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him the opportunity , he would endeavour to show them how well he could discharge the duties of an office which the Prov . G / M . by his own exertions had rendered hitherto little more than a sinecure . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Campbell , P . Prov . G . W . said they ^ had all joined heartily and cordially in responding to the toast of those gallant defenders , who probably were the means of securing peace to their shores by showing others how they were able to meet them . If they honoured those brave men , how much more would they accord a
tribute of praise to a veteran defender of Ereemasonry—he referred to Bro . Ashley . ( Loud cheers . ) There was a time when Masonry in Kent was not so fashionable as it was at present ; then it was that Bro . Ashley led the way , and he helieved they might regard him , in some respects , as the precursor of the present prosperity of the Craft in this county . ( Cheers . ) For many long years he had been foremost to advance the principles of Masonry , and he ., might be permitted
to express a hope that for many years to come his grey hairs would shed a lustre upon these annual gatherings . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Ashley was one of those men who had been so vividly , so pathetically , and so eloquently shadowed forth by the preacher that day , as those who loved to do good , that he ever had the satisfaction of knowing that he had endeavoured to do his duty as a mankind a Mason . ( Loud applause . )
Bro . Ashley , P . D . Prov . G . M . could assure the GBrethren that he was so overwhelmed with the attectiohate manner in which his health had been proposed , and the kind way in which it had been responded tp -that he could not find words to express his gratitude . He most sincerely thanked them for the honour they had done him . He had now been very nearly fifty years a Mason , and so long as he had health and strength he should always feel it a pleasure and an honour to attend these meetings . ( Cheers . ) He implored the Great Architect to send down on all present His choicest blessings , and might their homes be crowned with peace , comfort , and content . ( Cheers . )
The Prov . G . M . next proposed the health of the Prov . G . Chaplain , whose excellent sermon they must all have been delighted with that day , and he might be allowed to say that a sermon better calculated to serve the cause of charity he had never heard , ( Cheers . ) The Rev . Bro . Batchelor , Prov . G . Chaplain , could not adequately express the gratitude he felt for the very kind manner in which his name had been received . It was the utmost gratification to him that he should have been selected by the Prov . G . M . as the Prov . G . Chaplain , and more particularly that his address that
afternoon had met with approbation . ( Cheers . ) He saw that with his name , like that of the D . Prov . G . ' M ., was coupled a comic song . As the D . Prov . G . M . seemed to think that a comic song in connection with his name was out of place , it might be thought much move so when coupled with that of the Prov . Grand Chaplain . He , however , did not think so , and he liked it . When he looked around he saw men as they were , not as they were represented to be . He did not find men altogether spiritually minded , nor yet
altogether worldly minded ; and therefore , as there was always a mixture of good with evil , of gaiety with gravity , he was glad to see that his name as the Grand Chaplain was connected with a comic song . ( Cheers . ) He had often thought that a Grand Chaplain could not select a more appropriate passage from Scripture upon which to discourse than that wherein Solomon tells us to eat and drink and be merry , and that there is a timv « for every purpose . That passage had often recommended itself to him : and the o ^ e he looked into the volume of
the sacred law the more he saw there principles which were adapted to men as they were , and not , as those principles were sometimes represented to be , applicable only to almost angels and not to human beings . ( Hear , hear . ) It was an occasion of the utmost gratification to him to be applauded by them , and to receive the praises of such a man aa the Prov . Grand Master , who had taken
the highest honours at one of our most famous universities—an honour which be esteemed above all price . Should it be his privilege and happiness to again address them on any future occasion of this kind , he should endeavour to set forth , in their most perfect form , the principles of Ereemasonry—the more jie saw * of which tho more was he convinced that they were based on that & " of
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Pro Vino I At
him the opportunity , he would endeavour to show them how well he could discharge the duties of an office which the Prov . G / M . by his own exertions had rendered hitherto little more than a sinecure . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Campbell , P . Prov . G . W . said they ^ had all joined heartily and cordially in responding to the toast of those gallant defenders , who probably were the means of securing peace to their shores by showing others how they were able to meet them . If they honoured those brave men , how much more would they accord a
tribute of praise to a veteran defender of Ereemasonry—he referred to Bro . Ashley . ( Loud cheers . ) There was a time when Masonry in Kent was not so fashionable as it was at present ; then it was that Bro . Ashley led the way , and he helieved they might regard him , in some respects , as the precursor of the present prosperity of the Craft in this county . ( Cheers . ) For many long years he had been foremost to advance the principles of Masonry , and he ., might be permitted
to express a hope that for many years to come his grey hairs would shed a lustre upon these annual gatherings . ( Cheers . ) Bro . Ashley was one of those men who had been so vividly , so pathetically , and so eloquently shadowed forth by the preacher that day , as those who loved to do good , that he ever had the satisfaction of knowing that he had endeavoured to do his duty as a mankind a Mason . ( Loud applause . )
Bro . Ashley , P . D . Prov . G . M . could assure the GBrethren that he was so overwhelmed with the attectiohate manner in which his health had been proposed , and the kind way in which it had been responded tp -that he could not find words to express his gratitude . He most sincerely thanked them for the honour they had done him . He had now been very nearly fifty years a Mason , and so long as he had health and strength he should always feel it a pleasure and an honour to attend these meetings . ( Cheers . ) He implored the Great Architect to send down on all present His choicest blessings , and might their homes be crowned with peace , comfort , and content . ( Cheers . )
The Prov . G . M . next proposed the health of the Prov . G . Chaplain , whose excellent sermon they must all have been delighted with that day , and he might be allowed to say that a sermon better calculated to serve the cause of charity he had never heard , ( Cheers . ) The Rev . Bro . Batchelor , Prov . G . Chaplain , could not adequately express the gratitude he felt for the very kind manner in which his name had been received . It was the utmost gratification to him that he should have been selected by the Prov . G . M . as the Prov . G . Chaplain , and more particularly that his address that
afternoon had met with approbation . ( Cheers . ) He saw that with his name , like that of the D . Prov . G . ' M ., was coupled a comic song . As the D . Prov . G . M . seemed to think that a comic song in connection with his name was out of place , it might be thought much move so when coupled with that of the Prov . Grand Chaplain . He , however , did not think so , and he liked it . When he looked around he saw men as they were , not as they were represented to be . He did not find men altogether spiritually minded , nor yet
altogether worldly minded ; and therefore , as there was always a mixture of good with evil , of gaiety with gravity , he was glad to see that his name as the Grand Chaplain was connected with a comic song . ( Cheers . ) He had often thought that a Grand Chaplain could not select a more appropriate passage from Scripture upon which to discourse than that wherein Solomon tells us to eat and drink and be merry , and that there is a timv « for every purpose . That passage had often recommended itself to him : and the o ^ e he looked into the volume of
the sacred law the more he saw there principles which were adapted to men as they were , and not , as those principles were sometimes represented to be , applicable only to almost angels and not to human beings . ( Hear , hear . ) It was an occasion of the utmost gratification to him to be applauded by them , and to receive the praises of such a man aa the Prov . Grand Master , who had taken
the highest honours at one of our most famous universities—an honour which be esteemed above all price . Should it be his privilege and happiness to again address them on any future occasion of this kind , he should endeavour to set forth , in their most perfect form , the principles of Ereemasonry—the more jie saw * of which tho more was he convinced that they were based on that & " of