Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-01
ATTrNTION - SHRINERS.

Al IENIlON, Z OtRlNEhS.
The "Shriners" of Wheeling will
have a high time on Thursday even
ing. November 10 next. if the following
be a correct translation Of the eXordl-
UNI epistle to the faithful;
Noble Arabs of Osiris and Children
of Arabia lend me your ears, and be
attentive TO my words of wisdom. and
get a camel understanding. Many
moons have got full and waned again
! since we last gathered around our
shrine. beneath the summers sky, and
here at our fertile oasis the camels
have grown sleek and fat, yet are
chafng from the long. delay of-the car
avian. and are fretfully chewing their
cud in discomfort. But the pilgrims
whose Journey has long been delayed
are now 6Ocking towards our tents
Behold them as they now approach,
with streaming locks and gaping
mouths, What life they impart to our
camels as they come seeking our shell
tering abode. to refresh themselves
from our bread basket and our leather
bottles of salt waterl Go forth, We
sons of light and neck the prOdigals.
for the path is forked and the road on
which is richey's land has no guide
posts; but the sands are not iced
end if they skate they must 90 it alone
on the bridge of their nose. Search
now out all unregenerated that they
NAV get a passport for the journey and
pass into our cOmmissary the required
shekels to buy the fodder and SIGH for
the camels to keep their heads cool and
the pilgrims their feet warm.
LIBERTY, FRATERNITY, EQUAL
ITY.
At the dedication Of Moore Lodge,
located at Bungalow India, the orator
of the occasion uttered these beautiful
sentiments, which are worthy OF the
perusal and consideration Of Of the
brethren of West Virginia:
The days in which we live are times
when Free MasOns need to act on the
defensive. Just as the craft had its or
igin In the necessity of protecting the
operative Mason from material dan
ger. so we have to protect all that we
hold dear and that is now being assail-
ed as never before. There are those
who deny the inspiration, the authen-
ITCHY. the truth of Gods word. The
Freemason reards it as the great light
of the fraternity, and stands or falls
by it. The liturature Of the day teens
with impuritv and license. The Free
mason is pledged to regard chastity
both in man and woman, as a sacred
thing. Even in the days of David
there were those who said, in their
cd
we're not Freemasons. Among Free
masons there is no room for the in
fdel or the atheist. the anarchist or
the traitor. To the Freemason that
glorious watchwOrd Liberty, Frater-
nifty. Equality is a true and living
character. interpreted in its highest,
hottest sense. We are here to diHuse
the eternal principles of brotherly
love. relief and truth; to wish god
speed to our brethren. and TO ask the
Almighty Father to strengthen them
to meet their responsibilities and ap-
preciate their privileges.
Therefore. it is shown that Masons,
i'm far-away India. recognize but one
book as their guide and for their faith
and that book the Holy Bible. and We,
Nasons of freedom and Of liberty
loving land. know that without 1t there
cannot he FreemasOnry, for 1t is rec
oenized by the craft everywhere as the
oift of Cod TO man. not TO be hidden
9wav for a special source of happiness
ord beroism. or clOseted with sick
ness and inflrmity. or, in very many
cases 10 be read and Interpreted by the
CLERGY but to be used daily as a guide
70 wisdom. for perusal and practice
NIaDv other good books invite re-
srect but the Holy Bible demands al
leoiance Masonry fosters the study
of the Scriptures, while her antagon-
ists discourage it. One OF them prac-
tioe1lv incurs our Lords rebuke TO
tbose who were ignorant of the Scrip
80 and will not trust them in the
Lords of the people, and has said to
49,, the circulation of the Scriptures
In 40 them more harm than good
-ri,;s class won. i'm some sections of orr
Ia decisive victory when II eXtin-
e,,isbed the great light in many of our
1Ib1ic schools. which, if the fraternity
Cf 7ros0ns had guarded the sacred in
J,oritarca that outrage would never
have been accomplished. and Of the
II zoe 600 pupils in the public schools
Of our land to-day there would not be
twentv-hve. if not fifty, per cent. Of
them growing up without any real
knowledge of the Scriptures. But we
hone TO see in the near future such a
nrotest against it by the united one
million of Freemasons of our country
as shall compel the school boards to
restore the Holy Bible TO the affairs of
their nation, draped about with "Old
Glory"
Only a short time ago the question