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Appropriate masonic toasts , & c , were given , and drank with due honours by the Brethren , who enjoyed the " mirthful festivities of sociality , good fellowship , and good wine , " till a late hour in the evening . Some of tbe toasts were as follows : viz . " The King , Grand Patron of tbe Order . " " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , M . W . G . M . "
" The Right Honorable the Earl of Durham , D . G . M . " " The Masonic trowel , may it ever be kept bright by spreading the cement of brotherly affection . " " May our conversation be such , as that youth may therein find instruction , women modesty , tbe aged respect , and all men civility . " " Increase to the trade , and prosperity to the inhabitants , of the town
of Birmingham . " " The Worshipful Master of St . Paul ' s Lodge . " On this toast being drank , Brother Lloyd , the W . M . of St . Paul ' s Lodge , rose , and returned thanks to the following effect : — " Brethren , in thanking you for the honour which you have conferred upon me , I feel I should be unable to give utterance to my feelings , ivere I not convinced that I am surrounded by those who will judge with candour , admonish with friendship , and cast the mantle of love over
every imperfection they may discover . "It would be ignorance not to know , and knowing , it would be affectation to conceal , that our institution has been misunderstood by prejudice , misrepresented by malevolence , and slandeied by calumny . By some we have been charged as the abettors of immorality and the champions of infidelity . Others allege that our pursuits are light , trifling , and
frivolous ; but to such an objection we can reply , that a Locke , a Washington , a Jenner , a Boulton , and many other distinguished individuals , have ranked under our banners ; and it is not to be supposed that such men—men who have irradiated the world by their genius and blessed it by their benevolence—would have continued their support to a society against which such objections could be truly urged . It is a consolation ,
notwithstanding all the objections that have been made to , and all the charges that have been brought against , our Institution , that every Mason may successfully refute the one and remove the other . Let us be regulated by the precepts of wisdom , supported by the strength oi virtue , and adorned with the beauty of benevolence . Let our faith be governed by the volume of the sacred law , and our fives regulated by
the divine precepts it contains , and we shall furnish a mere comjdete refutation of the charges that have been preferred against us than can be supplied by the acuteness of reasoning , the flowers of rhetoric , or the charms of eloquence . " MERTIIYR , June 24 M , —The Loyal Cambrian Lodge of Freemasons
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Provincial.
Appropriate masonic toasts , & c , were given , and drank with due honours by the Brethren , who enjoyed the " mirthful festivities of sociality , good fellowship , and good wine , " till a late hour in the evening . Some of tbe toasts were as follows : viz . " The King , Grand Patron of tbe Order . " " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , M . W . G . M . "
" The Right Honorable the Earl of Durham , D . G . M . " " The Masonic trowel , may it ever be kept bright by spreading the cement of brotherly affection . " " May our conversation be such , as that youth may therein find instruction , women modesty , tbe aged respect , and all men civility . " " Increase to the trade , and prosperity to the inhabitants , of the town
of Birmingham . " " The Worshipful Master of St . Paul ' s Lodge . " On this toast being drank , Brother Lloyd , the W . M . of St . Paul ' s Lodge , rose , and returned thanks to the following effect : — " Brethren , in thanking you for the honour which you have conferred upon me , I feel I should be unable to give utterance to my feelings , ivere I not convinced that I am surrounded by those who will judge with candour , admonish with friendship , and cast the mantle of love over
every imperfection they may discover . "It would be ignorance not to know , and knowing , it would be affectation to conceal , that our institution has been misunderstood by prejudice , misrepresented by malevolence , and slandeied by calumny . By some we have been charged as the abettors of immorality and the champions of infidelity . Others allege that our pursuits are light , trifling , and
frivolous ; but to such an objection we can reply , that a Locke , a Washington , a Jenner , a Boulton , and many other distinguished individuals , have ranked under our banners ; and it is not to be supposed that such men—men who have irradiated the world by their genius and blessed it by their benevolence—would have continued their support to a society against which such objections could be truly urged . It is a consolation ,
notwithstanding all the objections that have been made to , and all the charges that have been brought against , our Institution , that every Mason may successfully refute the one and remove the other . Let us be regulated by the precepts of wisdom , supported by the strength oi virtue , and adorned with the beauty of benevolence . Let our faith be governed by the volume of the sacred law , and our fives regulated by
the divine precepts it contains , and we shall furnish a mere comjdete refutation of the charges that have been preferred against us than can be supplied by the acuteness of reasoning , the flowers of rhetoric , or the charms of eloquence . " MERTIIYR , June 24 M , —The Loyal Cambrian Lodge of Freemasons