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Grand Lodge And Festival.
GRAND LODGE AND FESTIVAL .
The annual installafci on—or perhaps we should more properly say proclamation--of tha E ^ took place on Wednesday- last , April 28 , and the reception which the noble Earl received raust have he
did / that even those who are opposed to some portions of his-folicy as Grah ^ M virtues as a man , and courtesy as a This ceremony over , the M . W , Grand Master proceeded to appoint his Grrand Officers for the year , and thoiigh , of course , there may be soirie who are disappo
ferments on which they had almost surely counted---though some of the hitherto most obsequious courtiers may henceforth be found ranged in opposition , we are not prepared to deny that ( though we believe , as a body , better selections might have been made ) some of the brethren who have been honoured with the confidence of the
M . W . Grrand Master well deserve the position they have attained ; but of their Masonic services we shall speak at greater length on a future occasion . Highly as we respect the Brethren who have just , been superseded after many years' service—the Rev . J . E . Cox , as G . Chap ., and Bro . Thory Chapman as Assist . Gr . Dir . of Cers . —it cannot , of
course , be otherwise than gratifying to us to find that the policy which we have advocated , of more frequent changes in those and other offices , in order that as many Brethren as possible may share in the honours of the Craft , has , to some extent , been recognized , though not so fully as we could have desired . We , however ,
felt great pain at a scene which took place at the investing of the new Grrand Officers , which led us , with many other Brethren , to believe that the M . W . Grand Master , or the V . W . Grand Secretary , had been guilty of a want of courtesy towards an old and valuable servant of the Craft—a belief for which we are happy to find there
was no real foundation in iact . "U pon Bro . Thory Chapman—as worthy a Brother as ever served the Craft—being called upon for his collar of office as Assist . G . Dir . of Cers ., in order that his successor , Bro . Albert W . Woods , Lancaster Herald , might be invested with it , he loudly and bitterly complained that he had been stripped , that his shoes had been almost taken off his feet , and he deprived of office , without the slightest notice of the intentions of the Grand Master . Upon this VOL ; IV . 3 0
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Grand Lodge And Festival.
GRAND LODGE AND FESTIVAL .
The annual installafci on—or perhaps we should more properly say proclamation--of tha E ^ took place on Wednesday- last , April 28 , and the reception which the noble Earl received raust have he
did / that even those who are opposed to some portions of his-folicy as Grah ^ M virtues as a man , and courtesy as a This ceremony over , the M . W , Grand Master proceeded to appoint his Grrand Officers for the year , and thoiigh , of course , there may be soirie who are disappo
ferments on which they had almost surely counted---though some of the hitherto most obsequious courtiers may henceforth be found ranged in opposition , we are not prepared to deny that ( though we believe , as a body , better selections might have been made ) some of the brethren who have been honoured with the confidence of the
M . W . Grrand Master well deserve the position they have attained ; but of their Masonic services we shall speak at greater length on a future occasion . Highly as we respect the Brethren who have just , been superseded after many years' service—the Rev . J . E . Cox , as G . Chap ., and Bro . Thory Chapman as Assist . Gr . Dir . of Cers . —it cannot , of
course , be otherwise than gratifying to us to find that the policy which we have advocated , of more frequent changes in those and other offices , in order that as many Brethren as possible may share in the honours of the Craft , has , to some extent , been recognized , though not so fully as we could have desired . We , however ,
felt great pain at a scene which took place at the investing of the new Grrand Officers , which led us , with many other Brethren , to believe that the M . W . Grand Master , or the V . W . Grand Secretary , had been guilty of a want of courtesy towards an old and valuable servant of the Craft—a belief for which we are happy to find there
was no real foundation in iact . "U pon Bro . Thory Chapman—as worthy a Brother as ever served the Craft—being called upon for his collar of office as Assist . G . Dir . of Cers ., in order that his successor , Bro . Albert W . Woods , Lancaster Herald , might be invested with it , he loudly and bitterly complained that he had been stripped , that his shoes had been almost taken off his feet , and he deprived of office , without the slightest notice of the intentions of the Grand Master . Upon this VOL ; IV . 3 0