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Tlie Brethren , I am sure , will excuse me for saying , that having known him so long and so intimatel y , I admired his frank , open , and truly English heart ; he was a true John Bull , not in vulgar coarseness , but in manly independence and honest integrity : he was a man after my own heart , whose friendship and kindly feeling towards all his Brethren ceased only with his existence . He was without an enemyand died in with all mankindfor
, peace ; who could be the enemy of one so harmless and free from guile ? His conduct when at the convivial board was marked by the strictest propriety ; and when any of the younger Brethren , from the exuberance of animal spirits , were on the point of exceeding the bounds of decorum his example brought them to a sense of what was due to their characters as Men and Masons .
I am aware that I am speaking in the presence of those who would despise me if I attempted to utter any thing like flattery on the character of our deceased Brother . You , who knew his character so well , will bear me out in the assertion that I have said nothing but what is strictly true , and what is justly due to his character as a just and upright Man and Mason , which character he supported and maintained through life .
To sum up his character in a few words , he was exemplary in the discharge of the ordinary duties of social life ; he was a kind and indulgent husband and father ; a staunch friend ; a zealous and worth y Brother of the Craft ; a sincere Christian ; a just and upright tradesman ; and , finally , what the poet has described as the noblest work of God—an honest man . May he vest in peaceand receive tbe reward of his labours in the
, approving language of our gracious Lord and Master , " Well done , thou good and faithful servant , enter thou into the joy of thy Lord . '' Brother Turner concluded his oration with the impressive exhortation of the Brother Preston , and the 133 rd Psalm .
H. R. H. The Duke Of Sussex, Grand Master Of Masons In England.
H . R . H . THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , GRAND MASTER OF MASONS IN ENGLAND .
[ We copy from " Random Recollections of tlie House of Lords , " the following sketch of our illustrious Grand Master , omitting the parts which are merely political . * ! " THE Duke of Sussex , sometimes called , by way of eminence , 'the popular member of tbe royal famil y / has been very seldom in the House of late years . Physical infirmities , and especially the critical state of his eyes , for some time past , are understood to have been the chief causes of his absence , * * * * ' :: ' *
" His Royal Highness is a man of superior talents . It were to overestimate his abilities to say he is a first-rate man ; but no one can denythat his intellectual resources are far above mediocrity . The speeches he used to make some twelve or fifteen years since , both at public meetings and in the House , were as replete with eloquence as they were remarkable for the ardent love of liberty which they breathed throughout . If there was nothing profound or original in them , neither , on the other hand , did they degenerate into dry common-place . Whether they were heard delivered , or read in the newspapers , they at once gained the VOL . in . z
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An Oration
Tlie Brethren , I am sure , will excuse me for saying , that having known him so long and so intimatel y , I admired his frank , open , and truly English heart ; he was a true John Bull , not in vulgar coarseness , but in manly independence and honest integrity : he was a man after my own heart , whose friendship and kindly feeling towards all his Brethren ceased only with his existence . He was without an enemyand died in with all mankindfor
, peace ; who could be the enemy of one so harmless and free from guile ? His conduct when at the convivial board was marked by the strictest propriety ; and when any of the younger Brethren , from the exuberance of animal spirits , were on the point of exceeding the bounds of decorum his example brought them to a sense of what was due to their characters as Men and Masons .
I am aware that I am speaking in the presence of those who would despise me if I attempted to utter any thing like flattery on the character of our deceased Brother . You , who knew his character so well , will bear me out in the assertion that I have said nothing but what is strictly true , and what is justly due to his character as a just and upright Man and Mason , which character he supported and maintained through life .
To sum up his character in a few words , he was exemplary in the discharge of the ordinary duties of social life ; he was a kind and indulgent husband and father ; a staunch friend ; a zealous and worth y Brother of the Craft ; a sincere Christian ; a just and upright tradesman ; and , finally , what the poet has described as the noblest work of God—an honest man . May he vest in peaceand receive tbe reward of his labours in the
, approving language of our gracious Lord and Master , " Well done , thou good and faithful servant , enter thou into the joy of thy Lord . '' Brother Turner concluded his oration with the impressive exhortation of the Brother Preston , and the 133 rd Psalm .
H. R. H. The Duke Of Sussex, Grand Master Of Masons In England.
H . R . H . THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , GRAND MASTER OF MASONS IN ENGLAND .
[ We copy from " Random Recollections of tlie House of Lords , " the following sketch of our illustrious Grand Master , omitting the parts which are merely political . * ! " THE Duke of Sussex , sometimes called , by way of eminence , 'the popular member of tbe royal famil y / has been very seldom in the House of late years . Physical infirmities , and especially the critical state of his eyes , for some time past , are understood to have been the chief causes of his absence , * * * * ' :: ' *
" His Royal Highness is a man of superior talents . It were to overestimate his abilities to say he is a first-rate man ; but no one can denythat his intellectual resources are far above mediocrity . The speeches he used to make some twelve or fifteen years since , both at public meetings and in the House , were as replete with eloquence as they were remarkable for the ardent love of liberty which they breathed throughout . If there was nothing profound or original in them , neither , on the other hand , did they degenerate into dry common-place . Whether they were heard delivered , or read in the newspapers , they at once gained the VOL . in . z