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ISRAEL, FIELDER d. 1889
From Proceedings, Page 1889-10, Grand Master's Address::
BRETHREN, The loss which our Grand Lodge has sustained, since we last met, is vividly in our thoughts to-day, as we see the empty place of one who has been our Chaplain and spiritual leader.
Death, always strange in the hints it gives us of problems which we cannot solve, becomes at times invested with more than ordinary mystery, and tempts us to ask with profounder longing the eternally unanswered question of "Why must this have been so?"
The circumstances attending our Brother's death are too fresh in your minds for me to repeat them here. We recall with brotherly pity the effort which he made to speak to us at our recent Feast of St. John, at the very time when his nerves were overwrought and his physical and mental strength overtaxed by the strain he was passing through. Others will speak later of his life and the services which he rendered to humanity. His sympathy was always ready; his earnestness was always sincere; as a minister over his people -he was beloved and honored. There is evidence that some of his last thoughts were with Brethren and friends of this Grand Lodge, where he was held close in bonds of brotherly affection. Let me quote the words which he himself used at our Memorial Service in June, 1887: "Let us trustingly leave these matters — where, indeed, whether trustingly or not, we must leave them — with the Infinite Love which embraces all our loves, and the Infinite Wisdom which comprehends all our needs."
IVES, STEPHEN B. 1801-1883
From Proceedings, Page 1883-229:
Bro. STEPHEN B. lVES was born in Salem, April 12, 1801; was admitted into Essex Lodge, March 4, 1828, and died in Salem, July 31, 1883, in the eighty-third year of his age.
He was universally esteemed in Salem for his. intelligence, his public spirit, and his devotion to the cause of education. He rendered valuable service on the Board of School Committee. He represented the city in the Legislature for a term of years, was for a long period a member of the City Government, and President of the City Council. He was a gentleman of the old school, courteous and dignified in his manners, and generous and honorable in all his relations with his fellow-men.
A signer of the Declaration of 1831.
