His position in the Grand Lodge Library gave him access to all the old records of the Grand Lodge of England, and enabled him to write most valuable books on various points in connection with the history of English Freemasonry. In 1887 he was appointed Sub-Librarian to the Grand dodge of England and was promoted to be its Librarian in 1910. In 1879 he was appointed Grand Tiler of the Grand Lodge of England, and held the post until 1910, when he retired on a pension. 169, and became its First Principal in 1880.
7 in 1872 he joined the Temperance Chapter, No.
2148 in 1869 he was exalted to the Royal Arch Degree in the Royal York Chapter, No. 1950, and in 1886 he was a founder and first Master of the Walsingham Lodge, No. In 1882 he was a founder of the Southgate Lodge, No. He was initiated in 1862 in the Lodge of Justice No. One of the most painstaking, patient, and persevering of Masonic students. And lastly, here it was where he declared he would establish his sacred name and word, which should never pass away- and for these reasons this was justly styled the Sacred Lodge.īorn 1840, died 1911. Here it was where the Lord delivered to David, in a dream, the plan of the glorious Temple, afterward erected by our noble Grand Master, King Solomon. Here it was where David offered that acceptable sacrifice on the threshing-floor of Araunah by which the anger of the Lord was appeased, and the plague stayed from his people. On this mount it was where Abraham confirmed his faith by his readiness to offer up his only son, Isaae. It was held in the bowels of the sacred Mount Moriah, under the part whereon was erected the Holy of Holies. In the lectures according to the English system, we find the following definition of the Sacred Lodge, the symbol has not been preserved in the American instructions: Over the Sacred Lodge presided Solomon, the greatest of kings, and the wisest of men Hiram, the great and learned King of Tyre and Hiram Abif, the widow's son, of the tribe of Naphtali.