The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-13
j. BURGER 81 BRO.
AtPalace Clothing House,
1OS Commercial Avenue.

empty words, they are the only words Of
hope that are left after life is done, and
this flesh is left here to moulder and decay
when this soul has taken its flight to the
life beyond. Without that cross and with
out what it symbolzes to US God knows
how sad life would be. Because when we
bid farewell to our brethren as we lay them
in the cold earth, and look upon their faces
for the last time, it would indeed be for the
last time without that symbol, without its
full meaning and potency, and the God
given grace Of that cross. Christ on this
earth hallowed it, aud Christ on this earth
gave US hopes for that which before we new
er could have hoped for. Christ crucifed
upon i, dead and buried, yet walks the
earth to-day in every act of humanity, in
every deed as charity, in every respiration
of nobility, in every thought of culture, in
every deed of valor, in every form of genius,
in all accomplishments of civilization, in
oil the inventive genius that is worth any
thing, because nothing Is Of value without
the purity which that CROSS gives to it. So
then, Sir Knights, let us believe in the
symbolisms of Missionary as suggested by
Colonel Chester. Missionary is science
that is leading US from this life which is
the grandest thing on earth, to the eternal
life where we shall again meet those whom
we have met here for the last time, and
we shall feel while here that JOY indeed is
ours, and we can drink the toast that each
may live one hundred years, and Of all the
world beside ourselves; that we may live
TO SEQ them all die if our company was
large enough"
In response to the toast "The Grand
Lodge of Illinois" Sir Knight T. T. Cur
ney, of Chicago, said
Eminent commander and Sir Knights,
The hour being late, we are admonished
by the bretheren leaving, that it is about
time that honest men were in their beds,
but | do uot suppose any one here need
take heed of any admonition Of that kind;
they are not accustomed toit. I am very
glad to respond to the toast "the Grand
Lodge of Illinois" | am very glad to
know that there is so much affection for
the lodge which is the ground work OF all
Masonry. The aim Of every Mason, wheth-
Ter he be knight Templar or Royal
Archer ora Blue Lodge Mason, should be
to promote the influence and the work of
his lodge. There is but one foundation,
bretheren for the whole thing, and never
saw Knight Templar, good conscien-
tious Knight, W no was not good Blue
Lodge Mason,a and where you find q Templar
who is industrious in promoting the inter-
ests OF his organization, you will find him
industrious in promoting the interests of
the lodge, and if you do not find him there,
| will guarantee that everything that goes
beyond is u subterIuge and fraud. There
are a great many associations connected
with the fraternity, and as you sit here to-
night, my brotheren, you are only Masons
that have assumed another name far the
occasion You are Masons that are
pledged to the grandest cause that ever
engaged the mind of mortal man, but it is
very rarely that we appreciate it. We are
too apt to fall back upon glittering general
tiles, or camp phrasoology, when accosted
upon the subject of Masonry. want to
tell you bretheren, that all that there ia in
Masonry, in the communities in which you
live, is what you make it, Masonry will
be respected or hated, just exactly as you
live, If you ind member in the CON-
munity that has no regard for his princi-
pals he may take ever so grandly, he may
have the finest plumes you can find this
side Of the Atlantic ocean, but he will pass
for fraud. Wherever you find man who
is this thing to-day, and another thing to-
morrow, he il fraud. There is no such
thing as Mason who is not good mem
Der of society, who is not good father, q
good brother, good husband, and good
citizen. Now these are few thoughts
connected with Masonry. A man may, for
awhile, take actual pleasure, in DEPRESSING
from the moral law and physical law, but
after awhile, it will poison, and destroy the
tissue, and you cannot have clear mental
and physical organization, if you trans
gress their laws want to tell you as
Masons, because Masonry teahces it, that
If you are dssipatea, it will drag you down