Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-11
The New Egyptian Temple fin the NJ
 surance Building.

surance Building.
 The temple was dedicated Thursday eve- ming with appropriate ceremonies under the direction of Grand Master Darius Wilson, 96o Royal Masonic Rite, assisted by a staff of the sovereign sanctuary of Boston and a quar- tette choir from Providence, R. I. The cere- monies were delayed by the initiation in Ori- ental chapter Rose Croix of several candi- dates, after which the newly elected officers of the lately formed senate of Knights Phi losophers, called Egyptian No. 52, were installed. The ceremonies were surprisingly new in this region and quite impressive They reminded one of the grand affairs in the Catholic churches, where the display of costumes and other accessories may be great CT, but where the effect is often less in i'm pressing the mind with sublime truths and moral principles. The various duties of each officer had been we'll studied and all moved in their several parts with ease and dignity. The work, although new, was replete with pleasant surprises and kept all eyes and ears busy and every one delighted for over two ceremonies of dedicating the newly dec orated hall, which has been described recently in the COURIER. Yet it may be said that the beautiful ritual of the dedica- tion ceremonies, recited as it was in hall whose walls were covered with the strange and mysterious figures, emblems and hiero- glyphs, was much more impressive in such presence. It seemed to be in a manner a re- vival of the remote past, and as such was, perhaps, worthy of study. Of study, we say, because believe many masons make the lodge mere place in which to spend an hour or two occasionally in social and pleasant way, without regard to history, the princi- ples and the beauties of the craft one of the most ancient of societies. If the pictures on the walls have been copied from Egyptian models correctly, and have been truly inter preted, our craft is older by many centuries than any other human institution, not even excepting political or religious. It was said in the notice of Egyptian hall that it is full of oppositions of figures, ideas and colors, and one, not figured on the walls, was in store for all, including the twenty five visiting brothers from Providence, those from Boston, New York and elsewhere, about seventy five in number, which was banquet in a lower hall.
 The spread was bountiful and delicious, and the speeches remarkably free from chestnuts. The songs, ballads and Masonic odes by the quartette were very finely rem dered, and added much to the pleasure of the evening.
 the Royal Masonic Rite was introduced to this city, and in that time it has gained many friends and enrolled a goodly list of mem .bers who have now provided for their place of meeting hall which may be said, with out fear of contradiction, to be the most ap- propriately decorated of any in the United States, or even in the world.
 Among other Knights present were Sirs L. L. Camp, Geo. W. Bigelow, Wm. R. Hen drick, Dr. J. K Smith, Henry E. Talmadge, Geo. R. Chamberlin, Wm. L. Thomas, Prof. Benjamin Jepson, c. c. Andel, Frank E. Jones, Geo. R. Burton, Chas. A. Lines, Ed win z. Dow Frank c. Bushnell, l.. D. Chid- sey, F. A. Newton, A. A. Upson, Wm. G. Morris, c. B. Matthewman, Joseph R French, William L. Thomas, H. N. Brown, M. D., Samuel J. Mattoon of this city, and Malcolm Booth, Frank L. Wallace and o. K. Booram, Cheshire, Ct Other visiting Sir Knights were: William H. Silloway, Spencer B. Hopkins, Clarence H. Carpenter, Frank L. Forsyth, s. Eastman, L. w. Davis, James Cannon, c. F. Denison, Henry P. Morgan, John s. Whitehouse, George B. Hale, L. I. Couch, John c. Davis, George E. Burdon, D. O. H. Tinkham, George H. Reese, Thom- as A. Easton and James G. Easton of Provi- dence, R. l., A. l. Mather of Rockland, Me-, Darius Wilson, M. D., and T. D. Pease of Boston, Mass.