American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-09

land the clouds melt into the sun,
And Heaven in glory comes to view.
S1GIN OF ODD FELLOWSHIP IN THE UNIT
&rATEs-.4n Eloquent Tribute. The fol-
4 bg extracts are from an Grafton delivered
the Grand Lodge of Georgia, by R. II.
4 In, Esq, which, as they have reference to
rences in this city, will be read with in
s.
4 was in the year 1918 that an English Odd
Nv, whose name was not then upon any of
bills of fame, took shipping for America
as not remarkable for the lustre of an an
4 name, the pride of blood; the pomp of
s III or the grandeur Of genius, but his heart
&.overfowing with generous notions, his
n filled with the practical learning of the
and his name was ever ready for any
& work. He landed at Baltimore in Sep
Yer of that year, and the dust of the new
2lry had scarcely gathered about his feet
ID he began to ponder the erection of
Hes He found another member of the fra
4 ty in John Walsh, of Baltimore, and these
4 HELD an anxious consultation. At last it
greed that the stranger should invite, by
Re advertisement, meeting of such bro
A as might chance to be in Baltimore at
3designated time. John Duncan, John
them and Richard Rushwood answered to
Nall. The meeting was held at the house
lie William Lupton, sign of the Seven Stars,
End street, Baltimore, on the 26th day of
1919.
Hodge was organised, and hailed "Wash-
I'm Lodge, No. |, of Maryland and of the
led States" The stranger was elected to
Ehief office, John WEIGH to the second
name Of the former was Thomas Wildey,
fhe is now known as the ''founder and IA
| of American Odd Fellowship" In the
i less of his years he planted the seed of
{under whose spreading branches are shell
thousands of world sick men, destitute
kws and desolate orphans, who, but for
might have been wanderers and outcasts
he face of the earth. More than six hun
and fifty Lodges have sprung from that OF
sh he was the author, and more than TO-
SOf his fellow-lnen now look up to him with
|kthing akin to filial veneration. His gray
r are fast descending into the dark silence of
brave, but his monuments are imperlshable,
Hong after the memory of the proud men
HIS dav and generation shall have passed a.
1 forever, young children will be taught to
1.-THE name of Thomas Wildey.
bhe cycle of single generation of men has
Fbeen completed since Thomas Wildey first
loot in America. Twenty eight years have
kelapsed since that meeting of five men was
in Baltimore. But over the scant period
ch has been gathered to the dead of time a
sh of events has swept making both those &C.
Fences immortal. Almost in every city and
5h in our country, the pillars of Faith, Hope
! Charity have been placed upon their Pc
sals The magic words, Friendship, Love
! Truth constantly attract the eye and in
Family assail the ear. The ark has foated
En the raging waters; the dove has brought
the tidings of relief the covenant has been
lblshed; the bow is strung in the cloudsj the
'rs are smoking; the tents are pitched; the
kiarchs are afield, and the High Priest is
|ed for his duties; the arrows of brotherly
y have flown upon their mission; the indus
kus hives are swarming; the barren rod has
4 forth buds; the horn Of plenty is pouring
It's treasures; the balances are adjusted; the
is driving his chariot through the middle
fven, and from 'the Celestial Lodge above
All-seeing Eye is beaming down aPprova!!
fond all price.
The last words of brother, who not many
hths ago, was in his place in one of our sis
Hodges in this State, are still dying in the
i Of his friends. He left them in health ne
TO return to them in life. Far from hi:
Inc, cruel hands seized him in the weakness
Wis sleep and crimsoned the gloom of night
| h his murdered blood. No brothers. eye
E,ld see his danger. No brothers. ear coulc
nr his groaps His brethren were not nigh
(,aye him, sand 50 he died" But when thu
sth-room gave up its dead, Odd Fellowship
inc to take away the body OF her child. Tit
.ngled corpse was carried to her own home
Burning assembled the high seats in her hal
"a grief threw shadowy wells over her prou'
As though Prince had fallen, cage
bwds were admitted to the dead man in hi
Ete, and often dropping heads betrayed tina
bman had come there to weep. The grav
bit messengers for its prey. Throngng breth
h joined in sad procession, and strains
billing music moved with them to the "Cit
the Silent" The unbroken circle fenced
se tomb. The solemn prayers of our Orde
bre whispered over the dead. The coffin wa
Bvered with the Odd-Fellow's pail of evel
8een, and our poor brother was once nor
hambered with the stranger; but ah tn
ranger was now as weak and harmless
Emself.
kThe Order of Odd Fellows is yet in the spring
HE of its renewed youth. A breath of Tin
IS blown it over one half of the Wester
kmisphere. Another and yet another, an
There NAV not its germs have been carried
rophecy, cropping in the curtained future, la!
|er hand on startling annals. They read th'
[Rdd Fellowship has recovered the sceptre
pr old empire, Kings upon their thrones al