With the organization of the Michigan Grand Lodge, Zion Lodge became No. 1, and retained this number during the existence of that Grand Lodge. In 1827 the active membership appears to have become very much reduced, and, in compliance with a petition therefor, on December 3d of that year, this dispensation was read:

"Whereas it has been represented to me, Lewis Cass, Grand Master of Masons in Michigan, that owing to the removal by death or otherwise of the members of Zion Lodge No. 1, the number of Members in said Lodge has become so reduced that it is inconvenient to fill the offices, and whereas there are several Master Masons who are anxious of becoming members of the same. Therefore be it known, that by virtue of the authority in me vested, I do grant to said Zion Lodge No. 1 for this evening only, the power to propose and admit members without the necessity of keeping applications under advisement from the one regular meeting to the next.

(L. S.)

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name and private seal at Detroit this third day of December. A. L. 5827.

Signed

Lewis Cass.

Quite a number of members were admitted at that meeting through the permission granted.

The time was now near at hand when Masonry was to become practically extinct in Michigan for the space of eleven years. The "Morgan excitment" in the state of New York had a most disastrous effect upon Masonry all over the northern states. Especially was this the case in Michigan. The order was shaken to its very foundations. So intense and bitter became the opposition to the Masonic institution, that it was deemed wise, by the prominent Masons of that day, that all masonic labor be suspended until the intense excitment should abate. The Grand Lodge therefore met and resolved to suspend labor, and requested all its subordinate Lodges to do likewise. That this announcement came suddenly and unexpectedly upon the Lodges is proven by the fact that no mention of such an intention appears in their records. Zion Lodge was holding its meetings with perfect regularity, and the record of the last meeting prior to such suspension, has not a word in reference thereto. That record, in full, is as follows:

Detroit, March 23d, A. L. 5829.

At a regular communication of Zion Lodge No. I held this evening.

The Master Mason's Lodge opened in due form when the minutes of the last regular read and accepted. On motion it was resolved the building committee have further time to make report until our next regular communication. On motion it was resolved that Bro. A. W. Dean have permission to withdraw his membership by complying with the by laws-on Motion the Lodge closed in harmony.

G. Hurd, Sec'y."

Only that, and nothing more. Following this brief record, the sun of Zion's prosperity was eclipsed for the next fifteen years. We have traced her career under all the political changes through which the Territory has passed for sixty-five years. The most prominent men in civil, political and military life, men whose names are preserved in the history of our commonwealth, met around her altar and there received an inspiration to nobler deeds and higher purposes. Her offices have been filled by men who bear an honorable record in history. Under the warrant of 1764, we have no record of other names than that of Lieut. John Christie and his two wardens. From the time of the Canada warrant of 1794, to the cessation of activity in 1829, the following named brothers occupied the Worshipful Master's chair:

James Donaldson, James May, Hugh Heward, James McDonnell, Wm. McDowell Scott, Robert Abbott, John Dodemead, Richard Smyth, Christopher Tuttle, James Abbott, Sylvester Day, Jonathan Eastman, Gen. Alexander Macomb, Andrew G. Whitney, Austin E. Wing, John L. Whiting, Obed Wait, Henry J. Hunt, Elliott Gray, John E. Schwarz and Henry Dean.

From the date of the Canada warrant until work was suspended in 1821, the Lodge held five hundred and twenty-nine meetings, regular and special, an average of fifteen meetings for each year. During this time she initiated one hundred fifty-one, raised one hundred forty-seven, and admitted seventy-one.

When Zion Lodge laid down her working tools and closed her records with the brief entry recorded above, her members little thought that fifteen years would pass by before they should again meet around their common altar. Such, however, proved to be the case. This Lodge did not participate in the work of the second Grand Lodge nor did it resume labor until that Grand Body was ready to dissolve and make way for another to be legally formed. legally formed. When it was necessary to aid in the organization of the present Grand Lodge, Zion was one of the first Lodges to take active steps in that direction. On the recommendation of the Grand Lodge of New York, Zion Lodge, with the others which had previously had charters from that Grand Lodge, applied for a renewal of her former warrant. This was immediately granted and Zion Lodge now became No. 99 on the registry of the Grand Lodge of New York. Regarding this, the records of New York Grand Lodge for 1844, contain this significant item:

"The applications for the revival of the three Lodges warranted by the Grand Lodge of New York in Michigan, were hailed with great pleasure, and it was recommended that the charters for Detroit, Zion, and Oakland Lodges be furnished without charge."

This warrant was received in Detroit without delay and a special dispensation was given to Brother John Mullet, Past Master of Detroit Lodge and Grand Master of the then Grand Lodge, authorizing him to consecrate the Lodge and install the officers. Accordingly Brother Mullet called a meeting of the members of that Lodge, and thirteen days after Detroit Lodge had been consecrated and the officers installed by Brother John Barney, Brother Mullet performed a similar service for Zion Lodge and again started it upon its career of usefulness.

During the three years preceding this time, Detroit Lodge was actively at work and many of the members of Zion had been admitted. as members of that Lodge and were active workers therein. With the revival of Zion Lodge many of them returned to their old home. Among these was Brother John E. Schwarz, who was now installed Worshipful Master of Zion.

The books, records and paraphernalia of Zion Lodge which had been cared for by Detroit Lodge for the past two or three years were again put into active use.

At a meeting held August 21, 1844, the records say, "A communication was received from Detroit Lodge, No. 100, in relation to the formation of a Grand Lodge, whereupon it was Resolved, That the W. M. with the Senior and Junior Wardens, do represent this Lodge in the convention to be held 17th proximo, to prepare a constitution for the government of the contemplated Grand Lodge."

Brothers John E. Schwarz, Robert Forsyth and David Thompson represented Zion Lodge in this convention and Brother Schwarz was appointed Secretary thereof, and at the election of officers, he was elected Junior Grand Warden, being the first one to hold that position in the present Grand Lodge. He continued an active and influential worker in that Lodge until his death, which occurred in February, 1858, when he was buried with masonic and military honors, with a vast concourse of his fellow citizens attending to pay a last tribute to his memory.

The records for the next two years are lost, and the details of the work done during that time are not attainable, but the fact that the Lodge was represented at each meeting of Grand Lodge proves that it was regularly at work. There appears to have been a question raised as to the regularity of the election held at the close of the year 1844, as at the meeting of Grand Lodge on January 8, 1845, the following action is recorded:

"On motion of the Rt. W. Bro. John E. Schwarz,

Resolved, That a select committee be appointed to inquire into the constitutional eligibility of the W. Master of Zion Lodge No. 1, and that the said committee be instructed to report what action they deem it proper that the Grand Lodge adopt thereon.

Whereupon, the said committee made a report upon the matter referred to their consideration, and concluded by recommending the adoption of the following resolution, which was considered and adopted:

Resolved, That this Grand Lodge do hereby authorize and instruct Zion Lodge, No. 1, to hold a new election of officers at its next regular communication, previous notice being given to the members thereof,-an irregularity having occurred in the election of the present officers of said Lodge.'

It is not the purpose to follow Zion Lodge further in its detailed history. Her further history now becomes intermingled with the general history of the institution in Michigan. We have followed her course from the time she was first organized until she is now for the last time rehabilitated and refitted for work, and given her right

ful place as number one on the registry of Michigan. Since that time she has kept steadily onward in the work of disseminating the pure principles of Freemasonry. For fifty years since her last resuscitation, she has stood at the front and done grand work in diffusing masonic light and elevating humanity. She has seen this masonic field, so long occupied by herself alone, grow and broaden, until now four hundred Lodges occupy that field, and the membership in the jurisdiction, once contained within the limits of her own little rolls, now number more than thirty-six thousand, scattered all over this commonwealth.

Since Zion Lodge resumed work in 1844, there have been ninehundred sixty-three initiated, eight hundred thirty-five raised, and one hundred eighty-five have been admitted from other Lodges. Two hundred have been dimitted and one hundred forty-nine have died. The membership on January 1st, 1895, was five hundred thirty.

The following brothers have occupied the Master's chair since that time:

Alpheus S. Williams, Wm. M. Lister, H. N. Church, D. C. Pettys, Daniel Anderson, Wm. Brodie, Edward Batwell, John C. Gorton, Chas. M. Young, H. A. Morrow, G. B. Noble, E. G. Allen, Hugh Johnson, Thomas McGregor, Andrew J. Brow, John Strachan, Alexander Hosie, John Lewis, Fred W. Hawes, F. B. Vaughn, Alfred Rooks, Richard Austin, Jonathan Ormerod, J. C. Burton, Ross Brown, James Purdie, John H. Cartwright, George H. Goudie, Edward A. Waterfall, Simeon Smith and Julius A. Dresser.