The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-17
: CLARION.
mE FRATERNITIEs.
,rh.rity"-Remniscences Of q
t'f Secretary.

=, Charity -hollh4sVonCea oA .
" Secretary.
yort Dispateh.l
ramblings through the streets
2 york one day, / came across
i erect urchins and idlers, who
Iooked ON curiously at the
an aeyiction." Reader, did
!, fitness an eviction in this great
9 = expressed here, a dispossess?
- FL I, IN poor and poverty-stricken
! where a heartless landlord lives
III miles away, and neither sees
= for his poor tenants, but right
~ rich and prosperous metro
! America, and yet evictions are
s,souent here. Did you ever wit
~ " If YOU did, and have any heart
Iioo for your fellow man, you will
-;sh to witness another. To see
',;Iioious hand of the officer of the
dhisminions rudely take down the
Ian pictures from the wall, take
M almost break or tear the mot
Tod bless our home" worked in
Il perhaps, by some dear hand
now dead and at rest, out of
vay, out Of the way of want, of
!. And there! now he takes down
,;cture of mother, and handles
b;s cold and ruthless hand, not
nj how tenderly, how carefully,
;cture was always kept by the poor
inmates of this little home.
nav the old chintz-covered chair
Iad been brought here from the
N home in the country, and had
moved and removed to every apart
thew had occupied in the city, be-
eyery one of the children had been
TO sleep in this old chair-it had
red to mother, and it was brought
here with her-she would not part
even when they were well off and
rtably situated. And now the few
the good old family Bible, which
"a the record and history Of three
tons. Bunyan's Pilgrims Pro
"The Lives of the Wesleys, "
few more books of like nature,
ne book which at once attracted my
lon: "The Masonic Chart and
lyphic Monitor" by Jeremy L.
| was looking at this book the
brought out a very old man, SO
and emaciated that he could
stand alone, and he babe the
IN to sit in the old chair until the
wore ready to come down. &C
the poor old man, and pointing tc
Chart asked him to whom it be
/ could see that the question
touched him-whether from old
tions, the memory of which this
recalled, or from other motives.
robabIy from the circumstances
altogether-anyway, he could
answer me, but managed to give
Understand that the "old guide book
ed to him. ] then asked his name
With trembling hand, he opened
POI q and there. en- 7. the z. E Lea
and: Worshipful Isaiah B. Sher,
Master of Blank Lodge, No. COL
Lucis, 5829-5S30, and year after
as added, 513S to 1894, and wher
asked him if this was his name
neither he had been Master of his
six consecutive years, he nodded
and finally mustered strength tx
E that the best years Of his life
pent in the service of the craft
seemed to warm up with the sub
bid to grow stronger as the scenes
younger days were brought up t
review before his mind and mem
yes, sir, was a Mason when i
most a disgrace to be called one
kept my lodge together in Blank
lntil only five members came to
on our meeting nights, and onl!
long and hard struggle we fnall,
p meeting regularly, and | KEEP
barter and the sbook, and workin
the aprons and paraphernalia
he wild storm had blown over, an
interrupted the goldman. ] glance
., and was very forcibly reminde
bis was neither the time nor place t
the Masonic history Of this Stat
lhispoor old man who had just bee
out of his home into the stree
him to sit still where he was
would come back soon and Sc
could be done for him. A doub
ok was my answer. Probably til
disappointments, the many id
SEES, he had received made hiI
ful Of my sincerity; but | Ia
find made up while listening
tory that something ought an
be done for this poor old mai
rother of my lodge kept a grocer
q short distance from the seer
described. To him / hurried an
I the story OF the eviction.
kot him, said this kind brother,
an jim very poorand broken Englis
18th very rich vein Of charity ru
] through his composition; and ia
key from his pocket, he took n
the corner, where he had iu
lned off a small store from b
large establishment, to reduce e
for he had always an eye
ess," you see. "Here, my boy, '
i put dis old man in nit his who
y. The store is let from the fiji
Y month, und this gives us more
I to work nit, and by that tin
1 see more further"
rolling out his grocery wagon,
q horse and harness, and with Z
"a his clerks, who came with
!. On had everything in readiness I
Y moyal.
n I'm pek,, d. Meet,