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on the subject of the " intrusive Scottish Lodge , " Kilwinning in the East , No . 353 . The appointment of the committee was owing to a letter not long before addressed to the P . G . M ., by one of the Calcutta Lodges , for instructions as to the conduct to be noio observed towards Brethren of the Scottish Lodge , who might apply for admission into our Lodges , and were likely , in most cases , to be persons who had no connection with the formation of that Lodge , or knowledge of the circumstances attending it . The P . G . M ., in the minute he was pleased to record thereon , declared that the circumstances brought to his notice in the letter ,
induced him to bring the matter under consideration again , although he had hoped that the resolution last come to would have been final . When the committee , consisting of certain Grand Officers and the Masters and ( when Masters were not present , & c . ) the Senior Wardens of the Lodges in Calcutta , assembled , the P . G . Secretary laid before them a minute which did equal credit to his head and his heart , in which he not only gave briefly an expose of the question , but a view of the courses that were open . We shall merely state here that , after much discussion on both sides ( though not carried on in the moist business-like manner ) , the P . G . Lodge came to the following resolution , by a majority of 21 to 15 : — '" That , in consideration of the circumstances stated in the papers laid before the Committee , it be resolved to recommend , that the District Grand Lodge rescind all the Resolutions which have been passed , from time to time , having
reference to the Scotch Lodge IZilwinmng in the East , No . 353 ; and that the Lodge now working in Calcutta , under a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Scotland , named St . David ' s in the Bast , No . 371 , be recognised by the District Grand Lodge of Bengal . And further , that a suitable acknowledgment be made to the letter addressed by the Secretary of Lodge St . David ' s in the East , to the Provincial Grand Secretary . "—( From the Indian Freemasons' Friend . )
MADRAS . Masonry . —St . John ' s Day . —We are sure that it will gratify the numerous members of the Masonic Grder whom we have the pleasure to number among our supporters , and it will be interesting to our readers in general , that we give a short account of the proceedings of Lodge Universal Charity ( No . 340 ) on the morning of yesterday , St . John ' s Day . The Brethren met at gun-fire as usual , in order to instal the W . M . elect for the year in the chair of his high office , and that
he might appoint and invest his officers . We cannot , of course , here enter upon a description of the beautiful and solemn ceremonies which , in accordance with ancient rule , were observed in tiled Lodge on the occasion : we shall be , however , sufficiently understood when we state that all the details of that most imposing scene—the touching magnificence of which none but the Free and Accepted" of Craft can know—were conducted with all that solemn order and accuracy which
so much beautify the time-honoured grandeur of the secret ritual . Nearly forty Brethren , at the close of the proceedings , saluted the newly-installed Master , as Masons and Members of his Lodge . Before the arrival of the moment when the retiring Master was to resign his authority into the hands of his elected successor , the following short and affecting address was presented to him ; he received it as it merited to be received : —
Lodge Rooms , Universal Charity . ' 11 th December , 1855 . Worshipful Sin and Brother , —We are unwilling to pass by the occasion of your vacating the Chair of this Lodge , on its annual change of officers , without offering to you this lasting token of our esteem , and of our gratitude for the services which you have during the past year been enabled to render to Masonry and our Lodge . We congratulate you on the high position which , under your rule , and that of your wise and able predecessors , Lodge Universal Charity has attained among its Sister Lodges in the Presidency and we are sure that its members , while they have cause for pride in the rapid progress which so many of
the junior . Brethren have made in the various degrees of our beloved science , will never forget how much they owe to the zeal , assiduity , and indulgent kindness with which you have performed your arduous labours . We are gratefully sensible of the warmth of your fraternal regard for us , and in the fullest sincerity recipro-
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on the subject of the " intrusive Scottish Lodge , " Kilwinning in the East , No . 353 . The appointment of the committee was owing to a letter not long before addressed to the P . G . M ., by one of the Calcutta Lodges , for instructions as to the conduct to be noio observed towards Brethren of the Scottish Lodge , who might apply for admission into our Lodges , and were likely , in most cases , to be persons who had no connection with the formation of that Lodge , or knowledge of the circumstances attending it . The P . G . M ., in the minute he was pleased to record thereon , declared that the circumstances brought to his notice in the letter ,
induced him to bring the matter under consideration again , although he had hoped that the resolution last come to would have been final . When the committee , consisting of certain Grand Officers and the Masters and ( when Masters were not present , & c . ) the Senior Wardens of the Lodges in Calcutta , assembled , the P . G . Secretary laid before them a minute which did equal credit to his head and his heart , in which he not only gave briefly an expose of the question , but a view of the courses that were open . We shall merely state here that , after much discussion on both sides ( though not carried on in the moist business-like manner ) , the P . G . Lodge came to the following resolution , by a majority of 21 to 15 : — '" That , in consideration of the circumstances stated in the papers laid before the Committee , it be resolved to recommend , that the District Grand Lodge rescind all the Resolutions which have been passed , from time to time , having
reference to the Scotch Lodge IZilwinmng in the East , No . 353 ; and that the Lodge now working in Calcutta , under a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Scotland , named St . David ' s in the Bast , No . 371 , be recognised by the District Grand Lodge of Bengal . And further , that a suitable acknowledgment be made to the letter addressed by the Secretary of Lodge St . David ' s in the East , to the Provincial Grand Secretary . "—( From the Indian Freemasons' Friend . )
MADRAS . Masonry . —St . John ' s Day . —We are sure that it will gratify the numerous members of the Masonic Grder whom we have the pleasure to number among our supporters , and it will be interesting to our readers in general , that we give a short account of the proceedings of Lodge Universal Charity ( No . 340 ) on the morning of yesterday , St . John ' s Day . The Brethren met at gun-fire as usual , in order to instal the W . M . elect for the year in the chair of his high office , and that
he might appoint and invest his officers . We cannot , of course , here enter upon a description of the beautiful and solemn ceremonies which , in accordance with ancient rule , were observed in tiled Lodge on the occasion : we shall be , however , sufficiently understood when we state that all the details of that most imposing scene—the touching magnificence of which none but the Free and Accepted" of Craft can know—were conducted with all that solemn order and accuracy which
so much beautify the time-honoured grandeur of the secret ritual . Nearly forty Brethren , at the close of the proceedings , saluted the newly-installed Master , as Masons and Members of his Lodge . Before the arrival of the moment when the retiring Master was to resign his authority into the hands of his elected successor , the following short and affecting address was presented to him ; he received it as it merited to be received : —
Lodge Rooms , Universal Charity . ' 11 th December , 1855 . Worshipful Sin and Brother , —We are unwilling to pass by the occasion of your vacating the Chair of this Lodge , on its annual change of officers , without offering to you this lasting token of our esteem , and of our gratitude for the services which you have during the past year been enabled to render to Masonry and our Lodge . We congratulate you on the high position which , under your rule , and that of your wise and able predecessors , Lodge Universal Charity has attained among its Sister Lodges in the Presidency and we are sure that its members , while they have cause for pride in the rapid progress which so many of
the junior . Brethren have made in the various degrees of our beloved science , will never forget how much they owe to the zeal , assiduity , and indulgent kindness with which you have performed your arduous labours . We are gratefully sensible of the warmth of your fraternal regard for us , and in the fullest sincerity recipro-