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Installation Of Bro. Augustus Harris As W.M. Of The Drury Lane Lodge, No. 2127.
in every country there are lodges hailing from your English Grand Lodge . We can only attain this by united action , and by maintaining the harmony that at present exists . Bro . the Earl of MOUNT EDGCUMBE , Prov . G . Master of Cornwall , said : I little thought when I received the invitation to come here that I should be called upon to take a conspicuous part in the proceedings , and I feel that an apology is needed for my being here enjoying the refreshment without having taken part in the labour of the evening . It was impossible for me to come at an earlier hour , and it was only by the pressing
invitation I received that I consented to be here at the eleventh hour . The task that devolve upon me is no less than proposing what I am sure you will acknowledge to be the toast of the evening . For two reasons 1 regret that it has fallen upon me . It would not have happened but for the melancholy cause that has taken away the Past Master of your lodge , Bro . Lord Londesborough , whom you all know so well . In the second place I regret that I am not in a position to do justice to the toast . I am not thinking of the exceptional and critical audience , for their criticism , I am sure , will be tempered
by Masonry . But it is that I have , unfortunately , spent the whole of my natural existence without having made the acquaintance of your Worshipful Master , and any other brother would have been able to speak of his past career . There is , however , one supreme consolation , aud that is that the toast needs very little recommendation , for you will receive it as well from my lips as from the greatest brother in England . The Craft owes many thanks to the worthy brother who occupies the chair tonight , not merely for what he has done for this lodge , and for which I know you are grateful , not
merely for the example he has given you all his life as to what a kind and genial Mason ought to be , but by enlisting sympathy in the Craft from that profession with vyhich he is so honourably connected , a profession which we all rejoice to see daily rising in public estimation ; and I know that Masonry has always been popular in that profession , and there is no brother who has done more in awakening and promoting that interest amongst actors than your Worshipful Master . I believe that as a class they are especially open to the genial intercourse which , I am not ashamed to say , is one of the features of
Masonry . To carry on their labours there must necessarily be a strain upon their health and strength , and they must especially be open to the aid they must receive from the sympathetic grasp of a brother ' s hand in time of trouble . I have carefully refrained from using the brother's name , in whose honour I propose this toast , for I know it will be received with a burst of enthusiasm that will enforce me to finish my remarks and sit down . I ask you to rise and drink to "The Long Life and Happiness of your W . Master , Bro . Augustus Harris . "
Bro . AUGUSTUS HARRIS , replied , and said : Of course I know full well that I hardly deserve all that has been said of me , but on these occasions it is very pleasing to hear all these favourable things said of one , and it is kind of you to drink so heartily to this toast and to endorse all that has been said by the proposer . At the same time , I hardly know how to respond , for I feel that you have really seconded and put the seal upon what has been said . However , I assure you it has been a great gratification to us , that
so many distinguished Masons have come to my installation . I thank you heartily and from the bottom of my soul for your kindness in gathering
round me on what I shall consider one of the reddest of red letter days in my life . I beg to thank the Deo . Grand Master , the " M . W . the Grand
Masters of Scotland and Ireland , and all the other Grand Officers , for having so kindly come here . I also beg on this occasion to assure you that
everything I can do during my year of oflice to maintain the prestige of this lodge will be done . 1 shall endeavour to follow the example of Bro . Parkinson , who has so
materially assisted us . There is one thing which I am pleased to see , and that is that I shall have such good officers as my S . W . and J . W ., Bros . Sir J . E . Gorst and Admiral Sir E . Inglefield . It is necessary for a ship to have good
officers , and on these _ BR 0 * SIR J * E G 0 RST > s - - occasions the captain feels safe if he has such good officers as my present S . W . and J . W ., the latter of whom I regret is not with us . Under such circumstances , he feels that the ship is pretty safe to get into port with flying colours . My one thought will be to deliver over tbe lodge in as flourishing a position as it is to-day . The GRAND SECRETARY , in submitting the next toast to the brethren , said : The
toast I have now to introduce is one which . I am sure , is more important than any other , for it is a recognition of > ervices already rendered . I am delighted to propose the toast of "The Immediate Past Master and Installing Master . " Those brethren who have had anything to do with the foundation of a lodge must be aware of the large amount of woik to be done before the consecration day arrives . I am behind the scenes , and I perfectly remember the numerous visits that I had from the brethren who were founding this lodge . You must all be aware that the position of a new lodge in Masonry , and its
success , depends upon the esteem in which the W . M . is held . The members of this lodge were most fortunate in enlisting the services of your I . P . M ., Bro . Lord Londesborough , for I can answer for it that he takes a great personal interest in this lodge . He is an old and distinguished Past Grand Warden of England , being appointed to that office as far back as 1 S 60 . We all know , and I am sure we all regret , that owing to a severe accident that happened to him , he is prevented from being with us . We are most fortunate under those circumstances in enlisting the services of an able brother to
take the chair in his absence . I have had the pleasure of being present during the past year , and was delighted to find that the chair was filled in the most excellent manner b y that good and worthy Grand Officer , Bro . Parkinson . He performed almost every ceremony during that period , and I need only appeal to those members who were fortunate enough to be present , to say they were performed in a most excellent manner . He has put the last stone on the building by installing the W . M . to-night . You will all agree
with me that he deserves a very hearty vote of thanks from the members of the lodge , and also from the large number of brethren that were present during that ceremony . I will not detain you longer by singing his praises , but I must assure you he is one of our most distinguished Masons , and this lodge is most fortunate in obtaining his services during the past year . 1 will ask you to drink the double health of Bro . Lord Londesborough , your Immediate Past Master , whom I am sorry is unable to be with us , and also of Bro . Paikinson , the Installing Master of the evening .
Bro . J . C . PARKINSON , P . G . D ., Installing Master , said in reply : It has been a great pleasure to undertake the work of this exceptionally interesting lodge and to have acted for its W . M . during the first twelve months of its existence . We have also had the great advantage of being assisted and supported by its Honorary Members , some of the most accomplished of my brother Grand Officers—Bros . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec ; Fenn , President Board of General
Purpost-s ; Robert Grey , President Board of Benevolence ; and Matthews , P . G . Std . Br ., to whose admirable organisation as Director of Ceremonies to-day , we owe the succetsof this great meeting —( hear , hear)—who have attended as regularly as myself , thus giving the Drury Lane Lodge the unique advantage of having its Masonic work performed under the active supervision of men who are recognised throughout the Craft as a mong its leading authorities . I am onl y expressing the sentiments of these distinguished
Installation Of Bro. Augustus Harris As W.M. Of The Drury Lane Lodge, No. 2127.
Masons , as well as my own , in saying that our labours have been richly rewarded b y the appreciation of the brethren , and by the knowledge that we have contributed to the remarkable success the lodge has achieved . ( Applause . ) Mark Fapley , you remember , left the village where everybody knew him and was fond of him , turned his back upon the cosy parlour of the village inn and the buxom widow who was devoted to him , not because he doubted their appreciation , but that he felt there was no credit in being jolly where life was made so easy and so pleasant . ( Laughter . ) So he went
further afield , and took up his abode among strangers that he might come out strong , as he said , by keeping up his jollity where circumstances were more difficult . But he found everybody as kind to him in the new country as in the old , and that he was \ as jolly and happy as before , and still unable to take any credit to himself . That ' s just I my case . ( Laughter . ) When I joined the Drury Lane Lodge , my Masonic career had been one of perpetual sunshine and unchequered spoiling , so that looking back I could not recall a single circumstance to mar the brilliance of the
retrospectnot a quarrel , not a solitary difference of opinion—until I asked myself , in a spirit of self-examination , what credit is there in being devoted to an institution where everybody combines in an amiable conspiracy to make things pleasant to me . ( Laughter . ) Pining , like Mark Tapley , for difficulties in my path , this Drury Lane Lodge , 1 said , will furnish the very opportunity I want . There , I shall find brethren -whose own high calling will compel them to be criticalartists whose lives are spent in endowing creatures of the imagination with the breath
of life , in giving visible expression to poetic thought , in studying the niceties of our noble English tongue , and weighing their effect , and who must , by reason of these avocations , be more difficult and more severely critical than brethren belonging to professions less arduous and intellectual . Never were anticipations more completel y falsified . ( Applause . ) So far from being difficult to please , the brethren of the Drury Lane Lodge have excelled in generous appreciation , and in attention to their duties , and , dropping the Mark Tapley metaphor , it must be a matter of pride
to any one capable of thought to be supported by men whose intellect and training make their approbation of the highest value , because it is necessarily discriminating and sound . ( Hear , hear . ) lt was once said of a great orator that , when in full accord with his audience , what he gathered up from their sympathies in mist , he restored to them in bounteous life-inspiring rain . So in Freemasonry , the lofty language in which its ceremonies are enshrined , language which , though unequal , rises at times to sublime , I had almost said to
biblical , heights ; this language ought to gain in strength and force when its temporary mouthpiece , whoever he may be , finds a sympathetic echo in the trained intelligences around him . ( Applause . ) On the foundation of the Drury Lane Lodge there seemed to the Honorary Members and myself , to be a great opportunity and a certain danger . The opportunity was to enlist the practical sympathy and mental energies of the artists to whom it especially appealed , and to thus make the new lodge strong and famous . The danger was lest in a rush of sudden , and
unearned prosperity , in the social popularity of its members , in the claims of their profession and its public fame , in the ease with which
success of a certain kind could be won by them —the more difficult and trying side of Freemasonry — the duties , the claims , and the work which alone
establish a lodge on a stable basis , and give it lasting strength lhat these things might come to occupy a secondary place . Thanks to the good
sense of the members of the Drury Lane Lodge , that danger , if it ever existed , has been entirely escaped . ( Cheers . ) The work has been unusually
onerous and heavy , has not as a rule been followed by the usual material Solatium , and has had throughout the year the studious , and willing , and
punctual co-operation of the well known public servants of which this lodge is mainly composed . ( Hear , hear . )
BRO . ADMIRAL SIR E . A . INGLEFIELD , j . w . Q fauacy > therefore , we have knocked on the head , I hope for ever , namely , that an Actor ' s Lodge , however amusing and agreeable socially—is less likely than another , to build up for itself a reputation for strict and regular Masonic work . ( Applause ) . Bro . PARKINSON continued : But there has been much work ot another kind which has gone to build up the lodge . 1 mean the work that has been performed with so much
advantage by our Secretary . The focussing power , the cementing quality , the talent for organization , and the administrative skill which has welded together various protessional and social forces j the genius of suggestiveness and adaptability ; the swift perception which avails itself of opportunity which another would pass by unheeded ; the versatility of the citizen of the world , the acumen which comes from legal training ; the literary power , which is a special gift specially developed ; the unresting energy , which like the pungent root in Sydney Smith ' s salad :
" Scarce suspected animates the whole . " ( Laughter . ) All these are Bro . Broadley ' s . As the private friend of our Worshipful Master he brought these qualifications to the work of raising the Drury Lane Lodge to its present pinnacle of success , and it must have been a proud moment to-day when he saw his labours culminate in the installation of the friend on whose behalf he has toiled so devotedly , and when Bro . Harris was congratulated on his high position by one of the most representative gatherings of distinguished Masons ever assembled
in a Worshipful Master ' s honour . ( Hear , hear . ) Statistics would fail me , and would undoubtedly bore you were I to attempt to give them of Bro . Broadley ' s labours—the records he has kept , the letters he has written , the figures he has dealt with , the historical and antiquarian researches he has made , the interesting essay he has published , the negotiations he has conducted , the interviews with influential people he has secured—all with one end in view , the advancement and consolidation of this lodge . ( Applause . ) Instead of wearying you with these details I will paraphrase the
epitaph on another distinguished Freemason , Sir Christopher Wren , and say if you wish to see Bro . Broadley ' s monument to the Worshipful Master and his lodge , Look around 1 Consider the composition of this great meeting and the still greater meeting in lodge , and the distinguished people they have included , and reflect upon all that this unusual conjunction of great dignitaries implies . At our last lodge meeting Lord Londesborough , Sir John Gorst , our Worshipful Master , and myself , were appointed a Committee to consider the matter of Bro . Broadley's great services , and to act lor the lodge . In the name of that Committee , and of every member of the lodge—may 1 not
say of you all ?—I now present Bro . Broadley with a small token of kindly remembrance , trifling in itself , if compared with the labours it acknowledges , but important to him , and to us , for all that it commemorates and inspires . ( Loud cheers . ) [ Bro . Parkinson then presented to Bro . Broadley , in the name of the lodge , a very handsome silver liqueur stand , with two bottles , and twelve glasses , mounted on silver stands . The salver bears the following inscription : — " Presenied to W . Bro . A . M . Broadley , P . D . D . G . M . Malta , P . M . 1717 and 1835 , by the members of the Drury Lane Lodge , in grateful recognition of his valuable services as its first Secretary . Feb . ~ t »> 1887 . " ]
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Installation Of Bro. Augustus Harris As W.M. Of The Drury Lane Lodge, No. 2127.
in every country there are lodges hailing from your English Grand Lodge . We can only attain this by united action , and by maintaining the harmony that at present exists . Bro . the Earl of MOUNT EDGCUMBE , Prov . G . Master of Cornwall , said : I little thought when I received the invitation to come here that I should be called upon to take a conspicuous part in the proceedings , and I feel that an apology is needed for my being here enjoying the refreshment without having taken part in the labour of the evening . It was impossible for me to come at an earlier hour , and it was only by the pressing
invitation I received that I consented to be here at the eleventh hour . The task that devolve upon me is no less than proposing what I am sure you will acknowledge to be the toast of the evening . For two reasons 1 regret that it has fallen upon me . It would not have happened but for the melancholy cause that has taken away the Past Master of your lodge , Bro . Lord Londesborough , whom you all know so well . In the second place I regret that I am not in a position to do justice to the toast . I am not thinking of the exceptional and critical audience , for their criticism , I am sure , will be tempered
by Masonry . But it is that I have , unfortunately , spent the whole of my natural existence without having made the acquaintance of your Worshipful Master , and any other brother would have been able to speak of his past career . There is , however , one supreme consolation , aud that is that the toast needs very little recommendation , for you will receive it as well from my lips as from the greatest brother in England . The Craft owes many thanks to the worthy brother who occupies the chair tonight , not merely for what he has done for this lodge , and for which I know you are grateful , not
merely for the example he has given you all his life as to what a kind and genial Mason ought to be , but by enlisting sympathy in the Craft from that profession with vyhich he is so honourably connected , a profession which we all rejoice to see daily rising in public estimation ; and I know that Masonry has always been popular in that profession , and there is no brother who has done more in awakening and promoting that interest amongst actors than your Worshipful Master . I believe that as a class they are especially open to the genial intercourse which , I am not ashamed to say , is one of the features of
Masonry . To carry on their labours there must necessarily be a strain upon their health and strength , and they must especially be open to the aid they must receive from the sympathetic grasp of a brother ' s hand in time of trouble . I have carefully refrained from using the brother's name , in whose honour I propose this toast , for I know it will be received with a burst of enthusiasm that will enforce me to finish my remarks and sit down . I ask you to rise and drink to "The Long Life and Happiness of your W . Master , Bro . Augustus Harris . "
Bro . AUGUSTUS HARRIS , replied , and said : Of course I know full well that I hardly deserve all that has been said of me , but on these occasions it is very pleasing to hear all these favourable things said of one , and it is kind of you to drink so heartily to this toast and to endorse all that has been said by the proposer . At the same time , I hardly know how to respond , for I feel that you have really seconded and put the seal upon what has been said . However , I assure you it has been a great gratification to us , that
so many distinguished Masons have come to my installation . I thank you heartily and from the bottom of my soul for your kindness in gathering
round me on what I shall consider one of the reddest of red letter days in my life . I beg to thank the Deo . Grand Master , the " M . W . the Grand
Masters of Scotland and Ireland , and all the other Grand Officers , for having so kindly come here . I also beg on this occasion to assure you that
everything I can do during my year of oflice to maintain the prestige of this lodge will be done . 1 shall endeavour to follow the example of Bro . Parkinson , who has so
materially assisted us . There is one thing which I am pleased to see , and that is that I shall have such good officers as my S . W . and J . W ., Bros . Sir J . E . Gorst and Admiral Sir E . Inglefield . It is necessary for a ship to have good
officers , and on these _ BR 0 * SIR J * E G 0 RST > s - - occasions the captain feels safe if he has such good officers as my present S . W . and J . W ., the latter of whom I regret is not with us . Under such circumstances , he feels that the ship is pretty safe to get into port with flying colours . My one thought will be to deliver over tbe lodge in as flourishing a position as it is to-day . The GRAND SECRETARY , in submitting the next toast to the brethren , said : The
toast I have now to introduce is one which . I am sure , is more important than any other , for it is a recognition of > ervices already rendered . I am delighted to propose the toast of "The Immediate Past Master and Installing Master . " Those brethren who have had anything to do with the foundation of a lodge must be aware of the large amount of woik to be done before the consecration day arrives . I am behind the scenes , and I perfectly remember the numerous visits that I had from the brethren who were founding this lodge . You must all be aware that the position of a new lodge in Masonry , and its
success , depends upon the esteem in which the W . M . is held . The members of this lodge were most fortunate in enlisting the services of your I . P . M ., Bro . Lord Londesborough , for I can answer for it that he takes a great personal interest in this lodge . He is an old and distinguished Past Grand Warden of England , being appointed to that office as far back as 1 S 60 . We all know , and I am sure we all regret , that owing to a severe accident that happened to him , he is prevented from being with us . We are most fortunate under those circumstances in enlisting the services of an able brother to
take the chair in his absence . I have had the pleasure of being present during the past year , and was delighted to find that the chair was filled in the most excellent manner b y that good and worthy Grand Officer , Bro . Parkinson . He performed almost every ceremony during that period , and I need only appeal to those members who were fortunate enough to be present , to say they were performed in a most excellent manner . He has put the last stone on the building by installing the W . M . to-night . You will all agree
with me that he deserves a very hearty vote of thanks from the members of the lodge , and also from the large number of brethren that were present during that ceremony . I will not detain you longer by singing his praises , but I must assure you he is one of our most distinguished Masons , and this lodge is most fortunate in obtaining his services during the past year . 1 will ask you to drink the double health of Bro . Lord Londesborough , your Immediate Past Master , whom I am sorry is unable to be with us , and also of Bro . Paikinson , the Installing Master of the evening .
Bro . J . C . PARKINSON , P . G . D ., Installing Master , said in reply : It has been a great pleasure to undertake the work of this exceptionally interesting lodge and to have acted for its W . M . during the first twelve months of its existence . We have also had the great advantage of being assisted and supported by its Honorary Members , some of the most accomplished of my brother Grand Officers—Bros . Col . Shadwell H . Clerke , G . Sec ; Fenn , President Board of General
Purpost-s ; Robert Grey , President Board of Benevolence ; and Matthews , P . G . Std . Br ., to whose admirable organisation as Director of Ceremonies to-day , we owe the succetsof this great meeting —( hear , hear)—who have attended as regularly as myself , thus giving the Drury Lane Lodge the unique advantage of having its Masonic work performed under the active supervision of men who are recognised throughout the Craft as a mong its leading authorities . I am onl y expressing the sentiments of these distinguished
Installation Of Bro. Augustus Harris As W.M. Of The Drury Lane Lodge, No. 2127.
Masons , as well as my own , in saying that our labours have been richly rewarded b y the appreciation of the brethren , and by the knowledge that we have contributed to the remarkable success the lodge has achieved . ( Applause . ) Mark Fapley , you remember , left the village where everybody knew him and was fond of him , turned his back upon the cosy parlour of the village inn and the buxom widow who was devoted to him , not because he doubted their appreciation , but that he felt there was no credit in being jolly where life was made so easy and so pleasant . ( Laughter . ) So he went
further afield , and took up his abode among strangers that he might come out strong , as he said , by keeping up his jollity where circumstances were more difficult . But he found everybody as kind to him in the new country as in the old , and that he was \ as jolly and happy as before , and still unable to take any credit to himself . That ' s just I my case . ( Laughter . ) When I joined the Drury Lane Lodge , my Masonic career had been one of perpetual sunshine and unchequered spoiling , so that looking back I could not recall a single circumstance to mar the brilliance of the
retrospectnot a quarrel , not a solitary difference of opinion—until I asked myself , in a spirit of self-examination , what credit is there in being devoted to an institution where everybody combines in an amiable conspiracy to make things pleasant to me . ( Laughter . ) Pining , like Mark Tapley , for difficulties in my path , this Drury Lane Lodge , 1 said , will furnish the very opportunity I want . There , I shall find brethren -whose own high calling will compel them to be criticalartists whose lives are spent in endowing creatures of the imagination with the breath
of life , in giving visible expression to poetic thought , in studying the niceties of our noble English tongue , and weighing their effect , and who must , by reason of these avocations , be more difficult and more severely critical than brethren belonging to professions less arduous and intellectual . Never were anticipations more completel y falsified . ( Applause . ) So far from being difficult to please , the brethren of the Drury Lane Lodge have excelled in generous appreciation , and in attention to their duties , and , dropping the Mark Tapley metaphor , it must be a matter of pride
to any one capable of thought to be supported by men whose intellect and training make their approbation of the highest value , because it is necessarily discriminating and sound . ( Hear , hear . ) lt was once said of a great orator that , when in full accord with his audience , what he gathered up from their sympathies in mist , he restored to them in bounteous life-inspiring rain . So in Freemasonry , the lofty language in which its ceremonies are enshrined , language which , though unequal , rises at times to sublime , I had almost said to
biblical , heights ; this language ought to gain in strength and force when its temporary mouthpiece , whoever he may be , finds a sympathetic echo in the trained intelligences around him . ( Applause . ) On the foundation of the Drury Lane Lodge there seemed to the Honorary Members and myself , to be a great opportunity and a certain danger . The opportunity was to enlist the practical sympathy and mental energies of the artists to whom it especially appealed , and to thus make the new lodge strong and famous . The danger was lest in a rush of sudden , and
unearned prosperity , in the social popularity of its members , in the claims of their profession and its public fame , in the ease with which
success of a certain kind could be won by them —the more difficult and trying side of Freemasonry — the duties , the claims , and the work which alone
establish a lodge on a stable basis , and give it lasting strength lhat these things might come to occupy a secondary place . Thanks to the good
sense of the members of the Drury Lane Lodge , that danger , if it ever existed , has been entirely escaped . ( Cheers . ) The work has been unusually
onerous and heavy , has not as a rule been followed by the usual material Solatium , and has had throughout the year the studious , and willing , and
punctual co-operation of the well known public servants of which this lodge is mainly composed . ( Hear , hear . )
BRO . ADMIRAL SIR E . A . INGLEFIELD , j . w . Q fauacy > therefore , we have knocked on the head , I hope for ever , namely , that an Actor ' s Lodge , however amusing and agreeable socially—is less likely than another , to build up for itself a reputation for strict and regular Masonic work . ( Applause ) . Bro . PARKINSON continued : But there has been much work ot another kind which has gone to build up the lodge . 1 mean the work that has been performed with so much
advantage by our Secretary . The focussing power , the cementing quality , the talent for organization , and the administrative skill which has welded together various protessional and social forces j the genius of suggestiveness and adaptability ; the swift perception which avails itself of opportunity which another would pass by unheeded ; the versatility of the citizen of the world , the acumen which comes from legal training ; the literary power , which is a special gift specially developed ; the unresting energy , which like the pungent root in Sydney Smith ' s salad :
" Scarce suspected animates the whole . " ( Laughter . ) All these are Bro . Broadley ' s . As the private friend of our Worshipful Master he brought these qualifications to the work of raising the Drury Lane Lodge to its present pinnacle of success , and it must have been a proud moment to-day when he saw his labours culminate in the installation of the friend on whose behalf he has toiled so devotedly , and when Bro . Harris was congratulated on his high position by one of the most representative gatherings of distinguished Masons ever assembled
in a Worshipful Master ' s honour . ( Hear , hear . ) Statistics would fail me , and would undoubtedly bore you were I to attempt to give them of Bro . Broadley ' s labours—the records he has kept , the letters he has written , the figures he has dealt with , the historical and antiquarian researches he has made , the interesting essay he has published , the negotiations he has conducted , the interviews with influential people he has secured—all with one end in view , the advancement and consolidation of this lodge . ( Applause . ) Instead of wearying you with these details I will paraphrase the
epitaph on another distinguished Freemason , Sir Christopher Wren , and say if you wish to see Bro . Broadley ' s monument to the Worshipful Master and his lodge , Look around 1 Consider the composition of this great meeting and the still greater meeting in lodge , and the distinguished people they have included , and reflect upon all that this unusual conjunction of great dignitaries implies . At our last lodge meeting Lord Londesborough , Sir John Gorst , our Worshipful Master , and myself , were appointed a Committee to consider the matter of Bro . Broadley's great services , and to act lor the lodge . In the name of that Committee , and of every member of the lodge—may 1 not
say of you all ?—I now present Bro . Broadley with a small token of kindly remembrance , trifling in itself , if compared with the labours it acknowledges , but important to him , and to us , for all that it commemorates and inspires . ( Loud cheers . ) [ Bro . Parkinson then presented to Bro . Broadley , in the name of the lodge , a very handsome silver liqueur stand , with two bottles , and twelve glasses , mounted on silver stands . The salver bears the following inscription : — " Presenied to W . Bro . A . M . Broadley , P . D . D . G . M . Malta , P . M . 1717 and 1835 , by the members of the Drury Lane Lodge , in grateful recognition of his valuable services as its first Secretary . Feb . ~ t »> 1887 . " ]