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Provincial.
give you most heartily , " The health and happiness of the Mayor of Bath . "—( Drunk with three times- three , instead of the honours of the Craft . ) Glee— " Life ' s a Bumper . " The Chairman . —The next toast to which I would call your attention is one of the most grateful character . It is the health of a body of gentlemen who are too often left unnoticed till a late period in the
evening—a bod y who have done their duty most sedulously and laboriously , to whom I feel under great obligations , and who have made the proceedings of this day comparatively easy to me—I mean our Brother Stewards . —( Loud cheers . ) I must say that the kindness and courtesy I have met with from them , as a private gentleman , in my more immediate communications with them , as well as the arrangements which they have made here and elsewhere for our business and
enjoyment , have far exceeded any thing I have before seen at any Provincial Meeting , and that never have I seen a Provincial Lodge more respectably conducted . — " Our Brother Stewards . " —( Loud cheers and the fullest honours . ) Brother Westall . —In the name of my Brother Stewards and my own , R . W . sir , I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon us by this toast . It is indeed an honour to be noticed bso distingMshed a
y Mason as yourself , but that honour is enhanced by the manner in which the toast has been responded to by so respectable a meeting of the Brotherhood . I wish I could express to you what we feel on this occasion ; but there are instances , and this is one , in which the head is not capable of doing justice to the feelings of the heart . We certainly
took some pains to discharge our duties to the best of our judgments , and we are indeed highly pleased and most amply repaid for our labours by the compliment which has just been passed upon us . I will not sit down without apologising for some little deficiencies which we could not possibly avert or supply . The meeting has been larger , considerably larger , than we anticipated , and the result has been some inconvenience to the Brethren , arising from inattention to their wants ;
but I can assure them , the omissions , whatever they were or are , have not been intentional , but have arisen wholly from the unexpected cause to which I have before alluded . —( Loud cheers and a return fire . ) The Chairman now proposed the health of the P . D . P . G . M . Brother Sulley , with a Mgh compliment to him as a man and a Mason . —( Drunk with the full honours . ) Brother Sully rose , and , after thanking the Brethren for the very
handsome manner in wMch they had received the proposal of his health , said that for half a century he had been in the midst of the bricks and mortar of Masonry ; that , when he first knew the Craft , the edifice was unroofed and in ruins—not a beam sound in the building ; that he did his best tcf ; repair and embellish it ; that if , in his arduous undertaking , he could not command success , he had done his best to deserve itand he had lived to see it restored to strength and beauty
, , and now he should continue a Freemason to the end of the chapter . — ( Cheers . ) The Chairman . —Brethren , I must now call your attention to the Provincial Grand Officers , to whom I tender my best thanks for the confidence and support which I have received from them on tMs and all other occasions . —( Loud cheers and the fullest honours . ) Brother Major Grafton , S . W . of the Lodge of Honour . —R . W . Sir , I
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Provincial.
give you most heartily , " The health and happiness of the Mayor of Bath . "—( Drunk with three times- three , instead of the honours of the Craft . ) Glee— " Life ' s a Bumper . " The Chairman . —The next toast to which I would call your attention is one of the most grateful character . It is the health of a body of gentlemen who are too often left unnoticed till a late period in the
evening—a bod y who have done their duty most sedulously and laboriously , to whom I feel under great obligations , and who have made the proceedings of this day comparatively easy to me—I mean our Brother Stewards . —( Loud cheers . ) I must say that the kindness and courtesy I have met with from them , as a private gentleman , in my more immediate communications with them , as well as the arrangements which they have made here and elsewhere for our business and
enjoyment , have far exceeded any thing I have before seen at any Provincial Meeting , and that never have I seen a Provincial Lodge more respectably conducted . — " Our Brother Stewards . " —( Loud cheers and the fullest honours . ) Brother Westall . —In the name of my Brother Stewards and my own , R . W . sir , I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon us by this toast . It is indeed an honour to be noticed bso distingMshed a
y Mason as yourself , but that honour is enhanced by the manner in which the toast has been responded to by so respectable a meeting of the Brotherhood . I wish I could express to you what we feel on this occasion ; but there are instances , and this is one , in which the head is not capable of doing justice to the feelings of the heart . We certainly
took some pains to discharge our duties to the best of our judgments , and we are indeed highly pleased and most amply repaid for our labours by the compliment which has just been passed upon us . I will not sit down without apologising for some little deficiencies which we could not possibly avert or supply . The meeting has been larger , considerably larger , than we anticipated , and the result has been some inconvenience to the Brethren , arising from inattention to their wants ;
but I can assure them , the omissions , whatever they were or are , have not been intentional , but have arisen wholly from the unexpected cause to which I have before alluded . —( Loud cheers and a return fire . ) The Chairman now proposed the health of the P . D . P . G . M . Brother Sulley , with a Mgh compliment to him as a man and a Mason . —( Drunk with the full honours . ) Brother Sully rose , and , after thanking the Brethren for the very
handsome manner in wMch they had received the proposal of his health , said that for half a century he had been in the midst of the bricks and mortar of Masonry ; that , when he first knew the Craft , the edifice was unroofed and in ruins—not a beam sound in the building ; that he did his best tcf ; repair and embellish it ; that if , in his arduous undertaking , he could not command success , he had done his best to deserve itand he had lived to see it restored to strength and beauty
, , and now he should continue a Freemason to the end of the chapter . — ( Cheers . ) The Chairman . —Brethren , I must now call your attention to the Provincial Grand Officers , to whom I tender my best thanks for the confidence and support which I have received from them on tMs and all other occasions . —( Loud cheers and the fullest honours . ) Brother Major Grafton , S . W . of the Lodge of Honour . —R . W . Sir , I