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The Charge Delivered At The Initiation Of Every Brother Into Freemasonry.
14 . You admit that no person can be regularly be made a Freemason or admitted a member of any Lodge without previous notice and due inquiry into his character ; and that no Brother can be advanced to a higher degree except in strict conformity with the laws of the Grand Lodge . 15 . You promise that no visitor shall be received into your Lodge
without due examination , and producing proper vouchers of his having been initiated in a regular Lodge . At the conclusion the Grand Master or Installing Officer addresses the Master-elect as follows : — " Do you submit to and promise to support these charges and regulations as Masters have done in all ages . " Upon his answering in the affirmative the ceremony of installation proceeds .
Anecdote Of Lord Brougham.
ANECDOTE OF LORD BROUGHAM .
IT is not , perhaps , generally known that the late Lord Chancellor of England is a Brother of the Craft . He was originally initiated in the small town of Stornaway , in Scotland , and afterwards became a member of the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge , Edinburgh , of which many other men of celebrity were members . The circumstances of his initiation were these .
Being upon a pleasure-voyage along the north coast of Scotland in company ivith several other roving and congenial spirits , the party put in to the hyperborean port of Stornaway , where they landed , and , as was their wont , disembarked along with them their choice store of the jolly god . It happened one evening during their convivial enjoyments , that there was a meeting of a Lodge at the place , and one of the party , who was a Mason , being informed of the circumstance , immediately
proposed that Henry Brougham and another of the party should go and get made without delay . No sooner said than done , and away they sallied forth to the Lodge of Stornaway , where the future lord chancellor was duly entered , passed , and raised a Master Mason of the Ancient Fraternity of the Craft . As may be imagined on such an occasion— " In such a place as that , at such an hour , " great , glorious ,
and generous was " The feast of reason and the flow of soul ; " and many a bona fide bumper of Glenlivet was quaffed to many a Masonic and convivial toast . Such were the circumstances of the initiation of the present Lord Brougham and Vaux , which are vouched for upon the authority of the respectable Brother , now living , who was then Secretary to the Lodge .
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The Charge Delivered At The Initiation Of Every Brother Into Freemasonry.
14 . You admit that no person can be regularly be made a Freemason or admitted a member of any Lodge without previous notice and due inquiry into his character ; and that no Brother can be advanced to a higher degree except in strict conformity with the laws of the Grand Lodge . 15 . You promise that no visitor shall be received into your Lodge
without due examination , and producing proper vouchers of his having been initiated in a regular Lodge . At the conclusion the Grand Master or Installing Officer addresses the Master-elect as follows : — " Do you submit to and promise to support these charges and regulations as Masters have done in all ages . " Upon his answering in the affirmative the ceremony of installation proceeds .
Anecdote Of Lord Brougham.
ANECDOTE OF LORD BROUGHAM .
IT is not , perhaps , generally known that the late Lord Chancellor of England is a Brother of the Craft . He was originally initiated in the small town of Stornaway , in Scotland , and afterwards became a member of the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge , Edinburgh , of which many other men of celebrity were members . The circumstances of his initiation were these .
Being upon a pleasure-voyage along the north coast of Scotland in company ivith several other roving and congenial spirits , the party put in to the hyperborean port of Stornaway , where they landed , and , as was their wont , disembarked along with them their choice store of the jolly god . It happened one evening during their convivial enjoyments , that there was a meeting of a Lodge at the place , and one of the party , who was a Mason , being informed of the circumstance , immediately
proposed that Henry Brougham and another of the party should go and get made without delay . No sooner said than done , and away they sallied forth to the Lodge of Stornaway , where the future lord chancellor was duly entered , passed , and raised a Master Mason of the Ancient Fraternity of the Craft . As may be imagined on such an occasion— " In such a place as that , at such an hour , " great , glorious ,
and generous was " The feast of reason and the flow of soul ; " and many a bona fide bumper of Glenlivet was quaffed to many a Masonic and convivial toast . Such were the circumstances of the initiation of the present Lord Brougham and Vaux , which are vouched for upon the authority of the respectable Brother , now living , who was then Secretary to the Lodge .