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Provincial.
We will not now , in your own presence , attempt to recapitulate all your labours by which the art has been so essentially benefitted ; but the committee cannot refrain from recurring to the personal exertions , not unaccompanied with expense , which enabled you , in lhe year 1 S 33 , ultimately to succeed in establishing the Chapter to Lodge No . 310 ; and by which also in 1835 you were , with the co-operation of our late worthy Bro . Penkethsuccessful in effecting such alterations in the
, mode of working the business of the chapters , as have attended much to the advantage of the Order . Nor can the committee in justice overlook the love for the art which again induced you in 1841 to exert yourself with such effect , as to procure the establishment of another chapter in this town , viz : that of Lodge No . 368 ; nor the assiduity and care which you have constantly bestowed upon the working and proceedings of that chapter up to a very
recent period . Least of all can the committee omit to notice the unwearying and patient zeal and atteution to the interests of the Craft , which have induced you at all periods to lend a willing ear to every enquiring brother , and to devote so much of your valuable time to the private instruction of the brethren who were desirous to make advances in the mysteries of the Order ; the more especially as the sacrifices incident to
those objects were seldom known , save to yourself , by whom they were experienced , and the brethren who reaped the benefit , and can scarcely therefore meet with that appreciation which they so richly merit . We would , in conclusion , on behalf of the brethren generall y , and as the dictates of our own feelings , express a fervent hope that ere long your restoration to health will permit you again to resume your masonic labours , being assured that you will thereby add to your own gratification and to that of the brethren by whom you are so much and deservedl y esteemed .
The service , which was placed on the table , bore the following inscription : — " Presented to P . M . Bro . John Molyneux , P . M ., E . Z . of the Lodges and Chapters of Nos . 35 and 368 , by the brethren and companions , as a testimonial of their esteem and regard for his masonic worth and valuable services rendered to the Craft . —Liverpool , January , 1849 . "
The health of Bro . Molyneux , with the best wishes for the long life and prosperity of himself and his family having been drunk , he thus replied : — Brethren and Companions , —1 very highly appreciate the kind consideration of the brethren and companions of the Lodges and Chapters 35 and 368 , which suggested , for my convenience , this means to present to me their handsome testimonial ; and to yourselves , for your flattering condescension to second their kind consideration , I cannot
adequately express my gratitude . To perceive that my efforts to promote the well-being and the efficiency of Freemasonry have secured to me the personal attachment and the esteem of so many gentlemen whose excellent qualities I so highly respect , and with many of whom 1 have worked in such perfect accordancy in the course of now about two and twenty years , is indeed a source of high gratification .
For the fulfilment of the duties which you have had the kindness to recapitulate , I have already been fully rewarded by repeated verbal acknowledgments , and by several valuable testimonials ; and I have ever thought it was my duty to induce the younger brethren to share with me the information which I had acquired , with the difficulties which the
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Provincial.
We will not now , in your own presence , attempt to recapitulate all your labours by which the art has been so essentially benefitted ; but the committee cannot refrain from recurring to the personal exertions , not unaccompanied with expense , which enabled you , in lhe year 1 S 33 , ultimately to succeed in establishing the Chapter to Lodge No . 310 ; and by which also in 1835 you were , with the co-operation of our late worthy Bro . Penkethsuccessful in effecting such alterations in the
, mode of working the business of the chapters , as have attended much to the advantage of the Order . Nor can the committee in justice overlook the love for the art which again induced you in 1841 to exert yourself with such effect , as to procure the establishment of another chapter in this town , viz : that of Lodge No . 368 ; nor the assiduity and care which you have constantly bestowed upon the working and proceedings of that chapter up to a very
recent period . Least of all can the committee omit to notice the unwearying and patient zeal and atteution to the interests of the Craft , which have induced you at all periods to lend a willing ear to every enquiring brother , and to devote so much of your valuable time to the private instruction of the brethren who were desirous to make advances in the mysteries of the Order ; the more especially as the sacrifices incident to
those objects were seldom known , save to yourself , by whom they were experienced , and the brethren who reaped the benefit , and can scarcely therefore meet with that appreciation which they so richly merit . We would , in conclusion , on behalf of the brethren generall y , and as the dictates of our own feelings , express a fervent hope that ere long your restoration to health will permit you again to resume your masonic labours , being assured that you will thereby add to your own gratification and to that of the brethren by whom you are so much and deservedl y esteemed .
The service , which was placed on the table , bore the following inscription : — " Presented to P . M . Bro . John Molyneux , P . M ., E . Z . of the Lodges and Chapters of Nos . 35 and 368 , by the brethren and companions , as a testimonial of their esteem and regard for his masonic worth and valuable services rendered to the Craft . —Liverpool , January , 1849 . "
The health of Bro . Molyneux , with the best wishes for the long life and prosperity of himself and his family having been drunk , he thus replied : — Brethren and Companions , —1 very highly appreciate the kind consideration of the brethren and companions of the Lodges and Chapters 35 and 368 , which suggested , for my convenience , this means to present to me their handsome testimonial ; and to yourselves , for your flattering condescension to second their kind consideration , I cannot
adequately express my gratitude . To perceive that my efforts to promote the well-being and the efficiency of Freemasonry have secured to me the personal attachment and the esteem of so many gentlemen whose excellent qualities I so highly respect , and with many of whom 1 have worked in such perfect accordancy in the course of now about two and twenty years , is indeed a source of high gratification .
For the fulfilment of the duties which you have had the kindness to recapitulate , I have already been fully rewarded by repeated verbal acknowledgments , and by several valuable testimonials ; and I have ever thought it was my duty to induce the younger brethren to share with me the information which I had acquired , with the difficulties which the