The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-18
HISTORY OF THE RITE.

The supreme council of the southern
jurisdiction of the A and A Scottish Rite
of Freem" sonry of the United States now
has its headquarters at Washington, ID.
G. 1t OWNS It's asylum, which belongs to
all the members of the rite alike in its
jurisdiction. where its business may be
transacted and official and fraternal inter
course held with every Mason, who will
always find a cordial welcome under its
roof. Its constituency is constantly and
steadily increasing. with over two hundred
regularly organized bodies of the rite in
its widely extended territory, and nearly
approaching in number Of members that
of its more prosperous sister council OF the
nOrlh hern jurisdiction, whose membership
has now reached upwards of 1900, Our
influence and power is daily being aug
mented aud our mission being steadily
performed. We confer no degrees but
what are strictly and legitimately our
own, and our doors are open TO every
worthy intelligent Master Mason who Is
seeking for knowledge and light, and who
is willing to use the sword when necessary
In defence of the trowel in the building Of
tn, temple of civil and religious freedom,
where the prime pleS of liberty, equality
and fraternity are inculcated, aud where
the loftiest truths of science and phiioso-
phv are taught. and the igion of hu-
manity without creed, and politics With
out party, are most studlously cultivated.
A ladder like that in Jacobs dream
where the Christian, the Jew, the Moham-
medau. the Brahmin, and even Budd
hist brother may climb to its summit and
view the infinite, and hold communion
with the All Father Il be so desires, with
out encroaching upon the rights and priv
ileges of his brother Mason. 1t is this
spirit of toeratiOn which our rite incul-
Gates and like the bee, gathers honey from
fr,-s h.af vat
ries weapon to defend itself when at
tackled in its course by the oppreSSor, the
thief and tue robber in every land.
The illustriouS names OF Bachelor, Par
win, Tucker. Jordan, Teller, Carr, Browne.
and OF hers, shine brightly over the plains
east Of the Rocky mountains from British
America to Mexico. from the Ohio river 10
the guif. and from the majestic Mississippi
to the storm-beaten shores of the Atlantic;
while the index FINGER OF liberty from the
dome of the Capitol of the nation beckons
the members of our supreme council 10
assemble, aud beneath the shadow Of the
Hottest monument ever erected 10 the
memory OF man, the Father OF His Coun-
try" and the Father of American Free
masonry" our own beloved Wash
ington. who received the gift
of sword from Frederick the
Great, who gave Us our grand constitu-
tions of the Ancient and Accepted Scot
tish Rite, and in whose honor the city Of
Va, was named, and in
our own jurisdiction
The legitimate Supreme Councils
around the globe in which our diplomas
are recognized are: The Northern juris-
diction, United States of America, France
(Supreme Council Belgium, Ireland. Bra
zil, Peru. New Grenada. England. Wales
and dependencies, Scotland, Cruguy, Ar
gentine Republic. Turin and Rome Of lta- /
". Cuba, Nenexula, Mexico. Portugal, /
Chill, Central America, Hnngsris, Greece, |
switzerland. Canada, Egypt, Spain aud 1
Iunis
No pent up kingdom is ours, but the /
whole world, and il is proper to state that |