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Consecration.
CONSECRATION .
—* . o : — ALBERT LUCKING LODGE
THE Earl of Warwick Provincial Grand Master of Essex visited Southend-on-Sea on Saturday , 29 th ult ., for the purpose of Consecrating a new Lodge , to be named the Albert Lucking , after the highly respected Brother who for twenty-five years has occupied the post of Director of Ceremonies of the Province .
His Lordship , accompanied by Col . Lockwood , M . P ., the newly-appointed Deputy , and other Brethren , reached Southend soon after three o'clock , and was met at the West
Cliff Station by Bro . Thomas Hood P . M . 1000 P . P . G . R
W . M .-designate of the new Lodge and Bro . Thos . J . Railing Prov . G . Sec , and was driven in an open carriage to The Grove , Bro . Hood ' s residence , where light refreshments
were partaken of . The party afterwards proceeded to the West Cliff Hotel , the coffee room of which had been transformed into a very handsome Lodge room , and in which a large number of Members of the Craft had assembled .
The Lodge having been opened by the Provincial Grand Secretary , his Lordship and Deputy , accompanied by a goodly array of present and past Provincial Grand * Officers , entered and were received with the honours due to their rank . His Lordship then appointed as his Officers to assist in the
Consecration ceremony : —Bros . Richard Clowes P . G . Std . B ; P . P . S . G . W- as S . W ., Col . Landon Prov . J . G . W . as J . W ., Ven . Archdeacon Stevens P . G . Chap . and Rev , Wm . Cree Prov . G . Chap , as Chaplains , Thos . J . Railing P . A . G . D . C . Prov . G . Sec . as Sec , Bro . Albert Lucking P . G . P . Prov . G . D . C . as D . C , and Geo . Graveley G . Purs , as I . G .
In opening the proceedings the Earl of Warwick said it gave him great pleasure to come to Southend * , where he knew he had many Masonic friends , and where the work of the Craft was so well carried out . But it was especially gratifying to him that the object of their assembly that day
was to Consecrate a Lodge to be named after one so well known'to all Essex Masons , and who had'done so much for the good of the Craft in the county . He believed that Bro . Lucking had been over thirty years ' a Mason , and for
twentyfive years he had been Director of Ceremonies for the Province . That was a long period of service , and it seemed to him most fitting that Bro . Lucking ' s name should" be commemorated in this way in the annals of the Craft in Essex .
The ceremony of consecration was then proceeded with in Masonic form , in the course of which an eloquent Oration on the nature and principles of the Order was given b y the Ven . Archdeacon Stevens P . G . C , who said he thought he might assume that they were met that day * as something more than Brethren—they were met as believers in
Freemasonry , and as such were desirous that a new centre should be formed from which all that was good in the Graft might radiate . They were met also as believers in the principles of their Order , and desirous that they should-be more widely known and more fully recognised . Some time ago he
assisted at the Consecration of a new Lodge in Staffordshire , of a very remarkable kind . It was formed to perpetuate the memory of one who had for many years been Deputy Provincial Grand Master—it was the Foster Gough Lodgeand in the fulfilment of the duties of that important position
had made his mark . The circumstances of that Consecration were of a striking and unique kind . There were 100 Founders , all of whom were Installed Masters ; the first Master of the Lodge was the Provincial Grand Master , and all the Officers were of Provincial rank , and the feeling of nil who took
part in the ceremony was that the best monument that could be raised to any man was to create something that would continue the great and good work to which he had devoted himself during life , and which had tended to make the world better .
But why should they wait till a good Brother had passed away before recognising the value of his services , and to do something that would perpetuate the memory of those services ? Was it not better to recognise his work while he was with them , and show to him and the outside world the value they put upon those services ?
The Archdeacon then proceeded to enforce on the Founders the responsibility they had undertaken in starting the new Lodge , of the care they should take in carrying out the cardinal Masonic virtues of Brotherly Love , Relief , and Truth , and above all that they should exhibit the reality of their profession in the support of the noble Charities of the
Consecration.
Order . It must have been a marvellous revelation to the world when , after the great meeting in support of one of the Charities , presided over by H . R . H . the Grand Master , the amount of the subscriptions was published ; it must have caused , people to realise if they had not done so before the
great power that the Craft had become and the immense good it was doing in the education * of the young and the relief of the aged . But he would commend to them another form of Charity—that which produced kind and brotherly feeling , the charity that enabled Brethren to meet in perfect
friendliness though there were points on which they might not agree , and which set forth to the world their belief in brotherly love , relief , and truth . He trusted that the characteristics of their new Lodge Would be the excellence
of its working , the reality of their Brotherly feeling one towards another , and that all of them would so live that no one would * be able to say that it was not a grand thing to he a Mason .
At ! the' conclusion ofthe Consecration ceremony Bro . Thorhafe HoodP . M . idoo-P . P . G . R . was installed as W . M . by Bro . Coh Lockwood , M . P ., D . P . G . M ., and the Officers for the year were appointed as follow : —W . Scott-Miller S . W . 2500 S . W ., F . England W . M . 2442 Prov . G . S . of
Wks . J . W ., Rev . Thomas Varney P . P . G . Chap . Chaplain , H . B . Dickins I . P . M . 234 6 Sec ., W . L . Crow P . M . 1076 S . D ., J . J . Cummins J . W . 1910 J . D ., Jas . Berry I . P . M . 1817 I . G ., Wm . Marlow D . C , W . H . Stevenson Org . 1817 Org ., A . Drury , G . Jacobj E . M . Kemp , Thos . Byford , and
W . Knight Stewards , A . W . Martin Tyler . Bro . A . T . Marderi P . M . 1817 P . P . A . G . D . C was unanimously elected'Treasurer , Bro . F . England as Charity Representative , and Bro . W . E . Bridgland P . M . 1000 P . P . G . Sw . B * . accepted the invitation of the W . M . to act as I . P . M . for the year .
Hearty votes 01 tnanks were passed to the ± -rov . CJ . M . for his kindness in coming and personally Consecrating the Lodge ; to * Col * . Lockwood for installing the Master ; and both of them andthe other Consecrating Officers were elected Hon- Members , and presented with a jewel in commemoration of the event .
Lord Warwick , in acknowledging the compliment , reiterated the pleasure it had given him to be present , and wished the Lodge a' long and prosperous career ; while Col . Lockwood said he should always remember the occasion
with great interest , as it was the first time he had taken part in a Masonic ceremony since his appointment by the Prov . G . M . to be his Deputy . He regretted that owing to his recent bereavement he' could not remain to the after proceeding ' s ;
The Lodge was shortly afterwards closed , and about eighty Brethren sat * down to a banquet , at the conclusion of which the" usual toasts were honoured . The Earl of Warwick ) in responding to the toast of his health , remarked that he wished it were possible for him to
make a speech at all adequate to the kindly reception they had given him . It was extremely difficult for hirri to say anything fresh to them upon Masonic subjects , but it seemed that Freemasonry , every time he met them , had assumed a more prosperous aspect in the Province than upon the
previous occasion . He also offered his sincere and earnest thanks for the generous manner in which Essex Brethren came forward to support the Masonic Charities , though the Province Was far from being a wealthy one . He did not wish to make a pun , but he was in "luck in " being there that
night , for he appreciated the honour which had been done to a very old , kind friend of them all . It had never been' his privilege to see a Lodge more admirably started , and seldom had- he seen work better done ; whilst the attendance in Lodge was a credit to the organisers . They regretted that
Col . Lockwood , through a domestic bereavement , could not remain with them ; and they also regretted the unavoidable absence at the Consecration of Bro . Woodhouse . His Lordship wished them great prosperity in their new Lodge ; and he proceeded to propose the health of the W . M * .,
remarking that that Brother had a most pleasant way of bestowing upon the Officers of his Lodge the honours and decorations which were at his disposal ; whilst it seemed that he had so won the affections of all that his rule over
them would be pleasant to ' himself and pleasant to all the Brethren . Southend was a charming place , and his Lordship hoped that , having been introduced to the Albert Lucking Lodge , he would have the pleasure of paying them another visit before long .
Bro . Hood W . M ., who briefly acknowledged the toast , said he had started in Masonry as a baby under Albert
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Consecration.
CONSECRATION .
—* . o : — ALBERT LUCKING LODGE
THE Earl of Warwick Provincial Grand Master of Essex visited Southend-on-Sea on Saturday , 29 th ult ., for the purpose of Consecrating a new Lodge , to be named the Albert Lucking , after the highly respected Brother who for twenty-five years has occupied the post of Director of Ceremonies of the Province .
His Lordship , accompanied by Col . Lockwood , M . P ., the newly-appointed Deputy , and other Brethren , reached Southend soon after three o'clock , and was met at the West
Cliff Station by Bro . Thomas Hood P . M . 1000 P . P . G . R
W . M .-designate of the new Lodge and Bro . Thos . J . Railing Prov . G . Sec , and was driven in an open carriage to The Grove , Bro . Hood ' s residence , where light refreshments
were partaken of . The party afterwards proceeded to the West Cliff Hotel , the coffee room of which had been transformed into a very handsome Lodge room , and in which a large number of Members of the Craft had assembled .
The Lodge having been opened by the Provincial Grand Secretary , his Lordship and Deputy , accompanied by a goodly array of present and past Provincial Grand * Officers , entered and were received with the honours due to their rank . His Lordship then appointed as his Officers to assist in the
Consecration ceremony : —Bros . Richard Clowes P . G . Std . B ; P . P . S . G . W- as S . W ., Col . Landon Prov . J . G . W . as J . W ., Ven . Archdeacon Stevens P . G . Chap . and Rev , Wm . Cree Prov . G . Chap , as Chaplains , Thos . J . Railing P . A . G . D . C . Prov . G . Sec . as Sec , Bro . Albert Lucking P . G . P . Prov . G . D . C . as D . C , and Geo . Graveley G . Purs , as I . G .
In opening the proceedings the Earl of Warwick said it gave him great pleasure to come to Southend * , where he knew he had many Masonic friends , and where the work of the Craft was so well carried out . But it was especially gratifying to him that the object of their assembly that day
was to Consecrate a Lodge to be named after one so well known'to all Essex Masons , and who had'done so much for the good of the Craft in the county . He believed that Bro . Lucking had been over thirty years ' a Mason , and for
twentyfive years he had been Director of Ceremonies for the Province . That was a long period of service , and it seemed to him most fitting that Bro . Lucking ' s name should" be commemorated in this way in the annals of the Craft in Essex .
The ceremony of consecration was then proceeded with in Masonic form , in the course of which an eloquent Oration on the nature and principles of the Order was given b y the Ven . Archdeacon Stevens P . G . C , who said he thought he might assume that they were met that day * as something more than Brethren—they were met as believers in
Freemasonry , and as such were desirous that a new centre should be formed from which all that was good in the Graft might radiate . They were met also as believers in the principles of their Order , and desirous that they should-be more widely known and more fully recognised . Some time ago he
assisted at the Consecration of a new Lodge in Staffordshire , of a very remarkable kind . It was formed to perpetuate the memory of one who had for many years been Deputy Provincial Grand Master—it was the Foster Gough Lodgeand in the fulfilment of the duties of that important position
had made his mark . The circumstances of that Consecration were of a striking and unique kind . There were 100 Founders , all of whom were Installed Masters ; the first Master of the Lodge was the Provincial Grand Master , and all the Officers were of Provincial rank , and the feeling of nil who took
part in the ceremony was that the best monument that could be raised to any man was to create something that would continue the great and good work to which he had devoted himself during life , and which had tended to make the world better .
But why should they wait till a good Brother had passed away before recognising the value of his services , and to do something that would perpetuate the memory of those services ? Was it not better to recognise his work while he was with them , and show to him and the outside world the value they put upon those services ?
The Archdeacon then proceeded to enforce on the Founders the responsibility they had undertaken in starting the new Lodge , of the care they should take in carrying out the cardinal Masonic virtues of Brotherly Love , Relief , and Truth , and above all that they should exhibit the reality of their profession in the support of the noble Charities of the
Consecration.
Order . It must have been a marvellous revelation to the world when , after the great meeting in support of one of the Charities , presided over by H . R . H . the Grand Master , the amount of the subscriptions was published ; it must have caused , people to realise if they had not done so before the
great power that the Craft had become and the immense good it was doing in the education * of the young and the relief of the aged . But he would commend to them another form of Charity—that which produced kind and brotherly feeling , the charity that enabled Brethren to meet in perfect
friendliness though there were points on which they might not agree , and which set forth to the world their belief in brotherly love , relief , and truth . He trusted that the characteristics of their new Lodge Would be the excellence
of its working , the reality of their Brotherly feeling one towards another , and that all of them would so live that no one would * be able to say that it was not a grand thing to he a Mason .
At ! the' conclusion ofthe Consecration ceremony Bro . Thorhafe HoodP . M . idoo-P . P . G . R . was installed as W . M . by Bro . Coh Lockwood , M . P ., D . P . G . M ., and the Officers for the year were appointed as follow : —W . Scott-Miller S . W . 2500 S . W ., F . England W . M . 2442 Prov . G . S . of
Wks . J . W ., Rev . Thomas Varney P . P . G . Chap . Chaplain , H . B . Dickins I . P . M . 234 6 Sec ., W . L . Crow P . M . 1076 S . D ., J . J . Cummins J . W . 1910 J . D ., Jas . Berry I . P . M . 1817 I . G ., Wm . Marlow D . C , W . H . Stevenson Org . 1817 Org ., A . Drury , G . Jacobj E . M . Kemp , Thos . Byford , and
W . Knight Stewards , A . W . Martin Tyler . Bro . A . T . Marderi P . M . 1817 P . P . A . G . D . C was unanimously elected'Treasurer , Bro . F . England as Charity Representative , and Bro . W . E . Bridgland P . M . 1000 P . P . G . Sw . B * . accepted the invitation of the W . M . to act as I . P . M . for the year .
Hearty votes 01 tnanks were passed to the ± -rov . CJ . M . for his kindness in coming and personally Consecrating the Lodge ; to * Col * . Lockwood for installing the Master ; and both of them andthe other Consecrating Officers were elected Hon- Members , and presented with a jewel in commemoration of the event .
Lord Warwick , in acknowledging the compliment , reiterated the pleasure it had given him to be present , and wished the Lodge a' long and prosperous career ; while Col . Lockwood said he should always remember the occasion
with great interest , as it was the first time he had taken part in a Masonic ceremony since his appointment by the Prov . G . M . to be his Deputy . He regretted that owing to his recent bereavement he' could not remain to the after proceeding ' s ;
The Lodge was shortly afterwards closed , and about eighty Brethren sat * down to a banquet , at the conclusion of which the" usual toasts were honoured . The Earl of Warwick ) in responding to the toast of his health , remarked that he wished it were possible for him to
make a speech at all adequate to the kindly reception they had given him . It was extremely difficult for hirri to say anything fresh to them upon Masonic subjects , but it seemed that Freemasonry , every time he met them , had assumed a more prosperous aspect in the Province than upon the
previous occasion . He also offered his sincere and earnest thanks for the generous manner in which Essex Brethren came forward to support the Masonic Charities , though the Province Was far from being a wealthy one . He did not wish to make a pun , but he was in "luck in " being there that
night , for he appreciated the honour which had been done to a very old , kind friend of them all . It had never been' his privilege to see a Lodge more admirably started , and seldom had- he seen work better done ; whilst the attendance in Lodge was a credit to the organisers . They regretted that
Col . Lockwood , through a domestic bereavement , could not remain with them ; and they also regretted the unavoidable absence at the Consecration of Bro . Woodhouse . His Lordship wished them great prosperity in their new Lodge ; and he proceeded to propose the health of the W . M * .,
remarking that that Brother had a most pleasant way of bestowing upon the Officers of his Lodge the honours and decorations which were at his disposal ; whilst it seemed that he had so won the affections of all that his rule over
them would be pleasant to ' himself and pleasant to all the Brethren . Southend was a charming place , and his Lordship hoped that , having been introduced to the Albert Lucking Lodge , he would have the pleasure of paying them another visit before long .
Bro . Hood W . M ., who briefly acknowledged the toast , said he had started in Masonry as a baby under Albert