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The Reporter.
LODGE OP AMITY , No . 200 , July 17 , 1838 , met , for the first time , at the Crown and Sceptre , Greenwich , on its removal from the George and Vulture , Cornhill , Brother Leeson , A . M . W . M ., in the Chair , and ably supported by Brother George K . Pollock , his Junior Warden , and several influential Members . We understand that the Lodge will meet at Greenwich in the summer months . It was gratifying to observe Bro . David Pollock , the Grand Registrar , assisting his son in performing his duties .
CIIAPER OF FIDELITY , No . 3 , October 19 , Bro . Alexander Grant was exalted . At the Banquet , and after the usual ceremonials , the First Principal said , it always afforded him great pleasure to drink the health of a newly exalted Companion , but on the present occasion , there was amongst them one from a distant clime , Companion Grant , who , he was sure , from what he had seen of him that night , had studied Masonry much , and had the interest and welfare of the Craft at heart . He
trusted that on his return to India lie would make good report , so as to spread the blessing of Arch Masonry far and wide . The toast was drunk with the greatest cordiality . Brother Grant , in reply , said that he rose under considerable embarrassment from being personally unknown to every one present , and certainly an alien to the beautiful portion of Masonry in which he had that niht been permitted to participatebut knowing the system was
g ; based upon the level , he addressed them with that confidence which , while it dissipated his diffidence , it enhanced his respect . For him to attempt to describe the feelings that possessed him , would be as futile as to " gild refined gold , or paint the lily ; " but a light had shone on him which death alone could extinguish , and , he trusted , not even then , for to eternity did he look for a perfect developement of the beautiful system of Freemasonry . As it is the aim and desire of all societies to obtain
and deserve the good opinions of their fellow men , it would be superfluous to say , that with him , the welfare of this Chapter would be a paramount feeling , engendered from the urbanity and attention shown him by its Members ; and although himself an humble individual , he knew the sentiment would be valued ; and the fact of his having been exalted in a Chapter so pre-eminent as that of No . 3 , would , when perhaps at a distance of nearly half the globe , prove a source of proud
and pleasing graduation . He regretted , he said , exceedingly , his brief sojourn in England prevented his becoming a Member of the Chapter . He would not longer trespass on their time , but begged them to accept his sincere and grateful acknowledgements for the kind and fraternal manner in which he had been noticed , and he trusted that Chapter Fidelity would never suffer diminution from its present excellence , but be handed down to posterity with increased splendour , so that the memory of its present Members might be cherished and livein undying youth , when their mortal remains should long have been mouldering in the oblivion of the grave .
PRINCE OP WALES' CHAPTER —Report deferred . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . MASTER MASONS , ( 318 ) October 5 . —The anniversary of this Lodge of Instruction was , as usual , observed , with even more than its usual eclat , occasioned by the attendance of Bro . Peter Thompson
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The Reporter.
LODGE OP AMITY , No . 200 , July 17 , 1838 , met , for the first time , at the Crown and Sceptre , Greenwich , on its removal from the George and Vulture , Cornhill , Brother Leeson , A . M . W . M ., in the Chair , and ably supported by Brother George K . Pollock , his Junior Warden , and several influential Members . We understand that the Lodge will meet at Greenwich in the summer months . It was gratifying to observe Bro . David Pollock , the Grand Registrar , assisting his son in performing his duties .
CIIAPER OF FIDELITY , No . 3 , October 19 , Bro . Alexander Grant was exalted . At the Banquet , and after the usual ceremonials , the First Principal said , it always afforded him great pleasure to drink the health of a newly exalted Companion , but on the present occasion , there was amongst them one from a distant clime , Companion Grant , who , he was sure , from what he had seen of him that night , had studied Masonry much , and had the interest and welfare of the Craft at heart . He
trusted that on his return to India lie would make good report , so as to spread the blessing of Arch Masonry far and wide . The toast was drunk with the greatest cordiality . Brother Grant , in reply , said that he rose under considerable embarrassment from being personally unknown to every one present , and certainly an alien to the beautiful portion of Masonry in which he had that niht been permitted to participatebut knowing the system was
g ; based upon the level , he addressed them with that confidence which , while it dissipated his diffidence , it enhanced his respect . For him to attempt to describe the feelings that possessed him , would be as futile as to " gild refined gold , or paint the lily ; " but a light had shone on him which death alone could extinguish , and , he trusted , not even then , for to eternity did he look for a perfect developement of the beautiful system of Freemasonry . As it is the aim and desire of all societies to obtain
and deserve the good opinions of their fellow men , it would be superfluous to say , that with him , the welfare of this Chapter would be a paramount feeling , engendered from the urbanity and attention shown him by its Members ; and although himself an humble individual , he knew the sentiment would be valued ; and the fact of his having been exalted in a Chapter so pre-eminent as that of No . 3 , would , when perhaps at a distance of nearly half the globe , prove a source of proud
and pleasing graduation . He regretted , he said , exceedingly , his brief sojourn in England prevented his becoming a Member of the Chapter . He would not longer trespass on their time , but begged them to accept his sincere and grateful acknowledgements for the kind and fraternal manner in which he had been noticed , and he trusted that Chapter Fidelity would never suffer diminution from its present excellence , but be handed down to posterity with increased splendour , so that the memory of its present Members might be cherished and livein undying youth , when their mortal remains should long have been mouldering in the oblivion of the grave .
PRINCE OP WALES' CHAPTER —Report deferred . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION . MASTER MASONS , ( 318 ) October 5 . —The anniversary of this Lodge of Instruction was , as usual , observed , with even more than its usual eclat , occasioned by the attendance of Bro . Peter Thompson