The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-23
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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THE oDD FEL1ows' RroEPrlos OF THEIR
GRAND SIRE.-Vhe Grand Lodge of the Inde.
pendent Order of Odd Fellows which COM
menced its annual spring session on Tuesday,
was honored yesterday by the presence of
James =. Sanders, the most Worthy Grand Sire
OF the Grand Lodge of the United States. That
officer visited the jurisdiction in answer to its
especial invitation. He was received in this
city on Tuesday afternoon. Francis NJ. Rea,
John b. Sprineer, Samuel N. Foster, John
Harland, Smith Skinner, William Morsander
Washington Reiisnyder, John w. Stokes, and
John s. Heiss, in conjunction with the officers
of the Grand Lodge, Grand Master George Fling
Grand Secretary William Curtis, and Grand
Treasurer M. Richards Muckle received the
Grand Sire on behalf of the Pennsylvania Odd
Fellows Quarters were provided for him at
the Continental Hotel, and yesterday afternoon
he was conducted to the Grand Lodge, where
sentatives present
Early in the evening more social reception
was given at the National Guards Hall. There
were four tables arranged parallel IN the ban
quoting room, with officers tables at the head
AT the head of the principal table sat Richard
Watson, OF Doylestown, the Grand Master OF the
Grand Lodge OF Pennsylvania. The other tables
were presided over by Maurice Finn, Grand
Senior Warden Of the Grand Encam pment;
george Fling, Past Grand Master; Elias Wild
man, Past Grand Master; and John B. Springer,
Past Grand Patriarch of the Grand Bncamp-
ment. Ry the side of Grand Master Watson
were Grand Sire Sanders aud Past Grand Master
Lamberton, OF Pennsylvania. Seated at the
same table were Representatives Miller and
Douglass, of New Jersey; Representative Todd,
OF Tennessee; Past Grand Sire James B. Nichol-
son, OF pennsylvania; John W. Stokes, Past
Grand Master, and Past Grand Master Wash.
burn; Henry Simons Grand Treasurer of the
Grand Encampment Of Pennsylvania; Henry
w. Surriner, Grand Junior Warden of the
Grand Lodge; Grand Senior Deputy Grand Mas
ter Long; Grand Treasurer Muckle, and a num-
Der of other eminent members of the Order.
Representatives from six hundred lodges
covering a membership of sixty thousand par
ticipated 10 the reception. The occasion was
one parallel for which was never seen in this
CITY, When the entertainment was at its
height there were nearly SIX hundred repre-
sentatiVes seated ct the tables. The cloth was
cleared at an early hour, and other features in.
Grand Master Watson opened the ball for the
social entertainment by announcing the first
toast. 1t vast
''The Grand Lodge of the United States.D
To this Grand Sire Sanders responded
Greeted with enthusiastic applause, he thanked
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for the warm
reception which be as the representative of the
sovereign authority of the Union, mad received.
He referred to the work of the Order in the
states and Territories. Looking around at the
great body assembled around the board, he
asked, Whence came they? Within his memory
there were not as many members in the Order
IN pennsylvania as were then seated before him.
Inc grain OF mustard-seed, soWn in faith and
charity, had grown to mighty tree. The
handful OF men who founded the Order in the
city OF Baltimore have increased over 200 900.
And when the war ended, and the Grand Lodge
of the United States met, representatives were
present from every State aud Territory In the
Union. wild applause.) There was no need
of reconstruction for the Order of Odd Fellows.
(Renewed applause.) When the war ragged, and
the Southern jurisdictions were renewed from
the Union, their seats were not declared vacant
IN the Grand Lodge, but were lett for the miss
ing representatives whenever they chose to
return to their mother Grand Lodge. (Great
applause.)
In every town and hamlet the increase of odd
Fellowship is marked. From East to West from
North to South the work spreads, binding men
together in one great brotherhood, and knitting
in fraternity and love the great masses of the
people of the Union. Where will this work
stop? Only when the Order of Odd-Fellowship
has unfolded its banners wide over the world
and all mankind are knit in the bonds of UNI
Versal brotherhood.
Grand Sire Sanders then gave as a toast
'The Grand Lodge and the Grand Encampment
of Pennsylvania, bright jewels in the crown OF
ddFellowship-may their lustre never be dim
med, but may they grow together brighter and
brighter unto the perfect day."
Grand Master Watson responded for the Grand
Lodge. Around the social board, he said, were
the representatives of the lodges of this State,
the officers the captains of hundreds and fiftes,
Fellowship. They are live Odd Fellows.
(Applause) They are abe-bodied and willing,
ready to do any duty which Odd Fellowship en-.
Joins, as they are to sep to the table and take
their rations. (Great laughter.) Pennsylvania
the Grand Master said, was indeed bright star
IN the Order of Odd Fellowship Remembering
its sixty thousand members, he would claim
that the State was rather the chief planet of the
great system. (Renewed laughter)
Grand Master Watson offered the second regu
lar toast, "Our Sister Grand Lodges"
Representative Todd, of the Grand Lodge o.
Tennessee, replied. He said that in the juris
diction of the Grand Lodge of the United
States are torty-seVen or forty-eight Grand
Lodges. Their components are men whose emf
nenCe and rank in other stations in life have
attested the worth of Odd Fellowship. The
origin of the Order was humble but God alway
chooses the weak and feeble things of the eartl
to confound the mighty. From the little banC
who met in Baltimore forty years ago, has crow
The mighty army whose banner is ch arity AM
whose mission is love.
The Grand Sire said that the Grand Lodge O
the United States needed no reconstruction
We reconstruct ourselves. (Applause.) Witt
the same harmony that marked the union of tn
representatives of the Grand Lodge OF tht
Union, the whole Order moves on to-day. s.
will it move until the march ends in the Gran
Lodge in Heaven.
To the third toast-"Our Sister Grand En-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Miller, of Ney
Jersey, replied, and the other toasts followed.
4. The memory of Thomas Wildey. Drank i
silence.
5. Odd Fellowship-Its benign influences ar
felt and acknowledged in the marble mansio
and in the lowly cottage.
Replied to by the Past Grand Master r.
Lamberton.
6. The Jewels of our Order-The Roma,
mother proudly pointed to her sons, we to th
widows and orphans of our departed brothers
Replied TO by Rev. Mr.. Washburn.
n The Fathers of our 0rder-May they Ion
be spared to cheer us by their presence and guid
us by their COUNSEL
11eJnlied 10 nv Past Grand Gaoroa Rartran,