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History Of Freemasonry In Cornwall.
Masonry until the 14 th March , 1811 , the Royal Arch being then as now a pre-requisite for the Order of Knights Templar . The next assembly Was held on the 30 th April , and there was a large attendance of Knights . The Rev . G . A . Browne
conferred the NoA iciate Cross on Sir Henry Wylie , Sir F . Perkins , Sir Alfred Perkins , and Sir W . H . White , and Sir John Foulstone . " Sir J . C . Buckkardt reported that the Supreme Grand and Royal Arch Chapter , in conformity AAdth a petition
presented on behalf of the Knights by Sir Knts . J . C . Burckhardt , Frederic Perkins , and Charles Perkins had granted them a warrant and constitution for a Royal Arch Chapter under the title of the Chapter of Palestine . "
As usual the 1 st class appointed a day to meet in Committee . The next Conclave , called a Grand Chapter , was holden at Cambridge in June , 1810 , the precise date is left blank , when the Revs . Wm . Gretton , D . D ., and Robert Hole Avere installed Knights of the Grand Cross . Sir Joseph White ,
a Knight of the Sepulchre , was also admitted into the Order . At the next meeting , 15 th December , 1810 , Sir W . R . Wright is styled G . Commander . W . H . White is G . Chancellor W . Lindley , G . Chamberlain ; and the eminent Bro . Da Costa
( afterwards Prov . G . M . for Rutlandshire ) appears as G . Herald . " It Avas resolved that in future no seniority be reserved either for Grand or Noviciate Crosses . " The new members Avere Richard Spencer , Avho Avas doubtless a Royal Arch Mason ,
as the triple base is placed after his name ; Sev . Samuel Hemming , D . D ., the renowned ¦ member of the Lodge of Promulgation after the rmion of the tAvo Grand Lodges in 1813 ; and Sir Knts . Okes . Burleigh , and Beales , from Cambridge .
Comp . Green , Janitor of St . James's Royal Arch Chapter , Avas elected the Attendant of the Council pro tern . " It was resolved that the Commander of the Order be empoAvered to establish a Craft Mason's lodge under the Grand Lodge of England ,
either by purchase or in any other Avay his discretion mi edit dictate . O ( To be continued ,. )
Mons. Victor Hugo's Annual Festival Of Poor Little Children.
MONS . VICTOR HUGO'S ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF POOR LITTLE CHILDREN .
" This is tire message that ye heard from the beginning , that we should love one another . " We gave in our issue of last Aveek a paragraph referring to Mons . Victor Hugo's Bounty , as detailed in a letter appearing in the same number .
by our correspondent , H , H . At a time when our pages are teeming Avith fche accounts of the celebration by our lodges of the Festival of St . John the Evangelist — " the Loving Evangelist " — we gladly find room for the insertion of
the address delivered upon St . John ' s Day by the great poet to a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen , AA ho had assembled to Avitness the interesting ceremony referred to in our last , and A \ -hich Mons . Hugo very appropriately
entitled , "The Festival of Poor Little Children . " Our correspondent , H . H ., regrets that Mons . Hugo is not a Mason . We are at the present moment unable to say definitely that the great poet is not a member of the Craft ; it is at all
events most gratifying to find on a day devoted by Masons to the celebration of the anniversary of one of the patron saints of the Order , who has been considered as the very embodiment of love and of brotherly felloAvship , a practical
illustration of that brotherly love evinced in the manner we have already described by this truly great and Christian man , who has found a home in one of our Channel Isles .
The address delivered by Mons . Hugo was as follOAvs : — " Ladies and Gentlemen , —You are aware of the object of this little meeting . Ifc is what , for want of a better term , I call the festival of poor little
children . I desire to speak of it in the humblest terms , and with this feeling I would borrow the simplicity of one of those little ones Avho UOAV hear me . To do good to poor children , as far as I am able , is the object that I have in vieAV . Believe
me , there is no merit in the act , and what I say I sincerely mean . There is no merit in doing for the poor what we can , for Avhat Ave can do it is a duty to do . Do you know anything * more sad than the sufferings of children ? When we suffer
—we who are men—Ave suffer justly , we endure nothing but Avhat Ave deserve , bufc children are innocent , and suffering innocence is it not the saddest thin ° * in nature ? Here Providence entrusts us Avith a portion of its OAVU functions ,
God says to man—I confide to thee the child . And he does nofc confide to us our own children alone—for it is simply natural that Ave should have care for them—and the brute obeys this law of nature , better sometimes than man himself .
God entrusts us Avith all the children that suffer . To be the father—the mother of poor childrenthis is our highest mission . To have towards
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
History Of Freemasonry In Cornwall.
Masonry until the 14 th March , 1811 , the Royal Arch being then as now a pre-requisite for the Order of Knights Templar . The next assembly Was held on the 30 th April , and there was a large attendance of Knights . The Rev . G . A . Browne
conferred the NoA iciate Cross on Sir Henry Wylie , Sir F . Perkins , Sir Alfred Perkins , and Sir W . H . White , and Sir John Foulstone . " Sir J . C . Buckkardt reported that the Supreme Grand and Royal Arch Chapter , in conformity AAdth a petition
presented on behalf of the Knights by Sir Knts . J . C . Burckhardt , Frederic Perkins , and Charles Perkins had granted them a warrant and constitution for a Royal Arch Chapter under the title of the Chapter of Palestine . "
As usual the 1 st class appointed a day to meet in Committee . The next Conclave , called a Grand Chapter , was holden at Cambridge in June , 1810 , the precise date is left blank , when the Revs . Wm . Gretton , D . D ., and Robert Hole Avere installed Knights of the Grand Cross . Sir Joseph White ,
a Knight of the Sepulchre , was also admitted into the Order . At the next meeting , 15 th December , 1810 , Sir W . R . Wright is styled G . Commander . W . H . White is G . Chancellor W . Lindley , G . Chamberlain ; and the eminent Bro . Da Costa
( afterwards Prov . G . M . for Rutlandshire ) appears as G . Herald . " It Avas resolved that in future no seniority be reserved either for Grand or Noviciate Crosses . " The new members Avere Richard Spencer , Avho Avas doubtless a Royal Arch Mason ,
as the triple base is placed after his name ; Sev . Samuel Hemming , D . D ., the renowned ¦ member of the Lodge of Promulgation after the rmion of the tAvo Grand Lodges in 1813 ; and Sir Knts . Okes . Burleigh , and Beales , from Cambridge .
Comp . Green , Janitor of St . James's Royal Arch Chapter , Avas elected the Attendant of the Council pro tern . " It was resolved that the Commander of the Order be empoAvered to establish a Craft Mason's lodge under the Grand Lodge of England ,
either by purchase or in any other Avay his discretion mi edit dictate . O ( To be continued ,. )
Mons. Victor Hugo's Annual Festival Of Poor Little Children.
MONS . VICTOR HUGO'S ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF POOR LITTLE CHILDREN .
" This is tire message that ye heard from the beginning , that we should love one another . " We gave in our issue of last Aveek a paragraph referring to Mons . Victor Hugo's Bounty , as detailed in a letter appearing in the same number .
by our correspondent , H , H . At a time when our pages are teeming Avith fche accounts of the celebration by our lodges of the Festival of St . John the Evangelist — " the Loving Evangelist " — we gladly find room for the insertion of
the address delivered upon St . John ' s Day by the great poet to a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen , AA ho had assembled to Avitness the interesting ceremony referred to in our last , and A \ -hich Mons . Hugo very appropriately
entitled , "The Festival of Poor Little Children . " Our correspondent , H . H ., regrets that Mons . Hugo is not a Mason . We are at the present moment unable to say definitely that the great poet is not a member of the Craft ; it is at all
events most gratifying to find on a day devoted by Masons to the celebration of the anniversary of one of the patron saints of the Order , who has been considered as the very embodiment of love and of brotherly felloAvship , a practical
illustration of that brotherly love evinced in the manner we have already described by this truly great and Christian man , who has found a home in one of our Channel Isles .
The address delivered by Mons . Hugo was as follOAvs : — " Ladies and Gentlemen , —You are aware of the object of this little meeting . Ifc is what , for want of a better term , I call the festival of poor little
children . I desire to speak of it in the humblest terms , and with this feeling I would borrow the simplicity of one of those little ones Avho UOAV hear me . To do good to poor children , as far as I am able , is the object that I have in vieAV . Believe
me , there is no merit in the act , and what I say I sincerely mean . There is no merit in doing for the poor what we can , for Avhat Ave can do it is a duty to do . Do you know anything * more sad than the sufferings of children ? When we suffer
—we who are men—Ave suffer justly , we endure nothing but Avhat Ave deserve , bufc children are innocent , and suffering innocence is it not the saddest thin ° * in nature ? Here Providence entrusts us Avith a portion of its OAVU functions ,
God says to man—I confide to thee the child . And he does nofc confide to us our own children alone—for it is simply natural that Ave should have care for them—and the brute obeys this law of nature , better sometimes than man himself .
God entrusts us Avith all the children that suffer . To be the father—the mother of poor childrenthis is our highest mission . To have towards