St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
THE0S0pHISTSMEET
DELEGATES FROM MANY COUN-
TRIES GATHERED IN NEW
YORK.
MEMORY OF BLAvATSKY
INVOKED BY THE ACTING PRESI-
DENT In HIS OPENING AD-
DRESS.
HE CREED OF ANCIENT DATE.
It's Followers Solved the Riddle
of the Sphynx, the Mysteries of
Greece, Etc.

NEW YORK, April 26.-The second annual
convention of the Theosophical society in
America since its reorganization and the
tenth In the history of the movement in this
country, opened in Madison Square Garden
concert hall today. Delegates from the 1OS
branches of the society in America, as well
as prominent representatives from England.
Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Holland,
numbering fully 300, were present when Act
ing President DR.. J. D. Buck, of Cincinnati,
called the convention to order.
Boston sent a delegation of eighty-four
members of the various branches in that
city. Among the delegates were George M.
Coffin, Washington, D. c.; E. B. Rambo and
DIR. Jerome A. Anderson, San Francisco; Mrs.
Ada M. Bell and Emily 8. Bouton, Toledo;
L. B. Howard, Menominee, Mich; Elizabeth
D. Pelton, Churchport, La; Alpheus M.
Smith, Mrs. A. B. Leonard, c. F. Oler, Mrs.
F. Pratt and Miss Eva T. Gates, Chicago; J.
A. Jewett, Nashville, Tenn; Misses 7. M. and
Anne L. Acheson, Youngstown, o.; Anne H.
McDernid, Fontanelle, La; ]. D. Bond, Fort
Wayne, Ind; M. A. Opperman, Pittsburg,
and Mrs. Julia Verplanck Keightley, Phila-
delphia.
Acting President Buck delivered the OPEN
ing 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 leader, Will
lam Q. Judge. "Our leader was stricken
with fatal disease he said, ''yet so we'll
had he done his work, so compact proved
the organization he had formed, that even
now, when we had to record his disappear
ance from the field Of conflict, we record also
steady advance in the theosophical society
work. Space nor time can not measure, nor
can sickness and death defeat, the accomplish
ment Of the work in which we are engaged
By and by the world at large will realize as
we do now the meaning and value of the
work. Then will the
NAMES OF BLAvATSKY
and William @. 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 dis
solving 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 understand do
not desire or seek and sometimes scorn and
ridicule the idea of the existence of certain
knowledge, only proves how low our cviliza-
ton has sunk In the slough of materialism
already. The external difference and inter-
nal serenity with which we face misrepre-
sentation and ridicule have surprised even our
detractors. It 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 the scorn and con-
tempt of mankind. Our literatue extends
backward to the dawn of history. Our grand
masters laid the foundations of the pyramids,
solved the riddle of the sphinx and mapped
out the consultations. The mysteries Of
Greece, from Pythagoras and Plato, who
learned their secrets and became immortal
in the memory Of the 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 method Of his higher eYolu-
tion? We can demonstrate 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 rec
ognize the power that is back of this move
ment. We don't work unaided or alone.
The best we can do is to open up a way for
these wiser than we to work for the same
81 eat end.''
E. B. Rombo, of San Francisco, was chosen
temporary chairman, and Elliott B. Page, of
New York, was named as permanent secre-
tary. The chairman then appointed COM
mittees on resolutions and credentials.
Claude F. Wright 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 approved.
Resolutions were adopted eulogizing the
late president Of the society, William @.
Judge, and calling upon all members to offer
themselves anew upon the altar Of sacrifice
and to pledge their lives, fortune and sacred
hcnors to endeavor to push forward to it's
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 reincarnated in 1875 and attained
its manhood in 1896, until America shall be-
come that which the guardians Of the race
and Karma have already decreed, the hope
Of humanity, the refuge of the oppressed the
protector Of the weak, and the light towards
which the whole world may turn for encour-
agement and example.
The committee reported a resolution de-
nouncing IN scathing terms the bartering of
occult powers and the indiscriminate use of
hypnotic powers by the ignorant upon the
ignorant. Added to the resolution was a
section condemning vivisection. Several dele
gates objected to bringing this matter in,
and the resolution was tabled.
A resolution was also adopted eulogizing
the late Baron de Hirsch, and declaring that
he was one of natures noblemen and a true
theosophist in the aim Of his life and the basis
Of his conduct.
The following officers were elected: Presi-
dent. Ernest T. Hargrove, of London; vice
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, New York; H. T. Patterson,
Brooklyn. and DR.. A. P. Buchman, Fort
Wayne, Ind.