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Provincial.
spective offices and the position they had attained in the Order . The mayor received the company with characteristic ease , and when assembled the scene was of the richest and gayest description . The hospitality of his worship was unbounded , and those only who have been accustomed to dine at the Town-hall can form any conception of the elegance and sumptuousness of the display and provision . The mayor presidedhaving on his riht the M . W . the Dep . G . M .
, g of England , the Right Hon . the Earl of Yarborough ; the Rev . A . Dymoke , R . W . Dep . Prov . G . M . for North Wales and Shropshire ; and on the left Bro . S . Blair , R . W . Dep . Prov . G . M . for East Lancashire . Amongst the company the veteran and accomplished Mason Bro . J . Molyneux was present . LANCASHIRE . —OLDHAM . —The Prov . G . L . of East Lancashire was held in the parish church schools , Oldham , on Friday , Oct . 15 th .
The Lodge , in the absence , through indisposition , of the R . W . Prov . G . M ., the Earl of Ellesmere , was opened by the V . W . D . Prov . G . M ., S . Blair . After transacting the ordinary Provincial business , the Brethren repaired in procession to the Town-hall , where a banquet had been prepared for the occasion . We believe this is the first occasion of a Prov . G . L . having been held in thistownalthough the oldest Warrant in Lancashire was at one
, time held in Oldham , Lodge No . 32 having met under it at the Plough Inn , Werneth , having also a Royal Arch Chapter , and a Knight Templar ' s Encampment . These , however , by some means or other , appear to have been forfeited or disposed of , and for many years , and until within the last three years , Masonry was nearly extinct in
Oldham ; but it is very gratifying to state , as marking the progress of Freemasonry in this Province , that the Lodge of Friendship , No . 344 , now numbers upwards of seventy members of the most respectable parties in the town and neighbourhood , ever ready and willing to be foremost in any praiseworthy object of charity and good works . The Chapter lately attached to the Lodge is also progressing favourably and rapidly . Perhaps it may not be uninteresting , nor unprofitable to the Provincial Lod to inquire how such sudden and unusual
prosges , perity has been promoted . Two years ago a weekly Lodge of Instruction was established , which , by great exertions and persuasions at first , the Brethren were induced to attend . The ceremony of opening and closing in the three degrees was practised and mastered , and successively the ceremonies of Initiation , Passing and Raising , so that in a very short time nearly every member in the Lodge was fully competent and qualified to act as W . M . Thus was one great
desideratum attained . The lecture of the first degree was next undertaken , and from that time to the present no persuasions have been ' needed to induce attendance . The beautiful language in which , in these lectures , the principles of Freemasonry are clothed , and the extended knowledge of the Craft which they afford , have impelled not only the Brethren of the Lodge of Friendship , but of neighbouring Lod to attend and profit . This is the grand secret towards
ges , making a prosperous Lodge—to induce the Brethren by any and every means to master the first rudiments of the science , and then , introduced to the lectures , the beautiful and varied paths , which open on every hand in the extended field presented before them , will most assuredly induce them to wander through with p leasure and delight . They will become good Masons , and better men . When the Bre-
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Provincial.
spective offices and the position they had attained in the Order . The mayor received the company with characteristic ease , and when assembled the scene was of the richest and gayest description . The hospitality of his worship was unbounded , and those only who have been accustomed to dine at the Town-hall can form any conception of the elegance and sumptuousness of the display and provision . The mayor presidedhaving on his riht the M . W . the Dep . G . M .
, g of England , the Right Hon . the Earl of Yarborough ; the Rev . A . Dymoke , R . W . Dep . Prov . G . M . for North Wales and Shropshire ; and on the left Bro . S . Blair , R . W . Dep . Prov . G . M . for East Lancashire . Amongst the company the veteran and accomplished Mason Bro . J . Molyneux was present . LANCASHIRE . —OLDHAM . —The Prov . G . L . of East Lancashire was held in the parish church schools , Oldham , on Friday , Oct . 15 th .
The Lodge , in the absence , through indisposition , of the R . W . Prov . G . M ., the Earl of Ellesmere , was opened by the V . W . D . Prov . G . M ., S . Blair . After transacting the ordinary Provincial business , the Brethren repaired in procession to the Town-hall , where a banquet had been prepared for the occasion . We believe this is the first occasion of a Prov . G . L . having been held in thistownalthough the oldest Warrant in Lancashire was at one
, time held in Oldham , Lodge No . 32 having met under it at the Plough Inn , Werneth , having also a Royal Arch Chapter , and a Knight Templar ' s Encampment . These , however , by some means or other , appear to have been forfeited or disposed of , and for many years , and until within the last three years , Masonry was nearly extinct in
Oldham ; but it is very gratifying to state , as marking the progress of Freemasonry in this Province , that the Lodge of Friendship , No . 344 , now numbers upwards of seventy members of the most respectable parties in the town and neighbourhood , ever ready and willing to be foremost in any praiseworthy object of charity and good works . The Chapter lately attached to the Lodge is also progressing favourably and rapidly . Perhaps it may not be uninteresting , nor unprofitable to the Provincial Lod to inquire how such sudden and unusual
prosges , perity has been promoted . Two years ago a weekly Lodge of Instruction was established , which , by great exertions and persuasions at first , the Brethren were induced to attend . The ceremony of opening and closing in the three degrees was practised and mastered , and successively the ceremonies of Initiation , Passing and Raising , so that in a very short time nearly every member in the Lodge was fully competent and qualified to act as W . M . Thus was one great
desideratum attained . The lecture of the first degree was next undertaken , and from that time to the present no persuasions have been ' needed to induce attendance . The beautiful language in which , in these lectures , the principles of Freemasonry are clothed , and the extended knowledge of the Craft which they afford , have impelled not only the Brethren of the Lodge of Friendship , but of neighbouring Lod to attend and profit . This is the grand secret towards
ges , making a prosperous Lodge—to induce the Brethren by any and every means to master the first rudiments of the science , and then , introduced to the lectures , the beautiful and varied paths , which open on every hand in the extended field presented before them , will most assuredly induce them to wander through with p leasure and delight . They will become good Masons , and better men . When the Bre-