The officers and members of the Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 1 China District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, desire to express their high appreciation of the valuable services you have rendered to the Lodge in the various offices which you have filled. The wisdom and dignity, the courtesy and kindliness, the skill' and assiduity with which you have presided over and governed the Lodye, the zeal with which you have disseminated the genuine principles of the Craft, together with the manner in which you have impressed upon the brethren, as well by example as precept, the dignity and high importance of Masonry, have endeared you to all our hearts.
Tu your departure from China we feel that we are losing friend, to whom the burdened heart may. pour out its sorrows to whom distress may prefer its suit; whose hand is guided by justice, and whose heart is expanded by benevolence. We assure you that our best wishes and prayers zo with you, and we trust that we shall at last meetin the Celestial Lodge above where the Supreme Archi Shanghai, 5th The oticers installed for the ensuing soar, having been duly elected and appdinted at the October communication of the ge, Were as follows George BE. Marsh:
Wor. Bro. Dr. Hykes was. heartily congratulated on his election and installation to the Chair. Excellent speeches were made several of the visiting brethren, sining whom we may name R. W. Bro. Danforth, R. W. Bro. Lewis Moore, D.G.M. for the of Northern Chins, E.C., RW. Bro.
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