Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-02

| come 10 them with pure hearts and clean
hands, and with an honest face and voice
tell them your true situation. Take
with you, if you have it, your husbands,
! fathers or sons diploma, or even this
emblem of innocence, as a proof of your
integrity, No Mason will turn deaf
ear to your appeal and if worthy, and
he is able to assist you, he will not turn
you unsatis6ed away. Remember, ladies,
however, that We do not consider as
worthy " the thousand and one Masons
scattered over the country that for years
have been unafiliated with any Lodge,
and that contribute nothing to our sup
port. We claim but little affection for
those who withdraw from US and remain
for years a cold, lifeless monument of
Masonry, outside of a Lodgeroonl, and
when their widows and orphans send up
their cry In time of distress, oh, how
hard it is for Masons to listen with that
quick ear that Masons love to acknowl-
edge As the church member is who
never attends church, so is the Mason
who never attends Lodge
Absence begets Indifference, and indif-
ference begets positive violation of our
laws; and indeed, itneeds small thun-
der-clap, in a Masonic way, to arouse
some to a realization of their Masonic
obligation.
A thrilling and beautiful story is re-
lated by Sir Walter Scott, in his Ivan
hoe, of Jewish maiden being pursued
by Templar. Rushing into an old. de-
serted castle, to escape capture, the Tenn
plar so rapidly approached as to make
escape impossible. She sprang to a
window located high above huge pile
Of ragged rocks that lay below, and
while the Templar was advancing she
uttered these words: s'Take but another
step and you shall know that the Jewish
maiden had rather trust her soul with
God than her honor to the Templar.
Her noble spirit moved the wicked
knight, and he turned mortified and cha
grined away. Applause.
In the city of Memphis, few years
ago lived a widow whose husband had
died a Mason Destitution and want
visited her, and in her troubles she was
visited by the Fraternity Among the
number was one who had for years neg
lected his Blue Lodge. The true object
of his visit was not discovered by the
widow, until one day he attempted to
embrace her, when, tearing herself from
his grasp, she rushed to drawer, seized
the Masonic apron of her dead husband,
and, with streaming eyes, holding it up
before him, demanded protection. Like
the Jewish maiden, her appeal was not
in vain. Dumbfounded and condemned,
the culprit left the house forever. That
Brother now hes in Elmwood and upon
marble slab IL reeOunted his many viz
tues.
Brothers, We are not all perfect. Our
Masonic mantle stretches to a wonderful
length at times, but it should never cover
crime, ignorance or vice. Whatever our
faults may be, we know that it is not at
tributable to the Masonic Order. By
the Masonic rule our path is as clear and
free from all obstruction as the MONDAY
sun. While we do not profess to excel
all Others in our affections toward Deity,
yet we do profess to excel some, and to
be more consistent and earnest. in love
TO cur fellow-men As 4 Mason, | be-
heve in that beautiful ideal of the poet,
. Abou Ben Adem, who
q. Awoke one night from dream Of peace,
AM saw within the moonlight OF his room
IN angel writing in a Book o.. Cod
And TO the vision IN the room he sail,
Nhst writest there? The vision raised his
And with voice made all OF sweet scelrd
Answered, the names OF those who love the
And Is mine once Ben Abou asked.
Not So replied the angel.
Ban Abou spoke more low but cbeerily still,
W rite me, pray thee, then, as one who
Loves his fellow men The angel wrote,
And vanished The next night he came
And showed tie names Of those
VIII IN love OF God h al blessed,
And To- Ben AbOuis name led all the rest"
SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas, June 2, 1858.
Ger. A Pike, Memphis, Tenn.
Dear SIR | forward you some
thoughts that have been suggested to
my mind while reading the Bible ac-
counts and rejecting on the lecture of
the f. c. degree, aud submit them for
your consideration. Respectfully and
fraternally, G. f. CRockErr.
MEMORANDA.
For he east two pillars of brass of
eighteen eubits, etc, etc, etc. l Kings,
vii, 10.
May not this have been the shaft
alone?
And he made chapters FIVE cubits
high on each, etc, etc. Kings, vii, 16. /
May not these Chapters have been
placed Immediately on the top of the
shaft of each?
And the chapters that were upon the
top of the pillars were of lily work on
the porch four cubits, etc, etc l Kings,
vii. 10.
Assuming that the pomegranate work
and the net work were each four cubits,
(the same as the lily work., and that
these ornaments were on the top of the
the which we are justified in
from the boxes, we have
Shaft, Is cubits; chapter, cubits
lily work, ! eubits pomegranate work,
4 eubits net work, 1 cubits whole
hight, 30 cubits.
Obserce-The accounts given in Kings
is much more in detail than that in
Chronicles.
If my conjectures are correct, the dis
erepancy as TO hight in the two accounts
IS reeonciled.
The supreme Council for the
Northern Jurisdiction, United
States.
This body of the Ancient and Ac-
septed Rite met in annual assembly, in
The city of New York, on the Path of
June, but, in Difference to the celebra-
ions Of that day in other States, adj
ournei, after merely opening, until the
18th. \,
The meeting was a very large one, in
.luding a majority of the principal mem
'ers Of the Rite from the various dis
riots Of the Northern Jurisdiction. NJ.
7. Josiah II. Drummond, of Maine. G.. \,
commander, presided with marked abil-
~. His annual address was purely
BUSINESS document, but embracing al
matters Of present interest to the Su-