The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-10
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An Address DelIveref seforo E:cl.asnd
Lodge. No. SO, Ancis b FREQ and Accep.
ted BIasons, ut their y bio Installation
In the City OF Columbia, 9. O.. December
~, 1877, by Hon. 4. j. 1lackey.
WoRsHrPFUL MASTER AND BRErH-
| Rem OF THE MYSTIC TIE: We have as
sembled TO commemorate in due form tho
installation of st. John the Evangelist
into the Office of Grand Master Of An
cient Free and Accepted Masons. On
| thiE anniversary, QUE trethrs5,- wherever
they may dwell, whether amid the hum
and stir of populons cities, or the quiet
of remote villages, gather around the
altar>of our order to rekindle their Ma
sonic zeal at its holy and undying flame,
while gratefully recalling the beloved
! name and eminent services of our mosS
| illustrious patron. From the frozen belt
Of the North, where nature glitters in her
robe of icy aplendor, to the Indian isles
of balm, where the. palm tree waves its
feathery leaves sbove streams TINT flash
in the sunlight OF everlasting summer,
the prayers and praises of Masons are
ascending this Gay 70 sals Supreme Afu5hh- Afu5h
itect Of the Universe, without whose aid
| the wisest designs of lnan are but as bub-
bles upon 6 troubled ocean. The mystic
cord OF Masonry weds the Islands and the
continents to-dayl Men Of all races and
tongues are coTnmuning in its universal
language,
"And round the world the thought of all
| Is as the thought of one."
Before proceeding with the special SUBJ
ject of this address,. I desire, as in har-
mony with IT'D purpose, to review briefly
the character and career of him whose
| festival we here celebrate. The pages of
sacred history, the traditions of Masonry
and of the Christian Church furnish the
sources of our information upon this in
teresting theme.
ST. John the Evangelist was the son Of
| Zebedee and Salome, and was born about
the year of our Lord four or Eve. He
was the youngest of tho di2cicies. TLare
| is o tradition in the church that he was
the bridegroom OF the marriage at Cane,
in Galilee, the occasion of the first mira.
Gle performed by Christ, where spETha
conscious water aaai Its God and blushed.n -
He was by occupation fisherman. We
learn but little, of him until near the
close Of the Saviour's ministry and life,
when he had conferred upon him the
most Lofty and benign distinction of
being shat disciple whom Jesus loved.n
At the last supper he Was the disciple
who was cleaning on Jesus bosom"-a
posture in the ancient mode Of reclining
at table that was considertd d rs neznark Of
the highest respect aud confidence. It
was to him that Jesus Ia confdiug friend
snip pointed out by o sign the disciple
| who should betrsy him. His specially
confidential T5iatt0ti 70 70 hi5 Is Divine Master
was evinced by the fact that when Christ
had said to his disciples, "One OF you
shall betray HE; "a Simon Peer beckoned
to him that he should ask who it should
be Of whom he spaEe." He was the only
disciple Who with the courage Of faithful
love dared to attend his beloved ,Master
to the cross, and he it was to whom Jesus
referred Whca In his final agony he adj
| dressed 60 hia mother the v,nrxla aLEn.
man, behold thy Sonln Aud lastly, he
was the fret disciple to reach the sepui.
chre after Mary Magdalen had an
nouHcsd that "they have taken away the
Lord out of the sepnlohtey and we know
not where they have laid him., The
blended qualities of gentleness nnd conr-
ago 5xnipiis,si In. ilo riIlrncivr. W iiliiz
apostle furatskl 3 striking illustration OF
q fact often observed in the butte field OF
life--that
4 ''The bTavest ere .he tendef5st
4 The loving ere the daringn
1 st. John the Evangelist mast have
been as pre-eminent among his campeeTy
| for his eloquence SO he was for the gen.
tier virtues, since we are. informed by
the apostle Mark that he, end bis broth.
ef, James, the Great, were entitled by
vsi5iT i Iii5sss5T, D0anGTgc or tno sons o.
. .Thunder,n to indicate their powes a
orators.
| In the reign Of the Roman Emperor
/ Dioeletian, about the year % OF tbs
Christian era, John was banfshed 60 thu
Isle Of Patmos, where he remained fol
seven years, and wrote that awfully sub
lime and mysterious work, the ApOc
Il a,ypse or Book Of RevelatioR-.
From the building Of the, fret temple
of Jerusalem, one thousasd years beforl
Christ, down to the BABY slohish capt tiyitY
Free MasonS' lodges were dedicated &
q King Solomoe; from thence 70 the com
{ ing Of Ehs Messiah. they WegA dedicated
Ito zerubhabeI. che builder Of the seCont
temple; aud from that titne 70 the finR
II destrnction Of the temple by the RohlaI
General Titus at Tho fall of JegIlaalsln
Il 4lie yieyE l3, they were eSdicated &
y y s.; 81 Sohn tlIe RaptiBt. 0WinA e thl