Consecration Of The Edward Terry Lodge, No. 2722.

Metzr . er , 2029 ; W . G . Woodward , 1656 ; N . Courlander , 975 ; Frederic de Groot , 946 ; R . W . Simpson , P . M . 1656 ; L . Goodacre , 172 and 2192 ; H . J . Bond , P . M . 1656 ; W . Wainwright , 1656 ; R . T . Hughes , 1656 ; W . N . Crowhurst , P . M . 1 S 94 , P . P . G . Purst . Bucks ; Sidney Marler , 1261 ; and Henry Woodham , 1559 .

The musical portion of the ceremony of installation was provided by Bro . Herbert Schartau , P . P . G . Org . Middx ., who had for his assistants Bros . Frank Tebbutt and John Josey . Bro . the Rev . J . S . BROWNRIGG , P . G . Chap ., delivered the oration , after which the ceremony of consecration was proceeded with .

At its close , Bro . Edward Terry , P . G . Treas ., was installed by Bro . Letchworth as Worshipful Master of the lodge . Bro . William Hunt , P . M . 173 , wqs invested as I . P . M . for the first year of the lodge . The other officers were as follows : Bros . Stampa Walter Lambsrt , P . Prov . G . Reg .,

S . W . ; John Eustace Anderson , J . W . ; Richard William Simpson , Treas . ; W . T . Peat , P . P . G . Org . Middx ., Sec ; C . T . Rotherham , S . D . ; Gerald Spencer Hertslet , J . D . ; John Spencer , I . G . ; Samuel Case , D . C ; James Hill , R . T . Hughes , W . G . Woodward , Norton , Courlander , and Percy E . Mefzner , Stwds . ; and W . H . Hobbiss , Tyler .

After Bro . Letchworth had delivered the addresses , a vote of tnanks to the Consecrating Officers was passed , and Bro . Letchworth was presented with a handsome jewel . In acknowledging the vote and the present , the V . W . BROTHER said it had given him great pleasure to come and consecrate the lodge and instal his old and very sincere friend , Bro . Edward Terry , as Master of the lodge . All the Consecrating Officers were then elected honorary members of the lodge .

This was followed by propositions for initiation and joining , and amongst the W . M . ' s propositions for initiation was his own son . An elegant banquet supplied by Messrs . Newens and Son , Caterers , Putney , followed the closing of the lodge , and the usual toasts were afterwards honoured .

Bro . E . TERRY , W . M ., in proposing the toast of "The M . W . G . M ., " said he had just received this telegram from Sandringham— " I thank the Grand Officers and brethren for their kind and fraternal greetings , — ALBERT EDWARD . " That proved the very great ] interest he took in a Masonic function even at Barnes .

Bro . Sir J B . MONCKTON , P . G . W ., responded to the toast of " The R . W . Deputy Grand Master , and the rest of the Grand Officers , Present and Past . " Bro . E . TERRV , W . M ., in proposing " The Consecrating Officers , " said the brethren of the Edward Terry Lodge were particularly grateful to the Consecrating Officers for coming down to Barnes and helping them to get up their meeting . He could only express for the founders their thanks for the beautiful performance of the ceremony .

. Bro . E . LETCHWORTH , G . Sec , in acknowledging the compliment , said that , as the mouthpiece of the other Consecrating Officers , and for himself , he could say it had given them great pleasure to take part in the consecration of the Edward Terry Lodge . In the fewest possible words he returned his warmest thanks for the toast proposed in such kind terms by the W . M . It had given the Consecrating Officers , one and all , the greatest possible pleasure to be there and start into existence a lodge which they were

perfectly sure , under the able W . M ., would be a very great success . It was a a source of regret to them that Bros . Monckton and Richardson were not able to take part in the ceremony ; ihey were prevented by very important engagements from ccming in time - , but re had to thank those who stepped into their place and discharged their duties in such an admirable manner . He was expressing the feelings of those with whom he had been that evening associated when he said he wished the lodge might have a very happy and successful future .

Bro . J STRACHAN , Q . C , G . Reg ., proposed " The Worshipful Master . ' He said , not long ago a minister—and ministers did not generally say that which was untrue—informed him that when Daniel was placed in the den of lions , his great consolation was that he would not have to make an after-dinner speech . He ( Bro STRACHAN ) thought that if Daniel had known that he was to be

entrusted with such a tcast as he ( Bro . STRACHAN ) had been privileged to offer lo-night , he would have gone through the horrors of thc lions' den to do it . The toast was that of " The Worahipful Master " —( applause )—one of his old friends when they " were boys together "—little boys , about 30 or 40 years ago . ln those days Bro . Terry thought he was an actor ; he really did ; he thought he could act , * and he ( Bro . Strachan ) remembered

the first occasion upon which he saw him—he thought it was in an oratorio—it had some singing in it at any rate ; and the next time he saw him he thought it was in Hamlet ; it vvas a peculiar Hamlet , because at the end of every line he went off like a cuckoo clock toorallooral —( laughter)—but the more he tried the more the people laughed at him as he went up and down the platform . He was speaking of bygone days when Bro . Terry

used to go acting : the present generation scarcely believed he had been on the stage ; at any rate it had not been known in London that his friends were only desirous to know when he was coming back again . It was not always that comicality distinguished their friend ; Bro . Terry had in him some of thetenderest emotions , not onlyinhisown heart , but hehad the power of touching the hearts of others . It was not by things at which people

laughed that Bro . Terry was to be most thoroughly well spoken of ; it was by those lovely touchesof human nature which he had by his great art been enabled to give , by which he could sway great masses of men , women , and children , because he loved children , and a man who did not love children was hardly worth calling a man . But the great thing he had to find fault with in Bro . Terry was that he did not allow him to be able to say that Masonry had

made a good man of him . No , because he was a good man before he was a Mason . He had spoken of Bro . Terry in his younger manhood . They were all young men . He ought to remind the brethren of this , that all who knew B : o . Terry knew that he was a good citizen , and always had been known as a good citizen , prom ting the good of his fellow men . He had known Bro . Terry to be a good son , a good , loving , and affectionate son , an affectionate and loving husband and father , a thoroughly good friend to those

who had the pleasure and honour of his friendship ; and , lastly , he came to that which had endeared him still more to their hearts , a thoroughly good Mason , having begun as a good man , and kept up being a good man to the end . There was not one of the list of Masonic subscribers to Charities they looked at but vvhen they came to the name of Edward Terry they saw it like a railway station denoted by lights in the shape of stars . ( Applause . ) liro . Terry vvas an older Mason than he , because he was in the lodge when he ( Hro , Strachan ) vvas initiated . He had always f jund Bro . Terry a good

Consecration Of The Edward Terry Lodge, No. 2722.

Mason in every way ; the brethren had found him to be a good man and a good Mason ; and now they had honoured him by naming a lodge after him . Bro . Terry had honoured the lodge by permitting his name to be given as W . M . He asked the brethren to drink the toast , wishing him not only agenial and successful year of office , but a long life , and greater happiness as years passed by , and that when the Great Architect called him to Himself he would have the same kindly regard from them as he had now and that he would have the same kindly feelings towards them . ( Cheers . )

Bro . EDWARD TERRY , W . M ., said—In replying to my dear old friend John Strachan , Grand Registrar of England , for his kind remarks I do not know what I can say . I do not feel that I deserve one-tenth he has said about me . I can only say that I have the very greatest feeling for Masonry . I think if I am not a good man I ought to be by the teachings of Masonry —that a man to be a perfect man must be a perfect Mason—to which I do

not aspire ; but I will say this , that very many of my good impulses , and a few momentary impulses for good have been impressed upon me by Masonry , and , of course , I have to thank the greatest morality that was ever devised by human minds for it . I feel very strongly upon the point . I am somewhat of a sentimental man as Bro . Strachan has said . I do not feel I deserve to have a lodge named after me . ( Cries of " No , no . ) I do not

say that to draw expressions of " No , no . " I feel it a great honour , but I feel with our Grand Officers it is always an exceptional honour to a man to have a lodge named after him . Therefore , I do feel it as a very , very great compliment that I cannot forget in the rest of my life , and it is in the sense of believing in that compliment that I hope to have the pleasure of making my son a Mason at our next meeting . During the existence of the

Iodge it is my sincere wish that the lodge which has honoured me by having my name attached to it will exist and flourish very many years after I have passed away , and I hope and think that we shall have a lodge at Barnes , the foundation-stone of which we have laid to-day , which will last for many , many years . ( Hear , hear . ) We have an exceptional body of founders , founders who have come forward in every possible way

to help us , who have given things to our lodge , who have furnished the lodge , and yet have consented to take inferior office ; at least , I should not say inferior office , because every ofiice in a lodge is an honour . My only difficulty " * as to assure the officers of the Iodge of my impartiality . It is an invidious thing for a Master to say whom

he would put forward and whom he would not put forward . I think I have done the right thing in the appointments I have made . The members come . from various parts of Surrey , and I hope I have been fair in my selection , and that I have not acted fiom an ulterior motive , but from a desire to meet all parties . ( Applause . )

The toast of " The Visitors " vvas responded to by Bros . Gerald Maxwell , W . M . 2127 ; James Fernandez , P . M . 2127 ; T . Skewes-Cox , M . P . ; and Pickering , P . M . 29 . The toast of " The Officers , " which was replied toby the S . and J . W . and others , followed , and the Tyler ' s toast preceded the dispersion of the brethren . The lodge was furnished by Bros . George Kenning and Son .

Consecration Of Tee Saint Laurence Lodge, No. 2724.

CONSECRATION OF TEE SAINT LAURENCE LODGE , No . 2724 .

The new Masonic lodge , No . 2724 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of England , under the name of the "Saint Laurence , " was recently consecrated at Northfield , with all the ancient and picturesque ritual appertaining to this comparatively rare ceremony , which , indeed , many old and experienced Masons , including Past Masters and members of Prov . Grand Lodges , have never had the opportunity of witnessing . A goodly number of distinguished brethren assembled at the Church Schools , on the

invitation of Bro . Howard Jennings , Acting Secretary , among them being the Consecrating Officers—Bros . Sir A . F . Godson , M . P ., P . G . M . Worcesters ., P . G . D . Eng . ; Colonel Warner Ottley , D . P . G . M . ; F . Russell , Prov . S . G . W ., as S . W . ; A . Cotton , Prov . J . G . W ., as J . W . ; the Rev . H . McKean , Prov . G . Chap ., as Chaplain ; W . T . Page , Prov . G . Sec , and E . Bennett , Prov . G . D . C , as D . of Cs . ; and W . G . Page , Prov . G . Purst ;

the founders of the lodge—Bros . G . G . Popleton , P . M . ; T . A . Bayliss , T . R . Biyliss , G . J . C Cross , Charles Levers , Howard Jennings , Joseph Hull , the Rev . Hugh Tatham , BA . ; E . J . Collins , J . C . Aston , P . M . ; W . Lister , P . M . ; J . Earle , J . A . Draycott , Paul Rayner , F . W . Phelps , and Charles Taafe ; the ollicers of the lodge—Bros . G . G . Popleton , W . M . ; W . Lister , I . P . M . ; T . A . Bayliss , S . W . ; G . J . C . Cross . J . W . ; T . R .

Bayliss , Treas . ; Howard Jennings , bee ; Joseph Hull , S . D . ; Charles Levers , J . D . ; F . W . Phelps , I . G . ; J . C Aston , P . M ., D . of C ; the Rev . F . H . Tatham , BA ., Chap . ; Paul Rayner , Stwd . ; Charles Taafe , Org . ; and J . Dailey , Tyler ; and many distinguished visitors , among whom were Bros . H . Wilcox , P . S . G . D .: G . W . Bates , P . G . O . ; G . W . King , P . G . Supt . of

Works ; Rev . E . C . Lea ; A . P . Rowe , P . G . Treas . ; E . Parry , P . G . S . ; B . L . Griffiths , P . G . S . ; A . Cookson , P . P . J . G . W . ; H . Rowe , P . P . S . G . W . ; W . I ' . Tolladay , P . P . G . D . C ; J . Powell , P . P . S . G . W . ; F . Hughes , P . G . S . ; J . F . Pepper , P . P . S . G . W . ; Horatio Smith , P . G . S . ; W . Somers , P . P . J . G . W . ; C . Bloomer , P . P . S . G . W . ; G . F . Gtove , P . P . J . G . D . ; J . Collins , P . P . G . D . ; J . O . Manton , P . P . G . D . C ; F . Cross , P . P . S . G . D . ; and J . Harris , P . P . G . R . G . T .

The procession of Provincial Grand Lodge arrived to solemn music , and after the usual formalities , the Prov . Grand Chaplain delivered an oration on the nature and principles of Freemasonry , after which the elaborate ritual of consecration and dedication was admirably performed by the Prov . G . M . and his officers .

The usual hymns having been sung , with the anthems " Behold , how good and joyful a thing it is " and " O how amiable are Thy dwellings , ' the impressive ceremonies of the corn , the wine , and the oil were proceeded with with full choral ritual , after which the Prov . G . Chap , pronounced the Patriarchial Benediction .

The consecration having come to an end , the P . G . M . proposed that the brethren present should join in a vote of condolence to the family of the late Lord Lathom , Pro G . M . of England , who had done so much for

Freemasonry . This having been done in the usual manner , the ceremony of installation was next proceeded with , Bro . G . G . Poppleton being the first Master of the lodge , and he having appointed his officers , the lodge was closed .