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Pro Grand Master . It is no doubt an excellent appointment of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , for the Earl of Carnarvon has done good suit and service during the time he has been Pro Grand Master , and he is known and respected by all . So far as the Deputy Grand Master is concerned I can speak of him and say we have all a warm affection and regard for him . He is ever ready to be present on behalf of duty , to fulfil his task with zeal and
with discretion , and he is always at the right hand of the M . W . G . M . to succour and assist him in the various duties he had to fulfil . The other officers who have to-day attained the high privilege of being officers of Grand Lodge of England , I congratulate them on receiving the nomination of H . R . H . for he has not only selected brethren of great repute and hig h estimation both in this great province of London , but in the provinces of the country . His Roval Highness has gone far afield to introduce
among his brethren who have worked hard and done past service in the cause of Freemasonry wherever they had been . One among them has worked very hard in the Province of Yorkshire and done for Freemasonry good to such an extent that he stands AI in the records of honest hardworking Masons . ( Cheers . ) I am quite sure that the Grand Master has made the best selection possible in his choice of Grand Officers for the year . ( Renewed cheers . )
Sir J B . MONCKTON , P . G . D ., President of the Board of General Purposes , in proposing "The R . W . Prov . Grand Masters , " said I have a toast to offer you brethren which indeed needs no words from me to commend it to your attention . I propose to you that we drink " The Health of the Provincial and District Grand Masters , " brethren who are known and
esteemed among us . Your M . W . G . M . in the chair , is the senior of the English Grand Masters , and I only obey his orders when I place this toast before you . I pass over Bro . Sandeman , who is a District Grand Master hailing from the other side of the world ( Bengal ) , very highly esteemed by us all , in order that I may come nearer home and connect this toast with the much loved name of Bro . Sir Francis Burdett , and I am sure you will heartily
respond to it , and I leave it in your hands . ( Cheers . ) Sir F . BURDETT , in reply , said : I thank you very much for the very kind and enthusiastic manner in which you have received this toast ; it almost places me in a position to say I am unable to return thanks for it in the manner I should wish to do . You have so kindly accepted the toast that I feel that I cannot respond to it in the manner which it most deserves
I now am deputed to represent a very large body of brethren—a body that presides over the greater part of this country . The country is divided into large districts and those districts are presided over by Prov . Grand Masters and Deputy Prov . Grand Masters . We can include among the Prov . Grand Masters the highest members in the Craft . The Earl of Carnarvon 3 nd the Earl of Lathom they come among us
and they do their duty to the Craft , though there are other duties which fall upon them . They do their duty satisfactorily to all the brethren in their provinces . There are very few of the Order who are not in some way or other associated or connected with the Prov . Grand Masters , and I feel very much gratified in having now the opportunity of thanking all those brethren for the kind support they give to their Prov . Grand Masters .
There are very few here who are not connected with some province or other . Those who are in the London District are now giving their allegiance to the Grand Master , but those in the country are supporting their Grand Masters satisfactorily to them . It might be thought a difficult matter to control all those we have under us , but as long as I have held the
position I now hold I have never received anything but the greatest kindness and kindly support from the brethren who are associated with me . ( Cheers . ) I thank you very much indeed in the name of the Provincial Grand Masters and District Grand Masters here present for the very kind and hearty manner in which you have received this toast . ( Cheers ) .
Bro . H . D . SANDEMAN , Prov . Grand Master , Bengal : Brethren , in proposing the toast which has been placed in my hands- I must beg of you not to be frightened as I intend to address you very briefly , in fact , in the shortest possible manner compatible with the toast . I ask you to drink to " The Health of the Worshipful Brother who has presided over you this evening . " ( Cheers . ) He is well-known among us here ; he is well-known as an active supporter of our Charities , and he is
wellknown as one who has frequently presided at our meetings ; but he is even more known in his own Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight where , I believe , the lodges number 40 , and it is second to very few in the kingdom . ( Cheers . ) In words which you will easily recognise , he is courteous in manner , easy of address , steady and firm in principle , able and willing to take the management of the work . I ask you , therefore , to drink his health . ( Cheers ) .
The GRAND MASTER in the chair : Bro . Sandeman and Brethren : beg to thank you most cordially and most sincerely for the very kind reception you have given this toast which has been so fraternally proposed . It was at a moment ' s notice that I was called upon to take this chair . I had little thought of doing it when I entered Grand Lodge , but being called upon to perform this duty I could not refuse , and I always found that
when a brother is called upon to perform a Masonic duty he is sure to receive the most cordial assistance from those who are present when he attempts to discharge it . Having dual duties to perform , partly in the country and partly in the metropolis , I necessarily cannot confine my Masonic duties entirely to my own province , but I feel it a great duty to perform some of those Masonic duties in London , and the consequence is that I have made the
friendship of many brethren with whom otherwise I might not have been so intimately associated . I can only thank them and thank you all individually and collectively for the very kind things you have said this evening as to the discharge of my duties as chairman . The Rev . H . G . MORSE , G . C .: Brethren , I have entrusted to me a duty which is not a difficult one , but I don't know why I have been chosen
to perform it unless it be for the reason that the young horse should be worked . And although I am by no means a young horse in Masonry , I have the honour of being received this evening among you as a Grand Officer , and I suppose that is the reason of making the young one work . The toast I have to propose is that of " The Masonic Charities . " I should be offering an insult not only to the Grand Lodge of England , but to every
brother Mason if I presumed I was required to talk at any length upon such a subject ; but I may be permitted to say that this evening while we have been listening to the wonderful progress our Order is making not only in our own land , but in all other lands , we may also I think congratulate ourselves here in England when we take account of the progress which the Masonic Charities are making . . ( Cheers . ) It will be a bad day for English Masonry when that progress ceases —( cheers)—and I think I may say , Most Worshipful Sir , that whatever other wonders this Grand Lodge of England
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or other Grand Lodges are working in the world , there is no greater than the magnificent Chanties which it is our privilege to support . ( Cheers . ) I think I may say , Sir , that if the Royal Solomon could come back and see what his Royal successor in the chair is doing in this kingdom of his , nothing would surprise him more than the magnificent Charities which it is our privilege to support . ( Hear , hear . ) Without further words I give you " The Masonic Charities , " and I will couple this toast with the name of Bro . Frank Richardson . ( Cheers . )
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D ., House Committeeman Girls'School , said : R . W . Prov . Grand Master and brethren , in the absence of the representatives of the three Charities , I feel it a very great honour as one of the House Committee of the Girls ' s School to be called upon to reply to this toast—I may say this important toast—because the toast of the Masonic Charities of this country , charities where the brethren together can collect
as much as ^ , 40 , 000 a yearmust bean important toast . ( Cheers . ) It must be a great satisfaction , R . W . Prov . G . M ., to the Masonic brethren to know the number of old Freemasons and their wives , whose last days they assisted in making comfortable , as well as the number of children that they are enabling to bring up with a good education , so as to enable them to start in life as honest and industrious individuals . The festival of
the old people has passed , and a very abundant festival they had ; but the festival of the Girls' School and of the Boys' School are now about to take place . The first one on the list is that of the Girls' School . I am quite sure that any brother who has been down to the Institution and has seen it must take a great interest in the welfare of those children , and in the happiness which is visible among them . ( Cheers . ) I
believe the same thing exists with regard to the Boys' School . ( Hear , hear . ) I know that both Institutions are well and ably governed , and I do hope , brethren , that in the coming festivals , in which you will be called upon to take a part , the subscriptions to be received and announced at those festivals will not fall short of those previously announced . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) It is impossible for us to relax our efforts . Year by year we have
greater claims upon our Charities , and , therefore , year by vear we shall want larger sums to keep up those Charities properly . ( Hear , " hear . ) On behalf of those Charities I thank you most cordially . ( Cheers . ) The GRAND MASTER in the chair : Brethren , we have had the pleasure this evening of drinking the health of the representatives of other Grand
Lodges ; but there are other visitors who do not come under this head ; and I am sure you will be glad to show them that you appreciate their presence here , and gladly to drink their health , more especially as on that occasion we had no opportunity of drinking the health of any representatives from Ireland . I am glad to be able to couple with this toast the names of Bros . Macnamara and Professor Galbraith . ( Cheers . )
Bro . MACNAMARA : M . W . G . M . in the chair , there are two subjects connected with this toast which demand the attention of every Mason , and I am happy in my own person to be able to return you my most sincere thanks for the two in combination which I have met—one is that of hospitality , and I thank you exceedingly for the noble display and kind manner to myself individually , and to my country in which you have received me . Believe
me , Masonry , one of the best institutions in the world , is one of the great institutions that exists in Ireland , one of the institutions that claims loyalty to the Crown as one of its greatest aims . ( Cheers . ) There'is not throughout the length and breadth of that great land a single man who is a Mason who is not a loyal supporter of the Crown and a devoted adherent of His Royal Highness and the distinguished lady who has once
honoured us with her presence —( hear , hear , and cheers)—who are loved through the length and breadth of the land . There is one other subject , that is the splendid Masonic Charities of this country . I had the distinguished honour to be received at the Girls' School last Thursday , and if ever conceit was knocked out of any man completely and entirely , it was the conceit that we could do anything in Ireland like that , when I perceived the noble
Institution which your generosity had instituted and carried out ; and allow me to compliment you on the children you have there ; allow me to compliment you upon every single measure connected with it , whether it is the generous and courteous kind way in which you receive any one who goes down to visit , and the nice pleasant affectionate looking girls that you see there , and the admirable way their governesses so throurrh and discharge
their duties . ( Hear , hear . ) I can assure you I never spent in my life a happier day than I did last Thursday when I visited the Girls' School . ( Cheers . ) I hope I have taken some lessons home to my own country from it , but however that may be , I now thank you for the splendid Masonry I see represented before me on the present occasion . ( Cheers . ) Professor GALBRAITH : M . W . Sir and brethren of the Grand Lodge of England , it is a common thing for speakers to say they are taken by
surprise when called upon to address a meeting , but I think I may say on this occasion that I am so taken by surprise , because all that could be said and well said by men coming from our country have been already said by Bro . Macnamara . I have nothing to add except to say that my heart overflows with gratitude for the reception we have met with at the hands of our English brethren . I feel very happy indeed to be able to take
ample revenge in Dublin if any of you should honour us with your presence . Bro . Capt . BESLEY : I have to say that I am surprised , although my friend from Ireland said we should not be surprised ; but I am . I am not in the habit of making speeches . The men in the habit of making speeches in America are behind me ( referring to the Irish brethren , Bros . Macnamara and Galbraith ) . There was a slight error in what was said by the
distinguished brother from Nova Scotia : 500 , 000 Masons we have ; but I have just gone from San Francisco to New York , and from New York to Manitoba , and there were about 600 , 000 who pressed me by the hand , Time obliterates many things , but Masons are the same throughout the world ; and American Masons have always been ready to receive Masons from all parts of the world , and particularly English Masons , for fro
we sprung m you . ( Hear , hear and cheers . ) Worshipful Sir , I beg you will excuse me , for I am not in the habit of making speeches and I am taken by surprise . ( Cheers . ) Tho GRAND MASTER in the chair : Brethren , at the close of our proceedings in this hall there is one toast we are especiall y bound to drink . I think we must all feel grateful to those who have taken the trouble upon themselves of arranging for the magnificent festival we have nartaken of .
and also congratulate them on the manner in which they have performed their duties of Grand Stewards during the past year . We know very well that the office of Grand Steward is a very honourable one ; very often it leads to higher promotion afterwards ; but at all events we congratulate them upon the admirable way they have discharged their duties in the past , and hope that their Masonic positions may not end with what they are relinquishing this day . ( Cheers . )
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Grand Festival.
Pro Grand Master . It is no doubt an excellent appointment of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , for the Earl of Carnarvon has done good suit and service during the time he has been Pro Grand Master , and he is known and respected by all . So far as the Deputy Grand Master is concerned I can speak of him and say we have all a warm affection and regard for him . He is ever ready to be present on behalf of duty , to fulfil his task with zeal and
with discretion , and he is always at the right hand of the M . W . G . M . to succour and assist him in the various duties he had to fulfil . The other officers who have to-day attained the high privilege of being officers of Grand Lodge of England , I congratulate them on receiving the nomination of H . R . H . for he has not only selected brethren of great repute and hig h estimation both in this great province of London , but in the provinces of the country . His Roval Highness has gone far afield to introduce
among his brethren who have worked hard and done past service in the cause of Freemasonry wherever they had been . One among them has worked very hard in the Province of Yorkshire and done for Freemasonry good to such an extent that he stands AI in the records of honest hardworking Masons . ( Cheers . ) I am quite sure that the Grand Master has made the best selection possible in his choice of Grand Officers for the year . ( Renewed cheers . )
Sir J B . MONCKTON , P . G . D ., President of the Board of General Purposes , in proposing "The R . W . Prov . Grand Masters , " said I have a toast to offer you brethren which indeed needs no words from me to commend it to your attention . I propose to you that we drink " The Health of the Provincial and District Grand Masters , " brethren who are known and
esteemed among us . Your M . W . G . M . in the chair , is the senior of the English Grand Masters , and I only obey his orders when I place this toast before you . I pass over Bro . Sandeman , who is a District Grand Master hailing from the other side of the world ( Bengal ) , very highly esteemed by us all , in order that I may come nearer home and connect this toast with the much loved name of Bro . Sir Francis Burdett , and I am sure you will heartily
respond to it , and I leave it in your hands . ( Cheers . ) Sir F . BURDETT , in reply , said : I thank you very much for the very kind and enthusiastic manner in which you have received this toast ; it almost places me in a position to say I am unable to return thanks for it in the manner I should wish to do . You have so kindly accepted the toast that I feel that I cannot respond to it in the manner which it most deserves
I now am deputed to represent a very large body of brethren—a body that presides over the greater part of this country . The country is divided into large districts and those districts are presided over by Prov . Grand Masters and Deputy Prov . Grand Masters . We can include among the Prov . Grand Masters the highest members in the Craft . The Earl of Carnarvon 3 nd the Earl of Lathom they come among us
and they do their duty to the Craft , though there are other duties which fall upon them . They do their duty satisfactorily to all the brethren in their provinces . There are very few of the Order who are not in some way or other associated or connected with the Prov . Grand Masters , and I feel very much gratified in having now the opportunity of thanking all those brethren for the kind support they give to their Prov . Grand Masters .
There are very few here who are not connected with some province or other . Those who are in the London District are now giving their allegiance to the Grand Master , but those in the country are supporting their Grand Masters satisfactorily to them . It might be thought a difficult matter to control all those we have under us , but as long as I have held the
position I now hold I have never received anything but the greatest kindness and kindly support from the brethren who are associated with me . ( Cheers . ) I thank you very much indeed in the name of the Provincial Grand Masters and District Grand Masters here present for the very kind and hearty manner in which you have received this toast . ( Cheers ) .
Bro . H . D . SANDEMAN , Prov . Grand Master , Bengal : Brethren , in proposing the toast which has been placed in my hands- I must beg of you not to be frightened as I intend to address you very briefly , in fact , in the shortest possible manner compatible with the toast . I ask you to drink to " The Health of the Worshipful Brother who has presided over you this evening . " ( Cheers . ) He is well-known among us here ; he is well-known as an active supporter of our Charities , and he is
wellknown as one who has frequently presided at our meetings ; but he is even more known in his own Province of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight where , I believe , the lodges number 40 , and it is second to very few in the kingdom . ( Cheers . ) In words which you will easily recognise , he is courteous in manner , easy of address , steady and firm in principle , able and willing to take the management of the work . I ask you , therefore , to drink his health . ( Cheers ) .
The GRAND MASTER in the chair : Bro . Sandeman and Brethren : beg to thank you most cordially and most sincerely for the very kind reception you have given this toast which has been so fraternally proposed . It was at a moment ' s notice that I was called upon to take this chair . I had little thought of doing it when I entered Grand Lodge , but being called upon to perform this duty I could not refuse , and I always found that
when a brother is called upon to perform a Masonic duty he is sure to receive the most cordial assistance from those who are present when he attempts to discharge it . Having dual duties to perform , partly in the country and partly in the metropolis , I necessarily cannot confine my Masonic duties entirely to my own province , but I feel it a great duty to perform some of those Masonic duties in London , and the consequence is that I have made the
friendship of many brethren with whom otherwise I might not have been so intimately associated . I can only thank them and thank you all individually and collectively for the very kind things you have said this evening as to the discharge of my duties as chairman . The Rev . H . G . MORSE , G . C .: Brethren , I have entrusted to me a duty which is not a difficult one , but I don't know why I have been chosen
to perform it unless it be for the reason that the young horse should be worked . And although I am by no means a young horse in Masonry , I have the honour of being received this evening among you as a Grand Officer , and I suppose that is the reason of making the young one work . The toast I have to propose is that of " The Masonic Charities . " I should be offering an insult not only to the Grand Lodge of England , but to every
brother Mason if I presumed I was required to talk at any length upon such a subject ; but I may be permitted to say that this evening while we have been listening to the wonderful progress our Order is making not only in our own land , but in all other lands , we may also I think congratulate ourselves here in England when we take account of the progress which the Masonic Charities are making . . ( Cheers . ) It will be a bad day for English Masonry when that progress ceases —( cheers)—and I think I may say , Most Worshipful Sir , that whatever other wonders this Grand Lodge of England
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or other Grand Lodges are working in the world , there is no greater than the magnificent Chanties which it is our privilege to support . ( Cheers . ) I think I may say , Sir , that if the Royal Solomon could come back and see what his Royal successor in the chair is doing in this kingdom of his , nothing would surprise him more than the magnificent Charities which it is our privilege to support . ( Hear , hear . ) Without further words I give you " The Masonic Charities , " and I will couple this toast with the name of Bro . Frank Richardson . ( Cheers . )
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D ., House Committeeman Girls'School , said : R . W . Prov . Grand Master and brethren , in the absence of the representatives of the three Charities , I feel it a very great honour as one of the House Committee of the Girls ' s School to be called upon to reply to this toast—I may say this important toast—because the toast of the Masonic Charities of this country , charities where the brethren together can collect
as much as ^ , 40 , 000 a yearmust bean important toast . ( Cheers . ) It must be a great satisfaction , R . W . Prov . G . M ., to the Masonic brethren to know the number of old Freemasons and their wives , whose last days they assisted in making comfortable , as well as the number of children that they are enabling to bring up with a good education , so as to enable them to start in life as honest and industrious individuals . The festival of
the old people has passed , and a very abundant festival they had ; but the festival of the Girls' School and of the Boys' School are now about to take place . The first one on the list is that of the Girls' School . I am quite sure that any brother who has been down to the Institution and has seen it must take a great interest in the welfare of those children , and in the happiness which is visible among them . ( Cheers . ) I
believe the same thing exists with regard to the Boys' School . ( Hear , hear . ) I know that both Institutions are well and ably governed , and I do hope , brethren , that in the coming festivals , in which you will be called upon to take a part , the subscriptions to be received and announced at those festivals will not fall short of those previously announced . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) It is impossible for us to relax our efforts . Year by year we have
greater claims upon our Charities , and , therefore , year by vear we shall want larger sums to keep up those Charities properly . ( Hear , " hear . ) On behalf of those Charities I thank you most cordially . ( Cheers . ) The GRAND MASTER in the chair : Brethren , we have had the pleasure this evening of drinking the health of the representatives of other Grand
Lodges ; but there are other visitors who do not come under this head ; and I am sure you will be glad to show them that you appreciate their presence here , and gladly to drink their health , more especially as on that occasion we had no opportunity of drinking the health of any representatives from Ireland . I am glad to be able to couple with this toast the names of Bros . Macnamara and Professor Galbraith . ( Cheers . )
Bro . MACNAMARA : M . W . G . M . in the chair , there are two subjects connected with this toast which demand the attention of every Mason , and I am happy in my own person to be able to return you my most sincere thanks for the two in combination which I have met—one is that of hospitality , and I thank you exceedingly for the noble display and kind manner to myself individually , and to my country in which you have received me . Believe
me , Masonry , one of the best institutions in the world , is one of the great institutions that exists in Ireland , one of the institutions that claims loyalty to the Crown as one of its greatest aims . ( Cheers . ) There'is not throughout the length and breadth of that great land a single man who is a Mason who is not a loyal supporter of the Crown and a devoted adherent of His Royal Highness and the distinguished lady who has once
honoured us with her presence —( hear , hear , and cheers)—who are loved through the length and breadth of the land . There is one other subject , that is the splendid Masonic Charities of this country . I had the distinguished honour to be received at the Girls' School last Thursday , and if ever conceit was knocked out of any man completely and entirely , it was the conceit that we could do anything in Ireland like that , when I perceived the noble
Institution which your generosity had instituted and carried out ; and allow me to compliment you on the children you have there ; allow me to compliment you upon every single measure connected with it , whether it is the generous and courteous kind way in which you receive any one who goes down to visit , and the nice pleasant affectionate looking girls that you see there , and the admirable way their governesses so throurrh and discharge
their duties . ( Hear , hear . ) I can assure you I never spent in my life a happier day than I did last Thursday when I visited the Girls' School . ( Cheers . ) I hope I have taken some lessons home to my own country from it , but however that may be , I now thank you for the splendid Masonry I see represented before me on the present occasion . ( Cheers . ) Professor GALBRAITH : M . W . Sir and brethren of the Grand Lodge of England , it is a common thing for speakers to say they are taken by
surprise when called upon to address a meeting , but I think I may say on this occasion that I am so taken by surprise , because all that could be said and well said by men coming from our country have been already said by Bro . Macnamara . I have nothing to add except to say that my heart overflows with gratitude for the reception we have met with at the hands of our English brethren . I feel very happy indeed to be able to take
ample revenge in Dublin if any of you should honour us with your presence . Bro . Capt . BESLEY : I have to say that I am surprised , although my friend from Ireland said we should not be surprised ; but I am . I am not in the habit of making speeches . The men in the habit of making speeches in America are behind me ( referring to the Irish brethren , Bros . Macnamara and Galbraith ) . There was a slight error in what was said by the
distinguished brother from Nova Scotia : 500 , 000 Masons we have ; but I have just gone from San Francisco to New York , and from New York to Manitoba , and there were about 600 , 000 who pressed me by the hand , Time obliterates many things , but Masons are the same throughout the world ; and American Masons have always been ready to receive Masons from all parts of the world , and particularly English Masons , for fro
we sprung m you . ( Hear , hear and cheers . ) Worshipful Sir , I beg you will excuse me , for I am not in the habit of making speeches and I am taken by surprise . ( Cheers . ) Tho GRAND MASTER in the chair : Brethren , at the close of our proceedings in this hall there is one toast we are especiall y bound to drink . I think we must all feel grateful to those who have taken the trouble upon themselves of arranging for the magnificent festival we have nartaken of .
and also congratulate them on the manner in which they have performed their duties of Grand Stewards during the past year . We know very well that the office of Grand Steward is a very honourable one ; very often it leads to higher promotion afterwards ; but at all events we congratulate them upon the admirable way they have discharged their duties in the past , and hope that their Masonic positions may not end with what they are relinquishing this day . ( Cheers . )