Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-04
A AFLoUa1sa1NG INSTITUTION.

The \. o. B. B. Grand Lodge-Report
 Made at Horeb Lodge Meetfng-Im-
 pOrtant Action by she Grand Lodge.
 Representatives David Strouse and Wm. D. Machol have just returned from the sn- nual session of the Grand lodge, I. O. B. B., held in New York last week. The order is hourishing. This district embraces New York, New England and Canada and has about eight thousand members. The order has about thirty thousand, all of the Hebrew faith, with lodges in this country, Germany, Africa and Jerusalem. Its objects are social ity, benevolence and charity and it works al- SO for the elevation and civilization of the Jewish race in barbarous countries This district has an endowment fund of $345, 900,
 insuring it's members at the rate of $l ,O0O each in case of death, each member paying
 SIS year. It has also home for aged and
 infirm members of the district at Yonkers,
 N. Y. Any member over sixty can go there
 and live free of expense. It has library in
 New York of sixty thousand volumes. Rep
 resentatives Strouse and Machol reported the
 meeting of the Grand lodge as characterized
 by great harmony and good feeling. In their
 report to Horeb lodge last night they edifed
 the members with full and carefully pre-
 
 lodge. Numerous inquiries were made by
 brothers present to the health of Brothers
 Zunder and others here. Of the opening ad-
 dress of President Adler of the Grand lodge
 the report said: "Of all the elegant, impres-
 sive and soul-stirring papers that it has come
 to the lot of the Grand lodge to receive, this
 undoubtedly is the best" President Adler
 declined reelection. The following were
 elected: President, Mayer Hillmsn; first vice
 president, Brother Cans of Manhattan; sec-
 ond vice president, Brother Rosnosky of Bos-
 ton; secretary, s. Hamburger; treasurer, S..
 Sulzberger. Bro s. Wakeman installed them.
 Perhaps the most interesting thing done was
 the following: A resolution in reference to
 utterances of Baron Hirsch was adopted, al
 though Brother Strouse opposed it and al-
 though such men as Julius J. Frank coin
 cided with him, the ground of opposition
 being that there is 8 doubt, first, that the
 utterances were made; second, that it is un-
 wise and unnecessary to rush into print on
 the subject; third, that it should come from the executive committee. The article is as follows and relates to affirming Hebrew principles and the reply of the Grand lodge of the B'nai Brith to Baron Hirch:"
 We make the declaration in the face of report ed enunciation of noted philanthropist, which, however, discredit, that Judaism has no longer mission on earth, and that the time has arrived has been transmitted and borne through the ages at the of untold numbers of lives and nncount- able treasures. Had the battle been waged by the Jews for worldly treasures and worldly gains, they would have disappeared long ago from the face of
 the earth. Tons of gold and and heaps of precious treasures thrown to the winds and were taken the fathers was in qustion. The Jews could never
 be coerced by persecution nor bribed by wealth to \ surrender their eternal heirloom will they prove less faithful day when the of enlight \ enment presages a future, where intolerance bigotry and faneticism will sink finally into the grave of the past never to rise again.
 We claim that the progress achieved by humanity and due to the nearer approach, waking to the great divine truths proclaimed ! by Israel and through Israel ever since its pilgrimage among the nations. The greater liberty and iberality achieved, the humani- zation of the civilized races may be ascribed to the greater dissemination of the principles embodied in Judaism; and we, as members of the order oi B'nai B'rith deem it our highest privilege and consider it our sacred mission to assist in the still wider diffusion and dissemination oi ! these divine truths, which are nothing more | nor less than the truths upon which human \ ity rests. As Jews we fell in unison with the greater pulse beat of the human race Y which makes for righteousness, brotherly | love, kindness, sympathy ,eo. operation, whicl | aspires to exemplify the lesson that ''life is | worth living" As members of the Order ! B'nai B'rith we inculcate, teach and practice | these precepts, and in that faith to live and | die and transmit it untarnished to posterity ! for the salvation and redemption of man kind be our highest ambition, our ceaseless aim.