Consecration Of The Semper Vigilans Lodge, No. 3040.

principles I have endeavoured to enunciate . The secretary of every jiublic institution should remember that he is the servant of the body for which he works . He has to do their work , not his own . As an expert he will be called ujion to advise , but he should remember that he is not infallible , and

he should not allow himself to be a dictator of jiolicy . Selfeffacement is a virtue which secretaries of public institutions will do well to seek after . They should remember there is no object whatever in writing their name on the work , and that it will be best done and command the confidence of the jiublic and be for the good of the community if it is seen

BRO . J . M . McLEOD . not to be the work of one mind but of all working together , like our old operative Alasons , watching not for self advancement and self advertisement , but for the efficiency ,

stability , and integrity of their work . " At the close of the ceremony of consecration , W . Bro . J . Morrison McLeod , P . G . S . B ., the popular Secretary of the Masonic Boys' School , was installed Worshijiful Master and invested his officers as follows : —Bros . W . John Songhurst ,

P . M ., Acting I . P . A 1 . ; A . B . Pilling , P . M ., P . P . G . R . Devon , S . W . ; Henry Watts , P . M ., P . P . G . D . Herts ., J . W . ; Jas . W . Slack , P . M ., Treasurer ; Claud Scott , P . M ., Secretary ; W . H . Bartlett , S . D . ; A . B . Atkinson , J . D . ; F . W . Baxter , P . M ., D . C . ; F . G . S . Curtis , I . G . ; C . E . Stubbs and Geo . T . Lawrence , Stewards .

A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Consecrating Officers and honorary membership conferred , the W . AI . presenting each of them with a silver jiencil case as a souvenir of the occasion . At the banquet which followed , the W . AI ., who was

sujiported by a strong contingent of Grand Officers , gave the usual loyal toasts . Bro . Pilling projiosed the Toast of " The Grand Officers , " which was rejilied to by V . W . Bro . Geo . Everett , P . G . Treas . The W . M ., in proposing " The Consecrating Officers , "

claimed the Grand Secretary and the Senior and Junior Wardens and Inner Guard as Secretaries , as well as the Chaplain who had been one for 25 years . So they were a lodge of Secretaries consecrated by Secretaries . W . Bro . Sir H . M . Hosier , P . G . D ., replying , said he felt honoured to have been called on to assist in the work that

evening . He was sure that it would be a bond of union among them , and thanked them for their kind reception and the souvenir they had given them . He hoped to visit them again in the future . The I . P . M ., in projiosing " The Worshipful Master , " said a child has not any voice in the choice of its jiarents , but

they had been able to choose their father or W . M . He was sure they had made a good choice , and they would give him every support during his year . The W . M ., in his well known and characteristic fashion , thanked the brethren . He felt the jiosition he was called

on to fill . He had jilaced his services at the disposal of the brethren , and the result was that he had been asked to become their first W . AI ., not of his own seeking . He found the members , almost all of whom were strangers to him , such real Masons , that he at once made up his mind to

become a founder , with no idea of being an officer , but they knew the result . They might rely on its not being a one man jiosition , and he could assure them that nothing should be wanting on his jiart in working for the lodge and the Charities . He thanked them for the sum of

twentyguineas voted on his list for the Boys' Institution , which he thought a good augury for the future . The Toast of " The Charities " was replied to by W . Bro . P . Colville Smith , P . G . D ., Secretary of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . The Tyler ' s toast concluded a most successful and enjoyable evening .

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