Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsPress of Rockwell & Churchill, 1880 |
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66 WILLIAM ABRAHAM H amendment AMPLE FORM ANCIENT appointed AUGUSTUS E BETH-HORON Bradford L Brethren Charles H Charter CHEEVER Committee on By-Laws D.D.G. Master David Lodge December Deputy Grand Master Dimitted District Deputy Grand elected following report Fraternity Freemasonry George Grand Chaplain Grand Deacon Grand Lodge Grand Lodge Diplomas Grand Marshal Grand Officers Grand Steward Grand Treasurer Hall HENRY honor installed ISAAC PARKER JAMES John JOSEPH KING LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS M. W. Grand Master M.W. BROTHER M.W. Grand Masonic District Masonic Temple Master of Masons MOUNT NAME OF LODGE NATHANIEL GREENE NICKERSON November Past Grand Master Past Master's Diplomas PAUL DEAN PLACE WHERE HOLDEN QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION R.W. Bro R.W. Charles R.W. Sereno R.W. WILLIAM Recording Grand Secretary seal Senior Grand Warden Senior Warden SOLOMON'S TEMPLE South Boston SPECIAL COMMUNICATION STAR submitted Taunton TRACY true abstract visited vote WILLIAM H WILLIAM PARKMAN WINSLOW LEWIS WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE
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Page 179 - Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Page 256 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 143 - If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within and all God's working see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key! But not today. Then be content, poor heart! God's plans, like lilies, pure and white, unfold; We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.
Page 134 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Page 179 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Page 253 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 32 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Page 254 - Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 204 - He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
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