Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1884-10-01
GRAND LODGE K.0F P.
18th ANNUAL SEASON.
Address Of Weloome by Kt. Jas.
Brsathitt and Response by
6. P. c., A. ]. Lively.
FULL ATTENDANCE.

thias of Kentucky was called 10 orucr
in the sixteenth annual session Tues
day at 10 ID clock a. M.,Grand Cham
cellor ID. o. wilkins in the chair
Knight Jas. Breathitt, on behalf Of
Evergreen Lodge delivered the fol-
lowing address of welcome;
BRoTHER KNIGHTS:
1t is my pleasant duty to extend to
you, the delegates to the Grand
Lodge and visiting members OF the
order of Knights Of Pythias, warm !
and heartfelt welcome 10 our city and
the hospitality and Knighty courtesy
of Evergreen Lodge, and need say
that we as a lodge are proud OF the
opportunity and honor of enter
tanning so distinguished a body of
men.
The order of Knights of Pythias,
alth ough only in its infancy, is rap
idly marching to the front rank OF
Brotherhoods and in a few more years
it may be safely predicted that twill
be second to none in membership
and equal to any in deeds of friend
ship, charity and bcnevolcnce.
Having membership of over
one hundred and thirty thousand,
bound together by the strongest ties
Of brotherly love and practicing char
ity and bencvolcncc in an organized
and effective manner, the world as
we as the members is necessarily
better by reason Of the existence of
the order Of knights of Pythias /:
And whatever may be said by the
uninitiated against the existence and
metho Is of secret orders it may be
justly claimed for them that in mercy
they care for the sick and afflicted and
that men are drawn closer together
in the bonds of brotherhood by their
teachings aud that by them charity
and bencvolence-twin sisters of good
are nurtured, developed and trained
for effective work in the world. And
| believe that at the meeting of the
grand assize in the Castle Hall OF
Eternity with angels for the jury an(
the Omnipotent God himself the judge
and those who suffered in this life
aud were relieved by our charity
and those who by our beneloovent an(
kindly Offices were made better ant
happier, as the witnesses, that Tho
verdict will be "well done good anC
faithful servants" 1t is not surpris
ing that the converting of the Crane
Lodge of an order so great at presen
and so grand in possibilities for til
future should lie regarded by Ever
green Lodge as an event of unusua
importance or that we should hav
been ON the tip-toG of anticipate,
pleasure for the last month, and, in TIN
ardOr Of our feelings, that we shoulC
express at this moment the opinion
that your stay in our midst will b
remembered by Evergreen Lodge il
after years as the browning season O
Pythian enjoyment.
Your coming has not only bee
looked forward to by this Lodge wit
anticipations Of pleasure, but TIL
good people of IIopkinsvillc hav
fully entered INTO the spirit of til
day, and have opened their heart
and doors to you Wherever you ma
90 in our little city you will see til
emblematic colors of our order owe
the business houses and homes of on
people, and wreaths of evergreen
and flowers to make our city attrac
i've to your eyes, that it may be II
membered by you as place of TIT
Kentucky hospitality, whose poop
fully appreciate your coming an
stay and the noble order Of whiC
YOU are honOred and trusted men
bers.
In the great battle of life, for pr
dental reasons and cautions sake,
were well, ordinarily, that we ket
our visors down that we may CO..
ceal from the unappreciativc and /
imical the sacred sentiments and III
tives of our lives but let us on th
occasion, one and all, without debai
raise our visors, feeling that here
least we shall meet only friends, who
hearts are full of sympathy, al
whose cordial grasp of the hand al
welcoming smiles will be free fro
any guile.
Besides the knightly courtesies Al
Inequalities of Evergreen Lod!
which you shall freely enjoy, l desi
to add for the benefit of our broth
Knights who have not yet wooed a
won and united their destinies wi