Memorial Address

ago risen to the highest honours which each could bestow , and it was apparent to all that he could not not be enlisted in the cause of any association or organization secular or ecclesiastical , without shortly being conspicuous among his fellows ,

whether superiority should depend on learning , intelligence , eloquence , executive ability , or the magnanimous qualities which attract the sympathies and rivet the affectionate regard of the human mind . But it has not been generally knownthat next

, to the religious faith to which he had consecrated his life and all his powers , he held in chief regard and veneration tho grand principles of Ancient Craft Afasonry , and lost no opportunity of joining in the labours of the Lodge in any capacity ,

however humble or laborious , if he could thereby contribute to the great and glorious work of rebuilding the temple , and house of the Lord , or make further discoveries for the benefit of the Craft .

Those of our brethren , however , who have been most closely engaged in building up our institution in Colorado , have had continued and abundant proofs of his sincere and active interest in the advancement of our cause , and they well know

that on every occasion when called upon , he has exerted himself to the utmost to aid in the work , devoting the influence of his character as well as the resources of his ascomplished intellect , to the cause for which tho Grand Lodge to-day assembles .

Of the particulars of his Masonic life , I have been able during the few hours since I was called to this duty to learn but little , compared with what , might have been ascertained if time had permitted , and access to his books and papers had been

possible . Beyond the general fact that he was , and is deemed an illustrious Mason , in a jurisdiction which can boast of preeminence in the number and character of its Afasonic scholars ; that he had been elevated to the Grand East in the most

renowned Grand Lodge in the Western hemisphere , and had served with honour to himself and profit to the Craft , I have been able to glean from the few materials accessible ; that his services as a Alasonic Orator have boon in continual requisition

in the cities of Massachusetts and adjoining States , upon occasions of the highest interest to the Craft , and that he acquitted

himself to the great honour of tho institution and gratification of the brethren . I find in the published proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts so late as the year 1871 , at the grand banquet of the Grand Lodge on the 40 th anniversary of the Declaration of the Afasons of Boston , among the illustrious brethren whose

names appear , the Grand Master AI . AY . S . D . Nickerson introduced our illustrious brother Randall , saying among other things : " His Alasonic brethren have conferred upon him another title , only second to that which he bears in the

Church . They have distinguished him by tho title of Right Worshipful . Brethren , I give you the health of our Senior Past Grand Master , lit . Worshipful and lit . Reverend George M . Randall , Bishop of Colorado . " After this introduction follows

the address of P . G . AI . Randall , which only needs to be read in order to show how nobly our illustrious brother represented the dignity of the Craft of Colorado in that far off' seat of Afasonic intelligence and worth .

Again I find in the published proceedings of the semi-centennial banquet , given by St . Andrew ' s Lodge in honour of the fifty years membership ' therein of the illustrious Bro . Charles W . Aloore , a letter from Bishop RandallPast Chaplain of

, that Lodge , which shows that at that time , ( Oct . 10 th , 1872 ) the pen of Bro . Randall was inspired with tho same zeal and regard for tho institution which had so often

before found expression in the masterly eloquence of his tongue . I also learned from the lips of one particularly entitled to speak from actual and intimate knowledge , that to the day of his death his thoughts and affections were with tho Craft . So

well was this deep interest recognized by the Afasons of Now England , that when the Grand Alasonic procession , with tho President of the United States , himself a Alason , at its head , passed through tho streets of Boston at the celebration of the

Cap Stone of the great Masonic Temple , the procession halted before the home of Bro . Randall—he being absent , and his estimable wife , ever devoted to our cause , having displayed his Afasonic badge at the window in honour of the occasion , —and

going in , the brethren took his little grandson , who bore the same name , and carried hhn to the President ' s carriage , who