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Masonic Excursion To Boslin Castle.
MASONIC EXeUESIOET TO BOSLIN GASTLE .
Jubilee Festival of the Lodge ¦ " oi Joubi ^ evm en Masons , Edinburgh . The Lodge of Journeymen Masons , Edinburgh , No . 8 , haying reached the 150 th year of its existence / the members resolved to celebrate the event by an excursion to Hawthornden and Roslm , This excursion accordingly took place on Thursday , the 13 th of August last . The weather on the morning of that daywas exceedingly propitious . A few light clouds certainly floated along the sky .
but the sun , nevertheless , at times shone with considerable brilliancy , while the atmosphere was exceedingly calm and genial , and infused into each breast a feeling of animation and joy . We were early at the Waverley Bridge station from which the Brethren were to start , and thus had a few minutes' leisure to enjoy the imposing panoramic view which it commands , and which is fraught with special interest to the operative Mason . In front is the splendid Grecian Temple of the Royal Institution , the principal work of Playfair ; and a little further to the west is the towering Castile , ~
" Like some bold vet ran gray in anus , And marVd with many a seamy scar . " Around are the Assembly Hall , the Free Church College , the National Gallery , and the Scott Monument , —buildings attractive in themselves , and specially interesting to the Journeymen from the circumstance that trie builders of them were members of their Lodge : indeed they were all , with the exception of the Free
Church College , which was the work of Bro . Robert Smith , built by Bro . David land , one of the best Masons and most generous-hearted men that we have known . Bro . George M , Kemp , the distinguished architect of the Scott Monument , certainly the most remarkable building in the modern Athens , was also a member of the Lodge Journeymen , having been admitted on the 17 th of April , 1843 .
By nine o ' clock we had all taken our seats in the train . On leaving the station , though fully alive to the advantages conferred on the community by the North British Kail way , we cannot at the same time repress some emotions of regret that so many notable , buildings were torn down to make way for the terminus of this railway , —such as Trinity Hospital , Lady Glenorchy ' s Chapel , Paul ' s Work , the Orphan Hospital ( which the Journeymen gratuitously assisted to rear with
their owu hands , having for this purpose contributed 821 days' labour ) , and , above all , Trinity College Church , the work of Mary of Gueldres , queen of James II ., and one of the best specimens of Gothic architecture in Scotland . The magistrates and council of Edinburgh received from the railway company £ 16 , 000 , on the faith that they „ would rebuild this interesting relic of Masonic skill in thefifteenth century ; but the present civic dignitaries , with a vandalism worthy of the men who razed the ancient City Cross , and thereby brought on their heads the undying
maledictions of Sir Walter Scott , have repudiated their engagement , and a few days ago agreed to sell the stones of the sacred pile to the highest bidder . On the north is the Begent Bridge , with its elegant triumphal arches , the foundationstone of which was laid with Masonic honours on the 19 th September , 1815 , by the Grand Master , the Earl of Fife . The Journeymen , who mustered strongly on the occasion , celebrated the event by a splendid ball in the evening , which is never
Spoken of by any of the surviving members who were present without emotion . On a precipice high above the railway , to the north , is the Calton burying-ground , with its monuments to the historian Hume , the political martyrs , & c . We are able to note the burial-place of Bro . Eobert Kay , architect , who at his death , on the 13 th of May , 1818 , bequeathed to his Brother Journeymen the free legacy of £ 150 , on condition that in all time coming they would keep the wall thatiencloses his sepulchre in a state of proper repair . Adjoining are the castellated buildings
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Masonic Excursion To Boslin Castle.
MASONIC EXeUESIOET TO BOSLIN GASTLE .
Jubilee Festival of the Lodge ¦ " oi Joubi ^ evm en Masons , Edinburgh . The Lodge of Journeymen Masons , Edinburgh , No . 8 , haying reached the 150 th year of its existence / the members resolved to celebrate the event by an excursion to Hawthornden and Roslm , This excursion accordingly took place on Thursday , the 13 th of August last . The weather on the morning of that daywas exceedingly propitious . A few light clouds certainly floated along the sky .
but the sun , nevertheless , at times shone with considerable brilliancy , while the atmosphere was exceedingly calm and genial , and infused into each breast a feeling of animation and joy . We were early at the Waverley Bridge station from which the Brethren were to start , and thus had a few minutes' leisure to enjoy the imposing panoramic view which it commands , and which is fraught with special interest to the operative Mason . In front is the splendid Grecian Temple of the Royal Institution , the principal work of Playfair ; and a little further to the west is the towering Castile , ~
" Like some bold vet ran gray in anus , And marVd with many a seamy scar . " Around are the Assembly Hall , the Free Church College , the National Gallery , and the Scott Monument , —buildings attractive in themselves , and specially interesting to the Journeymen from the circumstance that trie builders of them were members of their Lodge : indeed they were all , with the exception of the Free
Church College , which was the work of Bro . Robert Smith , built by Bro . David land , one of the best Masons and most generous-hearted men that we have known . Bro . George M , Kemp , the distinguished architect of the Scott Monument , certainly the most remarkable building in the modern Athens , was also a member of the Lodge Journeymen , having been admitted on the 17 th of April , 1843 .
By nine o ' clock we had all taken our seats in the train . On leaving the station , though fully alive to the advantages conferred on the community by the North British Kail way , we cannot at the same time repress some emotions of regret that so many notable , buildings were torn down to make way for the terminus of this railway , —such as Trinity Hospital , Lady Glenorchy ' s Chapel , Paul ' s Work , the Orphan Hospital ( which the Journeymen gratuitously assisted to rear with
their owu hands , having for this purpose contributed 821 days' labour ) , and , above all , Trinity College Church , the work of Mary of Gueldres , queen of James II ., and one of the best specimens of Gothic architecture in Scotland . The magistrates and council of Edinburgh received from the railway company £ 16 , 000 , on the faith that they „ would rebuild this interesting relic of Masonic skill in thefifteenth century ; but the present civic dignitaries , with a vandalism worthy of the men who razed the ancient City Cross , and thereby brought on their heads the undying
maledictions of Sir Walter Scott , have repudiated their engagement , and a few days ago agreed to sell the stones of the sacred pile to the highest bidder . On the north is the Begent Bridge , with its elegant triumphal arches , the foundationstone of which was laid with Masonic honours on the 19 th September , 1815 , by the Grand Master , the Earl of Fife . The Journeymen , who mustered strongly on the occasion , celebrated the event by a splendid ball in the evening , which is never
Spoken of by any of the surviving members who were present without emotion . On a precipice high above the railway , to the north , is the Calton burying-ground , with its monuments to the historian Hume , the political martyrs , & c . We are able to note the burial-place of Bro . Eobert Kay , architect , who at his death , on the 13 th of May , 1818 , bequeathed to his Brother Journeymen the free legacy of £ 150 , on condition that in all time coming they would keep the wall thatiencloses his sepulchre in a state of proper repair . Adjoining are the castellated buildings