The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-25

GRAND MASTER MCuRDY MAKES
AN ADDRESS.
A Christina. Greeting That VIII Be
Heartily Appreciated BY Every
Member of the Order

knights:
Greeting-With prayerful heart and
bowed head let us offer our devotions
to the giver of all blessings for the
golden fruitage which this. the day OF
days, brought to mankind to bless and
to save. This toast which you offer
this morning for our Christmas greet
ing fills my heart with profound emo
ton for the welfare, peace and happl-
ness of you and yours. fer whom L ask
the richest benediction OF our father IN
heaven. Your toast: To Our Most
Eminent Grand Master, Hugh Nc
Curdy," the head Iof the American Tenn
plar Masonry, who holds all Templar
hearts, 81 accept from you as an offer
ing to the high position 1 hold. Kindle
the inner genial life of man and you
have a flame that burns up all lower
consideration. Not happiness, but
something higher-not by fattering Our
appetites, only by awakening the heroic
that slumbers in every mans heart,
can any religion gain followers.
|, No words can 1 find more f1ttingly to
express the purpose of Templarism
than these words OF Carlyle;
'Templarism aids to kindle the inner
genial life Of man. 1t inspires him to
live, not for happiness, but for some
thing higher. 1t would gain followers
by awakening the heroic that slum-
bers in every mans heart. To awaken
the heroic, Templarism points with in
wavering constancy to the greatest Of
all heroes, the carpenter of Nazareth.
Worship Of him has always BEEN is
to this hour and at all hours the Vivi-
flying influence of every Templar's life.
Templar faith of loyalty to him True
Templar hopes to be like hinl-to live
his life in the genial fame that burns
I'D all lower con Sidara tiaOs -
Not simply to commemorate his birth
nave the true hero-WorShippers of our
order in every land gathered around
hearth and shrine this hour, but from
shop and from pulpit and bench and
from school room and college halls;
from hearthstones where brightly
burns the yule log; from the busy
marts Of trade they come on this glad
Christmas day, each for himself, to
bow down in the presence of this
worlds great hero, the son of man,
and to feel himself made higher by
lreVerencing that which is above him.
| No nobler, no more blessed impulse
dWellS in mans heart than that in
response to whom we have this day
| gathered around our shrines. We are
here. sir knights, on this joyous Christ
| mas day to look upon q picture which
presents the very beginning of the
Christian religion upon which our Or
der was founded, the picture of the
holy family in the Bethlehem stable.
| The social life of man began when the
son of man entered into and became
a member OF that family, that typical
group of human life. Men are social
only as far as he enters into and be-
comes a part of their lives. The son
of Mary, clasping his childish arms
around his mothers neck and holding
his fathers hand on his way to Egypt,
/ III Of 5a1 -
Men -clinging to him and he elinging
| to men, they in him, and he in them,
| this is the ideal social life, the ideal
| tenlplarism. He, sir knights, is the
head of templar F'ree-Masonry. He
alone is worthy to hold all tenplar
hearts. The heart that beats ever
with his idea is the heart of the tenn
Mason's heart.
Let US, sir knights, keep this Beth
Iehem picture ever before our minds.
ever in our hearts, for more than a
year of our. templar pictures; more
than picture Of the resurrection or
of the ascension, it reveals the open Sc
cret of our order. Not the picture or
| the sepulchre, not the mount of as,
cension, but the picture of the stable
and cradle of Bethlehem represents
the beginning and the essence of tenn
plarism.
| This is the picture, sir knights, which
should first greet the eye and inspire
the art of the pilgrim penitent when
he begins his pilgrimage. Keep This
picture in mind, in heart, in asylum,
that it may tell the story over anew.
that
I'm the beauty of the lilies, Christ
| was born across the sea;
With a glory in his bosom that trans
| figures Won and me-"
The story which this picture is tell
ing is the value of the individual man,
| that whatever value any family, any
organization of men has, comes from
| the essential conditions of the per-
sonal souls composing it. The organ
ization is good only so far as it makes
the Individual good. Here is where
many social organizations show their
weakness in losing sight Of the indi-
vidual while caring for the combina,
ton of individuals. The son of Mary
came to men, not because they were
rich or poor, cultivated or uncultiyated
He came to them because they were
men, not because they were members
of society, but because they were mem
bers of humanity; not because of theil
classhood, but because of their man
hood He came to. that cradle because
we were men. We come to it agar
and again because he was the perfec
man. He was born; he lived and dice
more perfectly to reveal the real value
of man as a child of God. To this enc
we were born, to this end we cam,
into the world and into the great fam
lily Of templars to bear witness of thi:
truth. The truth of the incarnation
the truth of mans childhood, that Coo
is the inspiration of every tru,
knight. 1t fills his whole iife, it is hi
creed, creed which not only his lif,
declares, nay, but his whole living ut
tiers. A clear perception of this trutl
lis the soul of knightly courtesy. First
the soul of honor of the man, then tn
special words Of honor for his elias
of condition. Honor for the individual
man, this is his soul; honor for his pc
sition, this is the body of courtesy anC
kindness and there is no knight!
body. Consider how the worlt
heeds such courtesy, such kindness
how man needs to know that the uni
of value is the individual.
That man is more than any famil
or organization to which he may be
long; more than any positions which h
may hold: more than any word Whlc
. he may speak; more than any work q
! may do. How the home, the shop. tn
/ farm, needs this love OF humanity. How
under this benign influence, the oppreS
sion of the bread Garner, if his wage
/ would cease. his employer paying hir
: something for his manhood as we'll a
l for his work, how it would tighten til
burdens of the weary, bring smiles ir
stead of tears to women and children
how it would iiiumine life. The worl
waits for the progress of brotherly low
This, sir knights, is the message of IL
carnation; this is the angels song {
L averv Christmas morning That me