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Meteopoiitah.
must say that we are grateful to them for the honour they have done us . In former days , when two friends parted for some distant country , they exchanged tokens of their friendship ; and , as years rolled by , and generations passed away , the sons of those men met each other again , perhaps on some distantshore , and they exchanged the tokens of their parents . ( Cheers . ) They acknowledged the old alliance , and from the ashes of that ancient friendship
there arose a newer but undying flame . ( Cheers . ) So it is with us . But while those tokens could be mislaid , or broken , or even lost , we carry ours about in our hearts . ( Cheers . ) Many of us in this room have not seen each other before ; but we do not meet as strangers . ( Cheers . ) Each fresh step I take in the study of ; our great science—each fresh line I find in the pages of our history—convinces me still further of its incalculable ramifications , and makes me gaze with wonder and with awe on the boundless horizon of its
influence . ( Applause . ) And now one word more , and that will be to our London Brethren . Many of us have met before within these walls , even in this room , when engaged in the discussion of duller , and , I hope , drier subjects ( laughter and cheers ) , than we have any chance of being engaged upon this evening . ( Hear , hear . ) We have met sometimes to agree , and sometimes , perhaps , to differ ; but let me assure you that whenever we do meet , nothing can be more
pleasant or more congenial than the thought that , when we do differ , it is only from a sense of duty , from the conviction of principle . ( Loud" " cheering . ) That difference of principle , therefore , need not imply any diminution of the respect and regard which is due from Mason to Mason . " ( Protracted cheering . ) His lordship concluded by proposing "The Health of the Visitors , " with which he coupled the name of Bro . the Hon . F . D . Dundas .
Bro . Dundas acknowledged the toast , and in so doing paid a high compliment to the " working , " and expressed his gratitude for the truly Masonic reception which the Westminster and Keystone had given to the visitors whom they honoured with an invitation on that occasion . He only hoped that meetings of this kind would become niore frequent . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The Lodges ought to interchange visits more frequently than they did ; the Westminster and Keystone
had set an example , which , if widely followed , would be attended with the happiest results . ( Hear , hear . ) He concluded by saying , that he felt he had given but a feeble expression to the fraternal sentiments which inspired the breasts of every visitor present . ( Loud cheers . ) The following Ode ( of which the words were by Bro . J . M . Thearle ? the music arranged by Bro . Donald King , P . M . No . 12 ) was then sung : —¦
Oh ! may we often meet as we meet this night , With prospects as cheering and with hearts as light , Old Oxford ' s worthies round us , fraternal ever known—A chain of Brothers' hearts surround Carnarvon on the Throne !* 'Tis Isis flows as well as wine , as in the olden time , When an earlier Carnarvon claim'd the love and joyous rhyme ; His and his compeers' memory , their Love and Charity , We offer in a flowing pledge , Carnarvon , unto thee .
May Wisdom and our Order go ever hand in hand , And , strong in faith , work diligent to benefit the land ; Thus gladd ' ning ev ' ry sadden'd heart , and succ ' ring the distress'd , Our Wisdom , Strength , and Beauty , in their grandeur stand confess'd And ever may the Nobles of old England take their stand , Whate ' er their station , with the best and wisest in the land ; In each degree we find this truth , the best equality Is based upon the practice true of pure Freemasonry .
* The Master s Chair TOh . III . 3 o
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Meteopoiitah.
must say that we are grateful to them for the honour they have done us . In former days , when two friends parted for some distant country , they exchanged tokens of their friendship ; and , as years rolled by , and generations passed away , the sons of those men met each other again , perhaps on some distantshore , and they exchanged the tokens of their parents . ( Cheers . ) They acknowledged the old alliance , and from the ashes of that ancient friendship
there arose a newer but undying flame . ( Cheers . ) So it is with us . But while those tokens could be mislaid , or broken , or even lost , we carry ours about in our hearts . ( Cheers . ) Many of us in this room have not seen each other before ; but we do not meet as strangers . ( Cheers . ) Each fresh step I take in the study of ; our great science—each fresh line I find in the pages of our history—convinces me still further of its incalculable ramifications , and makes me gaze with wonder and with awe on the boundless horizon of its
influence . ( Applause . ) And now one word more , and that will be to our London Brethren . Many of us have met before within these walls , even in this room , when engaged in the discussion of duller , and , I hope , drier subjects ( laughter and cheers ) , than we have any chance of being engaged upon this evening . ( Hear , hear . ) We have met sometimes to agree , and sometimes , perhaps , to differ ; but let me assure you that whenever we do meet , nothing can be more
pleasant or more congenial than the thought that , when we do differ , it is only from a sense of duty , from the conviction of principle . ( Loud" " cheering . ) That difference of principle , therefore , need not imply any diminution of the respect and regard which is due from Mason to Mason . " ( Protracted cheering . ) His lordship concluded by proposing "The Health of the Visitors , " with which he coupled the name of Bro . the Hon . F . D . Dundas .
Bro . Dundas acknowledged the toast , and in so doing paid a high compliment to the " working , " and expressed his gratitude for the truly Masonic reception which the Westminster and Keystone had given to the visitors whom they honoured with an invitation on that occasion . He only hoped that meetings of this kind would become niore frequent . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The Lodges ought to interchange visits more frequently than they did ; the Westminster and Keystone
had set an example , which , if widely followed , would be attended with the happiest results . ( Hear , hear . ) He concluded by saying , that he felt he had given but a feeble expression to the fraternal sentiments which inspired the breasts of every visitor present . ( Loud cheers . ) The following Ode ( of which the words were by Bro . J . M . Thearle ? the music arranged by Bro . Donald King , P . M . No . 12 ) was then sung : —¦
Oh ! may we often meet as we meet this night , With prospects as cheering and with hearts as light , Old Oxford ' s worthies round us , fraternal ever known—A chain of Brothers' hearts surround Carnarvon on the Throne !* 'Tis Isis flows as well as wine , as in the olden time , When an earlier Carnarvon claim'd the love and joyous rhyme ; His and his compeers' memory , their Love and Charity , We offer in a flowing pledge , Carnarvon , unto thee .
May Wisdom and our Order go ever hand in hand , And , strong in faith , work diligent to benefit the land ; Thus gladd ' ning ev ' ry sadden'd heart , and succ ' ring the distress'd , Our Wisdom , Strength , and Beauty , in their grandeur stand confess'd And ever may the Nobles of old England take their stand , Whate ' er their station , with the best and wisest in the land ; In each degree we find this truth , the best equality Is based upon the practice true of pure Freemasonry .
* The Master s Chair TOh . III . 3 o