Order of Procedure

The Lodge will be opened in the First Degree.

Hymn 1: - Lodge Hymnal.

The Lodge Business will be transacted.

Aims of Freemasonry.

Installing Masters will be received in due form.

Provincial Grand Office Bearers will be received in due form.

Installing Master will receive the Emblem of Authority & Assume the chair.

Extract of the Minute relating to the Master Elect will be read.

All Offices will be declared vacant.

The Master Elect will be introduced to the Brethren.

The Installing Master will address the RWM - Elect

The Ancient Charges will be read.

Charge by the Installing Master, after which the ‘oath de fideli’ will be

administered.

Solo by Bro. Bro. Tom Scobbie RWM 362

The Assistant Installing Master will assume the chair.

The Master - Elect will nominate his Depute Master.

The Installing Board retires from the Lodge.

Extract of the Minute of Election of the other Office Bearers will be read.

The Assistant Installing Master will install the Office Bearers.

The Lodge will be passed and raised.

The Installing Board returns to the Lodge.

The Master will be placed in the Chair.

Master will be presented to the M.M’s, saluted and proclaimed in the East.

The Working Tools will be presented.

Psalm 23               The Lord’s my Shepherd, Ill not want,

                                He makes me down to lie

                                In Pastures green: he leadeth me

                                The quiet waters by.

The Lodge will be reduced to the Second Degree.

The F.C’s will be admitted and stand in the West.

The Master will be presented to the F.C’s, saluted and proclaimed in the West.

The Working Tools will be presented.

My soul he doth restore again;

                                And me to walk doth make

                                Within the paths of righteousness,

                                Ev’n for his own name’s sake.

The Lodge will reduced to the First Degree.

The E.A’s will be admitted and stand in the West.

Master will be presented to the E.A’s, saluted and proclaimed in the South.

The Working Tools will be presented.

                        Yea though I walk in death’s dark vale.

                                Yet will I fear none ill:

                                For thou art with me; and thy rod

                                And staff me comfort still.

The Charter will be presented to the Master.

The Constitution and Bye-laws will be presented to the Master.

The V.S.L will be presented to the Master.

The Installing Master will address the Master.

The Installing Master will address the Wardens.

The Installing Master will address the Brethren.

Psalm 100

All people that on earth do dwell,                   Know that the Lord is God indeed

Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.              Without our aid he did us make:

Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell,    We are his flock, he doth us feed;

Come ye before him and rejoice.                     And for his sheep he doth us take.

                                For why? The Lord our God is good,

                                His mercy is for ever sure;

                                His truth at all times firmly stood,

                                And shall from age to age endure.

The RWM will receive the Emblem of Authority.

The RWM will invest the Immediate Past Master.

The RWM will address the Brethren.

Lodge Almoner will read the Appeal from the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

The RWM presents the Gavel in fealty to Grand Lodge and Provincial Grand Lodge of Stirlingshire.

Provincial Grand Lodge of Stirlingshire retires.

The Lodge is closed in due form.

The Festival of St. John will follow downstairs.

Festival of St. John the Evangelist

Installing Masters
Bro. Matthew Gibb PM HGA
Bro. Colin A. Arthur PM 76
Bro. James T. Andrew PM 76

Brother James F. Fisher PM HPGB DSD in the Chair

 __________________          

Toast Master: Bro. James F. Fisher PM 76

 Croupiers: WSW Bro. Ronald Bateman PM
WJW Bro. Hector McLeod

The Queen                              The Master

The Craft                                The Master

The Grand Lodge of Scotland & the Provincial

Grand Lodge of Stirlingshire   Bro. Paul G. Miller PM

Reply                                      Bro Gordon W S. Sewell

Provincial Grand Master of Stirlingshire

Visitors Toast                         The Master and Wardens

Reply                                      Bro Brian Wright PM Ancient Stirling No 30.
Past PGSM

Stirling Royal Arch No.76     Bro Samuel Harris PM Lodge Blairhoyle No792

Reply                                       The Master

Absent Friends                        The Master

The Installing Masters           The Master

Reply                                      Bro. Colin Arthur PM 76

Bro. Matt Gibb PM 76

Bro. James Andrew PM 76

Wardens & Office Bearers    Bro. David Brown  IPM 76

Reply                                       Bro Ronald Bateman PM WSW 76

Last Laid Stanes                     Bro. Robert Millar SD 76

Reply                                       Bro. Scott Fallon MM 76

Artistes & Catering Staff       Bro. Hector McLeod WJW 76

Reply                                       Bro. Tam Scobie St. Clair 262

Tylers Toast                           Bro. John J Kemp PM 76

Auld Lang Syne and National Anthem