THE HEALING ART
HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL. INSTITUTED BY FREEMASONS. KING CONDUCTS OPENING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, July 12. The King, accompanied by the Queen and attended by the Horae Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, drove from Buckingham Palace this afternoon to open the new Freemasons’ Hospital at Hammersmith. The King’s unfle, the Duke of Connaught, Grand Master of the Order, received Their Majesties ou their arrival.
The hospital was first projected twenty years ago, but its completion was delayed by the War. After a brief service had been conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Cosmo Gprdon Lang, the King, in opening the hospital, said: “This fine building, so admirably situated and planned- to give patients the benefits of sunshine and fresh air, Is a worthy realisation of your hopes. It cannot fail to bring comfort and health to Freemasons and their families. “I now declare it open, and pray that, with God’s blessing, within its walls may be found relief from suffering and restoration to health. ”
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1933, Page 10
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