Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-23


Sceptrs and Sword;
7Aus have We met, my boys;
Hands round. old friends, let's meet again
why have We met, my boys
Let memory tell,
she knows il well
To dry The widow tear
The sorrowing heart to cheer
To keep our LIES design
Within the unerripg line
VI Hin 80 dear,
With lnirth and song
Life 10 prolong;
For tAss we've met, my boys
Hands round, old friends, let's meet again
Shall we not meet, my boyss
In Lodge above,
The Ledge OF Love
The MAsrsa waits us there
With many lost and dear.
And wages Of the best.
And for our toilings, rest
Full end Of care;
The Cross lay down,
Take up the Grown,
And in the Spirited my boys,
Hands round, old friends. let's meet again
John Foster, who took Nason's degree
At Csstine 10 1900, and Vas one Of the old
est members Of the Order in this country.
died recently in Boston.
The Bond Of Masonry 10 enc that neither
time nor circumstances should weaken, 90
long a. il unites true Craftsmen. Virtns 10
imperishable.
Ssrr,so A GREsx SPRIo.-Ons Of the
most sy,nbolical aud beautiful thcughts in
the Master Msson's Lecture hes been over
looked by Masonic writer's it 10 that re-
markabls expression, ~ will set sprig Of
Acacia at the head Of the grave that the
place may be known should occasion ever
require it,"
MELBOURNE, AUsrRALIA.-The foundation
stone Of the "Freemssons' Almshouss" hes
been laid with oil the formslisies appertain.
ing TO the Masonic Order. The government
having granted piece Of land Of about Eve
acres and quarter in extent. fronting the
Punt road And contiguous 10 the Wesleyan
College, . plan was agreed upon TO erect
buildings which will form The nucleus of
charitable institutions for the poor and in.
digent, the windows and orphans of The
brethren. The frat portion et the Aims
houses has been coa,saoted ler, for E659,
the funds being subscribed 6v the brethren
Of tho various Lodges Of tho Order The
Keystone.
II is for this very thing that when We
die, our borrowing brethren will drop
springs OF evergreen into our graves that
the place may be known by the Omniscient
God, when, in the morning Of the Resnr-
rection occasion shall require Him to find
our buried dust, to place his strong right
hand under ours, TO raise us from the lead
level t, the living perpendicular and to
VIII sper IN our Attentive Ear. the lIfe-giv-
mg Word that 10 our Immortality Grand
and sublim, thought conveyed under this
emblem Of the ,irecn Sprig No wonder
L is lancied that the eycrgreens We drop
upon = brothers cofiin never decay. that
they will but lie there in gseenness and
fragrance and beauty, until disturbed by
the hand Of the Almighty HIMSELF Ex-
tract from an unpublished address.
SiLExCE.-Silence, sesssay and fidelity
rightly understood are supreme virtues
10 silence the Divine thought moves the
sternities, creating and adjoining 6lling
the material world with forms OF beauty
and glory. and communicating to the moral
and spiritual the elements Of ever-expand-
ing perfection.
In silencs aod sccrsey nature also per-
forms her mysterious labors, and creates
that inspiring grandeur and blooming love-
iinsss which ever attSlcts the attention
and charms the visioo Of man.
The human mind, too, Withdrawn into
silence and secresy BY attention and msd-
tatisn Celebrates those grand thoughts
clothed with creative energies, BY which
man through philosophy, science and art
becomes the sovereign ofthe material world,
and demonstrates hie close relationship to
the unseen and immortal powers.
Let then the advancing Mason wear those
precious jewels fof they are worthy Of his
love. Let the attentive ear gather up all
those lessons Of wisdom which nature, his
tory, and the world are perpstually pro
claiming; and, retiring into the Divine 81
silence, let the adept study them with SOL
emn carnestncss. Let fidelity, loyalty to
truth and yirtue-having its root in the
deep recesses of the faithful heart, bind
him etcrna'ly to the good, the beautiful and
the true, which will drown him with joy on
earth, and make him illustrious when he
shall be admitted to the elmer Chamber
Of the Temple on high Freemason'
Guide.
A National GRAND Lopoa.-Oa this
subject. says the Masonic Tidibgs. Brother
J. Watts, Of Kacinc, Wis, writes ~ follows
IL think we need Grand Lodge Of Mas
ter Masons for the United States, to have
representation from the State Grand Lodges
something like the United States Ssnste
Said National Grand Lodge to have juris-
diction and control Of the work 10 the three
degrees 90 as to preserve . uuiformity Of
work in the various States. and yet leaving
each State Grand Lodge supreme in it, own
State 10 make laws icr its government, - .
supreme tribunal subject to no other higher
authority than the Grand Architect Of the
Universe but the United States Grand
Lodge should have control Of the whole
work Of the three degrees, preserve the An
cient Land Marks, and appoint State Grand
Lecturers. This would cut the work of the
State Grand Lodges in two, and make dis
tinction between legislation Of local and
sectional chasaetss belonging 10 the States,
and cf the woek i the Lodge 10 1ar q max
ing Assons 10 sencefned, and hsloneine %
the whole Crsft Ill over the face = she
globe. One thing think 10 sure; before
We are old men something will be done to
make uniformity in the work. Ny idea is
that the Graft u large 10 one thing, and has
rights for esch Mason, while State add Ls-
cal Jurisdictions have other rights Of diff
ferent character"
Among the Congregational and New
School Presley terrain ehurchcs Of Wisconsin,,
there Is rigging fierce Ger agains: Ffeema-
sons. says the Cincinnati Masonic Review
A committee was appointed on Masonry .
year since. with Rev. ID. l.. Love Of Mil
wAukee-a bitter anti Masou-as chairman
The Brosdhed In epcndent, Of last week,
says the committee made "a milk and water
report" which greatly surprised the Con-
vention; but gives the following reason
from behind the cJrtain:
"There is a some at curious and anus
ing history connected with the report Of
the committee, the substance Of which We
will give:
When tho committee got together to talk
ever matters, il appeared that one member
Of the committee, = layman and delegate
from Racine county presented report in
Opposition to the sweeping and uncalled for
paper gotten up by NJ. Live, and endorsed
by the entire committee except the gentle
man from Racine. The majority were
shocked, indignant, outraged BY IN opposi- |
ton report. They tried to convert the lone
man from Racine-argumsnt and inveelive
we're Of no avail. He IVES stubborn, came Of |
seubborn stock asd could not zee il. Az
lest resort Nh Love called into The euoa.
nittes room two eminent Doctors Of Divin.
~, confidently believing that the stubborn
hp0Nhse foam ns.,~. -:~sl - A.