The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-27
THEOSOPHISTS.
SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION HELD
IN AMERICA.
Work Accomplished Since 1t Was
Observation-Disclosures Cries. Tor
the Pearls of Truth

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NEW YORK, April 26.-The second
annual convention of the Theosophical
I society in America since its reorgan-
ization, and the tenth of the history
of the movement in this country,
| opened in Madison Square Concert hall
today. Delegates from the. 10S branches
of the society in America, as well as
prominent representatives from. Eng
land, Ireland. Canada, Venezuela,
Cuba and Holland, numbering fully
300, were present when Acting Presi-
dent DR.. j. d. Buck of Cincinnati
called the convention to order. Boston
i sent delegation of eighty-four mem
! bers of the various branches in that
city. Among the delegates were George
NJ Coffin, Washington, D. c.; E. B.
Rambo, DR.. J. A. Anderson, San Fran
cisco; Alpheus L. Smith, Mrs. A. D.
| Leonard, Mrs. f. Pratt and Miss Eva
Flater, Chicago; J. A. Jewett, Nash
| vile, Tenn; V. A. Acheson and Anne
L. Acheson, Youngstown, o.; j. d.
Bond, Fort Wayne, Ind; NJ A. OPP
perman, Pittsburg, Pa, and Mrs. Julia
Verplanck Keightley, Philadelphia.
Acting President Buck delivered the
opening address. After dwelling upon
THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED
by the society during the past year,
and it's present prosperous condition,
he referred touchingly to the late lead
er, William Judge
Our leader was stricken with a ia
tai disease" he said, yet so well had
he done his work, so compact the Or
ganization he had formed, that even
cta n RI ;y, fta
! Theosophical society work. Space nor
time can measure, nor can sickness
and death defeat the accomplishment
of the work in which we are engaged.
By and by the world at large will re-
aliZe, as We do now, the meaning and
value of that work. Then will the
names of H. p. Blavatsky and William
Q. Judge be honored for and measured
by their share in the work Then will
the world learn why we honor their
memory today. But that day will not
come till, with dissolving creeds and
the blight of materialism, humanity
cries,
WITH BLEEDING HEART AND
WEARY FEET,
for the pearls of truth from the great
fountain of wisdom. That the great
toiling, striving masses do not now
u,
sometimes Scorn and ridicule the idea
of existence of certain knowledge, only
proves how low our civilization has
sunk in the slough of materialism al
ready. The external Indifference an6
internal serenity with which we face
misrepre and ridicule has sur
prised even our detractors. 1t never
seems to occur to them that they are
openly convicting themselves, not US,
haf on n
subject even to be decently ashamed
People are ready to listen. If we
fail or grow weary we deserve only
the scorn and contempt of mankind.
Our literature extends backward to the
dawn of history. Our grand masters
laid the foundations of the pyramids,
solved the riddle of the sphynX and
mapped out the considerations. The
mysteries of Greece, from Pythagoras
and Plato, learned their secrets
AND BECAME IMMORTAL
in the memory of man, lie open to US.
The shepherd kings and the wise men
of the east are our elder brothers.
What are all these hoary secrets
but a knowledge of the origin, nature
and destiny of man and the methods of
his higher evolution? We can demon
strate this step by step and so help to
restore the lost chord in the weary pill
grimage of the human soul: This is the
mission of theosophy. Some of US rec
ognize the power that is back of this
movement. We don't work unaided or
alone. The best we can do is to open
UP a way for those wiser than we, to
work for the same great end"
E. B. Roma was chosen temporary
chairman and Elliott B. Pake of New
York was named as permanent secre-
tary. The chairman then appointed
committees on resolutions and creden-
tials.
Claud Falls Wright nominated Dr.
Buck as permanent chairman and he
was unanimously elected.
The annual reports of the secretary
and treasurer were then read and aD-
proved.
Resolutions were adopted eulogizing
the president of the society, William
Q. Judge, and calling upon all members
to offer themselves anew upon
THE ALTAR OF SACRIFICE
and to pledge their lives, fortunes and
sacred honors to endeavor to push for
ward to its full completion that ideal
and perfect brotherhood of humanity
which shall be without distinction of
race, creed or caste and which was
born in America amid blood and tears
in 17l6 and reincarnated in 1875 and
attained it's manhood in 1896, until
America shall become that which the
guardians of the race and Karma have
already decreed, the hope of humanity,
the refuge of the oppressed, the pro-
tector of the weak and the light toward
which the whole world may turn for
encouragement and example
The committee reported a resolution
denouncing in scathing terms the bar
tering of occult powers and the indis-
criminate use of hypnotic powers by
the ignorant. Added to the resolution
was a section
CONDEMNING VIVISECTION.
Several delegates objected to bring
ing this matter in and the resolution
was tabled. A resolution was also
Hirsch and declaring that he was one
of natures noblemen and a true The
osophist in the aim of his life and the
basis of his conduct" The following
officers were elected: For president
and treasurer, e. A. Neresheimer,
New York; executive committee, DR..
Buck of Cincinnati, Claude Falls Wright
of New York, Jerome A. Anderson of
San Francisco, A. H. Spencer of New
York, H. T. Patterson of Brooklyn, and
DR.. A P. buchanan of Fort Wayr.s
Indiana.
At the night session of the convention
a bust of W. c. Judge was unveiled and
society had decided to establish in this
city school for the revival of the lost
mysteries which were known in the early |
history of Greece and India.