Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.

BOSTON, Aug. 4, 1875.

BROTHER

Our Senior Past Grand Master, R.W. Winslow Lewis, passed peacefully away at half-past eleven o'clock last night.

The funeral services will take place at St. Paul's Church, in this city, on Friday next, at 2 o'clock,

P. M.

The M.W. Grand Master requests the Officers and Permanent Members of the M.W. Grand Lodge to join with him in testifying our profound respect and affection for our departed Brother. For that purpose they will assemble at the Masonic Temple on Friday, the 6th inst., at 12 o'clock, M.

By order of the Grand Master,

CHARLES H. TITUS,

GRAND SECRETARY.

R.W. William W. Wheildon, Past Corresponding Grand Secretary, Bro. Francis C. Whiston, and several other Brethren, not officers or permanent members of the Grand Lodge, were also present.

The Grand Lodge was opened in AMPLE FORM at ten minutes past one o'clock, P. M., with prayer by the W. Grand Chaplain, Rev. Joshua Young, and singing, by the Temple Quartette, the following hymn:

COME UNTO ME.

[Music composed by the Grand Organist, Bro. Howard M. Dow.

I.

Come unto me, when shadows darkly gather,
When the sad heart is weary and distressed,
Seeking for comfort from your Heavenly Father;
Come unto me, and I will give you rest.

II.

Large are the mansions in thy Father's dwelling,
Glad are the homes that sorrows never dim;

Sweet are the harps in holy music swelling,
Soft are the tones which raise the heav'nly hymn.

III.

There like an Eden blossoming in gladness,

Bloom the fair flowers the earth too rudely pressed;
Come unto me, all ye who droop in sadness,

Come unto me, and I will give you rest.

The Grand Master, in kind, loving and appropriate words, formally announced the death of our Senior Past Grand Master, Winslow Lewis, M. D., and all felt that a true friend and beloved Brother had been removed from them by this sad bereavement.

The Grand Master appointed, as a committee to

prepare a memorial of Bro. Lewis, for our records, to report at our Quarterly Communication in September next, R.W. Past Grand Masters John T. Heard, William D. Coolidge, William Parkman, Charles C. Dame, William S. Gardner and Sereno D. Nickerson.

The following telegrams, received by the Grand Master, were communicated by him to the Grand Lodge:

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Aug. 6, 1875.

To PERCIVAL L. EVERETT, Esq., Grand Master of Freemasons, Masonic Temple:

We cordially sympathize with the Fraternity in Massachusetts, on the lamented death of Past Grand Master Winslow Lewis, and unite with you in sorrow for the loss of a Brother alike eminent, venerated and beloved.

ROBERT T. CLINCH,

Past Grand Master, New Brunswick.
B. LESTER PETERS,

Past Grand Master, New Brunswick.

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Aug. 6, 1875.

To PERCIVAL LOWELL EVERETT, Esq., Grand Master of Freemasons,

Masonic Temple : —

The Grand Lodge of New Brunswick expresses fraternal sympathy with the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, on the loss sustained by the Craft in the death of Past Grand Master Winslow Lewis, whose Masonic virtues shed a lustre on the whole Fraternity.

JOHN V. ELLIS,

Grand Master.