The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-26

ages, Checked neverthelt IS, in good degr,e And
count, racted by the very agency which nad warned
t into active life. TO Christianity ON ed it's preser-
vatiop. Having its birth In early ages in the EAST u
had succumbed 70 the whitening desolation which
refuge across the Bosphorus, IL had found home
ard u resting place In Greece; pressed thence
With the fan Of that empire, under the
shcltering wing of Christianity, it sur
hacyon influence upon the human race. IL was now
doomed to the severest ordeal IL had yet been cale1
Shn O i,s W on o bo1eebo,d T he Ghrisan ThnrcS
had attained the zenith Of it's power; there was no
dangerous enemy without, but within ITS foid diseen-
one thing and the Christian Church essentially an
other-thc one simple, pure, sublime system of
faith; the other an organized and formidable govern
ment, with combined political and ecclesiastical
Loty claiming to rank among the family of nations,
and, by OF its peculiar structure, exertng in
huence cX-cathedra and under color OF divine autho
rity. Civilization, under such auspices, could not
advance; it was assailed in its most vital principle
The right OF generation to bind its successors in
systems of governments, or dogmas Of faith, or re-
mind as the divine instinct, and its struggles TO vim
dcate ts freedom We're long, earnest, and persistent
AS well might some presumptuous Canute have at-
tempted the order of nature The liberty OF
thought, innate and inseparable from intellectual
organism, is in TACT OF Coda scintllation OF HIS
divnity-and all attempts at its coercion could not
but fail TO draw after 1t its own inevitable destfuc
ton; since every power which only knows how TO
grow and fatten on the spoil and desolation OF
others necessarily provokes retrbution which
sooner or later overtakes it, and "havng ceased TO
geance upon its head, and having its victim no
longer for its slave, il has 1t wholly for its enemy"
however benencent, which, when it is not under
control OF some other power, or closely watched by
public opinion does not sooner or later degenerate
and lapse into abuse, greatly depreciating il not
tirely annihilating its intrinsic excellence
Yet, despite this hindrance, civilization advanced
Under the lead OF that divine spirit of tolerance
which frightened the worlds horizon In the sixteenth
ey Of coSsssnce noW stood forS
and its dominion has since been recognized by the
common consent OF the civilized world ''as the
BY this light from the distant barbarism Of
the long tepS past expsrlense, paIst,on and & example
and gone, like continuous caravan moving
deathward; but from these there is ever-descending
from oblivion, just as the annals OF odd Fellowship
this day being collated for posterity. This mate
rial, at first rude and simple, oomprehendng the
social life, manners, habits, institutions religion
learning, science, and arts OF every people under
been the alment Of civilization and it has advanced
from time to time, through various ordeals in pro-
fully encounter and overcome the obstacles by which
bgotry, superstition, and fanaticism have imPeded
& % Wh the a triumph Hl this great hand
more sublime development Of charity largely partici
pated. As inseparable from the growth Of these,
and az auxiliary to their greater efficacy for good,
has the spirit OF association and cooperative Organi
zation been invoked, with view to more enlarged
| usefulness and more effective practical results
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that most Of these orsani1atcn dsrins sSe
last SsnuIy il E9sland n!S "tIss and Easy Cla5s is
esn s Out Of these came & &w9kn%eMLs ~ 6snsaci.l socie
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hers to is ranks Confined amos, excusiyely tho
and as thus cgnssuied It cSnS t. Way into @ lie United
direction alter he J peace lsns s0e
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early 1898, when act passed. entitled 'srhe
1900 annual have been required and general sn
peryion exist from which II appears that twenty eight
enrolled The idea OF tnfolmenI was to elicit disclosure
o the objects OF the association, its general rules and
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ter nifty established in Manchester about the year 1909
societies or among The FomSns G,s o.
Egyptians and Odd Fellow ship ithout support the
and uiumphs in its ReiO birth on Mis Coattnds viii find
II IN ie noble and sublime fruits Of civilization which,
uned men all nations aud kindred aud ongues upon
common plato IN. @ y
he in which live is exemplary and pre- eminent
for its noble development Of this great moral lever In aid OF
human elfare and when the Is observed of
the most dscordal opinions Iesuting from narrow ed9-
cation and conflicts creed by personal ntercone an,
association and community OF interest are being cor
OF tolerance instructive OF the genius OF ree
- more and more cultivated and ned we cannot fa
70 be impressed with the imense value to society nj
large Of this preemnent idea of the age The nurnbsr
ana names OF the organzauns and Combinations Of me n
and women in Great Britain France Germany, Italy,
Frnssia and the United staer formed excnsiyeE In lie
interest OF humanity, gon and the amount Of money
dsiy all attempt at computation InstitutionB for the
DllLd, The deafmute, for the insane, Magdalene.
poor for the ncura6e destitute hospiGas Of eys" @
cats, manual labor schools dEpensatores,
home founding asy ma Il tihoods rotHeT6oodSSo SoS ~
hfharles temperance societies. fuel sceties
ing up OF the poor and the needy and the acted ana H.
caleN orn speak voice nOly responsive 90 common
and grateful OF the POW or and influence II t6t erat w
Of tolerance which nndellies the whole III TS Would en-
ldeht lnsttuions OF the which had their birth
IN this broad phlanthTopy. sayngs bank, the co.
and health soeietits and, ALL the free and nbic
education Of the mind which longer the exception
but y the rule IN all highly civilized governments in tbe
world, the dictate alike Of Mise polity and hunan