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Article MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. ← Page 3 of 3 Article WRITTEN IN HEAVEN. Page 1 of 1
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
JAMES AVATT . James Watt , the great engineer , as recorded in Muirhead ' s recent memoir , built an organ for the Masonic Hall at Greenock . AVhat was his connexion with the Craft ? Which was the Lodge for which the organ was built ? Does the organ exist , or the hall ? Here arc some questions for Greenock brethren to answer , and which is worth their while ; for it will
do some credit to Greenock if they are successfully answered . Much more attention has been given to Robt . Burns than to James A \ att , but it would he much pleasantcr to hear Watt quoted as a Scotch Mason . Greenock is a very zealous Masonic province , and we are very desirous that its distinguished townsman should have due credit done him . SIR THOMAS STUMJS . Sir Thomas Stubbs , a distinguished Peninsular officer , and afterwards Lieutenant General in the Portuguese service , and Baron de Vella Nova de Quia , was a Mason and Rose Croix .
Written In Heaven.
WRITTEN IN HEAVEN .
BY . BOB MORRIS , ORASD MASTER 01 ? KENTUCKY . " SOME ton years since an English gentleman gave anonymously large sums of money to various American Grand Lodges , to be by them devoted to charitable purposes . To the Grand Lodge of Kentucky , he gave § 250—which last year that body donated to a family , doubly orphaned , the children of one of ite oldest aud most faithful members . Is it too much to say of this nameless philanthropist that ' his name is written in heaven ?'"—Voice of Freemasonry , { Kentucly ) .
Written in heaven , What he has given ! Placed on the records in letters of gold ! Read by the spirits—Judges of merits—Some day the name to us all will be told . Meantime let silence
, Free from all violence , Prop its mute veil o ' er the face of the man : Seek not to show it ; Strive not to know it ; Go and do likewise—ah ! yes , if you can .
Blest was the offering . — Voices of suffering Hushed under sympathy noble as that ; Teardrops were trailing;—Sighs and bewailing , And teardrops and sorrow the orphans forgat . Englandour mother
, , Towards thee , each brother , llev ' rently turns at this noble imprise : "This makes the cable , "Holy and stable , "Binding aud blessing our Lodges "—he cries ' .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Notes And Queries.
JAMES AVATT . James Watt , the great engineer , as recorded in Muirhead ' s recent memoir , built an organ for the Masonic Hall at Greenock . AVhat was his connexion with the Craft ? Which was the Lodge for which the organ was built ? Does the organ exist , or the hall ? Here arc some questions for Greenock brethren to answer , and which is worth their while ; for it will
do some credit to Greenock if they are successfully answered . Much more attention has been given to Robt . Burns than to James A \ att , but it would he much pleasantcr to hear Watt quoted as a Scotch Mason . Greenock is a very zealous Masonic province , and we are very desirous that its distinguished townsman should have due credit done him . SIR THOMAS STUMJS . Sir Thomas Stubbs , a distinguished Peninsular officer , and afterwards Lieutenant General in the Portuguese service , and Baron de Vella Nova de Quia , was a Mason and Rose Croix .
Written In Heaven.
WRITTEN IN HEAVEN .
BY . BOB MORRIS , ORASD MASTER 01 ? KENTUCKY . " SOME ton years since an English gentleman gave anonymously large sums of money to various American Grand Lodges , to be by them devoted to charitable purposes . To the Grand Lodge of Kentucky , he gave § 250—which last year that body donated to a family , doubly orphaned , the children of one of ite oldest aud most faithful members . Is it too much to say of this nameless philanthropist that ' his name is written in heaven ?'"—Voice of Freemasonry , { Kentucly ) .
Written in heaven , What he has given ! Placed on the records in letters of gold ! Read by the spirits—Judges of merits—Some day the name to us all will be told . Meantime let silence
, Free from all violence , Prop its mute veil o ' er the face of the man : Seek not to show it ; Strive not to know it ; Go and do likewise—ah ! yes , if you can .
Blest was the offering . — Voices of suffering Hushed under sympathy noble as that ; Teardrops were trailing;—Sighs and bewailing , And teardrops and sorrow the orphans forgat . Englandour mother
, , Towards thee , each brother , llev ' rently turns at this noble imprise : "This makes the cable , "Holy and stable , "Binding aud blessing our Lodges "—he cries ' .