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]^EW MjSlSOHIC HjSlLL,

GOVERNMENT STREET, VICTORIA. VANJOUVER ISLAND.

On MONDAY, 25tli JUNE, A. L., 5866,

—BY—

BRO. THE RKY. THOMAS SOMKRYIUB, A. M.

CHAPLAIN TO VANCOUVER LODGlJ. NO. 421. ON THE REGISTRY OF THK
GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND, AND TO VICTORIA LODGE, NO. 783,
ON THE REGISTRY OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND.

COLONIST AND CHRONICLE PRIST.

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M, W.POWELL, ■•«., Past Master of the Day; BOBeBT
BVBNAB Y, Esq., Bight Worshipful master of the Day t
Bl. I. BTBUSTADT, Esq., Senior Warden ; and LVRILEV
FBARTKLIlf , Esq., Junior Warden of the Day ; and the
B!^ethren of the Masonic Lodges in

VICTORIA, V. I.

THIS ADDRESS,

DBUVntlD AT IBB

Inauguration of the New Hall,

Ob the 25th JUNE, A. D., 186«,

M ROW TUMiM«m BT THBIR OBUOBD BROTBBR,

THOMAS SOMERVILLE.

Bei^otro Bbbthrbu :

In conaenting that the following address AouW be
printed, I have simply sacrificed my wisbeB to yours. Since you
deem thr^t it may prove an acceptable memorial of an occasion so
interesting, and strengthen tho cause of Masonry. I pl»ce it entirely
at your disposal. I present it in the exact form m which it was
delivered. I do this not from waiit of desire to fimend it, but from the
same reason which prevented me from preparing it more carefully at
the first-want ot time, amid tho pressing duties of my vocation.

I am.
With all Fraternal Regard,

THOMIS SOMERVILLE.

WoMHippuL Master and Brethmjn :

Truly it i» my desire that another more experienced in the
mysteries of our Order had i)een appointed for this duty. I have
only consented to address you that it may be shown in practice what
we assert in theory, that none may refuse the work appointed by the
Masters.

The Dedication of the Lodge is one of the most solemn ordin-
ances of our ancient order, and I am certain that as these holy symbols
stood unveiled in their new resting place, and your thoughts wandered
back through tlie corridor of ages to the scene of their first introduc-
tion, and forward to the rich associations that will bo entwined
around them in the future, thoughts deep and hallowed could not fail
to well up from the springs of your heart. Be it simply mine, then,
as one for all, to voice forth these your silent reflections.

The work completed to-day is called " The Dedication of the
Lodge to the Holy Saint John," the patron of our order: But
strictly speaking the work has a double purpose — both dedication
and consecration. The Lodge is dedicated to virtue, in the name of
the Great Jehovah, and consecrated, separated and set apart to the
purpose of preserving the memory of these illustrious names.

It is dedicated to virtue. True masonry is the dutiful daughter
of Heaven. The Lodge is the sacred shrine of Almighty Jehovah.
By his law every mason must be a good and true man — true to him-
self, his fellows and to the Being before whom he has bent in adoring
reverence. The "stupid Aihiest or irreligious libertine" may make
himself a false man, but never a good mason. The mason is pledged
to pious virtue. Nor let be forgotten that virtue orginally meant
valor. Among the old Romans the most valorous man was esteemed
the most virtuous ; now while strength should not be all, it must still
form an important element of goodness. The good man must ever bo
a strong man. Mere sentimentalism is silly ; liko the vapour it appear-
eth for a little while and then vanisheth away. In every " good and
true man" there must be a healthy firmness. The feeling of desire
must be yoked with the principle of right, and will must drive thein

both.

Ragged strength and iftdiant betaty,
.~r„ .,. These were one in n&tare'i plan,

Hnmble toil and Heavenward dnty,

Tb«N will form the perfect mftn,

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To yirtuo, stroug and beautiful, is this Hall dedicated. Nerer
then let careless Icct defile its pavement, nor unclean hands touch its
▼easels ; never let angry disputations be heard within its walls.
Conscience as a faithful Tyler must guard off the Furies of Discord.
Temper must be ever tempered and feeling chastened. It is that we
may become better men that we meet here, and all our labours — the
charges, the rituals, the ceremonies, nay, every jewel and ornament,
ev«ry article of furniture, every emblem and hieroglyphic, tend to
this point.

But more, the Lodge is consecrated to the memory of St. John
the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist ; and it is proper that we
should shortly recall to our minds their lives and labours. Right too,
that their names should have been linked together, not that they
were like each other, but just because they were widely different in
their temperaments and teachings. They were the exponents of the
two extremes in human character — the Baptist being the representa-
tive of fiery boldness, the Evangelist of shrinking love. The one was
a sturdy Doric column, the other a graceful Corinthian pillar. The
one was the complement of the other ; united together they combine
strength and beauty.

The Baptist was a truly heroic character. The last of all the
prophets, he was the greatest of all. Of his life we get only a few
glimpses, but these show us what sort of man he was. The first pic-
ture is that of an ardent youth among the solitudes of Israel's deserts.
Saddened by the hollowness of life in Israel and perplexed with the
controversies of Jerusalem — the wrangling of Sadducee with Pharisee,
of forme''"* ith mystic, of the disciples of one infallible Babbi, with
the disci <f another infallible Rabbi, he fled for refuge to the
wildern ,t,d, .o see if God could be found by the earnest soul that
sought him alone. For thirty years he lived in the desert ; then came
the time when the qualities nursed in solitude burst forth upon the
world. The people felt that a King of Men stood before them. The
desert swarmed with crowds ; warriors, profligates, publicans, the
heart broken — the worldly, the dissappointed — all came. Even the
King's attention is gained ; he is taken away from the simple life of
the desert and placed among the artificialities of the Royal City.
And now comes the question, " Does the stern prophet degenerate
into a sweet tongued courtier." Is the rough ashlar of the forest
broken into pieces in the process of polishing ? Verily no. He
stands in Herod's court, the prophet of the desert still, preaching
boldly the truth. When Herod would ally himself with his guilty
mistress, he at once said, "It is not lawful for thee to have her." Now
is he struck down like an eagle in its flight. The last picture is that
of this earnest, strong man cast into a dungeon by the guards of the
King. There he wears out his restless soul, until sacrificed to a
courtesan's whim.

May his name ever remind ns of courage in the hoar of trial and
inspire us with fortitude to reprove sternly all departures from
Masonic rule. '

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None have ever had more of the csseDtial spirit of Masonry than
St. John the Evangelist. He was the principle of love personified.
Love was the secret of his religion, the burden of his teaching, the
substanco of his life, and the promise of his heaven. Whether we
behold him leaning on liis Master's breast, or wandering as a teacher
among the nations of the East, he was the living illustration of his
constant theme. His, too, was a love not casilv quenched ; he was
persecuted, imprisoned, banished, tortured ; but his love survived his
trials. His life was love. Hear him, when old and feeble, writing
to his disciples, "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light ; he
tiint hatetli his brother walkcth in darkness." Such was the man.
May his name inspire us with his spirit, so that our labours in the
Lodge below may prepare us foi the rest in tho temple above.

Brethren, the Hcrvice in which we have this day engaged and the
symbols upon which we have gazed must have brought vividly to
mind tlic high antiquity of our Order. And this thought iet us cherish;
it will add dignity and lustre to our pursuits. It is impossible not
to fool the spell of long proscription in some degree. The Jew can-
not but feel proud thnl the blood which lired Abraham's bosom still
runs in hi-« veins ; the Greek, wandering among the beautiful groves
ni' his native IniKJ, cannot but icflect with pleasure on the time when
tlie fathers of philosophy assembled there their pupils, and the poet's
song waked rapturous nppl \use in the neighbouring theatres ; the
iiioclern denizen of Rome, when he sees the eager strangers throng its
streets and spoil its temples, lecls the emotion of pride as he reflects
that the time was, when tlic queenly city, seated securely on her
f^even liilU, gave hiws to their barbarous forefathers ; the representa-
tive of Great Britain, gazing upon his country's flag in the land of
the stranger, feels it all the dearer to his heart when he remembers
that for a thousand years it has braved the battle and the breeze, and
numbers up the many hard fought battles ovor which it has floated ;
the worshipper in an ancient church has all the more attachment to
it when he considers that the walls of its cathedrals are now grey
with years, and that for centuries has gone up to the Most High the
same sacred song ; and if any cherish this feeling, surely may we,
when we search the records of Masonry and look back upon its
existence even beyond the period of these records. *' The sources of
the noblest rivers which spread fertility over continents and bear
richly laden vessels to the sea, are to be sought for in wild and bar-
ren tracts, incorrectly laid down in maps and rarely explored by
travellers." Far back in the dim and hoary past, beyond the period
of authentic history lies the origin of Masonry. We do indeed catch
glimpses of it as it rolls along near to the fountain head, yet when
we first clearly behold it, it bursts upon our eyes as a broad, deep
river, well defined and beautiful. There can be littlo doubt that
long before the Christain era, the mountains of Judea, the plains of
Syria, the deserts of India, and the valley of the Nile were cheered
by its presence and fertilized by its current. Nearly three thonsand
years ago there were in Asia the Dionyeian architects, a great

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corporation who uDdertook and even monopolised the building of
taroples, stadiums and theatres, recognized each other by signs and
tokens, were possessed of certain esoteric doctrines, and called all
other nen profane, who were not admitted to these mysteries. Of
these were the cunning workmen sent by Hiram, King of Tyre, to
aid in the erection of the temple 1000 years before the Christian era.
Here it is that Masonry first meets us in strength and beauty. In the
construction of this magnificent edifice, 113,000 men were engaged
under 300 overseers, and its building occupied seven years. And
surely that day when the first temple was completed, must rise
vividly before the minds of us assembled within the last consecrated.
It was a great and joyous day in .lerusalem. Wor.rily had they
waited whilst it gradually rose up towards the skies, and now the
capstone was brought forth with shoutings. The multitude of the
people thronged the courts and stretclied iiway down the streets to
the very walls of the city. Attracting every eye, crowning the
summit of Mount Moriah stood the templo with its lol'ty columns, and
beauteous towers and gilded roof, sparkling in the pure sunlight oi
heaven — the chosen dwelling place of Jeiiovah — the joy of the whole
earth, and the visible symbol of that other not made with hands.
Within it were placed the brazen altar, and the golden altar, and
the other vessels that had been in the tabernacle. In the Iloiy of
Holies placed they the mercy seat and the ark, and within that iLe
moral law written on the tables of stone and delivered long before to
Moses amid the thunderings of Sinai. Then, us it has been said,
" did Masonry go forth bearing upon her brow the name of Jeliovuh.
in her bosom a jewel of living radiance, and in her hand the key
that unlocked the gates of immortality. For more than 20C0 years
has she been telling man of a Being* brighter than the stars, and
endless as eternity." Before the victorious son of Philip marched
his phalanxes, or ever Romulus walked by Tiber's stream, had she
been telling man how to live and how to die. Oh ! surely it is
something to boast of, that her language has rolled from so many
tongues — that her altar tires have been kindled for so many centuries
— that her beneficent works have been performed by so many hands.
To remove her landmarks and her handmarks, the ancient buildings
and the cathedrals, those chefs (Vanvre of the middle age must bn
razed to the ground, even to the last stone ; for everywhere in the
floor, the pavements, the columns, the mouldings, and the roofs, the
masons, the sculptors, and the architects have left their marks.
Thus high and honorable is the prescription in her favor. Old she
is, but there appear not yet the signs of senility. Mighty her works
injjthe past, but there gather not the manifestations of weakness or
weariness. Time has written no wrinkle on her spotless brow. In
the virtues of her children, she ever renews her youth. In her
purification from profane appendages, she ever strengthens her
stakes. In the distribution of the civilised races she ever lengthenj
her cords. Her lessons and her precepts — those grand moral flcyra
of the universe — are of perennial growth. As they bloomed in Pales-

tine, tlioy bloom in this, tho farthest west. As they were with
Solomon and our fathers, so arc they with ns ; and as with us, so
shall they be with our children's children.

Of such thoughts are we reminded by the Lodge and tho Dedica-
tion Service. Turn we now to the living stones of the temple — the
members of the craft. As a society of men, we assert the dignity of
laoour, the Harmony of Union, and the Wisdom of Organization.

We assert the dignity of labour. Activity is demanded, in-
action and sloth proscribed. The high vocation of man is to be the
fellow-worker with Qod. The vitalities of the universe are of God,
the instrumentalities are of man. The Qreat Architect has laid out
for us a plan and richly covered the earth with material, but man
must work it to its end. Even Paradise had to be dressed, aad
though the earth were all to become as fair and fertile as the prime-
val abode, the neglect of a single generation would throw it back to
a woary waste. God has sown in society the seeds of government,
of science, of art ; but man must devclope and apply thom. The laws
of taste for instance are innately plantcl vvithin us, but it is tho
chisel of the sculptor and the pencil ol the artist that give embodi-
ment to these laws in the noble temple end the magnificent picture.
In everything man's labor is the complement of tho Creator's bounty.
" Laborare est orare." Work is truiy religious, nay, labor is life.

" Nature livei by action ;
Beast, bird, air, fire, the beaveni and rolling world,
All live by aotioD ; nothing lives at rest
Bat death and ruin ; man is cared of eare,
Fashioned and improved by labor."

These truths are too often forgotten. They have in some measure
been slipping away from the present generation — that looks upon
work as degrading. To look upon our platforms and our exchanges
whore men most do congregate, one might think that the chief end
of man was to talk, to buy and to sell — not to work. In the midst of
all this does Masonry assert the dignity of labour. Originally a fra-
ternity of practical builders, in later days the work is of a speculative
nature ; still, however, the motto is " a fair day's wage for a fair
day's work." Honours are given to the diligent, the drones are
discouraged in the busy hive, and in many ways she asserts the
dignity of man's primeval duty.

Your presence here also asserts the Harmony of Union. The
Lodge is the world in miniature. From east to west is its length,
from south to north is its breadth, from earth to heaven is its
height, and from the surface to tho centre of the terraqueous globe is
its depth. And in few places can this conception be realized so well
as here. At the ends of the earth we draw material from all the
earth. What a variety of races, nationalities, creeds and religions
are here represented 1 We have the Jew, long identified with
Masonry, forgetting his exclusivcness in communion with his
bretb^en—the Italian from the sunny south, joining hand with the
exile from Old Caledonia, the " Ultima Thule "of his forefathers— the

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Saxon from tho good old Cu^man stock, Bitting ia fellowship with
his sprightly neif^l'»our from the joyous land of France. The
Englishman and tiie American forgetting each their jealousies, and
rejoicing together in liberty, cqaality and fraternity. Nor arc the
Colonists awanting. Here the Canadian meets the Australian, and
here Nora Scotia and Vancouver Island intertwine their branches —
all living stones in the building, bound together by the cement of
charity, all forming a fit symbol and type of the time.

" When man to man the warld o'er,
Shall brithers be for a' that."

Furthermore, we assert the wisdom of organization. There
may be a union which is not a unity. The atoms in a sandpit are
close cnouirli togctlicr, but they do not form a unity. There is no
unity in a flock of sliecp, it is simply the repetition of so many things
similar to each other. In an organized unity all tlie members are
properly Fubordinatcd each to another, and the parts liarmouiously
arranged in their suitable relations. The body of man is an
organization wlicrc all the different parts, head, heart, finger, fibres,
and limbs seyerally conduce to a common good and depend on each
other. Now, Nature has not intended us to be like a flock of sheep,
mear each other and yet distinct from each other ; we are to be
organized. A common interest is to flow as the lifeblood through
all. As men rise in civilization, there appear the higher and finer
developments of combined relations. In savage life men are slightly
organized. Tho tribe is simply like a flock of sheep. The kingdom
or the empire is tlic result of experience and refinement. It says
much for Masonr}- that its common name has become " The Order."
To quote from an illustrious member, whose memory is deservedly
dear on this Pacific coast — the manly and large hearted Thomas
Starr King : — " How Masonry reflects to us or rather illustrates the
wisdom breathed by the Great Architect through all nature ! It is
said that order is Heaven's first law; it is no less true that it is Earth's
first privilege. It is the condition of beauty, of liberty, of peace.
Think how tho principle of order for all the orbs of heaven ia
hidden in the Sun. The tremendous power of his gravitation reach-
es thousands of millions of miles — and hampers tlie selfwill— the
centrifugal force of mighty Jupiter, of Uranus with his staff Of
moons, and of Neptune. There's a Grand Lodge for you, in which
these sftparatc anastcrs are held in check by tho Most Worshipful
Grand Master's power. Nor is it any hardsiiip that tlieso sep&rato
globes are so strictly under rule, and pay obedience to the Sun. Is
it not their chief blessing — their poverign privilege ? What if tho
order were less distinct and punctual? What if the force in these
globes that chafes under the central rein, and champs its curb,
should be successful for even a single day ? What if the earth should
gain liberty against the pull of the sun ? Beauty from that moment
would wither, fertility would begin to shrivel. The hour of seem-
ing freedom would be the dawn of anarchy; for the Sun's rulo is tho
condition of perpetual harmony, bounty, and joy."

" The idea of this Heaven determined order, is committed to our
body through its Worshipful Grand Masters, Master, Wardens, Dea-
cons, and Craftsmen. The proper regard for it has preserved it
amid the breaking up of old empires, and maintains it in its mys-
terious, symmetrical and sublime proportions. It is the source of its
living vigor, and the promise of its future strength."

Finally brethreh, we read that when Solomon had finished the
Temple, he besought that the presence of the Lord would dwell there.
May this enlivening presence ever sanctify our fellowship 1 What of
our beautiful house and our service without that ? What of the
altar without the altar fire ? What of the richly ornate casket
without the jewel within ? What of the Mason without Masonic
principle ? He is only as the dead among the living — a rotten
stone in the building. Our Masonry, bretliren, must either be a
real thing, or an awful sham, a thing to be laid hold of and nailed
down to the counter by the detecter and hater of all shams. Am I
to respect the bad man, because for«ooth by forswearing himself, he
has gained the secrets of the craft ? Shall I prefer tlie man who has
tried to hide his rottoness with the garments of light? No brethren,
I will endure him — I will try faithfully to perform my vows to him,
but it is not in human nature to restrain my contempt for him.

Masonry is the daughter of Heaven ; let us who wear her
favors, never soil them on tiie earth. Invested as we arc with these
ancient and noble badges, let us walk in the light and not in dark-
ness. With clean hands and right spirits— with an eye of compassion
for the tear of sorrow, with an ear ever open to the cry of the dis-
tressed — with a hand ever ready to help the widow, and tl e orphan,
and the stranger, let us show to the world the inherent nobleness
of onr order. Thus may we go on from strength to strength, and at
length be admitted into the presence of the Supreme Grand Master,
and receive the password to celestial bliss.

The words of that old Masonic marching hymn, lately quoted
by Carlyle in his address to the students at Edinburgh, should
ring upon our ears:

The Maioo'a ways ar<9
A type of eziBtence,
And his persistenoe
!■ as the days are,
or men in the world.

The fnture hides in it
Gladness and sorrow ;
We press still thorow,
Nought that abides io it
Daanting as. Onward,

And solemn before as,
Veiled, the dark portal,
Ooal of all mortal.
Stars silent rest o'er as,
Grtyei under 00 silantt

While earnest tboa gazest,
Gomes boding of terror,
Comes phaotasm and error.
Perplexes the bravest
With doubt and misgiving.

Bat heard are the voices ;
Heard are the sages,
The worlds and the ages.
Choose well I your choice is
Brief, and yet endless.

Here eyes do regard yea
In eternity's etillneas ;
Here is all fullness ;
Ye biave to reward you ;
Work and despair not