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received or admitted , until they / shall make their peace with our aforesaid Grand Council , upon such terms as our aforesaid Illustrious Treasurer General of the H . E . shall recommend and adopt for that purpose . Given under our hands and the seals of the Grand Council of Princes of the Royal Secret , and of the Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree for the United States of America , and dated this 24 th day of December , 5813 . Jn . Mitchell , K . H ., P . R . S .,
( Signed and stamped with two Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd seals on the original . ) Degree and Grand Commander for the U . S . of America . Eeederick Dalgho , K . H ., P . R . S ., Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd Degree and Lieutenant Grand Commander for the U . S . of America .
Issued by me this Seventh day of January , 5814 . ( Signed ) E . De La Motta , K . H ., S . P . R . S . / > Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd Degree , Illustrious Treasurer General of the H . E . in the United States of America , & c . & c . & c . ( To be continued . )
Sir Christopher Wren.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN .
Within the last four years , the parochial clergy of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , as . a means of drawing together the inhabitants , have instituted a weekly lecture for the months of January , February , and March , in the inquest-room , adjoining the church ; the room is of good proportion and capable of holding about two hundred persons . The foremost in this praiseworthy attempt to diffuse information in an agreeable form has been our reverend and respected Brother J . W . Laughlin ., of No . 201 , who was the evening lecturer , and is now incumbent of one
or the district churches . The announcement of a lecture on a theme so inspiring to Masons as the career of England ' s most able architect , was sufficient inducement for us to attend ; and although we could have wished that more of personal detail of that eminent Mason ' s progress in his sublime art had been included in the lecture , yet , as an address for a mixed assembly , in which the fair sex predominated , it was well arranged , and was listened to with great attention and pleasure .
Our reverend Brother , after a few words on the difficulties in finding a subject of general interest , said he thought' nothing could be more agreeable than calling the attention of his fellow-parishioners to the life and times of that great artist to whom they owed their beautiful church , but who had made a wide-world reputation in his construction of that glorious temple which overshadows so many of his other productions . Living , as Wren did , in times so momentous and so fraught with interest to succeeding ages , with a life prolonged to see and have
concern in tnree generations ol men , any sketch ol his time necessarily brought before them many historic names and anecdotes , and of such materials Brother Laughlin made good use . He stated that Wren was born at East Knoyle , in Wiltshire , October 20 , 1632 , of good family , his father being Dr . Christopher Wren , the chaplain in , ordinary to Charles I ., and dean of Windsor ; his uncle , Br . Matthew Wren , being successively bishop of Hereford , Norwich , and Ely . Though in his childhood he was said to have been of weak bodily constitution , Wren ' B
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received or admitted , until they / shall make their peace with our aforesaid Grand Council , upon such terms as our aforesaid Illustrious Treasurer General of the H . E . shall recommend and adopt for that purpose . Given under our hands and the seals of the Grand Council of Princes of the Royal Secret , and of the Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree for the United States of America , and dated this 24 th day of December , 5813 . Jn . Mitchell , K . H ., P . R . S .,
( Signed and stamped with two Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd seals on the original . ) Degree and Grand Commander for the U . S . of America . Eeederick Dalgho , K . H ., P . R . S ., Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd Degree and Lieutenant Grand Commander for the U . S . of America .
Issued by me this Seventh day of January , 5814 . ( Signed ) E . De La Motta , K . H ., S . P . R . S . / > Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33 rd Degree , Illustrious Treasurer General of the H . E . in the United States of America , & c . & c . & c . ( To be continued . )
Sir Christopher Wren.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN .
Within the last four years , the parochial clergy of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , as . a means of drawing together the inhabitants , have instituted a weekly lecture for the months of January , February , and March , in the inquest-room , adjoining the church ; the room is of good proportion and capable of holding about two hundred persons . The foremost in this praiseworthy attempt to diffuse information in an agreeable form has been our reverend and respected Brother J . W . Laughlin ., of No . 201 , who was the evening lecturer , and is now incumbent of one
or the district churches . The announcement of a lecture on a theme so inspiring to Masons as the career of England ' s most able architect , was sufficient inducement for us to attend ; and although we could have wished that more of personal detail of that eminent Mason ' s progress in his sublime art had been included in the lecture , yet , as an address for a mixed assembly , in which the fair sex predominated , it was well arranged , and was listened to with great attention and pleasure .
Our reverend Brother , after a few words on the difficulties in finding a subject of general interest , said he thought' nothing could be more agreeable than calling the attention of his fellow-parishioners to the life and times of that great artist to whom they owed their beautiful church , but who had made a wide-world reputation in his construction of that glorious temple which overshadows so many of his other productions . Living , as Wren did , in times so momentous and so fraught with interest to succeeding ages , with a life prolonged to see and have
concern in tnree generations ol men , any sketch ol his time necessarily brought before them many historic names and anecdotes , and of such materials Brother Laughlin made good use . He stated that Wren was born at East Knoyle , in Wiltshire , October 20 , 1632 , of good family , his father being Dr . Christopher Wren , the chaplain in , ordinary to Charles I ., and dean of Windsor ; his uncle , Br . Matthew Wren , being successively bishop of Hereford , Norwich , and Ely . Though in his childhood he was said to have been of weak bodily constitution , Wren ' B