction that we are enabled to announce on the best authority , the still increasing prosperity of this ancient Lodge , ivhich
occupies so very high a place amongst the provincial institutions of the Order in Ireland . —Abridged from " the Kilkenny Moderator . " . The Brethren have taken a hall for themselves that they may work with the strictest discipline . GALWAY . —Lodge 9 . — " Three years since we could hardly make a Lodge , and now we muster nearly all the rank and respectability of this populous town . AVe have memorialised the Grand Lodge ( sixty-one of us ) requesting to he constituted into a Provincial Grand Lodge . "
CORK . NO . 1— " Two years from the time 1 write , scarcely twelve of us met , we now are sixty strong , and have also opened a Royal Arch Chapter . We intend also to apply for a warrant to open a Knight Templar Encampment . The Review " has greatly contributed to awaken us from our slumber . "