The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-01-03
Hawaiian Gazette Supplement- Jan. 8 1888.

sure excursion into North Africa they found in
Tunis Masonic lodge. Masonry can say with
Tennyson's Brook
Men may come, and men may g..
But 50 on for ever, ever,
50 On for ever
These visiting brethren are a good illustration Of
this universally. They represent nearly every
land under the sun. We have here Masons from
the vineyards of sunny France, and her great
neighbor across the Rhine. Germany Old England.
whose Prince Of Wales like cur own ksL,KAuA
counts it an honor 10 he Mason and the Grand
Master Of the Grand Lodge has her representatives;
ireland. who puts her shamrock just below the
emhlems Of Masonry. sits with US in the person Of
an honorcd brother. Coming to the great Republic,
there is scarcely State or Territory unrepresented.
Beginning at the very easternmost point Of Cape
Cod where no can walk for getting sand in
his boots-- daughter passing all the States,
and bringing good and true Mssons from them all;
hslting in Nevada, where men raver die except
with their boots on, llanghterl President Arthur
finds Mason whom he sends TO us TO represent
America at this Conrt even Arizona, where the
greatest living curiosity to her inhabitants is the
camel, because he goes so long between drinks
,Aughterl TO the fr-clad noun tans Of the North
Pacific, where, as Bryant tells us,
", Rolls the Oregon and hears no sound.
Save his own dashing,
Masonry spans the Continent The Colonies meet
Us on the 9" level = and Japan, where they do
everything backwards and where suppose they
confer the Masters degree first, and the Entered
Apprentices last -tlaughterl-sends us Professor
Scott; and China where everything is written up
and down, and whore they write their ritnal on
their tea-boxcs pcrhaps . and crawfish through il
as hes, they can tlangh;erl sends us our ready
writer Brother Brown OF the ApvEETIsEE. And
here, from all these wideiy-sundered Lodges we
are met around this hospitable board in HAw.n
MI And IL is perhaps well that we meot here and
not in Texas for. it is said that they meet every
stranger in the Lone-star State with three gues-
tons Where did You come from p What
was your name therc?" "Why did YOU have to
leave there 2" prolonged laughterl. Now know
that l speak the sentiments Of every visiting
Brother when say that we should consider such
questions those personal, and as VIC have \ Dep
uty- y-Narshal for Toast-Master, not only inoppor-
| tune, but very embarrassing (lenewed laughter.l
This second thought: Masonry exists world
wide because she stands for certain great ideas and
principles. She emphasizes Fraternity. and uni
yersal Brotherhood. She knows State lines.
no party or soctarian divisions, no race, rank or
! condition Prince and mechanic meet equals.
and are alike eligible TO her highest honors !;
| she bids her highest or humblest go where
he will, worldwide, not ! stranger. but
| in every land he will find not only friends hut
brothers. (Applausel Masonry stands for morality.
She teaches charity, unity honesty integrity tenn
perance. The man who is Mason at heart as we'll
| as in name is q rounded, numerical manly man
/ standing upright before God and men able TO look
purity in the face without blnshing and never
drags his manhood through the slums. Like the
/ NuuilS man IN bit .tIlplutts only tfluN ne
\ lacks to make him perfect man" and that is
Christianity. know that many Aasons are Mssons
| only in name and not in life. As look into some
| Masonic r.l lives | am reminded of the witty say
| ing about a fast New Yorker. II is said that n
young man in that city sports a seal ring which
the ten commandments are engraved, in characters
! SO small that they only be read with n micro
| scope, and his friends say that he has lost his
microscope tLaughterl Masonic principles are
| very finely engraved on some Mason's souls-an1
| thcy, too, have lost their microscopes. But all
such un-Masonic lives arc not the result OF, but
| the want Of Masonry. Masonry has right to ex-
ist because She is helper Of men. She watches by
the bedside Of her sick she stands hy the grave
side, and she buries her dead. throwing within
the dark portals Of the grave the evergreen. She
breaches Immortality she turns from the grave
| and takes the widow and the orphan by the hand,
and bids them be Of good cheer, that they shall
never want a protector, that though the dead man
was the last of his race, his wife will find the world
full Of brothers. As long as humanity remain.
what it is, and long Masonry is true to her
principles, she meets felt want, she has right tc
be- and will perish from the face Of the earth
Continued applause.l
The Orator next proposed IAN MasonS Existing
on the Globe, )" and called upon
BRorInR RoLLN NJ. DAGGETr
to respond which he did in the following eloquent
speech:
WoRsiuPFUL MAsTEEs. WARpESs AND BRErHEEN;
This is indeed goodly assemblage OF Masons
and extend fraternal gecting TO you all. Te
me this is a very interesting occasion, and so,
doubt not is il 10 you all for il is event speaking
most eloquenty not only in the Masonic spirit here
prevailing, but in its surroundings and the varied
character and nationality Of the brethren present
of the benefconce and universally Of Freemasonry
and that universally referred to by Brother Cruzai
cannot be better expressed perhaps, than by say
ing that 1t is easier to point out where it exists in
the civilized world Of to-day than where il is not tC
Ia fnrYHa1 tsnar an1n all
every habiable island seen its temples, wherein
are taught its religion Of love- charity, Obedienc,
TO law, and those sublime virtues tending to raist
mel nearer to the angels-nearer to that angus
Grand Master whose seat is in the east Of III,
eternities and whose love and mercy it is our dut,
10 emulate so far as humanity may. The occasion
also Is interesting because, under the gildet
rafters of royalty and surrounded by the para
phernala Of supreme national power, alike th
entered apprentice who has taken his first regula
step in Masonry and the advanced craftsman who
has received his final instruction in the order
alike the artizan, the mechanic, the humble toilel
who earns his bread in the sweat Of his face an,
the brother in whose sceptored hand abide abund
ance and authority-all meet here n common
level all act here by the plumb all part here tn
square and 20, in laHguage Masonic, may eve
meet, act and part. of the antiquity OF Masonry
, nothing need be said here where 50 many Of tn
brethren learned in the lore Of the craft but
whether il had its origin in Assyrian or Chaldeal
mystery, Masons more readily believe, anon
, the priesthood IN Israel, II assuredly embraces
code Of morals and of worship pure and grant
, as God ever gave TO mankind and he is the bes
citizen Of all lands we'll the hest Mason VIII,
! most closely observes its precepts. The monu
, ments u Frecmasonry are all over the world-th
grandest being the charity and social order whcl
its teachings have largely assisted in shaping
and the lesser but none the less interesting bein,
the Masonic relies and symbolism met with il
, almost every land, even among the unlettcres
, sayages, who knew not their meaning but uniyer
sally regard them with awe. A brother MasoI
informed me that he had seen, near his birth
place in North Carolina, ON PERCEPTIONS cliff hun
rcs Of feet above the earth and far below its but
ting summit, large Masonic symbol cut paint
ed upon the face Of the rocks. II consisted Of tn,
, all-seoing eye, square and compass, aud how i
/ came there no man knows, and aboriginal tradi
ti0n failed to solve tho mystery. II was seen b,
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