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ADDRESS 
 TO LODGE DUDLEY, S.O.E. 
 
 Mv Brkihren, thk Sons ok Enclaxi): 
 
 ^ruE British connexion is worth preserving at any cost> 
 ^^ if it wore merely for the honour of being an Kng- 
 list man ; but, besides the honour, there are countless 
 advantages of a most profitable natiwe arising out of the 
 connexion. 
 
 We need not stop to enumerate them ; but, speaking^ 
 generally, we may say that " the flag that has braved a 
 thousand years the battle and the breeze " protects the 
 very meanest of the sons of England, wherever they may 
 be and whatever their oppression. The ends of the earth 
 — the whole earth — some portions of it by a bitter experi- 
 ence — know well that an injury or dishonour done to the 
 son is felt by the mother, and that it is no sooner felt by 
 her than the roar of the Lion of England terrifies the 
 offending nation into justice to her children, with ample, 
 compensation. Justice and reparation denied, or even 
 retarded, the wide and rapid streams of England's wealth 
 quickly convey her armour-clads and warriors even to the 
 world's end to avenge, perhaps to snatch her sons from 
 the grasp of the oppressor ; and its Magdalas, not easily 
 approached or forced, lie in ruins, while her rescued ones 
 are borne home in triumph on her victorious shield. 
 
 It may cost a mint or two of money and many lives 
 to release a humble son of England from shame or harm ; 
 but has England ever been known to cut off the flow oi 
 gold, or of lives, till her sons were safe? Nor gold, nor 
 blood, has ever weighed so much in the balance of Old 
 England as the honour or safety of an Englishman. An 
 Englishman sinking under oppression may have but a 
 
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 weak voice, but its faintest cry is loud enough to rouse, 
 in his full avengcment, an Empire upon which the sun- 
 never sets. 
 
 In this connexion the history of other nations affords 
 no grander spectacle, no sublimer episode, than that of a 
 poor, friendless, innocent prisoner fleeing for refuge from 
 the brutal lash under the <xgis of the Roman Empire, and' 
 claiming from a Roman centurion the immunity of a. 
 Roman "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is ai 
 Roman, and uncondemned?" When the centurion heard 
 that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, " Take 
 heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman," In an' 
 instant the thongs are unloosed, and the scourge falls, but 
 not to plough long furrows on the back of Saul of Tarsus ! 
 
 But that speedy deliverance on the spot ! What is it 
 in comparison of the rush of armies into the utmost re- 
 cesses of far-distant and inaccessible places to free a son' 
 of England? Not even the C;esars ever did, or could,, 
 strike a distant nation for harming a Roman so speedily 
 and effectually as Old England does to save an Eng- 
 lishman. 
 
 And as to honour, even Rome in her brightest day 
 shed no such honour upon Romans as that which England 
 sends streaming down upon Englishmen every day. Never 
 yet has the outside world imparted honour equal to yours 
 as Englishmen. And it grows with the increase of years. 
 And here I would say, and, prompted by History, thank 
 God that I can say it, that we all — Scotch and Irish,. 
 Welsh and English — are called by one name, live as one, 
 under one refulgence, catching the rays of glory and 
 honour from the same transcendent Crown ; and that we 
 may all excite the same mighty area in our defence. We 
 are Britons all, with one common halo ! 
 
 Glad am I, therefore, to see that it is a main principle 
 
LODGE DUDLEY, S.O.E. 
 
 •with your excellent Order to maintain the British con- 
 nexion. There is none better, none so good, whether for 
 glory or honour, defence or commerce. 
 
 While observing that Great Britain is so great that, at 
 times, we may see the surrounding nations doing some- 
 thing like obeisance to her, as the " sun, moon, and eleven 
 stars " did to Joseph ; and whilst at other times we may 
 see the very same nations, as now, out of mere jealousy of 
 her greatness, agreeing together to cast her into a pit. 
 We would aver that it is not en account of her greatness 
 that England is so dear to us, nor because of the distinc- 
 tion which comes to us as members of so glorious an 
 Empire, nor yet because the advantages of sonship are so 
 large and abundant that practically nothing is left to be 
 desired, so much as because we love her, and chiefly 
 because she stands out more boldly and faithfully than 
 the other nations, breaking the sky-line of F2mpires as the 
 champion of Christianity, of right, and of fair-play — her 
 honesty making her word her bond. In all things, times 
 and places Great Britain holds a true balance, exhibiting 
 a character which enchains our affection. 
 
 But talking of her is talking of her Queen — the Queen 
 of Queens. And allegiance to your Sovereign is, I see, as 
 much a principle of your Constitution as is the mainten- 
 ance of the British connexion. A limited Monarch of 
 unlimited virtues, the Queen of England is worthy of the 
 great Empire which she rules so well, as is the Empire of 
 the Sovereign. 
 
 Long may she ruign over us, 
 Happy and glorious; 
 
 (Ion save the Queen! 
 
 God give England the blessing of many anniversaries 
 of her birthday, for never did Soxereign set as brilliant 
 an example at home, or to the rulers and peoples of the 
 •earth, as Victoria the Good, or work harder than she. 
 
ADDRESS DELIVERED TO 
 
 The Order of the Sons of England, saturated with a 
 sense of her goodness, honours the Queen to-day, giving 
 vent, on the eve of her 79th birthday, to its innate loyalty 
 by assembling together in these outer courts of the Great 
 King of Kings and praying for her with thanksgivings. 
 You would fain have the shadow on the sun-dial of her 
 prec'ous life go backward many degrees ; but although 
 the Order is thus lost in loving mediation at the Throne 
 of Grace for Her Majesty, we are not to suppose that the 
 loyalty which its Constitution means to maintain to the 
 Sovereign is not primarily allegiance to the Crown of I'^ng- 
 land. Unaffected by the coming and going of kings and 
 queens, however dear, and even of dynasties, it is an 
 abiding allegiance to the Sovereign and Constitution of 
 England. And ! may safely assert that the world has not 
 a single Constitution at all comparable to that of Old 
 England, whether for freedom or goodness, prosperity or 
 stability. It enables Sovereign and People to rule together 
 in comfort, each within wise limitations, and consequently 
 -all goes on well with them both, and the reign of home- 
 peace is assured. Happily the autocracy of the Sovereign 
 of England is dead and buried ; and I can therefore, as an 
 Englishman, join heart and soul in your determination to 
 maintain the British connexion and allegiance to the Mon- 
 archy of England. For myself, 1 could endure nothing 
 else. England's greatness, England's glory and England's 
 wealth are all attributable to the Sovereign and Constitu- 
 tion ; and therefore in that principle of your Constitution 
 which binds the entire body to cling tenaciously to her 
 and the Constitution of England, as the ivy to the oak, I 
 perceive the development and permanence of your Order, 
 In the closeness and vigour of such a union — with the 
 pith, I mean, of England in your Constitution — you must 
 succeed as an Order. 
 
LODGE DUDLEY, S.O.E. 
 
 But, stop ! The core of England's glory and super- 
 excellence lies deeper still ! It lies even below the happy 
 accidents of Sovereign and Constitution, and it will be 
 found buried in that which you so wisely insist upon for 
 your own welfare, viz. : in "the acceptance of the teachings 
 of the Holy Bible as the rule of life and the mainspring of 
 existence." This i? the secret of England's greatness. 
 England's Christianity, inwoven generally in the fabric of 
 the Empire, has moulded both Queen and Constitution, 
 and nerved, in every sense, the arm of England's weal. 
 Hence her greatness. And as it is a principle with your 
 Order — a principle overriding all others — to accept the 
 teaching of the Holy Bible as the rule of your life and 
 the mainstay of your existence, you may expect that the 
 blessings showered upon England from above, because she 
 is so eminently Christian, will also come down abundantly 
 upon your Christian Order. 
 
 And for the enlargement of your hopes herein I would 
 fain instance the bestowal upon your Order of a great 
 blessing already — a blessing prior to, and greater than, 
 even that of a prodigious enrolment of members — a bless- 
 ing at least equal to, if not exceeding, any blessing of the 
 kind ever given to any other secular Society, so far as I 
 can judge ; I mean the paramount blessing of a thoroughly 
 sound Constitution. As with children, so also with Socie- 
 ties : a good constitution is essential in the highest degree 
 to the development of the body ; and I should think 
 myself very remiss if I did not warmly congratulate your 
 Order on the possession of a Constitution worthy of all 
 commendation. The wisdom of its compilers manifests 
 itself everywhere, grasping and providing for every con- 
 tingency, and introducing on every hand elements of 
 growth, good order, and prosperity. With such a well- 
 drawn Constitution as yours, I see no reason vvhy the 
 
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 Society should not advance in all fruitfulness ; but I do 
 perceive whole clusters of reasons why it should grow and 
 extend its branches into every part of every land which 
 has Englishmen enough to work it. In every such place 
 Englishmen would promote their own interests and the 
 interests of the Motherland, as also of their adopted coun- 
 try, if they were to implant in it the Order of the Sons of 
 England. 
 
 But in one important particular, as I have already had 
 an opportunity of observing to your Worthy District 
 Deputy, Mr. G. B. Lloyd, I fear you are not making the 
 most of your possible benefits. The Order has no fund 
 for the education of orphans ; and I would strongly urge 
 Lodge Dudle}' to make the collection of to-day the nucleus 
 of such a fund instead of giving it, as your charity has 
 been thinking of doing, to existing orphanages. The sus- 
 tcntation of these )-ou nia}- well leave to their okl friends, 
 the general public. 
 
 And I would suggest further that, if it could be so 
 arranged (with the consent, if necessary, of the Supreme 
 Grand Lodge), a i)roportionatc part of your annual profits 
 be paid o\er to this fund. 
 
 And if you take the Tasker lulucation Fund as a cri- 
 terion, you will have abundant reason for believing that 
 your orphan fund will receive the warm sympathy of the 
 public, and that it will soon become a successful and use- 
 ful institution, notwithstanding that it might be deemed 
 prudent to leave the fund to accumulate at interest for a 
 few years. 
 
 The Society evidently abounds in large and tangible 
 benefits to its members, as also to their widows and 
 orphans ; but it would, nevertheless, be an immense help 
 to your Lodg*" and a great consolation to every married 
 member of it, whom God might be pleased to call into 
 
LODGE DUDLEY, S.O.E. 9 
 
 the Valley of the Shadow of Death, as well as a help and 
 comfort to the partner of his life, who may soon be the 
 sole strugglcr for his orphans, if some such fund as that 
 which I advocate were established for the education of his 
 dear ones whom death is blotting out from his eyes, but 
 not from his heart. At that solemn moment, and in view 
 of such a fund, the benefit of bein^ one of the Sons of 
 England would be indescribably great and comforting to 
 the dying member. And what to his ovcr-burthcnetl, 
 heart-broken wife> 
 
 Vox, in addition to the pecuniary benefit coming to her 
 and her children at his death, would not the orphans thus 
 become the v.-ards of the Lodge during the period of their 
 education, every member of the Lodge standing in the 
 place of a father to the children of his deceased brother ! 
 
 And here I am reminded of still another possible and 
 great benefit ultimately arising to them from other Lodges 
 of the Order, a continuous line of which already stretches 
 over the wide space between Newfoundland, wi<"h its two 
 Lodges, and British Columbia — and which, from the won- 
 derful rapidity of its formation, seems to hint that in the 
 near future a member may travel round the* globe and 
 find brethren of the Order everywhere. And we can all 
 imagine what the grasp of a brother's hand would be to a 
 disheartened man, of whom hard-times had made a wan- 
 derer, say, in search of employment ; and hovv speedily 
 that employment would be given him if it lay within the 
 sphere of the Lodge's influence. 
 
 But it is not to this minor benefit that 1 would now 
 allude, so much as to the infinitely greater benefit which 
 orphans might derive from distant Lodges after their edu- 
 cation is done. At that time there may not be a single 
 door open to them in their own country; but in Nova 
 Scotia, New Brunswick, or elsewhere along that line of 
 
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 Lodges, a groat door and effectual might open to them at 
 the knocking of Lodge Dudley, their guardian and friend! 
 Certain it is that, at the least, the Kducation Fund would 
 insure to the orphans the immense benefit of the Lodge's 
 fatherly oversight till their education was finished. And 
 what is more, the argus-eye of Lodge Dudley should be 
 sufficiently watchful to descry advantages to its wards, 
 both for Time and Eternity. 
 
 And the Lodge may be sure that, as one sound 
 awakens many echoes, and as one stone cast into the 
 waters is the cause of many circles widening more and 
 more, so, also, every deed of charity done to an orphan 
 f(jr CllKlsr's sake awakens echoes in the boundless e.x- 
 panse o{ Heaven, and originates vast and numberless 
 circles of love there around the Throne of Love, bringing 
 down refreshing and abundant showers upon the doer of 
 it. Our Lord CiiKisi' sees to that! 
 
 Need I say more than this to cause your alms to flow 
 liberally to-day, whether for the nucleus of the fund or for 
 existing orphans? 
 
 Or need I tell you that you could not have given a 
 much greater proof of your having really accepted the 
 Holy liible as your rule of life and the mainspring of 
 your existence than the fact of your presence here as a 
 Society in the Holy House of Him Whose Word the liible 
 is, and which commands you to reverence His Sanctuary? 
 
 You have prayed for the Queen, for your Lodge and 
 Order, and for all men, and you have thanked God for 
 His manifold blessings to them all; and I cannot but 
 think that you nuist have been greatly touched by the 
 fact that your prayers and thanksgivings, on the one 
 hand, have gone up for a budding Society, and on the 
 other for the Queen, gradually passing away in the glory 
 
LODGH DUD LEY, S.O.K. ii 
 
 of a long and beautiful life, like the going down of the 
 sun. God grant it may be a prolonged decadence! 
 
 Nature, that has lain dormant all the winter, is now 
 adorning herself with her charming foliage; and Lodge 
 Dudley, imitating her, is bursting into a fuller form of life 
 to-day in this its first annual public worship of Al.Ml(;iirv 
 God, and in its first gifts to Him as the Father of the 
 fatherless. 
 
 May your Lodge be ever green and flourishing! Only 
 take heed that you be not satisfied, either collectively or 
 individually, with the foliage of the barren fig-tree, which 
 never did, nor e\'cr will, satisfy Him who cannot hold with 
 apfyiaranci's onl)'. 
 
 He real, doing ''all the will of GOD." And to this 
 entl, and remembering that " as many as are led by the 
 Spirit of God lllKV are the Sons of GoD," walk as the 
 Sons of God more than as the Sons of I'.ngland. And 
 yet, what are the Sons of I^ngland but the Sons of God, 
 who have accepted His Word as the rule of life and the 
 mainspring of existence? Re it yours, then, to " walk 
 worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all 
 lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one 
 another in love : endeavouring to keep the unit)- of the 
 Spirit in the bond of peace " : *' For ye are all the children 
 of God by faith in Ciikisi Jksls." Yes, Irish and Scotch, 
 Welsh and Flnglish, " we are all one in Gnkisi Jksus." 
 Therefore, " be blameless and harmless, the Sons of GoD 
 without rebuke," *' always labouring fervently for each 
 other in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete 
 in all the will of GoD." 
 
 The Sons of God you were before you were the Sons 
 of Kngland, and God's Sons you will wish above all things 
 to be, when Time and the Order of the Sons of Kngland, 
 and England itself, " shall be no longer." While you live, 
 
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 then, live out this wisli, and use the power which your 
 LoKK has given you " to become the Sons of Goh "; so 
 that at the time of the <jreat earthquake, when " the sun 
 shall become black as sackcloth of hai , and the moon as 
 blood ; and when the stars of Heaven shall fall unto tlie 
 earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimcl\' figs, when 
 she is shaken of a might}' wind : and when the Heavens 
 shall depart as a scroll when it is rolled together ; and 
 ever\- moimtain and island shall be moved ciut of their 
 places: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, 
 and the rich men. and the chief captains, and the mighty 
 men, and e\'er}' bondman, and ever)' free man, shall hide 
 themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 
 and shall sa\' to the mountains and rocks, h'all on us and 
 hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the Throne, 
 and from the wrath of the Lamb" ( Rew vi.. 14), "you 
 may lift up }our heads, knowing that your redemption 
 draweth nigh." In that da\-. of which He Himself says, 
 ," The great da\' of His wrath is come, and who shall be 
 able to stand?" G(»i> give >'ou a place among those blessed 
 creatures whose " earnest expectation waiteth for the 
 manifestation of the Sons of GoD. " More instantaneously 
 than the beauty of the butterfly comes upon the lowly 
 chrysalis shall the glory of G(>I» burst upon the Sons of 
 G(>l>. and they shall " shine forth as the Sun in the King- 
 dom of their Father." 
 
 " Behold, what manner of love the Father hath be- 
 stowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God. 
 Beloved, now are wc the Sons of G(>i», and it doth not yet 
 appear what we shall be : but we know that when He ap- 
 peareth we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as 
 He is. 
 
 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth 
 himself, even as he is pure." — I John, iii., 1-3.