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Freemasonry In Gibraltar.
claim , but such as might be made on your own brotherly love and impartial charity , and on the tolerant spirit of your church . Thus the same circumstance which furnished a pretext for unchristian persecution , was made available by you as an opportunity for exercising Christian liberality . Far from me be it to make any invidious remark ; but on these facts , the most cursory observer cannot avoid making a comparison between the principles which withheldand those which grantedrespect
, , to the dead and consolation to the living ; and we , as Freemasons , should be indeed ungrateful did we fail , from that comparison , to draw a conclusion greatly in favour of those views by which we are sure you were actuated on this painful occasion . " I have said too little to satisfy my own feelings ; far too little to content my Brethren who hear me . I am conscious of my inability to do justice to their sentimentsor ownat the same timeI must pray
, my ; , you , Sir , to excuse even what I have said . To you alone , not among us only , but among all who know you , can what I have feebly attempted to say , appear otherwise than far below the subject . " Permit me to conclude by offering you a slight tribute of the warm , tbe lasting , and the well-earned esteem and affection , with which you have inspired the united Brothers of the Lodge of Friendship . "
To this address the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Brother the Reverend Dr . Burrow , thus replied : — " Worshipful Sir and Brethren , having a short time since , on Candlemas day last , received an intimation at our Brother Glover ' s hospitable board , that it was the kind intention of the Lodge of Friendship to present me with a memorial of the harmony and fraternal feeling which prevail among us , I have now , on the completion of your gratifying entertain of friendl
design , to express more fully the sense which I your y disposition towards me , and of the handsome proof of confidence with which you have been pleased to honour me . " In return for the tasteful , elegant , and characteristic candelabra , which have been just set before me , and which it is impossible to admire too highly , as specimens of our emblematic and peculiar art ; in return also for the flattering tation of the sentiments of the Lod
very represen ge , with which my much esteemed Brother , in the warmth and generosity of his own heart , has accompanied the delivery of your Masonic free-will offering—I beg you to accept my most cordial thanks—a small return indeed , but yet the best I have to make—at least , let me entreat you to believe , that my thanks are the sincere and grateful expression of what I ought to feel on such an occasion as the present , and not the mere formal ot tne
language up . " It would be an ill compliment to yon , Worshipful Sir and Brethren , if I were to say that I am unworthy of your kindness ; for it would imply an imputation on your judgment in estimating my performance of the duties for which I am responsible ; but in admitting that 1 am not altogether undeserving of your favour , the admission must be far more strictly qualified and guarded than my partial friend would have if : else vanity and selfi would at once justifan opposite opinion .
my -gnorance y If , however , the earnest and uniform desire to ' respect , maintain , and practise the rites and ceremonies' of our ancient aud honourable Fraternity , especially of its supreme and most illustrious Order ; and still more to piopagate and diffuse the sound and salutary principles upon
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Freemasonry In Gibraltar.
claim , but such as might be made on your own brotherly love and impartial charity , and on the tolerant spirit of your church . Thus the same circumstance which furnished a pretext for unchristian persecution , was made available by you as an opportunity for exercising Christian liberality . Far from me be it to make any invidious remark ; but on these facts , the most cursory observer cannot avoid making a comparison between the principles which withheldand those which grantedrespect
, , to the dead and consolation to the living ; and we , as Freemasons , should be indeed ungrateful did we fail , from that comparison , to draw a conclusion greatly in favour of those views by which we are sure you were actuated on this painful occasion . " I have said too little to satisfy my own feelings ; far too little to content my Brethren who hear me . I am conscious of my inability to do justice to their sentimentsor ownat the same timeI must pray
, my ; , you , Sir , to excuse even what I have said . To you alone , not among us only , but among all who know you , can what I have feebly attempted to say , appear otherwise than far below the subject . " Permit me to conclude by offering you a slight tribute of the warm , tbe lasting , and the well-earned esteem and affection , with which you have inspired the united Brothers of the Lodge of Friendship . "
To this address the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Brother the Reverend Dr . Burrow , thus replied : — " Worshipful Sir and Brethren , having a short time since , on Candlemas day last , received an intimation at our Brother Glover ' s hospitable board , that it was the kind intention of the Lodge of Friendship to present me with a memorial of the harmony and fraternal feeling which prevail among us , I have now , on the completion of your gratifying entertain of friendl
design , to express more fully the sense which I your y disposition towards me , and of the handsome proof of confidence with which you have been pleased to honour me . " In return for the tasteful , elegant , and characteristic candelabra , which have been just set before me , and which it is impossible to admire too highly , as specimens of our emblematic and peculiar art ; in return also for the flattering tation of the sentiments of the Lod
very represen ge , with which my much esteemed Brother , in the warmth and generosity of his own heart , has accompanied the delivery of your Masonic free-will offering—I beg you to accept my most cordial thanks—a small return indeed , but yet the best I have to make—at least , let me entreat you to believe , that my thanks are the sincere and grateful expression of what I ought to feel on such an occasion as the present , and not the mere formal ot tne
language up . " It would be an ill compliment to yon , Worshipful Sir and Brethren , if I were to say that I am unworthy of your kindness ; for it would imply an imputation on your judgment in estimating my performance of the duties for which I am responsible ; but in admitting that 1 am not altogether undeserving of your favour , the admission must be far more strictly qualified and guarded than my partial friend would have if : else vanity and selfi would at once justifan opposite opinion .
my -gnorance y If , however , the earnest and uniform desire to ' respect , maintain , and practise the rites and ceremonies' of our ancient aud honourable Fraternity , especially of its supreme and most illustrious Order ; and still more to piopagate and diffuse the sound and salutary principles upon