The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-18

of 1893 TO the board Of directors of the
Masonic home. This action was taken
and This grand body had adjourned in
advance of any legislation had by the
grand lodge at its last session, which
action practically blocked for the time
being the wise and munifcent legisla-
ton of all former sessions. In view
of this unforeseen legislation by the
grand lodge had while laboring under
the temporary influence of an unheal-
thy hypnotic sentiment, your grand
treasurer deemed il wise to defer pay
ment Of the appropriation until SUCH
time as the money would be needed or
until further action might be had by
this grand body, and l so directed
While this is not the time 10 discuss
the question of the wisdom of founding
and maintaining an institution as con-
templated, yet 1 deem il my duty TO
give it the broadest and fullest en-
dorsement, trusting that the friends Of
a project born into life under such
followed influences and fortuitous cir
cumstances amid the heart sobs, and
the hottest emotions that ever thrilled
the pulse strings of true Masons and
under the influences Of the sublime and
the Masonic home was inaugurated,
will find the fruition of their fondest
hopes fully and completely realized in
its successful completion.
THE KANSAS FREEMASON
As ignorance is the ground Of all
depravity, and as reforms follow the
Intellectual renovation Of a people so
enlightened is the stream Of life, pur-
flying the bodies throughout which IL
runs, this being true, then our high
est Masonic aspirations can only be
attained by an assiduous application
OF the means within our reach. Within
the last twenty months from the prai-
ries Of Kansas, has biossomed the
Kansas Freemason, and with its rise,
the stream of Masonic intelligence has
started afresh and spreading out In all
directions, its broadening and health
full influence has been felt wherever it
has gone, that it may reach the high
est ideal ambitions of its proprietors,
recommend that this grand council
recognizes it as the official organ Of
this grand body.
CONCLUSION
Concluding DR.. May said:
Fellow Notwithstanding to
you with my grateful regards, the
power in me vested come with me
again to the mountains in search of
treasure. We leave the foothills, we
arrive at the base. We look back at
bustling towns and cities, we see the
smoke Of factories in the distance. The
lowing herds waist deep in the luxuri-
ence of the plains, the gambolings of
the lambkin, as he disports in the Sc
questered hooks and on the hillsides;
-,
stream as like ribbons of silk, it glis-
tens in the MONDAY sun. AS we as
cend the beauty Of the scene enlarges
We stop to pluck the many varlegated
flowers that thrust themselves in wan
tonness upon US and inhaling the sweet
fragrance the air becomes more sweet
and rare. We pause to rest beneath
the friendly sheltering shade Of the
signing evergreen, emblematic Of the
immortality of the soul. New beauties
present themselves on every side, as
if to cheer Us on, rising refreshed, we
climb again higher and higher still,
on and yet on, we stoop and drink Of
the nectar that rushes past our feet
Sweeter than that which Jupiter sips,
We behold the orb of day sink out of
sight, and his brightness ia de out as
he drops TO sleep in the golden west.
We see the beauty of the silvery moon
as she maiestically rides the clouds
spread, like crtainS beneath our
feet. Entranced with the sublimity
grandeur and beauty about US, we for
get that the real trasure is not found
in these things, is not on the surface,
but thousands of feet beneath US, in
the grand old mountains heart, is the
gold-the true treasure found, which
being dug out by skilled hands, carries
on the commerce Of the world. So,
compaions in the Cryptic Rite, is
found the true treasure Of the Masonic
system. II is the mountain in whose
heart is concealed the alpha and ONE
ga Of Ancient Craft Masonry. And
as is the gold to the mountain, SO
truth, the object of the Masons search.
In our system is the pure gold eiimina-
ted from all mundane things, and as we
must dig deep for the gold, so also IN
seeking for truth, we must descend in
to the secret vault the recesses to find
1t, and having found it, a divine attri-
butte. Let us take it and with it drape
the miseries of humanity in curtains of
kindness, as beautiful as the crimson
gold of the sunset, and as sure to settle
into brightness and joy as The coming
of the day i the morning. Let US
bind it about our hearts. Let us en-
Irvine its teachings about our memories
recognizing its benefits in forming
character, and genuine true worth,and
realizing our obligations TO the present
and the future, and the broad oppor-
tunities spread out before US, let us
keep true to the ancient land marks,
scattering benedictions in our path in
active benevolences, and in charity 10
all who come within the sphere of our
influence.
DR.. May was highly praised for his
address. Old members Of the grand
council said that II was ore of the fin
st and most complete IN the archives
OF the grand body.
Old People.