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Falls Road Orange Lodge LOL 498
From time to time the website receives enquiries about an Orange Lodge which goes by the name Falls Road Orange Lodge. If you follow this
link you will be taken to an article about this Orange Lodge which appeared in the Belfast Newsletter on 22 November, 2008. The Lodge did not in fact have a connection with Falls Road Methodist Church.
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Interestingly the Lodge can lay claim to having successfully sued the Irish News in 1886 during the first Home Rule Bill riots in Belfast, when the paper printed an article blaming the Lodge for smashing windows in a Methodist Church on the Falls Road. The Lodge took the paper to court for slander and won £200. It used the money to build a new hall at the top of Dunmurry Lane. The Lodge met there until the political situation, and a few failed arson attempts on the hall, made it too dangerous to stay.
Methodist Revival
from the "NEWS-LETTER", Monday 6 June, 1859
"A special prayer meeting was held in the Falls Road Wesleyan Church on Saturday evening. Nearly all present were led to seek the Lord with sighs and tears, and one of the most remarkable movements yet experienced in connection with this revival took place. There appeared to be none who were not convicted in the meeting. Those who had, in years gone by, been made happy were engaged in advising the convicted, pointing them to 'the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world', praying with them and for them, exhorting them to exercise simple faith, and many departed knowing that 'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus'."