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than the fact of their electing him year after year as their Grand Master . His lordship had now hold that office since tho death of their late Grand Master , the Duke of Sussex ' , with the greatest , satisfaction , and had earned the highest respect from tho Craft . The toast was drunk with enthusiasm . Bro . Beadon next proposed tho health of tho Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master , Bro . Lord Panmuro , and the other Grand Officers , coupling with the toast the name of the present G . S . D . Bro . John Savage . Bro . Lord Paninurebadhe said

, , , , since he accepted the office of Deputy Grand Master , given the greatest satisfaction to the members of Grand Lodge . It was notable that , in the person of his lordship , they had the pleasurable assurance of that bond of unity which should subsist among Masons . Their noble brother held high rank in the Grand Lodge of Scotland before receiving his present office , and thus the brethren in the north were joined with those in the south of . the island , and ho hoped tho most fraternal , feelings would ever exist between them . As Deputy Grand MasterLord Panmuro

, had , while officiating in Grand Lodge , invariably received from the brethren that respect which was due to his rank and character , and which his speeches demanded at the hands of the brethren . He ( Bro . Beadon ) had to couple with this toast the name of an old friend , the immediate Grand Deacon . He hailed his appointment to that office with the greatest satisfaction , for he and all those of them who had been in the habit of attending Grand Lodge knew how well he deserved it , and they knew too how he attended to what was most important , namely , tho business

of the Board of Benevolence . Bro . Savage , S . G . D ., who was loudly applauded , replied to the toast , and said he found that it devolved on him although tho junior Grand . Officer present , to return thanks on behalf of that very honourable body . If he could not speak of them as companions , he could as friends and brother Masons , and having for many years watched their conduct , ho might say they were as worthy and- deserving as the brethren believed them to be . He knew they had the interests of Masonry at heart , and they were headed by a

nobleman to whom allusion had been already made in terms which had met with a ready response from tho company . That nobleman stood in their estimation second only to the M . W . Grand Master , and he ( Bro . Savage ) might bo permitted to say that , well as it has been filled , ho never saw tho office of Deputy Grand Master more ably sustained than at tho present moment . With respect to the other Grand Officers ho was happy to bear his testimony to their honourable and upright exertions to promote tho best interests of tho Craft . Whenever it had been his misfortune to differ from themho had been treated by them with courtesy and .

, true Masonic feeling . They had in their friend , Bro . Havers an excellent example ol' the class of men who sat upon the dais , and one they might take example from . He had now to say one word of himself , as tho Worshipful Master in tho chair had in such kindly feeling alluded to him . He had ever felt ; a warm interest in Freemasonry , as ho saw it was founded on the purest principles—principles which tended to raise men in tho scale of society , and make them better members in whatever position they might bo placed . Ho loved tho Order for the princiles it

p disseminated , and because ho saw them carried into practice with few exceptions as far as poor weak hnman nature would permit , by the numerous brethren with whom he had had tho pleasure to associate . When the M . W . Grand Master was pleased in a most gracious manner to request of him to accept the offer which he had now the honour to hold , ho did not hesitate a moment . His duty and his inclination both told him he should obey that gracious call . He accepted tho honour , and it not a little increased the pleasure and gratification which he felt

with respect to it , to find , from the manner in which they had responded to the toast , that they endorsed tho appointment which tho Grand Master had made . He trusted that his future career would merit and deserve the respect of the Craft ; at all events he should endeavour to merit the character of being John Savage , a true and sincere hearted Mason . ( Applause . ) Bro . Beadon then said that it was not a very difficult thing to speak of a man when not present , but he could assure them that when ho spoke of their excellent preceptor , Bro . Muggcridgo , upstairs in the Lodge , they heard his sentiments in reference to him , for whom , as a man and a Mason , ho entertained tho deepest 3 i 2