Daily Republican., 1879-09-30
:IRsT EDITION.
,cMONIES Al NEW CASTLE.
!, .sous and Odd Fellows have
NV Of It-A Large Attendance
I<,dresses by the officials.

Iddresses by the officials.
Ally Reported for the REPUBLICAN.
New CASTLE, Sept. 20.
YER since the days when New Cas-
as New Amstel, and the adherents
I Calverts were crossing the bor-
threatening its magistrates with
kity and the town with demolition,
bere been such high degree OF
pment as there is manifest to day.
i've thousand people are upon
reets, all anxiously awaiting the
ouies attending the laying Of the
stone of the Masonic and Odd
Vs new hall. The facts of the pro-
n and the corner stone laying were
in our late edition to-day.
MASONIC CEREMONIES.
pr the procession, which numbered
five hundred men in all, had
4 through the principal streets Of
ty, the Order proceeded at once to
bot where the dedication ceremo-
rere to take place. The officials
Order were arranged in position,
xtemporized flooring being laid
the joists Of the building. A
crowd occupied the streets, and
ndows, piazzas and other elevated
bns which commanded a view Of
ct we're filed with people.
exercises were opened by the
Master followed by prayer by
i. N. Keigwin Of the West Pres
Ian Church Of Wilmington. After
masonic exercises had been
khrough with Rev. Mr.. Keigwin
troduced.
llluded generally to the erection
ublic building for the use of Sc
cieties, and in his remarks drew
question What are its purpo-
be answerto this question the.peo
New Castle and those jealous of
rests he thought had a right to
He spoke as a member Of the
az an American citizen and as a
lin minister. He then consider
purposes Of masonry, in SO far as
claims those purposes and in so
It displays them.
tated that the order did not
N opposition to christian or ma
eentiment or Of age and charac-
Is members. Among its members
ldes great statesmen, jurists and
astics who carry its Jewels
Jar its regalia, and consequently
\ probable that its works are
darkness.
bdly.-The order does not claim
Ice Of either church or state. Its
rs are found among the foremost
N workers; never INDUCING,
ben not professed christians, in
Is on religion or morality.
lly. Its objects SO far as they
parallel with christianity in this:
fotherhood of man; second, bene-
third, chastity; fourth, up
Pss and fifth, charity.
thly. Its symbols are scriptural.
nb skin denotes purity; the al
; lamb slain;the ark, the trinity
IS; the stairway, etc. and the
bic. On one branch the blood
ss carried by the crusaders to
We owe abolition of feudalism
establishment Of constitutional
4 national existence. " Look at
teachings and symbols, said
aker, and who can fear for either
or State from this mysterious
hood. No, it is the hand maid
ch and a pillar of State.
rider is but the embodiment Of the
Solomon. He forseeing the de-
bn of the temple it became his
perpetuate the idea in mystic
Changes have occurred every
but here, for three thousand
he same idea has lived unchang-
speaker then closed with a short
ce to the great spiritual good the
Fas doing in the religious world
great destined for its future.
Ev. MR.. RIDowAY's ADDRESS.
Rev. Mr.. Ridgway after jocular-
|ring to the ''home feeling pro-
n him as a minister being placed
a pulpit and an open bible,
ubstantially as follows: "We
zen by the eloquent speaker who
d me led through the halls,
he aisles and among the inner
of the glorious temple of Ma
but to my lot it falls with you
now and gaze upon the exte-
his majestic edifice. And as |
eyes to its grand facade ! am
BY its antiquity. Near three
ID years ago upon the truth
above the tasselated floor of Sol
temple whore the entered ap-
IS waited to hear the commands
Fellow craft that they might
them at the behest of the mas
70 the designs for this edilics
IN.
bis building of to-day is but the
tn of a thought a principle. II
1t is well too that the thought
nary should thus come into
with the community, for not
this building become an OBJ
interest to this city, but itself
its pride and adornment. And
by the edfce do these princi-
Which it is but the outgrowth
pies SO divine in their charac-
origin show to us their man
uman side, and prove their
pr human sympathy and afec-
their need for walls like others
uman kind.
ay as | look upon this magnifi-
~, tho thirty centuries have
'Ver it, there is no mark of age
OF the growing tooth of time
onuer But the answer comes;
hciples here enshroudedI and
'on have in them the spirit Of
ana of eternal youth and on
'iis can come no mark of age
loling OF centuries.
! long to invoke the oracle of