The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-31

Cuaulcs the A8DQfcf, WHO Wbub - tAAn
their products, or their work into
money from day TO day, wants the mix
ed coin and paper, so that he can ale
ways command money when he wants
it or earns it-that he may be able to
command all that ready money will
give him. And he wants the legisla-
ton of the country to make this con-
ditiOn the law, and make it permanent.
KnEghGs Tenp1arhsm-lGs AAIss
tory.
AS Emporia is prominently repre-
scented In the pilgrimage of the knights
Templar to Cleveland, o.. a sketch OF
the Order will probably be Of some in
terest to the dwellers at home. Ma
sOnry in the regular course, consists OF
symbolic, or blue lodge Masonry, hav-
ing three degrees: Entered Appren-
tice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason
Capitular, or Red Masonry, having the
four degrees Of the chapter, Mark Mas
ter, Past Master, Most Excellent Mas
ter and Royal Arch; Cryptic or Coun-
ell Masonry, having the degrees OF
Select and Royal Masters; Chivalric
Masonry. or the Commandery, being
composed of the lower rank of cOun-
ell of Red Cross Knights, as the Arst
degree, q conclaYe OF Knights Tenn
plar, and the appendant order of Malta.
The order of Knights of the REQ
Cross dates from the rebuilding of the
Temple at Jerusalem, and has no re-
lation to the other orders, which are
intensely Christian. The Order OF
the Temple from the accession of Hugh
De Payens to the Grand Mastership in
A. d. Ills, to Jacques De Moley, the
18th Grand Master, In 1914, had accu-
INFLATED great wealth. and therefore
aroused the envy, cupidity and hatred
of some of the tyrant potentates of the
day. This eliminated in the calling
of the 18th Ecumenical Council In vi
emma in Gsul, by Pope Clement, for
their suppression. The next year q
large portion of their estates were con-
ferred upon the Knights of st. John,
with which order they were by a gen.
eral decree annexed and Incorporated.
This decree was not generally submit
ted to. The Templars and the Knights
of st. John were formerly rival orders,
between when there had long existed
a spirit of jealousy, which on various
occasions led to the deadliest animosi-
ty. The recollections of those events
had kindled fire In the bosoms of q
portion of the Templars which the most
direful misfortune could not extin-
guish. Those Templars who could not
reconcile themselves to the union of
the two orders, continued to maintain
distinct organizations. The Grand
Master, De MOley, In anticipation of
his fate, Che and a large number of
others were burned to death by Papal
and French ordersO had appointed by
charter of transmission, John Mark
Lamienus of Jerusalem, his successor
Under this charter the Grand Chapter
of France has to the present continued
to practice the rites of the order.
Denys, Prince of Portugal, being
adverse to the destruction of an order
a branch of which he had taken under
his protection, adroitly avoided the
fate which threatened it by the nomi-
nal fiction of converting its title in to
that of the "Order of Christ" the SUI
premacy of which he declared to be
thenceforth vested in the crown. I'm
der this title the Knights of Portugal
have continued to flourish until the
present day. The Papal prosecutions
reached every state in Europe, and
scattered members of the order
throughout christendom. Some be-
came erratic, while others connected
themselves with the Teatonic and 9TH
er orders of KnighthoOd, and others
formed independent chapters, and by
avoiding the political questions of the
day, were enabled quietly to hold their
meetings.
The Templars connected themselves
with the Knights of st. John under the
following circumstances: After the
Christians had been driven out Of Pal
estine, in A. D. 1921, those TempIars
who were engaged in the holy wars
repaired to Cyprus, and settled there
in Limisso. They remained here I'M
til Grand Master DeMoley and his prin-
pal officers were treacherOusly sum-
noned to France by Pope Clement ",
the unworthy instrument of Philip the
Fair. On their arrival they were i'm
mediately thrown into prison. The
Templars remaining at LimIsso, justly
apprehensive of the unjust and cruel
proceedings which had been instituted
against the Grand Master and his COM
panions, and foreseeing the probable
destruction of their order, established
themselves at the Island of Rhodes,
then under the Grand Mastership OF
the Knights of st. John. This was the
first direct approach to the union OF
the two orders which was subsequent
~ formally decreed by Clement, and
henceforward the two orders so united
were known rs the Knights Of Rhodes
They continued in possession of Rhodes
until 1922 when it fell into the hands
of the Turks. After the capitulatior
of Rhodes the Order successfully re-
tired to Candis, Venice, VeterlO, Villa
Franco, and Syracuse, when in 1880
the Emperor Charles v. granted them
the Island OF Malta as permanent
residence. At this time they took the
name of "Knights of Malta of the Or.
der of st. John of jerusalem" Al
that period 1t was the only one of thS
military orders of Palestine that con.
tinued to be recognized by the soYe.
reign powers of Europe. About thil
period its qualifications extended
throughout all christendom, and 4
maintained grand priorles on the con
tinent and in England. These adde
to its immense possessions and wealth
were to its members great and desira
BILE personal advantages, and ensblei
the order 10 exercise more extensiy,
Al r. III