Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-01-14

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lay organizations that have remain
ID Il unit though they have stood
The strain of war, the baptism OF
blood and untold misery by death,
defeat and desertion. We do not
over look the fact that the church
was instituted for one purpose by
power, while societies were
organized by human agencies Tor
another purpose: but will some
Jealous church man cry ont that
the church is enough? Then why
the American and the Foreign
Bible societies? Why the home
and Foreign Missionary societies?
Why the young mems Christian
association? or the Young Peoples
Society of Christian Endeavor; or
the Sunday school, or the Kings
Daughters, or the Ladies aid society,
or fifty others X. Y. z. societies of
the church and world, religious,
moral, philanthropes, scientific and
beneficiary, that have woven them
into one brotherhood and binds them
in their silken meshes as with one
mighty CabLe-toe the whole world.
From sun to SUI and sea to sea,
we are one grand brotherhood
gradually coming closer and closer
together. If the church of to-day
held as it did in Act. End. A and 40,
when they had all things in COM
mon and ministered to the wants of
each, as every one had need, then
indeed you would not know OF
many Of these societies, We pain
fully realize that the greatest enemy
Masonry has, or Odd-fellowship, or
the Ancient Order of Workman has
is the over zeal and firm faith some
of its members have in its power to
save, eternally save, its faithful
followers; live up to that, believe,
my brother, and the devil will be
your presiding officer after the judg-
ment, and you will address him I'M
der the due guard and sign as your
worshipful master, your noble grand,
your master workman, your grand
worthy chief.
Will any sane person say that
these societies have done nothing to
bless and beautify the brotherhood
of mankind? We narrow our state
ment down to the contracted circleI
of our own state and We find a beau
tiful and commodious home fol
aged and infrm Masons; a paternaI
care, clothing and colleges tor then
children. 1t need no eulogy from
one who has gone but little higher
than the aground floor of that
temple--the grandest that human
architect ever reared, or ever Goo
designed; the sun alone encircles 1t:
beneficiaries and still its right hanC
knows not what its left hanC
doeth.
Has Odd-fellowship done nothing
to better and ameliorate man
condition? Its triple-link chain en-
circles the globe, and binds III mys
tic union masses of mankind.
Has the fraternal order CT Unitet
Workmen done nothing to gladdel
the heart, sooth the suffering siel
and bind the broken heart?
The answer comes from
twenty thousand homes in gran,
old Missouri; from mothers tongue
whose hearth-stones are protecte'
from want; its praises come from
the roseat lips of little children
whose feet have been shod, who's,
bodies wormed and minds educate,
by the order: The glad, Good bles
you," come from every rank an
station in life;-the farmer at hi
plough, the merchant and mechan
lc, the lawyer and physician, tn
blacksmith and the minister, the
have all left their homes for tina
bourn from which no traveller re
turns and the ancient order Of Uni
ted Workmen has gone back fror
the grave of that dead brother t
the sorrow stricken home with tn
fraternal shield IN one hand an,
two thousand dollars in the othe
and preferred to guard it foreve
from want, insult and injury. TIL
offer is to you and to as many as ar,
worthy and we'll qualified for GU
Brotherhood; Its yoke is easy an
its burdens light, but its blessing
end only with your life: and in tn
ending of your life begins anew tn
blessings and benefits to your wit
and little ones.
Thirty-fve million dollars paid t
widows and orphans, and million
more when needed. Thirty thousan
dollars paid to worthy families c
deceased brethren of Mexico Lodge
those that we now remember with
out referring to our records.
>. There are pictures hanging OF
memories walls tonight Of the low
ed and the lost whose council
guided US and whose eloquence stir
red our very souls as they plead S
eloquently, and forcibly plead, fo
the extension of the noble principle
) of our Brotherhood. But their ton
CUES are silent to US and their soul
are at rest tonight in the unsee.
world. We recall now Harriso.
Glaseock, :good, grand old Brothe
Goocll, Brother Berry and Gary
William Woodward and warm gen
erous hearted James Carroll, Jane
Bush and the talented Rector Mat
thews, honest Buck Jackson an
Ben Dejarnett, DIR. Neal and L. N
Pease, DR.. Ready, E. E. Carroll an
but lately that good man who's
word was his bond, Joel Guthrie, a
grand good men. We, like then
are passing away, and we that ar
here, and they that are gone, mus
, wait, calmly watt" with prayer
full patience until the dea,h-roll o
: earth is ended, until the Lodge be
low has passed into His Lodg
| above, and the universal Brother
hood of man shall be proclaimed b
HIM of whom the angels sang tn