Lodge of Saint Andrew, and the Massachusetts Grand LodgeConditi et ducati, anno lucis 5756-5769 . in1755-6, Sholto Charles, Lord Aberdour, under whose authority Lodge was constituted, and whose name is affixed to its Charter. Hewas the first Grand Master who had been honored with a re-election. Thisprobably did not arise from any disinclination on the part of his predecessors toserve the Grand Lodge for a longer term than one year, or, on the part of theirBrethren to re-elect them ; but at that early period of the Grand Lodge, it wasdoubtless deemed expedient, independently of any n
Lodge of Saint Andrew, and the Massachusetts Grand LodgeConditi et ducati, anno lucis 5756-5769 . in1755-6, Sholto Charles, Lord Aberdour, under whose authority Lodge was constituted, and whose name is affixed to its Charter. Hewas the first Grand Master who had been honored with a re-election. Thisprobably did not arise from any disinclination on the part of his predecessors toserve the Grand Lodge for a longer term than one year, or, on the part of theirBrethren to re-elect them ; but at that early period of the Grand Lodge, it wasdoubtless deemed expedient, independently of any necessity which may have beenfelt to exist on the subject, to strengthen the Body, by interesting in its adminis-tration as many of the nobility and gentlemen of the kingdom, as could conveni-ently be induced to assume the responsibility of its management. This havingbeen accomplished, to the desired extent, the one-term rule was discarded, andthe Grand Masters, from that to the present time have, with few exceptions,been honored by at least a second election. MEMOIR OF ST. ANDREW. -aoJaStJOo-. ST. ANDREW, in whose name our Lodge was charteredby the Grand Lodge of Scotland on the 30th of November,1756, was born at Bethsaida, a city of GaHlee, situated onthe shores of the Lake Tiberias, in Palestine. As the nameimports, it was a place for tishing and hunting, the adjacentcountry abounding with deer and the sea with fish. It issaid that Philip the Tetrarch formed it into a magnificentcity and called it Julias, after the daughter of the EmperorAugustus. And it was here that Jesus performed many of his miracles. Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, and both were the sons of John, orJonas, a fisherman of tlie place of their nativity. The former, before the adventof Jesus as a public teacher, had been a Disciple of John the Baptist, and wasprobably a member of the Essenian Sect, to which John belonged. If so, thiswill, in some measure at least, account for the learning and ability w
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