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concrete , to see an inferior game of cricket carried on by second-rate performers rather than to watch those famous athletes , who , in their almost inimitable excellency , have lent such prestige to our good , old national game . On sentimental grounds a good deal may be said in favour of the impromptu school and village matchwith its failures and success , its good luck and its
, ill-fortune , its correct and its bad play . Some of us may recall Miss MITPORD ' S account of a cricket match in the charming pages of " Our Village , " and all the glories and disgraces of that great encounter , or the facetious deliverances of a Wykehamist , anent public school matches at Lords . But that those who like cricket or understand cricket should be
compelled to see or prefer bad cricket to good , second-hand to first-rate cricket , under any conceivable circumstances or on any concievable grounds , is what ' « a fellah can ' t understand . " And then , by a confusion of ideas and arguments , which wc confess we should not have expected to find in Knowledge , moral arguments are pressed in to strengthen the " argumentum
ad homines . " This is a proceeding , surely , often wittily condemned by Knowledge itself , and inadmissible in pure scientific reasoning . That Messrs / s-ru on , STEELE , HORNBY , " cum niultis aliis , " have , in order to attain their excellency in cricket , given up time and thought which might have been offered to higher ends is in itself a " petitio principii , " and is
utterly beside the question . The writer , of the article can neither fairly guage or fitly decide such a question . If cricket is to be played at all , the more scientifically it is played the better for cricketers themselves and for the progress of the " noble art ; " but to take the high moral line on such a question is not only , as we said just now , a mere
begging of the question , but a confession of the e . xtremest weakness . Indeed , if the argument of the writer is good for anything , it must tend against the doing well of any amusement qua an amusement ; whereas , we have been led to believe that all such views of human life and action were based on an absurd and , let us trust , expiring fanaticism , and of the least likely places to
see them reproduced , we should have , offhand , declared Knowledge to be that "locale . " There are , we all admit , " amusements and amusements , " but there is abstractedly no more difference between the scientific developemcnt
of a chess problem , a game of whist , a mathematical puzzle , or an astronomical or arch .-eological " crux , " ( as a mental discipline or effort ) , than there is in a scientifically p layed game of cricket , alike the outcome of scientific developemcnt and corporeal energy .
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Hertfordshire.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF HERTFORDSHIRE .
The annual meeting of this province was held at Hertford on Wednesday last , and was very numerously attended . The Prov . Grand Master , Bro , T . F . Halsey , M . ' P ., presided ; and the following officers were appointed : Bro . F . H . Wilson lies , 404 . ... ¦• - Prov . D . G . M . „ J . E . Cussans , 403 - - - £ rov- S-G \ ™ - „ W . H . Hobson , 504 ... ... ... Prov . LG . W . „ Rev . Lewis Deedes , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . Chap . Rev . C . C . Ewbank , 449 ... ... Prov . G . Chap .
„ „ F . Sumner Knyvett , 404 ... ... ... Prov . G . Ireas . „ R . B . Croft , 403 - - - £ - G- Reg . „ John E . Dawson , 404 ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . „ Frederick Levick , 404 ... ... Prov . S . G . D . „ W . E . Gompertz , jun ., S 6 9 ... ... Prov . J G . D . J . S . Taylor 409 ... ... •• Prov . G . S . of W
„ , „ James Terry , 1327 ... ... - P / ov . G . D C . „ George F . Cook , 1508 ... ... Prov . G . A . D . C . „ John Fisher , 1327 * ... ... ... Prov . G . Swd . B „ E . R . P . Francis , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . „ Thomas Woodman , 1 757 ... ... Prov . G . Purst . „ Frank Hall , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Purst
,, Samuel Neale , 403 „ Frederick Taylor , 403 „ Alex . J . Small , 403 ... ... - f . Prov . G . Stwds „ Joseph Hunt , 403 ... ... . 1 „ \ V . J * . Morris ... ... ... \ „ T . D . Medcalf ... ... -J „ Thomas Wright , 503 ... ... ... Prov . G ; Tyler . „ Charles Thomas , 1580 ... ... ... Prov . G . Tyler . A full report of the proceedings will appear in our next .
Province Of Wiltshire.
PROVINCE OF WILTSHIRE .
CONSECRATION OF A MASONIC HALL AT DEVIZES The Devizes brethren have long felt the want of a home of their own , and at last an opportunity offering of purchasing the building in Morris'slane , formerly occupied as a girl's school , the Devizes Lodge became the purchasers , and the building , under the direction of , and after plans prepared by the W . M . of the lodge , Bro . J . A . Randell , has been transformed into a most complete and elegant lodge-room . The walls have been allowed
to remain intact , each end wall being raised , so as to allow of the substitution of a much higher pitched roof than the former one . The roof-timbers spring from solid foundations on the ground , thus bearing the greater part of the weight of the roof , and rendering the old walls adequate for their purpose . The lodge is approached through an entrance lobby , inside which is the Tyler ' s roo . n , there being doors from the latter into the lodge-room
itself , and also into a good-sized room which will serve as a committee-room , preparation-room , & c . The walls of the lodge-room are painted in two colours , the wood work of the open roof being varnished . There is a pointed geometrical window in each end wall , filled in with some opaque and tinted glass . The floor has a slightly raised dais on either side , with a still higher elevation at the east end . the sunk central position of the floor being tesselated in black and svhite .
A Provincial Grand Lodge of Emergency was held at Devizes on Wednesday the 19 th insc . The R . W . Prov . G . M ., Lord Methuen , was in the chair , and was supported by the following brethren :
Province Of Wiltshire.
Bros . F . H . Goldney , P . G . St ., P . G . Treas ., as D . P . G . M . ; R . Stokes , P . P . S . G . W ., asP . S . G . W . ; T . Graham , P . P . J . G . W ., as J . W . ; Rev . J . A . Lloyd , P . G . Chap . ; F . Ponting , P . G . Reg . ; Henry C . Tombs , P . G . O ., P . G . Sec . ; Col . Magrath , P . j . G . D . ; John Chandler , P . P . S . G . W ., P . G . D . C . ; Dr . W . D . Lovell , P . G . A . D . C . j H . Simpson , P . G . S . B . ; James Sparks , P . G . O . ; A . ] . Beaven , P . G . P . ; andG . W . Collen , P . G . A . P . Amongst the visitors were Bros . Sir F . Burdett , P . G . W ., R . W . P . G . M . Middx . ; Robt . Bradley , P . G . Sec . Berks and Bucks ; G . F . Tuckey , P . P . S . G . D .
Bristol ; W . H . Dill , P . P . G . P . Somerset , and others . There were also present a large number of Pas . t Grand Officers of the province , including Bros . T . H . Chandler , P . P . S . G . W . ; W . Nott , P . P . J . G . W . ; Rev . G . E . Gardiner , P . P . G . Chap . ; J . L . Whatley , P . P . S . G . D . ; S . Gauntlett , P . P . J . G . D . ; E . B . Merriman , P . P . G . S . oi W . j A . Browne , P . P . G . S . of \ V . ; j . Carter , P . P . G . S . B . ; W . S . Bambridge , P . P . G . O . ; W . H . Brinkworth , P . P . G . O . ; S . M . Badharn , P . P . G . O . ; Edwin Eyres , P . P . G . P . ; and W . M . ' s and P . M . ' s and brethren of the various lodges in the province .
The local lodge ( theWiltshire Lodge of Fidelity ' , No . 663 ) having been opened in the Three Degrees , the R . W . the Provincial Grand Master and the Provincial Grand Lodge were received with the customary honours . Lord Methuen , having assumed the chair , at once opened the Provincial Grand Lodge , the first business according to the summons being the consecration and dedication of the new Masonic Hall for the Wiltshire Lodge of Fidelity , No . 663 , Devizes . Before proceeding with the ceremony , his Lordship
remarked that it gave him great pleasure to be present on such an occasion , and to recognise the liberality' and zeal on the part of the Devizes brethren , without which the beautiful hall in which they then were could not have been provided , and it showed how much the true Masonic feeling was extending in Wiltshire . The Devizes district was always amongst the foremost in that Masonic feeling , and he congratulated the province on the fact that so many of the lodges had already provided themselves with homes
of their own -, and he trusted that the distinguished example this day set would not be lost on the other lodges who had as yet not been able to provide buildings of their own . His lordship thanked the brethren for asking him to consecrate this new building , but wished to apologise to them for leaving early , as he would be obliged to do , in consequence of being called to London on matters connected with his military duties . His lordship then called upon the Provincial Grand Chaplain to deliver an oration , as was usual on such occasions .
The Provincial Grand Ghaplain , the Rev . J . A . Lloyd , in response , commenced by congratulating the energetic brethren of Devizes on having brought to so satisfactory a termination their endeavour to secure a building in Devizes which should be devoted solely to Masonic purposes , and hoped that hall would long continue the home and centre of true Masonic principles . Masonry , he said , was confessedly a universal system , teaching the relative and social duties of man upon the broad basis of general philanthropy , nor
might it be concluded that Masonry contained no religion . It assumed , as a foundation , a belief in the existence of God , and in a future state of reward and punishment , and the necessity of moral purity as a qualification for future happiness . There were many popular errors about Freemasonry ; but Freemasons ever indignantly repudiated the reproach that because they are a secret society their existence was inimical to good government . In the last century , when an outburst of sentiment forbade the existence of any
secret society , Freemasonry was especially exempted ; and in these days much less could any imputation be cast when we have two Royal Dukes holding high office in the Craft , and the future heir to the throne as our Worshipful Grand Master , and when Her Most Gracious Majesty herself has become a patron of one of the Benevolent Institutions of the Order . The fact was that Masonry left us almost on the threshold of religion . No man could be a true Mason who was not earnestly seeking after truth , and
who did not believe in the existence of a God . Masonic symbolism led us from the contemplation of His glorious works to adore the Great Architect himself . The reverend brother then drew attention to the special moral and religious teachings of the several degrees in Freemasonry , deducing therefrom the conclusion that Masonry , which has virtue as its aim , and the glory of God for its object , is the handmaid of religion , and , if practised with this fundamental principle in view , may assist us in profitably running the race
which is set before us on this earth . Before concluding , he ventured to impress upon the brethren the great caution which ought continually to be shown in the selection of new members of the order ; for at the present time , as Freemasonry is able to offer great material advantages , many seek to become Freemasons very much with a view to what they can get out of it . It therefore behoved us all , as Masons , to watch carefully that none should be accepted for initiation except such as seemed likely to reflect credit and
lustre on the craft . The responsibilities of a conscientious Mason were not light ; but he was convinced that the older we grew the more we should find that Freemasonry had a meaning and importance to us all alike , that it increased kindly sympathy , that it gave us many an hour of profitable pursuit with happy and innocent companionship , and that it gave us hope and cheered us in time of sorrow . And if we must look back ( as we must sometimes do ) regretfully , on vacant places and vanished forms—if we recalled ,
with a sigh , some who had often been at our side in lodge and cheered us with a genuine and unfailing welcome , but who had then passed away from our sight — amongst others , the recollection of one whose memory was thus bright and happy must rise before them that day , their recently deceased brother John Toomer , a P . S . G . W . of the province , whom they had all thought and hoped to have seen among them at that interesting
ceremony . If , be said , regretful memories would come , such wc knew were ever the accompaniment of mortal life and mortal strivings ; and wc , who had learnt wisdom from our Masonic lore , would ever remember that though in the good Providence of the G . A . O . T . U . such things were , they but added to—they seemed only to increase the individual sense of our own present privileges—the value and lasting character of Masonic association and the kindliness and genuineness of true Masonic friendship .
An anthem having been sung , it was followed by the consecration prayer by the Provincial Grand Chaplain , who afterwards carried the censer thrice round the hall .
The elements of consecration were then borne round by three P . M . 's , the corn being carried by Bro . Robert Stokes , P . P . S . G . W . ; the wine by Bro . Thomas Graham , P . P . J . G . W . ; and the oil b y ^ Bro . William Nott ,
P . f . J . G . W . After the first round the Provincial Grand Master , sprinkling the hall with corn , dedicated it to Masonry ; after the second round , sprinkling it with wine , he dedicated it to virtue ; and after the third time , receiving the ewer of oil and anointing the hall therefrom , he dedicated it to universal benevolence .
The usual collection of alms took place , followed by the P . G . M . scattering salt , as an embl em of hospitality and friendship . After the dedication prayer by the Provincial Grand Chaplain , the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master declared the hall consecrated and dedicated to Masonry according to ancient form . An anthem was then
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concrete , to see an inferior game of cricket carried on by second-rate performers rather than to watch those famous athletes , who , in their almost inimitable excellency , have lent such prestige to our good , old national game . On sentimental grounds a good deal may be said in favour of the impromptu school and village matchwith its failures and success , its good luck and its
, ill-fortune , its correct and its bad play . Some of us may recall Miss MITPORD ' S account of a cricket match in the charming pages of " Our Village , " and all the glories and disgraces of that great encounter , or the facetious deliverances of a Wykehamist , anent public school matches at Lords . But that those who like cricket or understand cricket should be
compelled to see or prefer bad cricket to good , second-hand to first-rate cricket , under any conceivable circumstances or on any concievable grounds , is what ' « a fellah can ' t understand . " And then , by a confusion of ideas and arguments , which wc confess we should not have expected to find in Knowledge , moral arguments are pressed in to strengthen the " argumentum
ad homines . " This is a proceeding , surely , often wittily condemned by Knowledge itself , and inadmissible in pure scientific reasoning . That Messrs / s-ru on , STEELE , HORNBY , " cum niultis aliis , " have , in order to attain their excellency in cricket , given up time and thought which might have been offered to higher ends is in itself a " petitio principii , " and is
utterly beside the question . The writer , of the article can neither fairly guage or fitly decide such a question . If cricket is to be played at all , the more scientifically it is played the better for cricketers themselves and for the progress of the " noble art ; " but to take the high moral line on such a question is not only , as we said just now , a mere
begging of the question , but a confession of the e . xtremest weakness . Indeed , if the argument of the writer is good for anything , it must tend against the doing well of any amusement qua an amusement ; whereas , we have been led to believe that all such views of human life and action were based on an absurd and , let us trust , expiring fanaticism , and of the least likely places to
see them reproduced , we should have , offhand , declared Knowledge to be that "locale . " There are , we all admit , " amusements and amusements , " but there is abstractedly no more difference between the scientific developemcnt
of a chess problem , a game of whist , a mathematical puzzle , or an astronomical or arch .-eological " crux , " ( as a mental discipline or effort ) , than there is in a scientifically p layed game of cricket , alike the outcome of scientific developemcnt and corporeal energy .
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Hertfordshire.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF HERTFORDSHIRE .
The annual meeting of this province was held at Hertford on Wednesday last , and was very numerously attended . The Prov . Grand Master , Bro , T . F . Halsey , M . ' P ., presided ; and the following officers were appointed : Bro . F . H . Wilson lies , 404 . ... ¦• - Prov . D . G . M . „ J . E . Cussans , 403 - - - £ rov- S-G \ ™ - „ W . H . Hobson , 504 ... ... ... Prov . LG . W . „ Rev . Lewis Deedes , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . Chap . Rev . C . C . Ewbank , 449 ... ... Prov . G . Chap .
„ „ F . Sumner Knyvett , 404 ... ... ... Prov . G . Ireas . „ R . B . Croft , 403 - - - £ - G- Reg . „ John E . Dawson , 404 ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . „ Frederick Levick , 404 ... ... Prov . S . G . D . „ W . E . Gompertz , jun ., S 6 9 ... ... Prov . J G . D . J . S . Taylor 409 ... ... •• Prov . G . S . of W
„ , „ James Terry , 1327 ... ... - P / ov . G . D C . „ George F . Cook , 1508 ... ... Prov . G . A . D . C . „ John Fisher , 1327 * ... ... ... Prov . G . Swd . B „ E . R . P . Francis , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . „ Thomas Woodman , 1 757 ... ... Prov . G . Purst . „ Frank Hall , 403 ... ... ... Prov . G . A . Purst
,, Samuel Neale , 403 „ Frederick Taylor , 403 „ Alex . J . Small , 403 ... ... - f . Prov . G . Stwds „ Joseph Hunt , 403 ... ... . 1 „ \ V . J * . Morris ... ... ... \ „ T . D . Medcalf ... ... -J „ Thomas Wright , 503 ... ... ... Prov . G ; Tyler . „ Charles Thomas , 1580 ... ... ... Prov . G . Tyler . A full report of the proceedings will appear in our next .
Province Of Wiltshire.
PROVINCE OF WILTSHIRE .
CONSECRATION OF A MASONIC HALL AT DEVIZES The Devizes brethren have long felt the want of a home of their own , and at last an opportunity offering of purchasing the building in Morris'slane , formerly occupied as a girl's school , the Devizes Lodge became the purchasers , and the building , under the direction of , and after plans prepared by the W . M . of the lodge , Bro . J . A . Randell , has been transformed into a most complete and elegant lodge-room . The walls have been allowed
to remain intact , each end wall being raised , so as to allow of the substitution of a much higher pitched roof than the former one . The roof-timbers spring from solid foundations on the ground , thus bearing the greater part of the weight of the roof , and rendering the old walls adequate for their purpose . The lodge is approached through an entrance lobby , inside which is the Tyler ' s roo . n , there being doors from the latter into the lodge-room
itself , and also into a good-sized room which will serve as a committee-room , preparation-room , & c . The walls of the lodge-room are painted in two colours , the wood work of the open roof being varnished . There is a pointed geometrical window in each end wall , filled in with some opaque and tinted glass . The floor has a slightly raised dais on either side , with a still higher elevation at the east end . the sunk central position of the floor being tesselated in black and svhite .
A Provincial Grand Lodge of Emergency was held at Devizes on Wednesday the 19 th insc . The R . W . Prov . G . M ., Lord Methuen , was in the chair , and was supported by the following brethren :
Province Of Wiltshire.
Bros . F . H . Goldney , P . G . St ., P . G . Treas ., as D . P . G . M . ; R . Stokes , P . P . S . G . W ., asP . S . G . W . ; T . Graham , P . P . J . G . W ., as J . W . ; Rev . J . A . Lloyd , P . G . Chap . ; F . Ponting , P . G . Reg . ; Henry C . Tombs , P . G . O ., P . G . Sec . ; Col . Magrath , P . j . G . D . ; John Chandler , P . P . S . G . W ., P . G . D . C . ; Dr . W . D . Lovell , P . G . A . D . C . j H . Simpson , P . G . S . B . ; James Sparks , P . G . O . ; A . ] . Beaven , P . G . P . ; andG . W . Collen , P . G . A . P . Amongst the visitors were Bros . Sir F . Burdett , P . G . W ., R . W . P . G . M . Middx . ; Robt . Bradley , P . G . Sec . Berks and Bucks ; G . F . Tuckey , P . P . S . G . D .
Bristol ; W . H . Dill , P . P . G . P . Somerset , and others . There were also present a large number of Pas . t Grand Officers of the province , including Bros . T . H . Chandler , P . P . S . G . W . ; W . Nott , P . P . J . G . W . ; Rev . G . E . Gardiner , P . P . G . Chap . ; J . L . Whatley , P . P . S . G . D . ; S . Gauntlett , P . P . J . G . D . ; E . B . Merriman , P . P . G . S . oi W . j A . Browne , P . P . G . S . of \ V . ; j . Carter , P . P . G . S . B . ; W . S . Bambridge , P . P . G . O . ; W . H . Brinkworth , P . P . G . O . ; S . M . Badharn , P . P . G . O . ; Edwin Eyres , P . P . G . P . ; and W . M . ' s and P . M . ' s and brethren of the various lodges in the province .
The local lodge ( theWiltshire Lodge of Fidelity ' , No . 663 ) having been opened in the Three Degrees , the R . W . the Provincial Grand Master and the Provincial Grand Lodge were received with the customary honours . Lord Methuen , having assumed the chair , at once opened the Provincial Grand Lodge , the first business according to the summons being the consecration and dedication of the new Masonic Hall for the Wiltshire Lodge of Fidelity , No . 663 , Devizes . Before proceeding with the ceremony , his Lordship
remarked that it gave him great pleasure to be present on such an occasion , and to recognise the liberality' and zeal on the part of the Devizes brethren , without which the beautiful hall in which they then were could not have been provided , and it showed how much the true Masonic feeling was extending in Wiltshire . The Devizes district was always amongst the foremost in that Masonic feeling , and he congratulated the province on the fact that so many of the lodges had already provided themselves with homes
of their own -, and he trusted that the distinguished example this day set would not be lost on the other lodges who had as yet not been able to provide buildings of their own . His lordship thanked the brethren for asking him to consecrate this new building , but wished to apologise to them for leaving early , as he would be obliged to do , in consequence of being called to London on matters connected with his military duties . His lordship then called upon the Provincial Grand Chaplain to deliver an oration , as was usual on such occasions .
The Provincial Grand Ghaplain , the Rev . J . A . Lloyd , in response , commenced by congratulating the energetic brethren of Devizes on having brought to so satisfactory a termination their endeavour to secure a building in Devizes which should be devoted solely to Masonic purposes , and hoped that hall would long continue the home and centre of true Masonic principles . Masonry , he said , was confessedly a universal system , teaching the relative and social duties of man upon the broad basis of general philanthropy , nor
might it be concluded that Masonry contained no religion . It assumed , as a foundation , a belief in the existence of God , and in a future state of reward and punishment , and the necessity of moral purity as a qualification for future happiness . There were many popular errors about Freemasonry ; but Freemasons ever indignantly repudiated the reproach that because they are a secret society their existence was inimical to good government . In the last century , when an outburst of sentiment forbade the existence of any
secret society , Freemasonry was especially exempted ; and in these days much less could any imputation be cast when we have two Royal Dukes holding high office in the Craft , and the future heir to the throne as our Worshipful Grand Master , and when Her Most Gracious Majesty herself has become a patron of one of the Benevolent Institutions of the Order . The fact was that Masonry left us almost on the threshold of religion . No man could be a true Mason who was not earnestly seeking after truth , and
who did not believe in the existence of a God . Masonic symbolism led us from the contemplation of His glorious works to adore the Great Architect himself . The reverend brother then drew attention to the special moral and religious teachings of the several degrees in Freemasonry , deducing therefrom the conclusion that Masonry , which has virtue as its aim , and the glory of God for its object , is the handmaid of religion , and , if practised with this fundamental principle in view , may assist us in profitably running the race
which is set before us on this earth . Before concluding , he ventured to impress upon the brethren the great caution which ought continually to be shown in the selection of new members of the order ; for at the present time , as Freemasonry is able to offer great material advantages , many seek to become Freemasons very much with a view to what they can get out of it . It therefore behoved us all , as Masons , to watch carefully that none should be accepted for initiation except such as seemed likely to reflect credit and
lustre on the craft . The responsibilities of a conscientious Mason were not light ; but he was convinced that the older we grew the more we should find that Freemasonry had a meaning and importance to us all alike , that it increased kindly sympathy , that it gave us many an hour of profitable pursuit with happy and innocent companionship , and that it gave us hope and cheered us in time of sorrow . And if we must look back ( as we must sometimes do ) regretfully , on vacant places and vanished forms—if we recalled ,
with a sigh , some who had often been at our side in lodge and cheered us with a genuine and unfailing welcome , but who had then passed away from our sight — amongst others , the recollection of one whose memory was thus bright and happy must rise before them that day , their recently deceased brother John Toomer , a P . S . G . W . of the province , whom they had all thought and hoped to have seen among them at that interesting
ceremony . If , be said , regretful memories would come , such wc knew were ever the accompaniment of mortal life and mortal strivings ; and wc , who had learnt wisdom from our Masonic lore , would ever remember that though in the good Providence of the G . A . O . T . U . such things were , they but added to—they seemed only to increase the individual sense of our own present privileges—the value and lasting character of Masonic association and the kindliness and genuineness of true Masonic friendship .
An anthem having been sung , it was followed by the consecration prayer by the Provincial Grand Chaplain , who afterwards carried the censer thrice round the hall .
The elements of consecration were then borne round by three P . M . 's , the corn being carried by Bro . Robert Stokes , P . P . S . G . W . ; the wine by Bro . Thomas Graham , P . P . J . G . W . ; and the oil b y ^ Bro . William Nott ,
P . f . J . G . W . After the first round the Provincial Grand Master , sprinkling the hall with corn , dedicated it to Masonry ; after the second round , sprinkling it with wine , he dedicated it to virtue ; and after the third time , receiving the ewer of oil and anointing the hall therefrom , he dedicated it to universal benevolence .
The usual collection of alms took place , followed by the P . G . M . scattering salt , as an embl em of hospitality and friendship . After the dedication prayer by the Provincial Grand Chaplain , the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master declared the hall consecrated and dedicated to Masonry according to ancient form . An anthem was then