The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-07-02


Have blessed her advent here,
Ind many homeless heart
Has owned her tender care;
Full many trai and erring son,
TO dissipation given,
Has heard the warning voice and turned
His wayward thoughts to heaven.
Long may her beautiful temple stand
To light this darkened sphere;
To gild the gloom of errors night,
And dry the falling tear.
And when the final winds of time
Shal sweep this reeling ball.
Oh, may its glittering spires be
The last on earth to fall
-[The Freemason.
'Noblesse oblige' said the French
king, and the application may be
made to the Royal art, for Mason
ry is obligation as well as nobility.
The following lines suggest in viv
id terms the appreciation of obli-
CATION which is felt by the true Ma
son everywhere
am as one encompassed with chain;
Mysterious influences do restrain
Ny baser nature now, and from the verge
OF moral death my Needless footsteps urge.
see hand that others cannot see;
voice to others silent speaks to me;
And duties by the scoffing crowd denied
To me are precious, binding, sanctfed.
THE italian Freemasons have
suppressed the interrogation usu-
ally addressed to their neophytes,
What is your religion? and now
demand, What are the duties Of
man to his country, to himself, and
to his neighbor ?
THE RED Cross OF CONSTANTINE.
This degree, writer in the
London Freemason SAYS, was form
erly conferred under the Ancient
York Rite. The seal of a Lodge
of Heredom Tcmplars bears the
arms of King Arthur, the reputed
grandson OF Constantine, and the
devices and even the words Of the
degree are to be found on all old
docum ents of the York brethren.
THE Rondout Courier gets the
following story from a telegraph
operator in that city: A member
of the Masonic Order telegraphed
to companion down the river
somewhere: Make room for ten
Royal Arch Masons. Coming to-
day When the companions ar
rived they found pen had been
built for their accommodation, the
telegram At its destination reading,
Make room for ten r A Ms.
Coming to-day.'
SINGULAR USE OF LODGE Re-
CORDS. Some time since, there
was quite a controversy among the
pulpits and papers in relation to
an event which was said to have
occurred some fifty years ago, at
Athens, Pennsylvania. A preach
er here made the assertion that, in
answer to the prayer OF Presby-
terian minister, the tongue Of a
Unive-salst preacher in Athens
was, at q certain time, paralyzed,
and that he had never preached
afterward. The charge was stout,
ly denied, and old men of that day,
who resided there, appealed to.
The evidence all went against the
notion of the miracle, and it only
remained to fix date, when a GER
tain event occurred. to settle the
question against all controversy.
This date has been fixed by an ap-
peal to the records of Rural Amity
Lodge, at Athens, which has been
at work for over seventy years.
Those records, by their dates and
entries, prove the statement to
have been false, by showing that
the preacher whose tongue was
said to have been paralyzed on a
certain day, and never preached
afterward, did preach at the burial
Of member of the lodge after that
time. 1t seems that lodge records
are of some use, even as evidence,
and sometimes aid in developing
truth Masonic Review.
The SoFTENING Influence OF
Our ORDER "A TRUE NARRATIVE.
1t was in the winter of 18--,
when the Cherokee sloop-of-war
dropped anchor in the Leith Roads,
after very stormy cruise Hav-
ing long labored under a puImon-
arv disease from cold, l was sent
ashore to recruit my health, and
from the long-boat made my way
to q Leith stage-coach--one of the
most lubberly conveyances 1 ever
travelled by, for the horses had
scarcely any legs to stand on, and
fairly came to anchor once or twice
in ascending the steep hill called
Leith Walk, the connecting link
between the port and city Of Edin-
burgh. whittier l was bound.
On my arrival in the city,
Highland porter assisted me to
alight, and preceded me to nv
dear home, where / was cordially
received by my mother, brothers,
and sister. Here my shattered
hulk was laid up for repair; and,
thanks to my kind family, l soon
found myself in ship-shape order
to move about, and revisit the
scenes SO dear to my boyish days.