Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-27
THEl2P 'a|STS IN SESSION.
5 ,eCOnd Annual Convention Of the
Armenian Society
Held at New York Yesterday-Del-
egates From One Hundred and
Eight Branches Present-The Ad'
dress of Acting President Buck
Resolutions Adopted and officers
Elected

society IN America since ltS reoTSdLlId-
tion, and the tenth in the history of the
movement in this country, opened IN
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall
to-day. Delegates from one hundred
and eight branches of the society IN
America, as well as prominent repre-
sentatives from England, Ireland, Cam
ada, Venezuela, Cuba and Holland,
numbering fully three hundred, were
present when acting president DR.. j. ID.
Buck, of Cincinnati, called the conVen-
ton TO order.
Boston sent a delegation Of eighty
four members OF the various branches
in that city. Among the delegates
were: George NJ. Coffin, Washington,
ID. c.: Z. NJ. Rabo and DR.. Jerome An
derson, San Francisco; Mrs. Ada NJ.
Bell and Emily S. Bouton, Toledo; l..
B. Howard Monominee. Mich; Eliza
beth d. Pelton, Churchport, La; Al
pheus NJ. Smith, Mrs. A. B. Leonard, Z.
+. Oler Mrs. f. Pratt and Miss Eva f.
Gates, Chicago; j. a. Jewett, Nashville,
Tenn; Misses T. NJ. and NJ. G. Munson,
Dennison, Texas; V. r. Acheson and
Anne l.. Acheson, Youngstown, o.;
Anne H. McDermid, Fontanelle, La; }.
d. Bond, Fort Wayne. Ind; NJ. A. OPP
perman, Pittsburg, Pa, and Mrs. Julia
Yer Planck Keightley, Philadelphia.
Acting president Buck delivered
THE OPENING ADDRESS.
After dwelling upon the work accom-
plshed by the society during the past
year. and its present prosperous con-
dition, he referred touchingly 10 the
late leader, William Q. Judge. Our
leader was stricken with fatal dis
ease" he said, yet so we'll mad he done
his work. so compact proved the or
ganization he had formed. that even
now when we had TO record his disap-
pearance with the field of the conflict,
we record also a steady advance in the
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 realize
as we do now, the measure and value
Of that work. Then will the names OF
H. P. Blavatsky and VIM. Q. Judge be
honored for and measured by their
share in the work. Then will the
world learn why we honor their mem
ory to-day.
But that day will not come till, with
dissolving creeds and the blight of ma
terialism, humanity cries, with bleed
ing heart and weary feet, for
THE PEARLS OF TRUTH
from the great fountain of wisdom
That the great toiling, striving masses
do not now understand, do not desire
or seek, and sometimes scorn and ridi-
cule the idea of the existence of certain
knowledge, only proves how low our
civilization has sunk in the slough of
materialism already. The external in
difference and internal serenity with
which we face Misrepresentation and
ridicule, has surprised even our de-
tractors. 1t never seems to occur TO
them that they are openly convicting
themselves, not us, and that they are
too ignorant of the 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
laid the foundation of the pyrap' s..
solved the riddle of sphinx and mapped
out the consultations. The mysteries
of Greece from which Pythagora and
Plato learned their secrets and became
immortal in the memory of man, lie
open TO us. The shepherd kings and
the wise men CT 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 method of
his higher evolution? We can dem
onstrate this step by step and so help
to restore the lost chord in the weary
pilgrimage of the human soul. This
is the mission of theosophy. Some of
us recognize the power that is back of
this movement. We don't work un-
aided or alone. The best we can do is
TO open up way for those wiser than
we TO work for the same great end"
E. NJ. Rambo. of San Francisco. was
chosen temporary chairman and Eli
Oft B. Page. of New York, was named
as permanent secretary. The chair
man lutu dppUlnlcu CullllullletS Ou IGS-
olutions and credentials.
Claude Falls Weight nominated Dr..
Buck. OF Cincinnati, as permanent
chairman. and he was unanimously
elected
The annual reports of the secretary
and treasurer were then read and ap-
proved.
RESOLUTIONS WERE ADOPTED
eulogizing the late president of the So
ciety. VIM 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 10 push forward to its full
completion that ideal and perfect broth
erhood of humanity. which shall be
without distinction of race. creed or
caste and which was born in America
amid blood and tears in 1776 and rein
carnated in 1875 and attained to its
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 protector of tne 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
BARTERING OF OCCULT POWERS
and the indiscriminate use of hypnotic
powers by the ignorant upon the ig-
noraut. Added to the resolution was a
section commencing vivisection. Sew
eral delegates objected to bringing this
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