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Provincial.
Bro . J . G . Shaw , P . M . P . G . J . AV ; Bro . D . AV . Nash ; Bro . A . 11 . Palmer , P . M . ; and a numerous assemblage of the Brethren ; every Lodge in the Province being properly represented . After the usual Loyal ancl Masonic toasts hacl been disposed of , — Bro . D . AV . NASH , in proposing the health of the mayor , Bro . John George Shaw , said they were doubly indebted to him for a- gift he had bestowed on the Royal Sussex Lodgea new foundation-stone ; and if they might judge of the
, future by the past , a structure would hereafter be reared on that foundation-stone , alike gratifying to him as the master builder , and honourable to the Sussex Lodge and the Craft in general . He was sure the Brethren would feel that Brother Shaw had also conferred a benefit on the Craft at large , in throwing into the scale , in which Freemasonry is weighed by public opinion , the weight and influence of his public position and civic rank . For while we all acknowledge that no rank that is not Masonic finds place within the walls of a Masonic Lodge , we cannot be blind to the fact that a public example of esteem and regard for the
Order , offered by one upon whom his fellow citizens have conferred the hi ghest civic honour in their power to bestow , cannot but be advantageous to the Craft . Such an example must lead the minds of the uninitiated to the conviction that there is something in the Masonic institution attractive to the good and honourable to the great ; such an example , like the pillar of cloud by day , and the pillar of fire by night , that guided the children of Israel on their journey to the promised land , offers an assurance to those who , actuated by proper motives , desire to participate in our mysteries , that if once permitted to knock at tbe door of a
Mason ' s Lodge , they would pass over its threshold into a region where their expectations would not be disappointed , nor their hopes fail of their fulfilment . It is for this that we have witnessed with so much pleasure the interesting event in the Royal Sussex Lodge : it is for this that we tender our thanks to our P . M . Bro . Shaw , and bail the appearance of the mayor of Bristol in our Lodge and at our Board ; that in his high and honoured position he has offered this public testimony to the value he sets on the Masonic institution , and has shown that the chief magistrate of Bristol has thought the Masonic body an ornament not
unworthy to be appended to the civic chair of office . Rise , then , Brethren , to the health of our Bro . Shaw , to the honour of the mayor of Bristol . Long may he live to enjoy that which he has worthily and honourably won—the esteem of his fellow citizens—the fraternal affection of the Craft . The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm and all the honours .
Bro . SHAW , on rising to return thanks , was received with renewed applause ; when silence was at length obtained , he said , —AV . M ., Officers , and Brethren , such a reception at your hands cannot but be most gratifying to me . I assure you I shall ever remember with deep gratitude the kindness I have experienced from the Brethren of this my mother Lodge . It was your kind feeling towards me that placed me in the honourable position of Master of the Royal Sussex Lodge , and to the extension of that feeling among my fellow citizens , that I am indebted for the office of chief magistrate of the city of Bristol . In alluding to the initiation of his son , he
assured the Brethren he had become a candidate for Masonry without the slightest solicitation from himself , or , he firmly believed , from any one else , but solely from a preconceived good opinion of the Order , and a desire to make himself more extensively useful to bis fellow creatures . His son had joined them in the flower of his youth , and he felt assured that , in his mature manhood and his old age , he Avould ever congratulate himself on being a Freemason , and the Lodge would never have cause to regret his admission amongst them . During the last few years the Royal Sussex Lodge had been joined by many young and enterprising
men ; and he knew that many of them with him did not feel satisfied with what Masonry was doing in Bristol . In tlie duties ofthe Craft they were pre-eminent , their ceremonies obtained high encomiums from the visiting Brethren of the neighbouring Provinces ; lie wished to see that which they studied in the Lodge practised out of tbe Lodge . He should like to see a similar institution in Bristol as he had lately seen in the city of Cork , where the Freemasons had erected and endowed an asylum for their female orphans ; such another , or for aged and
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Provincial.
Bro . J . G . Shaw , P . M . P . G . J . AV ; Bro . D . AV . Nash ; Bro . A . 11 . Palmer , P . M . ; and a numerous assemblage of the Brethren ; every Lodge in the Province being properly represented . After the usual Loyal ancl Masonic toasts hacl been disposed of , — Bro . D . AV . NASH , in proposing the health of the mayor , Bro . John George Shaw , said they were doubly indebted to him for a- gift he had bestowed on the Royal Sussex Lodgea new foundation-stone ; and if they might judge of the
, future by the past , a structure would hereafter be reared on that foundation-stone , alike gratifying to him as the master builder , and honourable to the Sussex Lodge and the Craft in general . He was sure the Brethren would feel that Brother Shaw had also conferred a benefit on the Craft at large , in throwing into the scale , in which Freemasonry is weighed by public opinion , the weight and influence of his public position and civic rank . For while we all acknowledge that no rank that is not Masonic finds place within the walls of a Masonic Lodge , we cannot be blind to the fact that a public example of esteem and regard for the
Order , offered by one upon whom his fellow citizens have conferred the hi ghest civic honour in their power to bestow , cannot but be advantageous to the Craft . Such an example must lead the minds of the uninitiated to the conviction that there is something in the Masonic institution attractive to the good and honourable to the great ; such an example , like the pillar of cloud by day , and the pillar of fire by night , that guided the children of Israel on their journey to the promised land , offers an assurance to those who , actuated by proper motives , desire to participate in our mysteries , that if once permitted to knock at tbe door of a
Mason ' s Lodge , they would pass over its threshold into a region where their expectations would not be disappointed , nor their hopes fail of their fulfilment . It is for this that we have witnessed with so much pleasure the interesting event in the Royal Sussex Lodge : it is for this that we tender our thanks to our P . M . Bro . Shaw , and bail the appearance of the mayor of Bristol in our Lodge and at our Board ; that in his high and honoured position he has offered this public testimony to the value he sets on the Masonic institution , and has shown that the chief magistrate of Bristol has thought the Masonic body an ornament not
unworthy to be appended to the civic chair of office . Rise , then , Brethren , to the health of our Bro . Shaw , to the honour of the mayor of Bristol . Long may he live to enjoy that which he has worthily and honourably won—the esteem of his fellow citizens—the fraternal affection of the Craft . The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm and all the honours .
Bro . SHAW , on rising to return thanks , was received with renewed applause ; when silence was at length obtained , he said , —AV . M ., Officers , and Brethren , such a reception at your hands cannot but be most gratifying to me . I assure you I shall ever remember with deep gratitude the kindness I have experienced from the Brethren of this my mother Lodge . It was your kind feeling towards me that placed me in the honourable position of Master of the Royal Sussex Lodge , and to the extension of that feeling among my fellow citizens , that I am indebted for the office of chief magistrate of the city of Bristol . In alluding to the initiation of his son , he
assured the Brethren he had become a candidate for Masonry without the slightest solicitation from himself , or , he firmly believed , from any one else , but solely from a preconceived good opinion of the Order , and a desire to make himself more extensively useful to bis fellow creatures . His son had joined them in the flower of his youth , and he felt assured that , in his mature manhood and his old age , he Avould ever congratulate himself on being a Freemason , and the Lodge would never have cause to regret his admission amongst them . During the last few years the Royal Sussex Lodge had been joined by many young and enterprising
men ; and he knew that many of them with him did not feel satisfied with what Masonry was doing in Bristol . In tlie duties ofthe Craft they were pre-eminent , their ceremonies obtained high encomiums from the visiting Brethren of the neighbouring Provinces ; lie wished to see that which they studied in the Lodge practised out of tbe Lodge . He should like to see a similar institution in Bristol as he had lately seen in the city of Cork , where the Freemasons had erected and endowed an asylum for their female orphans ; such another , or for aged and