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PAGE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND 83 & 84 THE R . WENTWORTII LITTLE TESTIMONIAL ... 84 GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND 85 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEFreemasonry and Israelitism ... ... ... 85 THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION 85 , 86 , & S 7 VALUAIILE WORK ON THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FREEMASONS S 7 BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS 88 AT A MASONIC FESTIVAL SS & S 9 GRAND CHAPTER 89 & 90
POETRYA Tribute of Gratitude ... ... ... ... 90 OPENING OF A NEW MASONIC HALL AT SWANSEA 90 ST . PAUL ' RESTORATION FUND 91 THE
CRAFTMetropolitan 91 Provincial ... 91 & 92 ROYAL ARCH 926 : 93 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 93 ADVERTISEMENTS Si , S 2 , 94 , 95 , & 9 6
SUPPLEMENT . DEDICATION OF THE NEW MASONIC HALL AT BRISTOL 97 & gS MASONIC BALL AT NORTHAMPTON gS
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
GRAND LODGE of IRELAND .
A special meeting of the Grand Lodge was held on Friday , 26 th ult , in the Freemasons' Hall , Molcsworth-strcet , Dublin , to adopt addresses of congratulation to her
Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales . The Most Worshipful his Grace the Duke of Lcinstcr , Grand Master , presided .
The following Grand Officers were present : R . W . Robert William Sheklcton , Deputy Grand Master ; R . W . the Right Hon . William Mcrcdyth , Lord Athlumney , Senior Grand Warden ; R . W . Arthur Bushc ,
Grand Treasurer ; R . W . the Rev . John James MacSorley and R . W . the Rev . Lord Plunket , Grand Chaplains ; the Hon . David R . Plunket , Q . C ., M . P ., Junior Grand Deacon ; Charles D . Astley , Grand
Superintendent of Works ; Thcophilus E . St . George , Grand Steward ; George Hepburn , Grand Sword-bearer ; Francis Ouin , Grand
Organist ; Stuart Nassau Lane , Grand Inner Guard ; Charles T . Walmisley , Deputy Grand Secretary and Treasurer ; Samuel B . Oldham , Assistant Secretary .
The representatives from foreign lodges were : From the Grand Orient of France , R . W . Sir Edward R . Borough , Bart ; from the Grand Lodge of Hamburg , R . W . J . Faviere Elrington , LL . D . ; from the Grand
Lodge of Spain , R . W . Captain A . Vescy Davorcn ; from the Grand Lodgcof Canada , R . W . James V . Mackey ; from the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , R . W . Lucius H . Deering ; from the Grand Lodge of Virgina ,
R . W . John Cottle ; from the Grand Lodge of Alabama , R . W . George Huband ; from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lisbon , W . John H . Goddard . The attendance of the brethren was very large .
The Grand Lodge having been opened in ample form , The Grand Secretary road letters of excuse from non-attendance from Charles A . Cameron , M . D . ; R . B . De Burgh ,
Representative from the Grand Lodge of Illinois ; Godfrey Brcreton , R . M ., Past Representative from the Grand Lodge of England ; and Sir William Hort , Bart ., Past Grand Secretary for Ireland .
Ihe Most Worshipful the Grand Master , who was greeted with applause , rose and said : Brethren , I believe there is no
occasion for me to address you on the reason I have called tin ' s lodge of emergency . The addresses that will be proposed to you will , so fully express my opinion , and , I am cer- ,
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tain , your opinion , that I think the best way is to go to business at once . ( Hear , hear . ) The R . W . the Deputy Grand Master called on Lord Athlumney to move the first address .
Lord Athlumney rose and said : Most Worshipful Sir and Brethren , we are assembled here under the presidency of our Most Worshipful Grand Master , whom we are all so glad to see in health and strength
amongst us . ( Hear , hear . ) We are assembled upon what I consider a very solemn and very joyful occasion . These two adjectives may appear at first to be somewhat antagonistic , but in reality they are not so .
I am sure no one can have regarded the events of the last few months without ' entertaining the most sincere and deep interest regarding the health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . ( Hear , hear . ) It seems
but a short time since his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Patron of the Freemasons of Ireland , addressed us in the plenitude of health and strength from the dais . He addressed us in a speech which we all
remember—a speech which should never be forgotten by those who heard it . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a noble , a manly , a sincere , and a Masonic speech . ( Hear , hear . ) Most
Worshipful Sir and Brethren , it seems as if the plaudits with which his departure from this hall was accompanied arc still ringing in our cars . When we heard that he was
struck down and laid on the bed of sickness , suffering under a most severe malady—an attack of such severity that we heard of it with fear rather than hope—we all remember what anxiety we suffered , and never , I
think , was exhibited more universal national sympathy than during that very trying period . ( Hear , hear . ) It is said we know not what a day may bring forth—we know not even what an hour may bring forth . We
open our morning journals with fear and trepidation . I always myself , and I am sure hundreds of others did the same , looked first of all to sec if there were any black
edge to the papers before wc almost dared to open them . Wc did not know what an hour might bring forth—wc might have heard " the silver cord was loosed and the
golden bowl was broken , and that the mourners were going about the streets . " But now it has happened otherwise . A nation ' s prayers have been heard . The destroying angel that knocks with such stern
impartiality at the palace of the Prince and the cottage of the peasant obeyed the Higher Power . The Great Physician heard the nation ' s prayer—the messenger of death stayed his hand and passed away . Wc
cannot have contemplated these events , I say , without having aroused our deepest emotions of sympathy , And now how different , now how joyous and how joyful , it will be to you to propose an address to her
Most Gracious Majesty , congratulating her that the Prince of Wales , her beloved son , has been restored to health , and that her widowed heart has been spared a fresh pang . The address will speak for itself . I have
great pleasure in proposing it for your adoption , and I am sure it will receive unanimous assent , being the heartfelt congratulations of the Freemasons of Ireland . ( Applause ) .
" To her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . " May it please your Majesty—We , the Freemasons of Ireland , in Grand Lodge assembled , desire most respectfully to approach your Gracious Majesty with die expression of our
most sincere gratification at the recovery of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from his recent illness . " During the severe and trying ordeal to which the dangerous and protracted illness of his Royal
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Highness subjected your Majesty , we forbore to intrude on your Majesty by giving utterance to the feelings of profound sympathy by which we were actuated ; but , now that by the merciful interposition of Divine Province all anxiety has
been happily removed , we beg to tender to your Majesty our earnest and heartfelt congratulations on the restoration to health of his Royal Highness , and , at the same time , to assure your Most Gracious Majesty of our unswerving loyalty and
attachment to your Majesty and the various members of your Royal family , who , following the bright example set them by your Majesty , have , by their unremitting and loving attention to his Royal Righness in his hour of need , won for themselves universal admiration and esteem . "
The Right Hon . Judge Townsend , who was received with great applause , had great pleasure in being called upon by his respected brother and esteemed friend , the Deputy Grand Master , to second the
address which had been just read . When addresses of congratulation and professions of loyalty to the throne of England , and attachment to the person of our Gracious Queen , are pouring in from all quarters , I
think it would not be becoming of the representative body of the Freemasons of Ireland to be last in affording their homage , and their assurances of their sympathy with their Ouccn in her hour of trial . Her
Majesty had been graciously pleased to express , in a public manner , to her subjects at large , the feelings of gratification which she felt at the expressions of sympathy which she received from her people in the
hour of need . It was well and wise of her to express those feelings . That natural , simple , and heartfelt expression of gratitude to her people had thrilled the heart of every one of her subjects ; and they now came forward assured that she would feel towards
them as she had felt to so many othersglad that they had been able to appreciate her distress , and thankful that they could join in the joy that must fill her heart in finding her beloved son restored to life , and
our country rescued from the danger which the death of the Heir to the Throne of these realms threatened us with . ( Hear , hear . ) It was but a short time since we opened our papers with trepidation—we looked into
each other ' s faces with anxious and gloomy expressions , and hardly dared to whisper the hope for what had now ripened into certainty—that God has been pleased to spare his Royal Highness to his family and
the nation . We ought all to be thankful for this . It was not long since the thunders of a terrible war pealed at our doors , and men gazed aghast on the scenes of the terrible carnage on the battle-field of
Francean Emperor flung from his throne , and the heart of Europe shaken to its very centre . They looked on silently . But dark clouds lowered still on the distant horizon which the eye of man could not penetrate . Did
they not sometimes see ghastly and fearful figures flit forward from that darkness . Had they not heard of the dark examples of that strange association whose creed is Atheism ,
whose object is revolution ? When we heard of that , and when we knew what dangers might have impended upon us , he scarcely could believe that there were men—and
yet it was to be feared that there were m these kingdoms—vile enough , and having courage enough , for the machination of their evil designs . Thank God , they were not of us . ( Hear , hear . ) If there were any of us
among them , they profited not by our teaching . He was not so ignorant of his duty as a Mason as to suppose that that
temple in which they were met—constituted to benevolence , to charity , and to brotherly love—was to be contravened by political discussions , lie was not the man to make
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Table Of Contents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS .
PAGE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND 83 & 84 THE R . WENTWORTII LITTLE TESTIMONIAL ... 84 GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND 85 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEFreemasonry and Israelitism ... ... ... 85 THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION 85 , 86 , & S 7 VALUAIILE WORK ON THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FREEMASONS S 7 BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS 88 AT A MASONIC FESTIVAL SS & S 9 GRAND CHAPTER 89 & 90
POETRYA Tribute of Gratitude ... ... ... ... 90 OPENING OF A NEW MASONIC HALL AT SWANSEA 90 ST . PAUL ' RESTORATION FUND 91 THE
CRAFTMetropolitan 91 Provincial ... 91 & 92 ROYAL ARCH 926 : 93 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 93 ADVERTISEMENTS Si , S 2 , 94 , 95 , & 9 6
SUPPLEMENT . DEDICATION OF THE NEW MASONIC HALL AT BRISTOL 97 & gS MASONIC BALL AT NORTHAMPTON gS
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
GRAND LODGE of IRELAND .
A special meeting of the Grand Lodge was held on Friday , 26 th ult , in the Freemasons' Hall , Molcsworth-strcet , Dublin , to adopt addresses of congratulation to her
Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales . The Most Worshipful his Grace the Duke of Lcinstcr , Grand Master , presided .
The following Grand Officers were present : R . W . Robert William Sheklcton , Deputy Grand Master ; R . W . the Right Hon . William Mcrcdyth , Lord Athlumney , Senior Grand Warden ; R . W . Arthur Bushc ,
Grand Treasurer ; R . W . the Rev . John James MacSorley and R . W . the Rev . Lord Plunket , Grand Chaplains ; the Hon . David R . Plunket , Q . C ., M . P ., Junior Grand Deacon ; Charles D . Astley , Grand
Superintendent of Works ; Thcophilus E . St . George , Grand Steward ; George Hepburn , Grand Sword-bearer ; Francis Ouin , Grand
Organist ; Stuart Nassau Lane , Grand Inner Guard ; Charles T . Walmisley , Deputy Grand Secretary and Treasurer ; Samuel B . Oldham , Assistant Secretary .
The representatives from foreign lodges were : From the Grand Orient of France , R . W . Sir Edward R . Borough , Bart ; from the Grand Lodge of Hamburg , R . W . J . Faviere Elrington , LL . D . ; from the Grand
Lodge of Spain , R . W . Captain A . Vescy Davorcn ; from the Grand Lodgcof Canada , R . W . James V . Mackey ; from the Grand Lodge of Louisiana , R . W . Lucius H . Deering ; from the Grand Lodge of Virgina ,
R . W . John Cottle ; from the Grand Lodge of Alabama , R . W . George Huband ; from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lisbon , W . John H . Goddard . The attendance of the brethren was very large .
The Grand Lodge having been opened in ample form , The Grand Secretary road letters of excuse from non-attendance from Charles A . Cameron , M . D . ; R . B . De Burgh ,
Representative from the Grand Lodge of Illinois ; Godfrey Brcreton , R . M ., Past Representative from the Grand Lodge of England ; and Sir William Hort , Bart ., Past Grand Secretary for Ireland .
Ihe Most Worshipful the Grand Master , who was greeted with applause , rose and said : Brethren , I believe there is no
occasion for me to address you on the reason I have called tin ' s lodge of emergency . The addresses that will be proposed to you will , so fully express my opinion , and , I am cer- ,
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
tain , your opinion , that I think the best way is to go to business at once . ( Hear , hear . ) The R . W . the Deputy Grand Master called on Lord Athlumney to move the first address .
Lord Athlumney rose and said : Most Worshipful Sir and Brethren , we are assembled here under the presidency of our Most Worshipful Grand Master , whom we are all so glad to see in health and strength
amongst us . ( Hear , hear . ) We are assembled upon what I consider a very solemn and very joyful occasion . These two adjectives may appear at first to be somewhat antagonistic , but in reality they are not so .
I am sure no one can have regarded the events of the last few months without ' entertaining the most sincere and deep interest regarding the health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . ( Hear , hear . ) It seems
but a short time since his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , the Patron of the Freemasons of Ireland , addressed us in the plenitude of health and strength from the dais . He addressed us in a speech which we all
remember—a speech which should never be forgotten by those who heard it . ( Hear , hear . ) It was a noble , a manly , a sincere , and a Masonic speech . ( Hear , hear . ) Most
Worshipful Sir and Brethren , it seems as if the plaudits with which his departure from this hall was accompanied arc still ringing in our cars . When we heard that he was
struck down and laid on the bed of sickness , suffering under a most severe malady—an attack of such severity that we heard of it with fear rather than hope—we all remember what anxiety we suffered , and never , I
think , was exhibited more universal national sympathy than during that very trying period . ( Hear , hear . ) It is said we know not what a day may bring forth—we know not even what an hour may bring forth . We
open our morning journals with fear and trepidation . I always myself , and I am sure hundreds of others did the same , looked first of all to sec if there were any black
edge to the papers before wc almost dared to open them . Wc did not know what an hour might bring forth—wc might have heard " the silver cord was loosed and the
golden bowl was broken , and that the mourners were going about the streets . " But now it has happened otherwise . A nation ' s prayers have been heard . The destroying angel that knocks with such stern
impartiality at the palace of the Prince and the cottage of the peasant obeyed the Higher Power . The Great Physician heard the nation ' s prayer—the messenger of death stayed his hand and passed away . Wc
cannot have contemplated these events , I say , without having aroused our deepest emotions of sympathy , And now how different , now how joyous and how joyful , it will be to you to propose an address to her
Most Gracious Majesty , congratulating her that the Prince of Wales , her beloved son , has been restored to health , and that her widowed heart has been spared a fresh pang . The address will speak for itself . I have
great pleasure in proposing it for your adoption , and I am sure it will receive unanimous assent , being the heartfelt congratulations of the Freemasons of Ireland . ( Applause ) .
" To her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . " May it please your Majesty—We , the Freemasons of Ireland , in Grand Lodge assembled , desire most respectfully to approach your Gracious Majesty with die expression of our
most sincere gratification at the recovery of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from his recent illness . " During the severe and trying ordeal to which the dangerous and protracted illness of his Royal
Grand Lodge Of Ireland.
Highness subjected your Majesty , we forbore to intrude on your Majesty by giving utterance to the feelings of profound sympathy by which we were actuated ; but , now that by the merciful interposition of Divine Province all anxiety has
been happily removed , we beg to tender to your Majesty our earnest and heartfelt congratulations on the restoration to health of his Royal Highness , and , at the same time , to assure your Most Gracious Majesty of our unswerving loyalty and
attachment to your Majesty and the various members of your Royal family , who , following the bright example set them by your Majesty , have , by their unremitting and loving attention to his Royal Righness in his hour of need , won for themselves universal admiration and esteem . "
The Right Hon . Judge Townsend , who was received with great applause , had great pleasure in being called upon by his respected brother and esteemed friend , the Deputy Grand Master , to second the
address which had been just read . When addresses of congratulation and professions of loyalty to the throne of England , and attachment to the person of our Gracious Queen , are pouring in from all quarters , I
think it would not be becoming of the representative body of the Freemasons of Ireland to be last in affording their homage , and their assurances of their sympathy with their Ouccn in her hour of trial . Her
Majesty had been graciously pleased to express , in a public manner , to her subjects at large , the feelings of gratification which she felt at the expressions of sympathy which she received from her people in the
hour of need . It was well and wise of her to express those feelings . That natural , simple , and heartfelt expression of gratitude to her people had thrilled the heart of every one of her subjects ; and they now came forward assured that she would feel towards
them as she had felt to so many othersglad that they had been able to appreciate her distress , and thankful that they could join in the joy that must fill her heart in finding her beloved son restored to life , and
our country rescued from the danger which the death of the Heir to the Throne of these realms threatened us with . ( Hear , hear . ) It was but a short time since we opened our papers with trepidation—we looked into
each other ' s faces with anxious and gloomy expressions , and hardly dared to whisper the hope for what had now ripened into certainty—that God has been pleased to spare his Royal Highness to his family and
the nation . We ought all to be thankful for this . It was not long since the thunders of a terrible war pealed at our doors , and men gazed aghast on the scenes of the terrible carnage on the battle-field of
Francean Emperor flung from his throne , and the heart of Europe shaken to its very centre . They looked on silently . But dark clouds lowered still on the distant horizon which the eye of man could not penetrate . Did
they not sometimes see ghastly and fearful figures flit forward from that darkness . Had they not heard of the dark examples of that strange association whose creed is Atheism ,
whose object is revolution ? When we heard of that , and when we knew what dangers might have impended upon us , he scarcely could believe that there were men—and
yet it was to be feared that there were m these kingdoms—vile enough , and having courage enough , for the machination of their evil designs . Thank God , they were not of us . ( Hear , hear . ) If there were any of us
among them , they profited not by our teaching . He was not so ignorant of his duty as a Mason as to suppose that that
temple in which they were met—constituted to benevolence , to charity , and to brotherly love—was to be contravened by political discussions , lie was not the man to make