The Globe-republican., 1892-03-17
GRAND MASONIC CELEBRATION
AND FESTIVAL.
Dodge City Chapter No. rs, Royal
Arch Masons.

Arch Masons.
Masonry is both Il science and an art.
As science it is esOteric, as an art eX-
oteric. None but those possessing that
moral courage born of innocence may
behold the ineffable light which flashes
from her mystic shrine. None but those
endowed with that fearless chiv airy
which is the offspring of eternal justice
may dare to arouse the faithful wardens
at her out-posts by a request for admis-
sion. None but he whose charity reaches
beyond the grave may venture to ask to
cooperate in kindness and mercy with
her noble sons. None but he whose faith
enables him to feebly and humbly COM
prehend the Great Am, will blindly ac-
cept the guidance of her devotees in
search of that light in the glorious rays
of which this science is alone revealed.
As an art Masonry has nothing to
hide. In her eXoteric displays she freely
discovers to the profane those appropri-
ate symbols, chosen from operative ma
sorry in the ages past and gone by with
which she bridges the yawning chasm
that divides the known from the I'M
known. All her public ceremonies are
art exhibitions of her emblems and allie
gories. serving to teach the mind that
has received its first preparation that she
has yet some majestic being in reserve
for the elect, the mysterious nature of
which is akin to the awful impenetralia
which enveils Him .whom no man hath
seen nor can see.'
One of these exhibitions occurred at
Dodge City on Saturday evening last. it
being the occasion of the conservation
of Dodge City Chapter No. % of Royal
Arch Masons.
Here is masonic society that has
grown from nothing to membership of
nearly fifty in few months. The Off
GERS of the Grand Chapter at its annual
convocatiOn in last month. could scarcely
credit their senses nor the returns made
BY the new chapter under dispensatiOn.
But two other chapters in the state had
made more eXaltations of candidates-one
at Topeka twenty-one mere. and one at
Horton three more 1t has been so much
the custom in eastern Kansas to ask,
..Can any good thing come out of Dodge
City?" that this masonic growth seemed
impossible. In other details of record
made to the Grand Chapter, Dodge City
led all the rest. Under the circumstan-
ces the granting of the charter by the
Grand Chapter was only Il question of
pen and ink. Under this charter Dodge
Chapter No. 75 was cOnsccrated and the
officers publicly installed at Kelly's opera
house according to the following pro-
gram:
l. Vocal solo-Gomp. w. NJ. Shaver,
s.BehOld how sweet and how pleasant it
is
,. Invocation.-Rev. Comp. W. H.
Rose.
-. NtiCoIiic-ItcN. Ilisou L iicSi >. E-
Busser.
4. Quartette-Messrs. Clampett and
LAUDER aud the Misses sheldon
5.-Address-COmp. w. NJ. Shaver, of
Newton.
6-Reading the Charter by the Secre-
tary.
7.-Consecratiou of Dodge City Chap
ter No. IS, by Deputy Most Excellent
Grand High Priest Bestor G.. Brown.
S.-Installation of officers by Deputy
Most Excellent High Priest Brown and
Deputy Grand Marshal ChaS W. Wilett.
5. f. Busser-H. 2.
c. NJ. Beeson-K.
j. II. Churchill-S.
J. j. Summersby-Treas.
J. c. Baird-Sec.
Fred Gardner-C. of H.
J. a. Corey-P. S.
p. II. Young-R. A. c.
H. Juneau-M. L. V.
r. ii. Norvell-M. S. V.
F. NJ. Pope-M. F. V.
J. y. COmbs-Guard.
8. BenedictiOn-Rev. Comp. Rose.
The stage had been deliberately deco
rated with the striped and starry en-
blem of our country while in the back
ground was erected the Holy Royal Arch
| froptaI hy tho altar ho.,.ip,r .ba ;poo,eo