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Reunion.
Or later , when a leaden winter sky Looks coldly on the empty garden-bed ? "While youthful faith and hopefulness are ours ? Or only when our hair is growing gray ? Ah me ! we may have done with earthly hours
Before it comes to us , that happy day ! What then?—Let life ' s lone path be humbly trod , And where or when wo meet , we leave to God .
Address Of The V. H. And E. Sir Kt. Col. W. J. B. Macleod Moore, Of The Grand Cross Of The Temple, Grand Prior Of The Dominion Of Canada,
ADDRESS OF THE V . H . AND E . SIR KT . COL . W . J . B . MACLEOD MOORE , OF THE GRAND CROSS OF THE TEMPLE , GRAND PRIOR OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA ,
DELIVERED TO THE SIR KNIGHTS ASSEMBLED IN GRAND PRIORY AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE , MONTREAL , ON THE 10 TH AUGUST , A . D . 1876 . Fratres of the Canadian Branch of the United Orders of the Temple and St . John of Jerusalem—Greeting :
V . D .+ S . A . IT is with more pleasure than I can well express that I now meet you and have the privilege assigned to me of congratulating you on the attainment of our wishes , in the establishment of a National and
Independent Great Priory of Knights Templar for the Dominion of Canada . Circumstances which were quite vmforseen , and which it is not now necessary to refer to , prevented our memorial being fully broug ht to the notice of H . R . Highness
the Grand Master until last year , when I received a communication from the Arch-Chancellor , the Hon . Judge J . F . Townsjiend , LL . D ., of Dublin , saying that he had received the commands of the Prince of Wales addressed to him as his
Arch-, Chancellor , to inform the Canadian memorialists that H . R . H . had directed their petition to be dealt with at the next Convent General according to the statutes , under his advice as the Arch-Chancellor of the order . The Convent General did not
nieet until the 29 th of last October , when , 'n the absence of H . R . Hi ghness in India , the Earl of Limerick , Great Prior of England , presided , who , with his wonted
feelings of good will and interest towards the Canadian branch of the order , not only brought forward the memorial but moved and warmly supported the motion of a resolution , seconded by the Sub-Prior , Major Shadwell H . Oleike , that the prayer
of the petition be adopted , by admitting Canada into the union of the Templar Body of England and Ireland as the National Great Priory of the Dominion of Canada . To this the Convent General acceded in the most cordial manner , as
intimated to me a few days after the meeting , by the eourtesy of the Great Prior , Lord Limerick . A certified copy of this resolution , signed by the Arch-Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor , has also been lately forwarded to mewhich together with the
, patents under the sign manuel of H . R . H . the Grand Master authorizing the formation of this Great Priory and naming me as the first Great Prior , will now be preserved in the archives of the Canadian
order as a lasting memento of our complete independence as a sovereign body , sprang from the good old English stock . Sir Knig hts ! much as I prize the high honour that has fallen to my lot—and be assured I do feel it as such—of becoming the supreme headunder royal authority ,
, of this National Grand Body , I feel prouder and more gratified , after having introduced and for so many years conducted the affairs of the order in Canada , in maintaining your good opinion , and the more than cordial manner with which you
have always been pleased to receive me , and the steady support and co-operation you have so long afforded me , has now been in the most gratifying and constitutional manner more than crowned by success in the establishment of our
independent National Great Priory without severing our connection with the parent body . 1 trust you will g ive me credit for the sincerity of my motives when I say it was not in the least degree the love of authority or a desire to enforce " the one
man power , " that induced me so persistently to maintain my own opinion as to the advisability of continuing a dependency of the Great Priory of England until the time arrived when we could separate with honour and dignity to ourselves . Looking to the future of the order , when I shall no longer he at the head of
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Reunion.
Or later , when a leaden winter sky Looks coldly on the empty garden-bed ? "While youthful faith and hopefulness are ours ? Or only when our hair is growing gray ? Ah me ! we may have done with earthly hours
Before it comes to us , that happy day ! What then?—Let life ' s lone path be humbly trod , And where or when wo meet , we leave to God .
Address Of The V. H. And E. Sir Kt. Col. W. J. B. Macleod Moore, Of The Grand Cross Of The Temple, Grand Prior Of The Dominion Of Canada,
ADDRESS OF THE V . H . AND E . SIR KT . COL . W . J . B . MACLEOD MOORE , OF THE GRAND CROSS OF THE TEMPLE , GRAND PRIOR OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA ,
DELIVERED TO THE SIR KNIGHTS ASSEMBLED IN GRAND PRIORY AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE , MONTREAL , ON THE 10 TH AUGUST , A . D . 1876 . Fratres of the Canadian Branch of the United Orders of the Temple and St . John of Jerusalem—Greeting :
V . D .+ S . A . IT is with more pleasure than I can well express that I now meet you and have the privilege assigned to me of congratulating you on the attainment of our wishes , in the establishment of a National and
Independent Great Priory of Knights Templar for the Dominion of Canada . Circumstances which were quite vmforseen , and which it is not now necessary to refer to , prevented our memorial being fully broug ht to the notice of H . R . Highness
the Grand Master until last year , when I received a communication from the Arch-Chancellor , the Hon . Judge J . F . Townsjiend , LL . D ., of Dublin , saying that he had received the commands of the Prince of Wales addressed to him as his
Arch-, Chancellor , to inform the Canadian memorialists that H . R . H . had directed their petition to be dealt with at the next Convent General according to the statutes , under his advice as the Arch-Chancellor of the order . The Convent General did not
nieet until the 29 th of last October , when , 'n the absence of H . R . Hi ghness in India , the Earl of Limerick , Great Prior of England , presided , who , with his wonted
feelings of good will and interest towards the Canadian branch of the order , not only brought forward the memorial but moved and warmly supported the motion of a resolution , seconded by the Sub-Prior , Major Shadwell H . Oleike , that the prayer
of the petition be adopted , by admitting Canada into the union of the Templar Body of England and Ireland as the National Great Priory of the Dominion of Canada . To this the Convent General acceded in the most cordial manner , as
intimated to me a few days after the meeting , by the eourtesy of the Great Prior , Lord Limerick . A certified copy of this resolution , signed by the Arch-Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor , has also been lately forwarded to mewhich together with the
, patents under the sign manuel of H . R . H . the Grand Master authorizing the formation of this Great Priory and naming me as the first Great Prior , will now be preserved in the archives of the Canadian
order as a lasting memento of our complete independence as a sovereign body , sprang from the good old English stock . Sir Knig hts ! much as I prize the high honour that has fallen to my lot—and be assured I do feel it as such—of becoming the supreme headunder royal authority ,
, of this National Grand Body , I feel prouder and more gratified , after having introduced and for so many years conducted the affairs of the order in Canada , in maintaining your good opinion , and the more than cordial manner with which you
have always been pleased to receive me , and the steady support and co-operation you have so long afforded me , has now been in the most gratifying and constitutional manner more than crowned by success in the establishment of our
independent National Great Priory without severing our connection with the parent body . 1 trust you will g ive me credit for the sincerity of my motives when I say it was not in the least degree the love of authority or a desire to enforce " the one
man power , " that induced me so persistently to maintain my own opinion as to the advisability of continuing a dependency of the Great Priory of England until the time arrived when we could separate with honour and dignity to ourselves . Looking to the future of the order , when I shall no longer he at the head of