The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-26

VI.
frpn, labor 70 rest but whose memories
remain fragrant in the history OF pom
jurisdictions. Ohio is our guest on THIS
occasion, in the person OF her dlstin-
pushed Grand Master, Sir. a: a.
Battin, and associates
Pennsylvania, too. conservative "
fault (if such thing is possible .
little tsrdy SIS we sometimes thought IN
! turning a beuiguant look toward us.
Cautions t that she loved US less,
hut bee she loved the "old land.
marks" as she understood them) more.
PENNSYLVANIA. . name TO your speaker
full of memories Of "Auld Land Syne'
at last smiles upon us, and with q
goodly army OF valiant and msgnanls
nous Knights, to night sets down a.
the table and partakes OF our hospi-
tality.
Ohio sent her Past Grand Master,
W. B. Tbrsll, to constitute our
Grand Lodge; Virginia sent her
Grand High Priest, j. 7. Little,
tn constitute our Grand Royal
Arch Chapter, and now Pennsylvania
by authority of the Grand Master OF
the Grand Encampmeut OF the United
States, sends Very Eminent Sir Knight
Jas. II. Hopkins, Deputy Grand Mas.
ter of the Encampment OF the United
States, who this day with chivalric
grace has laid his Kuightly sword OF
constitution upon the head OF our new
Grand Commandery, conferred upon it
the Knigbtly dignities, and introduced
it to the distinguished fellowship OF
Grand Communicates throughout the
world.
Brethren and Sir Knights OF West
Virginia, we feel that we have reason
to congratulate ourselves in these hap
py results. May l not in your behalf
say 10 our visiting brethren and Sir
Heights, that cheered by their presence
here and by the expression now and
heretofore OF their good opinion and
good will, the Grand Lodge aud the
Grand Chapter and the Grand Com
maudery oil West Virginia, will, with
renewed zeal carry forward their ban.
ners and challenge their brethren and
Sir Knights everywhere, to that noble
emulation which should inspire all
true Mssons whether handling the
trowel, the scepter or the sword.
In response to toast in honor OF
"Kuightly Intercourse" Sir John NJ.
Cook, OF Steubenville, said:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND SIR KNIGHTS =
The theme you have assigned to me il
one OF deep and momentous import,
and at the same time freighted with the
most beautiful and gladstone thoughts.
The intercourse OF Knights, one with
another, should differ from that Of all
other persons. Friendship with others
may be, and no doubt often is, for
selfish and sordid purposes, but with US
after the pilgrimage through which we
have passed and the years Of penance
we have served, there can be nothing OF
selfish character enter into our
intercourse. The utmost confidence
in each other mus! universally
prevail, otherwise the underlying cardl-
nal principle OF our Association is for
ever destroyed. / boldly assert from
the tenets OF our Order, that if any
knight is guilty OF acts and practices
that necessarily cause him 10 forfeit the
respect and confidence OF his fellow
Knights, that if he does not speedily
bring forth fruits meet Tor repentance,
his light should be extipguished, the
ballot cast and bis place in the asylum
filed with another. Under these oir-
cumstapces, we surround the festive
board to. night AS honorable Knights,
actuated by the same motives and in
spired with common purposes, we have
left behind US all the petty jealousies,
cares and vexstions Of business, all the
strifes aud contentiops OF actual life,
and met together on q common plane,
grssping each others hand with delight
aud looking with pleasure into each
others eye.
Bless then the meeting and the spot
For once be every care forgot.
On q common plane, did say ? Aye,
on a common plane; here none are
high or low. Ga the outside, in the
estmation of the world at large, some
may be honorable and some dlshonor-
able; frequently we are estimated by
the amount OF our possessions, or our
worth measured by our influence in bo-
ciety, but amongst Knights all knights
are honorable. We know no dIstinc-
tons. There can be no barriers be-
tween one Knight honorable aud true
and another.
To me the grndest insight the Master
ever gave OF the upper asylum was the
universal equality and brotherhood Of
its inhabitants, which is the antelope OF
true Knightly intercourse. look and
behold poor heggarly Israelite, desti
tute OF all attention cave what be re-
ceved from the dogs that licked his
sores. / turn to the record and read
Of the wonderful wealth, the great dig
nifty and honorable mention OF the first
and greatest Of Patriarchs. The vail is
drawn aud what do see2 That poor,
beggarIy, neglected Lazarus leaning
upon the bosom Of the great and re.
nowDed Patriarch, in sweet communion
and intercourse. With thoughts like
these | came here to-day; and to me
this meeting together, this social inter-
course, have been the source OF much
strength and pleasure. Our fare 10
not so rough as commonly, but equally
as wholesome, and much more desira-
Die.
The Americans, as people, place
entirely too low an estimate on the So
cial part OF life. We chase the phan-
tom OF success too assiduously; BUSH
ness and getting OF riches occupy our
attention nearly 10 the exclusion OF
everything else. More frequent meet
iuGs Tor the lawful developeme nt of our
soclsl natures are absolutely demanded,
and what meetings are hetL