The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-18
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN MORNING AUGUST Is 1850

the Templars enter Chicago not as victors
on bloody fields, where all the passions have
loose rein and where civilization is ruthless
ly put aside to make way for all that
is brutal and vicious in human nature. They
enter as the advance guard and representa-
tives of great army, whose recruits are
advancing every night, in all the cities of
the world, by steps known only to the ini-
tiate to the attainment Of that self-control
which is the sign and symbol of true man
hood, and to place on the level wherein
from the prince to the humblest worker for
daily bread all stand equal in the light Of
the everything God. Ignoring all national
lines, all creeds, all orders, rendering unto
Cesar the things that that be Caesars the
soldiers of the great army of Masonry rever-
entity give all praise to the Great Architect,
by whose power all things are and may be.
On him they rest as on foundation against
which nothing can prevail. And their con-
fidence is well placed. Their order has
survived from hoary antiquity. Emerging
from the night of time, when Egypt
was in her glory, thousands of years
ago, it has survived nations, dynasties and
creeds to shine more lustrously in our day,
and to be more useful as restraint upon
human passion than any other moral
agency save the church itself. 1t uphOlds
all the virtues. 1t teaches sobriety and
patriotism; 1t encourages piety but dis
countenances bigotry and prejudice; it
teaches common humanity, and it scouts
caste, class, Office, wealth and power; and
it inculcates stern morality with self.dis.
cipline and obedience. In the desert ana
on the battle field, on land and at sea, its
signs AMI symbols have brought the succor
of brotherly hand-enemies have been
found friends-such Is It's magic power in
composing national prejudice. 1t has been
found no less potent in preventing personal
difficulties. Its power is co-extensve with
earthly limits. Its lectures are delivered
IN almost every tongue, and its precepts are
sacred to men of all nations. 1t is the only
humane organization that can claim to be
universal and catholic. The tried and true
are welcomed in all its sanctuaries- the ln-
CRATE and betrayer can bear no heavier pun
ishment than those which it in
f,icts and which ard published in
every part Of the world. Origi-
mating at time no man can tell, Masonry
is IN sympathy with all the great, useful
and beneficial movements Of modern life,
and the study and contemplation Of its les.
sons are an incentive to the highest and
noblest of this and other lands. Its adj
vance army is, therefore, worthy the greet
ing it received at Chicago day before yes
terday; il is worthy the acclaim that was
made, of the JOY and gladness that sur
rounded it and Of the plaudits that echoed
for hours from hands and hearts that know
of it only at the fresides, in homes made
better by its benign influences. Its veto
ries are peaceful, are more renowned than
those Of war. It's sway is over the heart
and its power is felt in subduing the pas
sions. 1t leaves men better than it finds
them Peace, content and JOY are its ben
edictions, and they rest on many house
holds that would not know them otherwise.
The soldiers of so great, so grand a moral
agency are not only worthy the welcome
they met with in Chicago, they are worthy
of welcomes wherever they may 90, wher-
ever they may plan, their banner and bare
their inyincible shields. They ere con-
auerors over themselves,