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An Oration
AN ORATION
Delivered on the occasion of the Celebration of the Centenary of the-Merchants ' Lodge , No . 241 , June 16 , 1880 , at the Masonic Hall , Hope Street , Liverpool .
BY BRO . THE BEV . H . BETHELL JONES , M . A ., P . PEOV . Q . CHAPLAIN , VICAR OF BBOOKLANDS , OHESHIEE . RIGHT Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Worshipful Masters , and Brethren—We are met together on a very interesting ancl a very solemn occasion—the celebration of the centenary of this Lodge . One hundred
years ago this lodge was reverently ancl solemnly consecrated in the name of God , and dedicated to his honour and glory . One hundred years ago ! Compared with the eternity of the Most High , this period is a mere point , too small to be appreciated , for with Him " a thousand years are as one day , and one day as a thousand years . " Even compared with the age of the world in which we livea century hardly marks a single stage in those various
, geological changes that are taking place with such constant and undeviating progression . But when we compare one hundred years with the short span of life allotted to man , we must ask , like the Psalmist of old , as he gazed in wonder on the starlit heavens ancl . thought of their mighty architect , " What is man that Thou art mindful of him , or the son of man that Thou
so regardest him ? " No brother here to-day saw this house dedicated to God ' s glory ; the place we each occupy to-day shall know us not when another century shall have passed clown the stream of time ; ancl those who are to follow us , our children ' s children , shall be celebrating the bi-centinary of this honourable and venerable lodge . May God grant , when that day comes , that His Holy Name may be held in the same reverence as we most humbly acknowledge it to-dayand that the
, Master who shall preside on that solemn occasion may be able to say with truth that the great fundamental principle of Freemasonry—belief in the Most Hi gh God , Maker of Heaven and Earth—is being handed on to the generations yet to come , as unimpaired and bright with celestial glory as they received it from us their fathers , and as it has come clown to us from those worth y Masons who have gone before . 0
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Oration
AN ORATION
Delivered on the occasion of the Celebration of the Centenary of the-Merchants ' Lodge , No . 241 , June 16 , 1880 , at the Masonic Hall , Hope Street , Liverpool .
BY BRO . THE BEV . H . BETHELL JONES , M . A ., P . PEOV . Q . CHAPLAIN , VICAR OF BBOOKLANDS , OHESHIEE . RIGHT Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Worshipful Masters , and Brethren—We are met together on a very interesting ancl a very solemn occasion—the celebration of the centenary of this Lodge . One hundred
years ago this lodge was reverently ancl solemnly consecrated in the name of God , and dedicated to his honour and glory . One hundred years ago ! Compared with the eternity of the Most High , this period is a mere point , too small to be appreciated , for with Him " a thousand years are as one day , and one day as a thousand years . " Even compared with the age of the world in which we livea century hardly marks a single stage in those various
, geological changes that are taking place with such constant and undeviating progression . But when we compare one hundred years with the short span of life allotted to man , we must ask , like the Psalmist of old , as he gazed in wonder on the starlit heavens ancl . thought of their mighty architect , " What is man that Thou art mindful of him , or the son of man that Thou
so regardest him ? " No brother here to-day saw this house dedicated to God ' s glory ; the place we each occupy to-day shall know us not when another century shall have passed clown the stream of time ; ancl those who are to follow us , our children ' s children , shall be celebrating the bi-centinary of this honourable and venerable lodge . May God grant , when that day comes , that His Holy Name may be held in the same reverence as we most humbly acknowledge it to-dayand that the
, Master who shall preside on that solemn occasion may be able to say with truth that the great fundamental principle of Freemasonry—belief in the Most Hi gh God , Maker of Heaven and Earth—is being handed on to the generations yet to come , as unimpaired and bright with celestial glory as they received it from us their fathers , and as it has come clown to us from those worth y Masons who have gone before . 0