Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-03
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commandery, follow the commendable example
| OF some of our subordinate bodies and remove
altogether, and then deal kindly but faithfully
with the erring, and your efforts will not be in
! vain.
can and will boast of the exalted character
| Of the Grand commanoary OF Texas. In point
of talent, cultivated intellect, deliberative abil
1ty, true dignity and gentlemanly courtesy, no
deiiberative body, its superior, ever assembled
in our state.
Sir Knights, we are the guests of noble city.
and leave an impress for good upon this people
never to be forgotten. We have received cor
dial welcome, expressed in eloquent terms and
possession given to of this beautiful and rap
Idly growing city. This city of merchant
princes, of extended commerce, with its scores
of factories and thousand enterprises, all
hourishing and prospecting; this city of churches,
schools and palatlal residences; of public build
ings and railroads; of unbounded hospitality.
res, TINS CITY wnere sleep the ashes OF our
honored and lamented dead, whose happy spir-
its, for aught we know, may be looking down
upon us now, assembled to engage in the same
duties they delighted in and so nobly per-
formed.
With moistened eyes we have gazed upon that
lifelike and speaking face suspended in our hall,
and could almost imagine we could hear the
mellow tones of that voice we so much loved in
life. As precious legacy we cherish the mem
ory of sRinted Mccoy, and each of us can
say:
''And 7 am glad that he has lived so long,
And glad that he has gone to his reward:
Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong,
When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eve
Dark with the mists Of age, it was his time to
de-
Perchance some of us, ere we depart for our
homes, may make pilgrimage to the cemetery
where he so quietly sleeps and drop tear on his
grave, and our hearts respond to the sweet SEN
timent of Sir B. Lytton as we silently repeat:
Gas flowers which night, when day is DER,
perfume,
Breaths the sweet memory from good mans
Tomb
Oh, let u.s. in return for kind Inequalities
make our short sojourn here such as to leave q
rich blessing on this entire community. This is
indeed our mission, to bless mankind; nor will
our mission be ended, nor our warfare cease
until the last foe to truth is conquered and
the pure principles of our order. ''the practice
of the Christian virtues the greatest OF which
cover our globe and fill our heart with adoring
love, and the brotherhood Of man and the faith
erhood of God be glorious realization.
Yes, as co-workers with the church, though
subordinate to it, as soldiers Of the cross beneath
the folds of the blood-stained banner we will
push forward, winning moral and spiritual vic
of Our Salvation until that great rainbow Of the
covenant that started from the cross vaults into
the sky and sweeps over the throne. shall COM
ground, and Christ and Christianity shall
be all and in all. Then shall the
desert rejoice and blossom rs the rose
Then the tree of life be where the cypress is
Then shs all nations sing Gods praise and Sion
recount Gods marvels. Then shall history re-
the glory OF Jesus sparkle IN the dewdrop and
in the boundless sea, and this earth restrung,
returned, shall be one grand Rolian harp, SWEPT
by the breath OF the Holy Spirit, pouring forth
those melodies which began on Calvary and
shall sound through all generationss'
Sir knight, let me ask what higher motives,
what loftier ambition can we covet than to
vailantly bear part in the consummation Of such
glorious ends3 But the warfare is not ended.
The enemy still is legion. Infidelity, scepti-
cism, intemperance and ali the brood of hurt
full vices are formidable and willy foes
and we must encounter them face to face
and with undaunted knightly valor conquor and
subdue them before the happy scene lust re-
ferred to can be realized. Every man in our
ranks must be at his post of duty whether one
OF danger or not, armed and disciplined. with
his eye on his motto, I'm hoe signo virces
and failure is impossible.
We have enough OF the military in our order
to show the Importance Of discipline and ODE
dience to orders. The worlds greatest battles.
and under the greatest generals would never
have been won but fog discipline. And it is lust
as important in our ranks.
It is related that when Marshal Mossens was
marching at the head Of body Of Napoieon,s
troops through the gorge of the CardineIl in the
Alps, vast avalanche descended from the heights
above and swept into the valley below some
hundreds Of his soldiers, and on the very ridge
of the snow that was swept into the rzvine be-
meath was drummer boy, who undisturbed amid
the peril, continued beating the march he had