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of his high Masonic station iu this province . Nor did we fail to augur , from that maiden performance in the working of our mystic rites , that maturity of perfect mastership in the royal art which the observances of this day have abundantly confirmed , and which the steady progress of a reviving spirit among the private Lodges of the province substantiall y testify is fully appreciated by their various members . Bri ght days , I trust , are yet in the womb of futurity for our ancient and honourable
craft . Not only may we congratulate ourselves on having a leader so well qualified , both by social and Masonic attributes , to preside over our province , but , since our last meeting , the election and the appointment of the M . W . G . M . of all England and his officers , has proved so judicious , that the most favourable hopes of a more extended spread of our Order may justly be indulged . Its princi ples for good are undeniable . I ts antiquity makes it venerable . The articles of its creed are universal .
In the Bombay Times of Jul y last , I read an illustration of Masonry , that I venture to assert no other society of a religious character on earth can produce . In a Lodge held at Bombay—the celebrated ancl distinguished Brother , Dr . Burnes , P . G . M . for Western India , in the chairthere were present nine native Brethren , three of whom were followers of Zoroaster , two of Confucius , and four of Mahomet ; but they all assembled together with the followers of Christ in brotherllove to
wory ship the Masons' God . The researches lately of the Archaeological Society into the marks made in the stone works in different parts of Canterbury cathedral , and other similar stately edifices in the kingdom , by their original builders , ancl which correspond with the symbols used b y Freemasons at the present day , prove—if proof were necessary—its ancient
usefulness and date in this country ; ancl if so ancient , more ancient still , because such skill and science were not intuitively acquired in those clays , but had been handed down from a remoter period . In Rossyln castle chapel , near Edinburgh , that most beautiful relic of church architecture , I myself saw some years ago a mark that strikingly memoralizes a certain portion of the peculiar ceremony in the third degree . If by some of us the operative part of Masonry is not so exclusively pursued as in
days of yore , we do not yield to our predecessors in inculcating that peculiar system of morality which their tools of manual labour ami geometrical precision also allegoricall y illustrate : and , if we fall short of their eminence in raising up huge piles of corruptible material , I trust we equal them in aiming at that exalted character which shall make the name of the society incorruptible , and fit its members for those mansions , not made with hands , eternal in the heavens . I pledge you to the health
of the 1 ? . W . Brother Hon . Colonel Anson , the P . G . M . for Staffordshire . ( Continued cheers . ) After the vehement cheering with which Colonel Anson ' s health was drunk had subsided , in returning thanks , he said that no circumstance afforded him . more pleasure than the present , in again meeting theBrethren of the province in Grand Lodge . He felt much obligee ! to them for their ready attendance to his summons . He knew numbers of them
came from a distance to do him this honour , ancl he knew also many more would have been present from the lower part of the province , had not unfortunately on the same clay the agricultural meeting at Stone been fixed . This could not have been foreseen when he appointed the convening of Grand Lodge . For the compliment paid him b y his revc-iend friend on his right he fell greatly obliged ; but , in entering ast year at Stafford upon his high Masonic clutes , he was more indebted to
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Provincial.
of his high Masonic station iu this province . Nor did we fail to augur , from that maiden performance in the working of our mystic rites , that maturity of perfect mastership in the royal art which the observances of this day have abundantly confirmed , and which the steady progress of a reviving spirit among the private Lodges of the province substantiall y testify is fully appreciated by their various members . Bri ght days , I trust , are yet in the womb of futurity for our ancient and honourable
craft . Not only may we congratulate ourselves on having a leader so well qualified , both by social and Masonic attributes , to preside over our province , but , since our last meeting , the election and the appointment of the M . W . G . M . of all England and his officers , has proved so judicious , that the most favourable hopes of a more extended spread of our Order may justly be indulged . Its princi ples for good are undeniable . I ts antiquity makes it venerable . The articles of its creed are universal .
In the Bombay Times of Jul y last , I read an illustration of Masonry , that I venture to assert no other society of a religious character on earth can produce . In a Lodge held at Bombay—the celebrated ancl distinguished Brother , Dr . Burnes , P . G . M . for Western India , in the chairthere were present nine native Brethren , three of whom were followers of Zoroaster , two of Confucius , and four of Mahomet ; but they all assembled together with the followers of Christ in brotherllove to
wory ship the Masons' God . The researches lately of the Archaeological Society into the marks made in the stone works in different parts of Canterbury cathedral , and other similar stately edifices in the kingdom , by their original builders , ancl which correspond with the symbols used b y Freemasons at the present day , prove—if proof were necessary—its ancient
usefulness and date in this country ; ancl if so ancient , more ancient still , because such skill and science were not intuitively acquired in those clays , but had been handed down from a remoter period . In Rossyln castle chapel , near Edinburgh , that most beautiful relic of church architecture , I myself saw some years ago a mark that strikingly memoralizes a certain portion of the peculiar ceremony in the third degree . If by some of us the operative part of Masonry is not so exclusively pursued as in
days of yore , we do not yield to our predecessors in inculcating that peculiar system of morality which their tools of manual labour ami geometrical precision also allegoricall y illustrate : and , if we fall short of their eminence in raising up huge piles of corruptible material , I trust we equal them in aiming at that exalted character which shall make the name of the society incorruptible , and fit its members for those mansions , not made with hands , eternal in the heavens . I pledge you to the health
of the 1 ? . W . Brother Hon . Colonel Anson , the P . G . M . for Staffordshire . ( Continued cheers . ) After the vehement cheering with which Colonel Anson ' s health was drunk had subsided , in returning thanks , he said that no circumstance afforded him . more pleasure than the present , in again meeting theBrethren of the province in Grand Lodge . He felt much obligee ! to them for their ready attendance to his summons . He knew numbers of them
came from a distance to do him this honour , ancl he knew also many more would have been present from the lower part of the province , had not unfortunately on the same clay the agricultural meeting at Stone been fixed . This could not have been foreseen when he appointed the convening of Grand Lodge . For the compliment paid him b y his revc-iend friend on his right he fell greatly obliged ; but , in entering ast year at Stafford upon his high Masonic clutes , he was more indebted to