The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-18
PYTHIA-N COLUMN
BY o. E. WEBER.

sight. Come out brothers anu see
that the goat is properly harnessed.
We are truly glad to see our P. G.
Bro. Juo. S. Wilson enjoying good
health again. We predict for him a
large majority in the coming election
for solicitor of this circuit.
Why don't the members of Damon
Lodge take hold Of some good build
ing and loan association and erect q
Castle Halls.
As an example of the lessons OF
friendship as taught III our Castle
Halls, will give some extracts from
an address delivered by Bro. J. r.
Camahan Feb. 18Th 1889.
"Here in our own land we have
examples of courage, moral heroism,
and true Pythian friendship, just as
heroic, as brilliant and enchanting as
any that have ever been written on
the pages Of the worlds history.
We can point you to the heroic
death of Samuel Holder Hines, whose
spirit went out amid the cbarred and
blackened ruins of the Spotswood
hotel, in Richmond, Va, on the
morning of December 25, 1870, in the
vain and fruitless effort to save the
life of a brother knight His was
the first sacrifice to the principles of
our Order. His memory shall be en-
shrined in the hearts OF all true
knights while time shall last.
In 1878 all hearts were touched,
and earnest measures of relief went
out to the stricken people of the
South. The terrible epidemic of yel-
low fever had come upon them; the
extremities of human misery were
illustrated with grim and ghastly
effect; all their business was stihed,
and all their industries paralyzed; !;
their people panic-stricken; the dead
who had fallen by the scourge were
being borne to hastily-prepared
graves in almost continuous and un-
broken line. Among the men who
were striving by their presence and
unceasing efforts to alleviate the
suferings of that stricken people none
were more active than Henry S.
Reynolds, then Grand Chancellor Of
Tennessee. He was member of the
Pythian Committee Of Relief, and as
such was constant, faithful, fearless
and untiripg in ministering to. the
wants of his afflicted brethren. When
urged to leave the stricken city he
anwered in one Of his last letters: so
long as one member OF the Order
remains in Memphis I deem it my
duty to remain, and should I fall, I
will fall at my post of duty In full
fllment OF that duty he fell victim
to the scourge and died on the 18th
OF September, 1878. His life was a
noble exempli6cation of the tenets of
the Order: his death gloriously illus
trated its symbolic virtues. In the
long list of the world's illustrious
martyred dead not one has given a
more heroic example that all the
world might follow than Henry s.
Reynolds; not one has more sublime
ly displayed that courage which,
arising from a sense OF duty and
coupled with friendship, encounters
difficulties and dangers with frmness
and without fear or depression of
spirits.
Others we might mention: Early,
who, deciding to leave his home ard
90 to the stricken ones of Memphis,
first announced his intention in his
lodge-room, and Dickinson, who rose
ana said: Brother Early must not go
alone; if Le should be attacked with
The yellow fever, who will care for
him? 1 will 90 to aid him, if ueel
be- 60 they did, and in the midst
of their self-imposed duty were strick-
en- down, and now rest side by side.
Woodland in the Hudson River tun-
mel, giving his life for his associates;
James Ward, and the seven brother
knights with him, who went to the
rescue of their brother Knights in the
burning mine at Savannah, Indian
Territory, April 4, 1887; the heroic
struggle made by the gallant knights
to rescue their comrades and brother
Knights from the burning shaft Of
the Alta mine, Virginia City, New,
are all the fruits of the lessons Of
the brave friendship and devotion
taught in our castle-halls. Noble and
true were they in their lives; almost
Godlike in their death.
What more shall we say of them?
"With morn, with noon, with right:
with changing clouds and changeless
stars; with grass, with trees, aud
birds; with leaf and bud, with flower
and blossoming vine, with all the
sweet influences Of nature may they
and such as they rest noble in life,
heroic in death; crowned on earth,
enlurOueG forever III tue caSlie-IallS
on high.
The chivalry taught by true Pyth-
ians is that spirit of bravery that
goes mapfully through the world,
daring to be right and do right,
though all the world should despise
and hate. 1t should be that spirit
that will lead man to stand for the
oppressed and against the oppressor
under whatever circumstances found.
Brothers, our Order is yet in its
infancy-we are to day but fairly
started on the highway of success
what the distant future is to bring
US, God in His infinite wisdom only
knows. This, we believe: to man
there is yet to be a higher, holier,