The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-27
AGAINST RUM.
SUPREME LODGE SESSION OPENED
Delegates From Many Lands
Are In Attendance.

BosToN, June e7.-The first day OF tba
international supreme lodge of the In
dependent Order of Good Templars opened
In Y. NJ. G. A. hall with representative.
present from nearly every country in the
world
After the opening exercises the report.
OF the various officers and foreign mission
aries were distributed among the repre-
sentatives.
In his annual address the right worthy
grand templar has drawn the :attentiop
oi the members to the fact that though
ioos in membership Ia reported, IL should
De put down as a gain when the experience
OF other organizations within the past tive
years Is thought Of
Among other things he SAYS: 1--WE are
not here TO help throw tea overheard. but
To devise ways and means whereby we
may eventually throw the rum power over
board, and rid the world OF the accurseo
International cancer.
should We not strive for that end with
unceasing vigilance, whom the flags of ouI
PROUD countries float DER land and sen
with equal protection for tho saloon and
ior our homes, churches and schoolsi
aye more, as by the protection of the
saloon tho danger to our homes, churc n
ana schools Is Increased, and a witherino
blight Haunted in their pathway.
we come together to open the 37th ses. |
sion OF this international supreme body
Tor the purpose of legslating for the purity
OF our countries and homes, and protect
ing them from the poisoning pestilence OF
the drink scourge."
In MS report Us superintendent of mis-
sions for the western hemisphere DIR.
mann gives praise TO several of tho foreign
missionaries
Foreign Work.
In regard to the mission work on the
other side he has this TO say: II must
De permitted TO speak of the work of one
OF our lecturers on the other hemisphere
allude 10 sister Gray who has done. in
the lace or untold obstacles and unpleas.
ant opposition, grand and praiseworthy
mission work She has travelled in foreign
lands, introduced and planted the order
"here III had had few or no friends, worked
IN different tongues, translated our rituals.
etc.
'She has been instrumental in estah
lshlng the order in Holland, Switzerland.
bavaria and Saxony, among people "a
whom total abstinence was a new reyela.
Ion, and recently has done some very
Effective work in Paris"
In closing his address DR.. Mann Maid
'articular attention TO giving praise 70
he entire executive of the supreme lodge
Joseph Malins,right worthy grand coun.
ilor' In his report gives an extended re.
orr OF the various grand lodges Of the Old
orId contributing to the mission funds
no dweils, 10 some extent, on the seneros
y OF the grand lodges of Scotland and the
rand lodges In the British isles.
Membership of 56O,6o5.
The membership in the Juvenile branch
the order as woll as the adult sbowso
lght decrease in sections affected bv the
tie financial depression.
All through the United States the orde,
rs neither gaining nor losing members
Inc membership, according to the re.
'rt Is ooV,eoo, OF which the juvenile
'anch claims l6S, COS.
There are "a grand lodges, reprcsentinn
,oo subordinate lodges, composed Of
arly all the nations in the world.
immediately after the opening of tho Il
ssion Right Worthy Grand Temnlor Dr
ann appointed credential committee v
40 reported 200 candidates I'm waitin, Y
d the candidates were initiated.
After the appointment of committees /,
IS voted TO hold sessions daily from tc
a. m. and at TO $50 D. m. and in rho
'nlngs. No session, however. will he
ID Thursday morning. After the fur
II transaction of routine business the
lge adjourned FOR the day.