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Edinburgh.
Ill the evening the representatives and visiting Brethren dined together , to the number of nearly 200 , in the great room of the Waterloo Hotel , Sir John Hay in the chair ; Ronald M'Donald , of Staffa , and Sir Thomas Dick Lander , officiating as croupiers . The splendid regimental band of the Scots Greys , all of them Brethren , enlivened the festivity ivith their performances . After dinner many excellent toasts and
speeches were delivered , among which may be particularized , " The Holy Lodge of St . John ; " " Our Royal Grand Patron , the King ;" " The Queen , the Princess Victoria , and the rest of the Royal Family ;" " The Memory of St . Clair , of Rosslyn , to whom the Grand Lodge of Scotland owes its institution ; " " The Marquis of Douglas , " and " Lord Fincastle ; " all of which were admirably given from the chair .
Brother Alexander M'Neil , R . W . M . of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning , No . 2 , proposed a toast ivhich , he said , he felt assured would meet with heartfelt and unqualified approbation from every Brother , as it was to the health of one then amongst them , who possessed , he might say , an hereditary claim upon their gratitude and affection—one whose excellent and most esteemed father long filled a post of peculiar trust and importance in the Grand Lodge , and who has left the mantle of his purity and worth to descend upon the shoulders of his no less
worthy son ; he meant their present Most Worshipful Chairman and Grand Master Substitute elect , and God grant that he may long hold that honourable station , to discharge its high and responsible duties in the same distinguished manner that he has hitherto done . — " Sir John Hay , our Substitute Grand Master . " The cheering and applause which followed this toast expressively
marked the feelings of the meeting , and Sir John Hay , ivith characteristic modesty and talent , returned thanks for the compliment . He then called for a fraternal bumper to " The health of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the Grand Lodge of England , " which was not the less heartily received from the chairman stating , that he had lately seen , by published records of the Grand Lodge of England ( The
Masonic Quarterly Review '" ' ) , in ivhich it was stated to be the pleasure of His Royal Highness that the Grand Master of Scotland should always be remembered among their principal toasts . " The Duke of Leinster and the Grand Lodge of Ireland" succeeded . The health of " The Reverend Chaplain of the Grand Lodge" was also given , who , in a speech characterised by proud sense ancl good
feeling , and just and enlarged views of the sacred objects of our institution , assured the Brethren that he felt indeed proud to occupy the station once filled by one of the ablest worthies of the church of Scotland—the late Sir Hairy Moncrieff Wellwood .
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Edinburgh.
Ill the evening the representatives and visiting Brethren dined together , to the number of nearly 200 , in the great room of the Waterloo Hotel , Sir John Hay in the chair ; Ronald M'Donald , of Staffa , and Sir Thomas Dick Lander , officiating as croupiers . The splendid regimental band of the Scots Greys , all of them Brethren , enlivened the festivity ivith their performances . After dinner many excellent toasts and
speeches were delivered , among which may be particularized , " The Holy Lodge of St . John ; " " Our Royal Grand Patron , the King ;" " The Queen , the Princess Victoria , and the rest of the Royal Family ;" " The Memory of St . Clair , of Rosslyn , to whom the Grand Lodge of Scotland owes its institution ; " " The Marquis of Douglas , " and " Lord Fincastle ; " all of which were admirably given from the chair .
Brother Alexander M'Neil , R . W . M . of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning , No . 2 , proposed a toast ivhich , he said , he felt assured would meet with heartfelt and unqualified approbation from every Brother , as it was to the health of one then amongst them , who possessed , he might say , an hereditary claim upon their gratitude and affection—one whose excellent and most esteemed father long filled a post of peculiar trust and importance in the Grand Lodge , and who has left the mantle of his purity and worth to descend upon the shoulders of his no less
worthy son ; he meant their present Most Worshipful Chairman and Grand Master Substitute elect , and God grant that he may long hold that honourable station , to discharge its high and responsible duties in the same distinguished manner that he has hitherto done . — " Sir John Hay , our Substitute Grand Master . " The cheering and applause which followed this toast expressively
marked the feelings of the meeting , and Sir John Hay , ivith characteristic modesty and talent , returned thanks for the compliment . He then called for a fraternal bumper to " The health of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the Grand Lodge of England , " which was not the less heartily received from the chairman stating , that he had lately seen , by published records of the Grand Lodge of England ( The
Masonic Quarterly Review '" ' ) , in ivhich it was stated to be the pleasure of His Royal Highness that the Grand Master of Scotland should always be remembered among their principal toasts . " The Duke of Leinster and the Grand Lodge of Ireland" succeeded . The health of " The Reverend Chaplain of the Grand Lodge" was also given , who , in a speech characterised by proud sense ancl good
feeling , and just and enlarged views of the sacred objects of our institution , assured the Brethren that he felt indeed proud to occupy the station once filled by one of the ablest worthies of the church of Scotland—the late Sir Hairy Moncrieff Wellwood .