Daily Republican., 1879-09-30

speak word Of admonition TO the hot,-
ored members Of this fraternity to-day.
"Napoleon, when about to send forth
his battallions against the Mamelukes,
at the Battle Of the Pyramids, pointing
to those grim old monuments invoked
the spirit of antiquity, exclaiming,
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking
down upon you! and say to you,
thirty centuries look down upon you,
and watch your actions! The good,
the great, the brave watch you Oh,
by the memories Of all the centuries,
by every dropping day, by the lives
and memories of warriors and statesmen
and princes and kings, by the memory
Of Him our Grand Master of the blood
red Cross, by all these worthies and
memories and pledges, be true to your
principles. Lay them broad as the
race of mankind, deep as the depths Of
your hearts warmest love, square them
by the course of life that walks as
one with God, apply to them the plumL
straight down Of Gods justice-bs up.
right men.
"For old as is your outer edifce the
inner principles of your order are Older
yet. We pass in through the outer por.
tai and behind the innermost shrine Of
the ''sanctum sanctorum" we draw
back the dusty veil and find these three
abiding ones Faith, Hope and Charity,
and these three are older than the TEN.
pies Of Solomon aye as old as the
hour of mans necessity.
Faith found its basis and birth in
the moment when man was compelled
to relyalone upon the word of God and
then, hope, like flying buttress,
sprang forth to lift man up toward the
future; and Charity, heaven-born
charity, like lofty pinnacle lifted up
in love to God touched the electric cur
rent ofthe divine love and bore it down
to the perishing race. And now may
we cultivate, and be led by these
principles. Let the faith be strong and
deep and built into it., even ofsthe
life Of the cruciied one, the rejected
stone. Buttress it with hope and let
sweet charity rise above both like some
tall spire that smiles at the first touch
of the sun and that glows in brightness
after all the rest of the world lies in
darkness.
"Go forward as we note your signs
we perceive that as man ascends in the
order, he at last wears the cross. Go
forward until you shall ascend above
the 33d to the ineffable degree and
enter into the presence of the Grand
Master in the Lodge on High"
After singing by the choir Masonic
ceremonies were then concluded.
THE ODD FELLOWS CEREMoNIEs-A LARGE
ATTENDANCE--THE CORNER STONE LAID
SPEECHES BY DR.. O. TROUPE MAXWELL
AND HENRY ECKEL.
At 1.30 the special train from Will
mington arriving here the Washington
Lodge went at once to the depot to re-
ceive them. The order came as le-
gion, with two bands ofmusic, all num-
bering about 400. Like the masons
they paraded around the streets and
created considerable excitement as well
as dust, especially among the juvenile
portion of the population.
At three o'clock the corner stone was
laid by the officers of the Grand Lodge.
Among the articles placed therein were
additional donation by Mr.. Rogers, of
New Castle, of lock of Washington's
hair and one of the first issues of the
old quarters by the old patriarch Arohi-
bald Crozier. The articles themselves
consisted of old papers, lodge docu-
ments, &c.
DIR. @. TROUPE MAXwELL's ADDRESS.
DR.. Maxwell followed with speech
of some length in which as illustrative
of his remarks he alluded to the fool
hardy leap of Sam Patch over the fall
of Niagara. Continuing he said: "Not
many months ago man Of untirirg
energy, of exhaustless resources of luck
and of indomitable pluck, who is both
a Mason and an Odd Fellow, conceived
the idea that the Lodges of those orders
there being only one of each-in
New Castle, could and ought to erect q
suitable edifcs for their use. Consid-
ering the paucity of their members and
the meagerness of their pecuniary re-
sources, it appeared perilous under
taking. He believed that will and nerve
were all that were needed. OF these he
had superabundance. Could he in
fuse the excess into his brothers? Csu-
tiously, but with confident air, he at
first whispered his thoughts into the
ears of few congenial spirits. The
subject was discussed in all its bear
ings, and the praoticability of the
scheme was finally admitted.
The question was next propounded
in the several Lodges. OF course there
were doubling Thomases within, for
there are many of them without the
Lodges. There were as there always
are, few ready to crv out, it seems
like a hazardous undertaking, you'll
never survive it, the attempt must
prove suicidal and thus to chock the
wheels of progress. Neither Lodges,
nor the world, will ever be at loss for
male Cassandras, and did | not enter
tain too exalted a respect for that noble
sex, who honor every cause they es-
pouse, as they adorn everything
they touch, i would suggest that they be
enrobed in pettcoats, who 90 about un-
ceasingly proclaiming their evil predio-
tiops, But the stout hearts of the
stalwarts never faltered, nor did they
waver from their purpose to proceed;
and we are here to-day to celebrate
with them the inauguration of their
splendid enterprise. :,
With boldness that must command
admiration and respect, they have ike
brave Sam Patch, made the daring leap.
They have seemingly hurled themSeI-
YES from the firm footing of timid cor
ven,ionalism over preclpice, atwhose
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