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have the honour of proposing , but the hearts of Masons can conceive it . AA'hile England ancl Scotland exist among nations , the songs of Burns shall be heard in their halls and in their cottages . In the most remote quarters of the globe , to wherever a Scotchman may emigrate , —and where will we not find one?—the songs of Burns will be household words , and will cheer him amid his labours or his pleasures . Like our own Shakspeare , his fame will have no limit . Even at this moment
Burns is engrossing the earnest attention of the German public , ancl several apt and close translations of his works are now in course of publication in that language . The breathings of nature are not confined to any clime , ancl the songs of Burns will be familiar in other languages to thousands who could not read him in his own . The true poet writes for the world , but it is for the country that gave him birth to be proud of him , and to be elevated by the workings of his genius ; and we are proud of Burns , for those who cannot claim him as a brother Scot , can as a Brother Mason—( cheering ) . I will conclude in words more eloquent than any of my
own—* Soul of the Poet , wheresoe ' er Reclaimed from earth , thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp in happier sphere , And with thine influence illumine The gladness of our jubilee ! "
I beg , AVorshipful Master , to give " the Immortal Memory of Brother Robert Burns . "—( Drank in silence ) . Bro . SKEAT ( of Birmingham ) , in very complimentary and appropriate terms , proposed "the health of Bro . Kain , the P . M ., the Officers , and the Brethren of the Shakspeare Lodge . " Bro . KAIN , P . M ., on behalf of himself and his Brother Officers , returned thanks for the honour done to the toast ; and regretted that the
lateness of the hour precluded him from enlarging on many topics suggested by the interesting event they had that day met to celebrate . He would briefly call to their remembrance a few of the appropriate observations that had fallen from the W . M . in the oration to which they had that morning listened ivith such unfeigned delight , and which they had so properly agreed should be printed for circulation among the Craft ; many of the uninitiated wouldthereforehave an opportunity of
parti-, , cipating in the benefit they had themselves received from listening to so admirable a production : — " AVhile the Shakspeare Lodge has , during the space of fifty years , been pursuing its silent unalterable course of charity ancl good-will , and retaining unblemished its eternal motto of Brotherl y Love , Relief , and Truth , and while the landmarks of our Order , as laid down by the immortal founders of our mystic rites , have remained immutable , what revolutions have not taken place in the outward or popular
world ? AVhat kingdoms have not been overturned and erased from the list of nations—kings deposed or abdicated—reformations in empiresreformations even in the religious , political , and scientific world—societies innumerable—so-called fraternities without number have been raised into existence and sunk into oblivion ; whichever way we turn , Time , that ruthless consumer of all things , has laid his withering hand;—but Freemasonry , in this Lodge , and in all Lodges throughout the known world , is still the same , unchanged and unchangeable . " The principles of Freemasonry that actuated the breasts of the honoured founders of
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have the honour of proposing , but the hearts of Masons can conceive it . AA'hile England ancl Scotland exist among nations , the songs of Burns shall be heard in their halls and in their cottages . In the most remote quarters of the globe , to wherever a Scotchman may emigrate , —and where will we not find one?—the songs of Burns will be household words , and will cheer him amid his labours or his pleasures . Like our own Shakspeare , his fame will have no limit . Even at this moment
Burns is engrossing the earnest attention of the German public , ancl several apt and close translations of his works are now in course of publication in that language . The breathings of nature are not confined to any clime , ancl the songs of Burns will be familiar in other languages to thousands who could not read him in his own . The true poet writes for the world , but it is for the country that gave him birth to be proud of him , and to be elevated by the workings of his genius ; and we are proud of Burns , for those who cannot claim him as a brother Scot , can as a Brother Mason—( cheering ) . I will conclude in words more eloquent than any of my
own—* Soul of the Poet , wheresoe ' er Reclaimed from earth , thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp in happier sphere , And with thine influence illumine The gladness of our jubilee ! "
I beg , AVorshipful Master , to give " the Immortal Memory of Brother Robert Burns . "—( Drank in silence ) . Bro . SKEAT ( of Birmingham ) , in very complimentary and appropriate terms , proposed "the health of Bro . Kain , the P . M ., the Officers , and the Brethren of the Shakspeare Lodge . " Bro . KAIN , P . M ., on behalf of himself and his Brother Officers , returned thanks for the honour done to the toast ; and regretted that the
lateness of the hour precluded him from enlarging on many topics suggested by the interesting event they had that day met to celebrate . He would briefly call to their remembrance a few of the appropriate observations that had fallen from the W . M . in the oration to which they had that morning listened ivith such unfeigned delight , and which they had so properly agreed should be printed for circulation among the Craft ; many of the uninitiated wouldthereforehave an opportunity of
parti-, , cipating in the benefit they had themselves received from listening to so admirable a production : — " AVhile the Shakspeare Lodge has , during the space of fifty years , been pursuing its silent unalterable course of charity ancl good-will , and retaining unblemished its eternal motto of Brotherl y Love , Relief , and Truth , and while the landmarks of our Order , as laid down by the immortal founders of our mystic rites , have remained immutable , what revolutions have not taken place in the outward or popular
world ? AVhat kingdoms have not been overturned and erased from the list of nations—kings deposed or abdicated—reformations in empiresreformations even in the religious , political , and scientific world—societies innumerable—so-called fraternities without number have been raised into existence and sunk into oblivion ; whichever way we turn , Time , that ruthless consumer of all things , has laid his withering hand;—but Freemasonry , in this Lodge , and in all Lodges throughout the known world , is still the same , unchanged and unchangeable . " The principles of Freemasonry that actuated the breasts of the honoured founders of