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PI owe , a Rancliffe , a Yarborcugh , an Elphinstone , a Leicester , and a Ferrers ; -arid , in the popular branch of the legislature , Masonry is represented in the person of a Graham , a Guest , a Williamson , a D Eyncourt , an Anson ; and though last , not least in our love and esteem , our own initiated Brother— ' the Douglas , ' I trust , of many a well-foughten field in the cause of literature and science in times to
come , and whom ill-health alone has kept from our festive board today . " I have on many previous occasions , in the discharge of my official duties , expressed my conviction that the unexamp led success of Freemasonry , both at home and abroad , is to be attributed to the belieffirstly , —That there does exist amongst the Craft such an extent and purity of ' Brotherly Love , ' that nothing can impede its progress , or prevent its continual exercise and
; , secondly— That its professions of hi'rii mental attractions are realized in its proceedings , when the tiled Lod " e is opened in order , conducted in peace , and closed in harmony . " _ "And now , Brethren , in retiring from office , I reiterate my belief that it is the bounden duty of us all , publicly to demonstrate that these impressions are well founded . It behoves us daily to practise brotherl y love ; to contend with no jealous spirit within doors animosity without
, nor . to avoid detraction and calumny ; to use no ill-natured remarks respecting our Brethren , but ever bear in mind that portion of our science , which ' teaches us to bury in oblivion a Brother ' s failings , and to raise his virtues from the tomb ; '—in short , ' to say nothing , rather than defame , ' always having in our remembrance that ' to err is human—to forgive , divine . ' '
' Let , then , our Brother Craftsmen , working in the same sphere of action , and having the same objects to attain—namel y , that of bringing into activity all the better dispositions of our nature , —endeavour to make their respective Lodges as attractive as possible to men of science and education ; and induce their fellow-Christians ' to walk together alon " that vast field of benevolence , which is alike common property to allscattering , as it were , with liberal hand as they go , those seeds which spring and bring forth fruit abundantl
may up y , to the happiness and well-being of the whole family of man . ' Let the Masonic Lodge-room be tne seat of Science—the fountain of Literature . Above all let the Shakspeare Lod ge go foremost in this great and goodly work , as becomes it , bearing as it does , an appellation associated with the imperishable name of that great poetical genius , such as the world only once knew By all those oral mysteries which the learned and t
, upon intelligen Locke thus remarks ,- ' There is nothing more true than what the Masons teach : that the better men are the more they love one another virtue having in itself something so amiable as to charm the hearts of all who behold it ; —by that munificence , which has so long supported our Masonic Asylums for the reception of the hungry , the naked , and the houseless;—by that universality , which has given birth to new Lodges in every region of the habitable lobe- -bthat charitywhich forms the
g , y , superstructure of speculative Masonry , and which , from its immortal character , 'will beam resplendent rays through all Eternity ;'—by that neutrality , which wisel y shuts out from these our happy meetings eve-v political and theological disputation that can exasperate , and divide man from man ;—b y that unsullied loyalty , which has ever made Freemasons the happiest of citizens , and the most devoted of subjects - —by all those solemn observances connected with tin ' s ' hi <> h festival ' at
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Provincial.
PI owe , a Rancliffe , a Yarborcugh , an Elphinstone , a Leicester , and a Ferrers ; -arid , in the popular branch of the legislature , Masonry is represented in the person of a Graham , a Guest , a Williamson , a D Eyncourt , an Anson ; and though last , not least in our love and esteem , our own initiated Brother— ' the Douglas , ' I trust , of many a well-foughten field in the cause of literature and science in times to
come , and whom ill-health alone has kept from our festive board today . " I have on many previous occasions , in the discharge of my official duties , expressed my conviction that the unexamp led success of Freemasonry , both at home and abroad , is to be attributed to the belieffirstly , —That there does exist amongst the Craft such an extent and purity of ' Brotherly Love , ' that nothing can impede its progress , or prevent its continual exercise and
; , secondly— That its professions of hi'rii mental attractions are realized in its proceedings , when the tiled Lod " e is opened in order , conducted in peace , and closed in harmony . " _ "And now , Brethren , in retiring from office , I reiterate my belief that it is the bounden duty of us all , publicly to demonstrate that these impressions are well founded . It behoves us daily to practise brotherl y love ; to contend with no jealous spirit within doors animosity without
, nor . to avoid detraction and calumny ; to use no ill-natured remarks respecting our Brethren , but ever bear in mind that portion of our science , which ' teaches us to bury in oblivion a Brother ' s failings , and to raise his virtues from the tomb ; '—in short , ' to say nothing , rather than defame , ' always having in our remembrance that ' to err is human—to forgive , divine . ' '
' Let , then , our Brother Craftsmen , working in the same sphere of action , and having the same objects to attain—namel y , that of bringing into activity all the better dispositions of our nature , —endeavour to make their respective Lodges as attractive as possible to men of science and education ; and induce their fellow-Christians ' to walk together alon " that vast field of benevolence , which is alike common property to allscattering , as it were , with liberal hand as they go , those seeds which spring and bring forth fruit abundantl
may up y , to the happiness and well-being of the whole family of man . ' Let the Masonic Lodge-room be tne seat of Science—the fountain of Literature . Above all let the Shakspeare Lod ge go foremost in this great and goodly work , as becomes it , bearing as it does , an appellation associated with the imperishable name of that great poetical genius , such as the world only once knew By all those oral mysteries which the learned and t
, upon intelligen Locke thus remarks ,- ' There is nothing more true than what the Masons teach : that the better men are the more they love one another virtue having in itself something so amiable as to charm the hearts of all who behold it ; —by that munificence , which has so long supported our Masonic Asylums for the reception of the hungry , the naked , and the houseless;—by that universality , which has given birth to new Lodges in every region of the habitable lobe- -bthat charitywhich forms the
g , y , superstructure of speculative Masonry , and which , from its immortal character , 'will beam resplendent rays through all Eternity ;'—by that neutrality , which wisel y shuts out from these our happy meetings eve-v political and theological disputation that can exasperate , and divide man from man ;—b y that unsullied loyalty , which has ever made Freemasons the happiest of citizens , and the most devoted of subjects - —by all those solemn observances connected with tin ' s ' hi <> h festival ' at