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Laying A Foundation Stone In Renfrewshire, East.
LAYING A FOUNDATION STONE IN RENFREWSHIRE , EAST .
The foundation-stone of the first houses built by the Glasgow Working Men's Investment and Building Society was laid with Masonic honours on Saturday afternoon in presence of several thousand spectators . The Co-operation of the brethren in Glasgow having been invited . A
procession was formed at the washing-house in the green and marched to the field . The hour at which the Masonic body and members of the society fixed to be at the foundation stone was four o'clock , but they did not arrive till threequarters of an hour there-after . Col . Campbell ,
P . G . M ., of Renfrewshire , East , in which province the new houses are situated , proceeded to the Old Council Hall , Rutherglen and there opened the Provincial Grand Lodge of Renfrewshire ( East ) , consisting of Colonel Campbell , P . G . M , * J . Caldwell , J . W . ; W . T . Smillie , A . M . :
W . Lind , J . D . ; Fisher , B . B . ; Forrest , J . G . ; Somerville , acting S . D . ¦ M'Pherson , L . B . M'Leod , S . D . Wallace , J . S . ; Buchanan , L . B . ; Robertson , S . M . ; Carswell , M . ; Duncan , acting Secretary , and Kirkwood Architect , brethren from lodges , 27 , 38 , 73 , ro , 116 , 128 , 153 , 177 ,
21 9 . 2 75 > 3 ° 7 , 33 2 > 347 , 354 , 3 62 , 4 ° o , 408 , 426 , 45 S , 512 , and two bands of music proceeded to the spot . Colonel Campbell having requested the Chaplain to ask a blessing before they proceeded with the work in hand , the Rev . Mr . Simpson offered up a prayer .
Mr . James Miller , manager of Strathclyde Print Works , and president of the society , presented the trowel which bore tlie following inscription : — " Presented to Colonel Campbell of Blythswood by the Glasgow Working Men's
Investment and Building Society ( Limited ) , on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of their first houses . —21 st Feb ., 18 74 . " The foundation stone having been laid in the usual manner .
Colonel Campbell was received with cheers . He said—Mr . Miller and gentlemen , I now declare that this stone has been duiy laid with Masonic honours . I have to thank you , sir , for the kindness with which you have presented me with this most beautiful trowel ; indeed I look
upon it as a reflex of your opinions , and the kind way in which you have spoken of the past will ever be riveted and cemented in my mind . I can assure you that the words of wisdom with which you concluded your remarks will never he forgotten by one who has received such
universal kindness from all and sundry in and around this part where I have the honour and the happiness to live , and I trust no actions of mine , under any circumstances will ever lower the estimation in which I am held at the present moment . ( Cheers . ) I consider it an honour
of no mean character to occupy the position in which you have placed me to-day , and I trust that the foundation stone which we have now laid may be not only figuratively but actually the foundation stone of fortunes yet to be made by those whom I have always been led to
respect , the working classes of this country . ( Cheers . ) I feel , and no one more than I , the misery which un thrift causes to many a home . I have often noticed that in those homes which have not been comfortable unthrift has often been greatest . I trust that this movement ,
which has now been inaugurated here may go on to flourish , and that those whom it is intended to benefit may find in their comfortable homes that their own personal comfort is not the only matter to be thought of , hut also the comfort of their families , and the great future
that must come to us all . ( Cheers . ) I have to thank you again for your great kindness . I know no words of mine can do more at present for the work that is in hand , but I assure you I shall always hold it as a great honour that I have this day been allowed to lay this stone . I shall
not forget it , and I trust , if I am spared , that at all events the Provincial Lodge of Renfrewshire East will ever assist me in helping forward all good works for the furtherance of that which is just , honest , and true . ( Loud cheers , and repeated calls for Dr . Cameron . )
Laying A Foundation Stone In Renfrewshire, East.
Dr . Cameron , M . P ., said I have very great pleasure in taking part in this ceremony , because I have long been convinced of the very great necessity which existed in Glasgow for the provision of proper accommodation for the
working classes . ( Cheers . ) In Glasgow , unfortunately I was going to say , houses have been too substantially built . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The consequence is that they outlast their use . Fashion changes , but the houses
remain , and the house which was admirably adapted for a single family is utterly unsuited to its present use now that it has come to be the receptacle of some forty or fifty families . I have taken great interest in the housing of the poorer
population of Glasgow , and I can assure you , gentlemen , that I have never been more deeply impressed with anything than with the squalor and misery in which a very large portion of our population live . I intended to say a few words
upon the evils of overcrowding , but I myself have suffered so much within the last five minutes —( great laughter)—from overcrowding , and I think you also , gentlemen , must at the present moment be suffering so painfully from those evils , that I need say very little on that
subject . ( Laughter and cheers . ) There was recently a very terrible catastrophe from fire in London , at least so far as loss of property was concerned . A great deal has been said relative to thc fire in the Pantechnicon , and it has been
laid down as a rule which , I think , admits of no contradiction , that if we would have buildings fire proof—if we wish to prevent the spread of fire—we must have the buildings sub-divided by
brick partitions . If we would render our vessels safe against the incursions of the sea , we must provide them with water-tight bulk-heads ; and if we would render our dwelling-houses to any extent fever proof we must provide them with
separate entrances . ( Cheers , and a Voice , " Very good . " ) Earth-works have been found most efficacious in stopping cannon shot , and an outwork of fresh air is the best defence we can have against the artillery of disease . ( Cheers . )
I shall not at this late period of the afternoon detain you upon a subject on which I should much wish to dilate—the subject of the necessity for thrift , and I pass over that the more willingly in consequence of the very pointed and excellent
remarks which have fallen from Colonel Campbell . ( Hear , hear . ) I will say , however , gentlemen , that when a man has acquired one of these houses which you see before you , he must have done so through an amount of
selfsacrifice ancl thrift which will be the best possible moral training which he could undergo . ( Cheers . ) I am not an advocate of meanness or of parsimony , but I thoroughly believe in the advice of our national
poet" An' gather gear by every wile That ' s justilled hy honour . Nor for to hide it in a hedge , Nor for a train-attendant , But for the glorious privilege Of being independent . "
( Cheers . ) It has been said , if we would elevate the working classes , talk as we may of the schoolmaster , we must in the first place seek the assistance of the Mason . Vou have to-day
received the assistance of the Mason , and I am satisfied that in the colony in which the foundation-stone has to-day been laid the schoolmaster will find an honoured place . ( Loud cheers . )
The Rev . Robert Thomson expressed his cordial sympathy with thc movement for the erection of workingmen ' s houses in the outskirts of Glasgow , and observed that as he had lived
45 years in that city he could well coincide with the remarks which had fallen from their gallant friend Col . Campbell and their representative Dr . Cameron . ( Cheers . )
Colonel Campbell and thc members of thc Provincial Grand Lodge then returned to the hall in Rutherglen , where representative of the society thanked them for the services they had so kindly and efficiently performed . The lodge was afterwards closed in due and ancient form .
The Building Of The Temple.
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE .
There is a beautiful significance in thc recorded fact , that no sound of iron tool was heard at the building of the Temple . Tlie stones and the timbers were perfectly squared and finished in the quarries or the forests , and each , when itreached the sacred mountain , intelligibly
marked , was at once fixed in its proper place , without confusion , with silence , celerity and accuracy . A master mind planned and superintended the whole work fit agents were selected to oversee the carrying out of the details and faithful obedience was found in the workmen who
performed the labour . These three were necessary to success : the want of cither would have been fatal . The Temple was both a type and a model . It was a type of the great Temple of God , not made with hands , of which tlie worlds arc the stones , and thc Deity the builder . When
matter hung drear , dark and shapeless in space ; when the worlds were formless and waste , and the Spirit of God brooded over the abyss , the command ofthe Great Architect went forth , and the building of the Temple began . Then , as the design became apparent to celestial minds ,
the " morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy , " because every stone in that wondrous edifice was found to be exactly fitted to the place it was designed to fill . Whether it was the central sun of a system , so vast that its proportions may not be grasped by
human intellect , or the atom so small that the most powerful glass does not bring it to light , all were perfectly finished , and each fixed in its proper place without thc sound of iron tool . The rivers carried to the ocean , and the ocean silently deposited vast accretions of lime and
other stone insects lived by countless millions , and died , and their carcasses formed chalk ; forests of giant ferns grew and fell , and were buried , and formed coal ; volcanic forces thrust the crude metals through the hardening crust to be ready to the hand of man when the proper
time should come . And the worlds whirl in their vast orbits through space ; system upon system wheels on its immeasurable course , regularly , smoothly , silently , irresistibly , because the great Temple was planned by Infinite Wisdom , and constructed by Infinite Power . So
nicely balanced are all these worlds , that no confusion ever takes place . None ever break away from their orbits and fly wildly through space , and none ever sink into and are destroyed by their central sun . But all move smoothly and
certainly" What though in solemn silence all Move round this dark terrestrial ball : What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason ' s car they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing as they shine : '" The hand that made us is divine . '"
The Temple should be a model for every Masonic Lodge . The material selected should be carefully examined to begin with . No unsound stones or timbers can ever do any good . They will only rot or crumble away , and endanger the structure . They should be firm , aud
true and sound ; and they should be carefully fitted , and made perfect ashlars in Lodge of Instruction , so that they will exactly fit their places in the Masonic Temple . They . should be prepared by Prudence and Wisdom , adorned by Charity , and cemented into the Temple by Brotherly Love . A Masonic Temple , built of
such material , so fashioned , so adorned , and so cemented , will stand all the storms of adversity and all the assaults of enmity . It hath its foundation sure ; peace is within its walls , and prosperity within its gates . Its labours are labours of love , and its works , seen and known of men , bring it honour , and insure to it peace and prosperity . — The Craftsman .
THE Soci _ Ti ' i ROYALE DES SAUVETEURS DE BELGIQUE . —The Royal Humane Society of Belgium has conferred upon Major C . J . Burgess the title of Membre Honoraire , with the Silver Medal of the Society .
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Laying A Foundation Stone In Renfrewshire, East.
LAYING A FOUNDATION STONE IN RENFREWSHIRE , EAST .
The foundation-stone of the first houses built by the Glasgow Working Men's Investment and Building Society was laid with Masonic honours on Saturday afternoon in presence of several thousand spectators . The Co-operation of the brethren in Glasgow having been invited . A
procession was formed at the washing-house in the green and marched to the field . The hour at which the Masonic body and members of the society fixed to be at the foundation stone was four o'clock , but they did not arrive till threequarters of an hour there-after . Col . Campbell ,
P . G . M ., of Renfrewshire , East , in which province the new houses are situated , proceeded to the Old Council Hall , Rutherglen and there opened the Provincial Grand Lodge of Renfrewshire ( East ) , consisting of Colonel Campbell , P . G . M , * J . Caldwell , J . W . ; W . T . Smillie , A . M . :
W . Lind , J . D . ; Fisher , B . B . ; Forrest , J . G . ; Somerville , acting S . D . ¦ M'Pherson , L . B . M'Leod , S . D . Wallace , J . S . ; Buchanan , L . B . ; Robertson , S . M . ; Carswell , M . ; Duncan , acting Secretary , and Kirkwood Architect , brethren from lodges , 27 , 38 , 73 , ro , 116 , 128 , 153 , 177 ,
21 9 . 2 75 > 3 ° 7 , 33 2 > 347 , 354 , 3 62 , 4 ° o , 408 , 426 , 45 S , 512 , and two bands of music proceeded to the spot . Colonel Campbell having requested the Chaplain to ask a blessing before they proceeded with the work in hand , the Rev . Mr . Simpson offered up a prayer .
Mr . James Miller , manager of Strathclyde Print Works , and president of the society , presented the trowel which bore tlie following inscription : — " Presented to Colonel Campbell of Blythswood by the Glasgow Working Men's
Investment and Building Society ( Limited ) , on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of their first houses . —21 st Feb ., 18 74 . " The foundation stone having been laid in the usual manner .
Colonel Campbell was received with cheers . He said—Mr . Miller and gentlemen , I now declare that this stone has been duiy laid with Masonic honours . I have to thank you , sir , for the kindness with which you have presented me with this most beautiful trowel ; indeed I look
upon it as a reflex of your opinions , and the kind way in which you have spoken of the past will ever be riveted and cemented in my mind . I can assure you that the words of wisdom with which you concluded your remarks will never he forgotten by one who has received such
universal kindness from all and sundry in and around this part where I have the honour and the happiness to live , and I trust no actions of mine , under any circumstances will ever lower the estimation in which I am held at the present moment . ( Cheers . ) I consider it an honour
of no mean character to occupy the position in which you have placed me to-day , and I trust that the foundation stone which we have now laid may be not only figuratively but actually the foundation stone of fortunes yet to be made by those whom I have always been led to
respect , the working classes of this country . ( Cheers . ) I feel , and no one more than I , the misery which un thrift causes to many a home . I have often noticed that in those homes which have not been comfortable unthrift has often been greatest . I trust that this movement ,
which has now been inaugurated here may go on to flourish , and that those whom it is intended to benefit may find in their comfortable homes that their own personal comfort is not the only matter to be thought of , hut also the comfort of their families , and the great future
that must come to us all . ( Cheers . ) I have to thank you again for your great kindness . I know no words of mine can do more at present for the work that is in hand , but I assure you I shall always hold it as a great honour that I have this day been allowed to lay this stone . I shall
not forget it , and I trust , if I am spared , that at all events the Provincial Lodge of Renfrewshire East will ever assist me in helping forward all good works for the furtherance of that which is just , honest , and true . ( Loud cheers , and repeated calls for Dr . Cameron . )
Laying A Foundation Stone In Renfrewshire, East.
Dr . Cameron , M . P ., said I have very great pleasure in taking part in this ceremony , because I have long been convinced of the very great necessity which existed in Glasgow for the provision of proper accommodation for the
working classes . ( Cheers . ) In Glasgow , unfortunately I was going to say , houses have been too substantially built . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The consequence is that they outlast their use . Fashion changes , but the houses
remain , and the house which was admirably adapted for a single family is utterly unsuited to its present use now that it has come to be the receptacle of some forty or fifty families . I have taken great interest in the housing of the poorer
population of Glasgow , and I can assure you , gentlemen , that I have never been more deeply impressed with anything than with the squalor and misery in which a very large portion of our population live . I intended to say a few words
upon the evils of overcrowding , but I myself have suffered so much within the last five minutes —( great laughter)—from overcrowding , and I think you also , gentlemen , must at the present moment be suffering so painfully from those evils , that I need say very little on that
subject . ( Laughter and cheers . ) There was recently a very terrible catastrophe from fire in London , at least so far as loss of property was concerned . A great deal has been said relative to thc fire in the Pantechnicon , and it has been
laid down as a rule which , I think , admits of no contradiction , that if we would have buildings fire proof—if we wish to prevent the spread of fire—we must have the buildings sub-divided by
brick partitions . If we would render our vessels safe against the incursions of the sea , we must provide them with water-tight bulk-heads ; and if we would render our dwelling-houses to any extent fever proof we must provide them with
separate entrances . ( Cheers , and a Voice , " Very good . " ) Earth-works have been found most efficacious in stopping cannon shot , and an outwork of fresh air is the best defence we can have against the artillery of disease . ( Cheers . )
I shall not at this late period of the afternoon detain you upon a subject on which I should much wish to dilate—the subject of the necessity for thrift , and I pass over that the more willingly in consequence of the very pointed and excellent
remarks which have fallen from Colonel Campbell . ( Hear , hear . ) I will say , however , gentlemen , that when a man has acquired one of these houses which you see before you , he must have done so through an amount of
selfsacrifice ancl thrift which will be the best possible moral training which he could undergo . ( Cheers . ) I am not an advocate of meanness or of parsimony , but I thoroughly believe in the advice of our national
poet" An' gather gear by every wile That ' s justilled hy honour . Nor for to hide it in a hedge , Nor for a train-attendant , But for the glorious privilege Of being independent . "
( Cheers . ) It has been said , if we would elevate the working classes , talk as we may of the schoolmaster , we must in the first place seek the assistance of the Mason . Vou have to-day
received the assistance of the Mason , and I am satisfied that in the colony in which the foundation-stone has to-day been laid the schoolmaster will find an honoured place . ( Loud cheers . )
The Rev . Robert Thomson expressed his cordial sympathy with thc movement for the erection of workingmen ' s houses in the outskirts of Glasgow , and observed that as he had lived
45 years in that city he could well coincide with the remarks which had fallen from their gallant friend Col . Campbell and their representative Dr . Cameron . ( Cheers . )
Colonel Campbell and thc members of thc Provincial Grand Lodge then returned to the hall in Rutherglen , where representative of the society thanked them for the services they had so kindly and efficiently performed . The lodge was afterwards closed in due and ancient form .
The Building Of The Temple.
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE .
There is a beautiful significance in thc recorded fact , that no sound of iron tool was heard at the building of the Temple . Tlie stones and the timbers were perfectly squared and finished in the quarries or the forests , and each , when itreached the sacred mountain , intelligibly
marked , was at once fixed in its proper place , without confusion , with silence , celerity and accuracy . A master mind planned and superintended the whole work fit agents were selected to oversee the carrying out of the details and faithful obedience was found in the workmen who
performed the labour . These three were necessary to success : the want of cither would have been fatal . The Temple was both a type and a model . It was a type of the great Temple of God , not made with hands , of which tlie worlds arc the stones , and thc Deity the builder . When
matter hung drear , dark and shapeless in space ; when the worlds were formless and waste , and the Spirit of God brooded over the abyss , the command ofthe Great Architect went forth , and the building of the Temple began . Then , as the design became apparent to celestial minds ,
the " morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy , " because every stone in that wondrous edifice was found to be exactly fitted to the place it was designed to fill . Whether it was the central sun of a system , so vast that its proportions may not be grasped by
human intellect , or the atom so small that the most powerful glass does not bring it to light , all were perfectly finished , and each fixed in its proper place without thc sound of iron tool . The rivers carried to the ocean , and the ocean silently deposited vast accretions of lime and
other stone insects lived by countless millions , and died , and their carcasses formed chalk ; forests of giant ferns grew and fell , and were buried , and formed coal ; volcanic forces thrust the crude metals through the hardening crust to be ready to the hand of man when the proper
time should come . And the worlds whirl in their vast orbits through space ; system upon system wheels on its immeasurable course , regularly , smoothly , silently , irresistibly , because the great Temple was planned by Infinite Wisdom , and constructed by Infinite Power . So
nicely balanced are all these worlds , that no confusion ever takes place . None ever break away from their orbits and fly wildly through space , and none ever sink into and are destroyed by their central sun . But all move smoothly and
certainly" What though in solemn silence all Move round this dark terrestrial ball : What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason ' s car they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing as they shine : '" The hand that made us is divine . '"
The Temple should be a model for every Masonic Lodge . The material selected should be carefully examined to begin with . No unsound stones or timbers can ever do any good . They will only rot or crumble away , and endanger the structure . They should be firm , aud
true and sound ; and they should be carefully fitted , and made perfect ashlars in Lodge of Instruction , so that they will exactly fit their places in the Masonic Temple . They . should be prepared by Prudence and Wisdom , adorned by Charity , and cemented into the Temple by Brotherly Love . A Masonic Temple , built of
such material , so fashioned , so adorned , and so cemented , will stand all the storms of adversity and all the assaults of enmity . It hath its foundation sure ; peace is within its walls , and prosperity within its gates . Its labours are labours of love , and its works , seen and known of men , bring it honour , and insure to it peace and prosperity . — The Craftsman .
THE Soci _ Ti ' i ROYALE DES SAUVETEURS DE BELGIQUE . —The Royal Humane Society of Belgium has conferred upon Major C . J . Burgess the title of Membre Honoraire , with the Silver Medal of the Society .