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Brother of our Lodge was more highly esteemed or more deserving of that esteem than was he . " But , 0 ! the heavy change now thou art gone ; Now thou art gone , and never must return ; Thee , Brother , weeping friends , and thee , the Lodge , With weeds bedeck ' d , and sable mourning gloom'd , In tyled recess , lament .
In the blest kingdoms o f joy and love , There entertain him all ye saints above ; In solemn troops and sweet societies , Who sing , and singing , in your glory move , And wipe all tears for ever f rom his eyes . " Our deceased Brother was received into Masonry in the Lodge No . 40 , at Belfast , and there filled the chair of Senior Warden . On the 25 th August , a . d . 1851 , he was exalted to the Boyal Arch in the Chapter attached to the said
Lodge . On the 14 th January , 1848 , he joined the Jerusalem Lodge , No . 233 , on the register of the Grand Lodge of England , where he attained to , and most creditably filled , the chair of Senior Warden ; he also , upon taking up his residence at Walsall , joined , the 4 th February , 1851 , the Lodge of St . Matthew , No . 786 , there held , and was immediately recognised as a valued and esteemed member ; he further joined the Vernon Chapter , attached to the said Lodge , on the 11 th June , 1852 . In the Lodge he filled important offices , occupied the chair as its Master , and in the most exemplary manner promoted its prosperity , and employed and instructed his Brethren in Masonry . He was installed Pirst
Principal of the Yernon Chapter , on the 18 th July , 1855 , and ruled the Chapter for one year with every distinction . Likewise on the 23 rd August , 1855 , he was proclaimed a Sovereign Prince Bose Croix of Harodim . After a painful illness , involving for " some time the contemplation of almost certain death , which he bore with the courage of a man , and the patience and resignation of a Christian , he finally departed this life on Saturday , the 13 th September , 1856 , at Walsall , in the county of Stafford . His remains were attended to the churchyard at Great Burr , where they rest , by sorrowing relations and by about thirty of his Brethren , who were permitted by his widow and family thus to testify their sense of respect for the deceased as a man , and also the loss which they deplored in the death of so exemplary a Brother as they deemed their departed friend to be . Becpiiescat in pace , Sempiternusque vivat in ccelis : So mote it be . SUSSEX .
Brighton . —Royal Yorh Lodge ( No . 394 ) . —A Lodge of Emergency was held at the Old Ship Hotel , on Monday , September 22 nd , when Bro . Wood , W . M ., raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason , Bros . Martin , Preeman , and Emery , in his usual impressive manner . On Tuesday , October 7 th , this Lodge held its monthly meeting at the Old Ship Hotel , Bro . Wood , W . M ., presiding . Bros . Talfte and Warren were raised to the Degree of Master Mason ; and Bros . J . Martin and Chart passed to the Degree of Fellow Craft . There were also two gentlemen proposed as joining members , and two proposed for initiation . The Lodge was afterwards closed in due form .
Chichester . —Jjodge of Union ( No . 45 ) . —The usual monthly meeting of this Lodge was held in the Lodge-room at the Council House , on Thursday , October 9 th , the W . M . Bro . Jas . Powell , jun ., presiding . Visiting Brethren present—Bros . Bev . William Burnett and Bev . Henry Smith . Mr . William Langford Parmer , surgeon , having been hallotted for as a candidate for initiation , was introduced , and the mysteries of the 1 st Degree were imparted to him in a very impressive manner by the worthy Master of the Lodge . Bro . Alfred Kent , Portsmouth Lodge , No . 717 , having been elected a joining member of No . 45 ,
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Provincial.
Brother of our Lodge was more highly esteemed or more deserving of that esteem than was he . " But , 0 ! the heavy change now thou art gone ; Now thou art gone , and never must return ; Thee , Brother , weeping friends , and thee , the Lodge , With weeds bedeck ' d , and sable mourning gloom'd , In tyled recess , lament .
In the blest kingdoms o f joy and love , There entertain him all ye saints above ; In solemn troops and sweet societies , Who sing , and singing , in your glory move , And wipe all tears for ever f rom his eyes . " Our deceased Brother was received into Masonry in the Lodge No . 40 , at Belfast , and there filled the chair of Senior Warden . On the 25 th August , a . d . 1851 , he was exalted to the Boyal Arch in the Chapter attached to the said
Lodge . On the 14 th January , 1848 , he joined the Jerusalem Lodge , No . 233 , on the register of the Grand Lodge of England , where he attained to , and most creditably filled , the chair of Senior Warden ; he also , upon taking up his residence at Walsall , joined , the 4 th February , 1851 , the Lodge of St . Matthew , No . 786 , there held , and was immediately recognised as a valued and esteemed member ; he further joined the Vernon Chapter , attached to the said Lodge , on the 11 th June , 1852 . In the Lodge he filled important offices , occupied the chair as its Master , and in the most exemplary manner promoted its prosperity , and employed and instructed his Brethren in Masonry . He was installed Pirst
Principal of the Yernon Chapter , on the 18 th July , 1855 , and ruled the Chapter for one year with every distinction . Likewise on the 23 rd August , 1855 , he was proclaimed a Sovereign Prince Bose Croix of Harodim . After a painful illness , involving for " some time the contemplation of almost certain death , which he bore with the courage of a man , and the patience and resignation of a Christian , he finally departed this life on Saturday , the 13 th September , 1856 , at Walsall , in the county of Stafford . His remains were attended to the churchyard at Great Burr , where they rest , by sorrowing relations and by about thirty of his Brethren , who were permitted by his widow and family thus to testify their sense of respect for the deceased as a man , and also the loss which they deplored in the death of so exemplary a Brother as they deemed their departed friend to be . Becpiiescat in pace , Sempiternusque vivat in ccelis : So mote it be . SUSSEX .
Brighton . —Royal Yorh Lodge ( No . 394 ) . —A Lodge of Emergency was held at the Old Ship Hotel , on Monday , September 22 nd , when Bro . Wood , W . M ., raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason , Bros . Martin , Preeman , and Emery , in his usual impressive manner . On Tuesday , October 7 th , this Lodge held its monthly meeting at the Old Ship Hotel , Bro . Wood , W . M ., presiding . Bros . Talfte and Warren were raised to the Degree of Master Mason ; and Bros . J . Martin and Chart passed to the Degree of Fellow Craft . There were also two gentlemen proposed as joining members , and two proposed for initiation . The Lodge was afterwards closed in due form .
Chichester . —Jjodge of Union ( No . 45 ) . —The usual monthly meeting of this Lodge was held in the Lodge-room at the Council House , on Thursday , October 9 th , the W . M . Bro . Jas . Powell , jun ., presiding . Visiting Brethren present—Bros . Bev . William Burnett and Bev . Henry Smith . Mr . William Langford Parmer , surgeon , having been hallotted for as a candidate for initiation , was introduced , and the mysteries of the 1 st Degree were imparted to him in a very impressive manner by the worthy Master of the Lodge . Bro . Alfred Kent , Portsmouth Lodge , No . 717 , having been elected a joining member of No . 45 ,