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WOLVERHAMPTON . —Dr . Slade , P . G . Chaplain for Staffordshire , has been appointed by the Committee of the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children , a life governor of that benevolent and excellent institution , in compliment for the " service of love" rendered to it by his sermon at Burslem , on the occasion of the recent meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge . On a similar occasion the worthy and eloquent Brother was elected a life governor of the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons .
BDRSLEM . —The Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire was held here , Non . 11 . The Brethren assembled numerously , and must have been much gratified with the outward manifestations of a most favourable feeling towards them . The peculiarly secret character of the institution is no longer , as formerly , visited with the displeasure of the fair sex , or the distrust of the church . The Brethren having mustered at the George Hotel , at once proceeded to the Town Hall , the use of which had been granted for the occasionand furnished as the Lodge-room . The Craft
, Lodge was opened by the W . M . of 660 . In consequence of sudden and serious indisposition , the R . W . Prov . Grand Master ( the Hon . Colonel Anson , M . P . ) was unable to be present . The R . VV . Deputy P . G . M . the Rev . Dr . Slade , accordingly presided , and opened the Prov . Grand Lodge in due form . We understand that Dr . Slade had that morning received an official communication from the gallant colonelwho was then in Shropshire
, , informing him of his illness ,, but at the same time assuring him that he should certainly endeavour to be present if he was sufficiently recovered . The business of the province having been transacted , the Lodge was adjourned , and the Brethren , preceded by an excellent band of music , marched in correct Masonic order to the parish church , where evening prayers were read by the Rev . Mr . Wright , assistant curate , and the responses by Brother W . Howson , 674 , parish clerk of Newcastle .
The Sermon was preached by the D . P . G . M . and P . G . Chaplain , Dr . Slade , and it might appropriately take for its title "Love to our Neighbour , " the text being from St . Paul's Epistle to the Romans , chap . xiii . v . 8 , "Owe no man anything , but to love one another ; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law . " 'The learned Doctor commenced his discourse by remarking , that the subject matter of the text was of equal concern and interest to mankind in general ; that love being the fulfilment of the lawit becomes the
, first principle of every duty which we owe to our neighbour , and the transgression Of the rule of justice and charity chiefly proceeds from tlie absence of a proper degree of it . As love ; therefore , maybe considered the spring of right behaviour , or that principle on which a regard to the rules of righteousness and charity is founded , so from the want of it do chiefly arise those disorders which prevail in human governments and societies , and those various injuries for which men have reason to
complain of one another . Our blessed Saviour , whom the Brethren of the Craft regard as their Elder Brother , had placed the iriagriitude and extent of the duty of brotherly love in its proper light , in reply to' the question , " What is the great commandment of the Law ? " ' ' ¦ 'Tn ' ou . shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , ' and'with ' all thy soul , and with alLthy mind . This is the first and great comrriaridmerit ; arid the second is like unto it . Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself : on , these two commandments hang all the law and , the prophets ' . "' .. The
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Provincial.
WOLVERHAMPTON . —Dr . Slade , P . G . Chaplain for Staffordshire , has been appointed by the Committee of the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children , a life governor of that benevolent and excellent institution , in compliment for the " service of love" rendered to it by his sermon at Burslem , on the occasion of the recent meeting of the Prov . Grand Lodge . On a similar occasion the worthy and eloquent Brother was elected a life governor of the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons .
BDRSLEM . —The Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire was held here , Non . 11 . The Brethren assembled numerously , and must have been much gratified with the outward manifestations of a most favourable feeling towards them . The peculiarly secret character of the institution is no longer , as formerly , visited with the displeasure of the fair sex , or the distrust of the church . The Brethren having mustered at the George Hotel , at once proceeded to the Town Hall , the use of which had been granted for the occasionand furnished as the Lodge-room . The Craft
, Lodge was opened by the W . M . of 660 . In consequence of sudden and serious indisposition , the R . W . Prov . Grand Master ( the Hon . Colonel Anson , M . P . ) was unable to be present . The R . VV . Deputy P . G . M . the Rev . Dr . Slade , accordingly presided , and opened the Prov . Grand Lodge in due form . We understand that Dr . Slade had that morning received an official communication from the gallant colonelwho was then in Shropshire
, , informing him of his illness ,, but at the same time assuring him that he should certainly endeavour to be present if he was sufficiently recovered . The business of the province having been transacted , the Lodge was adjourned , and the Brethren , preceded by an excellent band of music , marched in correct Masonic order to the parish church , where evening prayers were read by the Rev . Mr . Wright , assistant curate , and the responses by Brother W . Howson , 674 , parish clerk of Newcastle .
The Sermon was preached by the D . P . G . M . and P . G . Chaplain , Dr . Slade , and it might appropriately take for its title "Love to our Neighbour , " the text being from St . Paul's Epistle to the Romans , chap . xiii . v . 8 , "Owe no man anything , but to love one another ; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law . " 'The learned Doctor commenced his discourse by remarking , that the subject matter of the text was of equal concern and interest to mankind in general ; that love being the fulfilment of the lawit becomes the
, first principle of every duty which we owe to our neighbour , and the transgression Of the rule of justice and charity chiefly proceeds from tlie absence of a proper degree of it . As love ; therefore , maybe considered the spring of right behaviour , or that principle on which a regard to the rules of righteousness and charity is founded , so from the want of it do chiefly arise those disorders which prevail in human governments and societies , and those various injuries for which men have reason to
complain of one another . Our blessed Saviour , whom the Brethren of the Craft regard as their Elder Brother , had placed the iriagriitude and extent of the duty of brotherly love in its proper light , in reply to' the question , " What is the great commandment of the Law ? " ' ' ¦ 'Tn ' ou . shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , ' and'with ' all thy soul , and with alLthy mind . This is the first and great comrriaridmerit ; arid the second is like unto it . Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself : on , these two commandments hang all the law and , the prophets ' . "' .. The