Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-20
THE SECRET ORDERS.
MASONRY.


GERS and the payment of dues The
attendance was large in fact the
biggest turnout for any meeting dur
ing the year just brought to a close.
The officers elected and installed on
this occasion are as follows:
Thos. Carnahan Jr., Most Excellent
High Priest; H. B. Baguley, Excellent
King; Geo. NJ. Ford, Excellent Scribe;
John X. List, Treasurer; Joseph Hall,
Secretary; Thomas B. McLain, Captain
of the Host; Alex. B. Robb, Principal
Sojourner; George Hatch, Royal Arch
Captain; VIM. J. Hamilton, Grand Mas
ter, Sd Veil; Dave Dinger, Grand Mas
ter I'd Veil; w. J. Lukens, Grand Mas
er LIST Veil; James McCahon, Trustee;
l.. w. Bliss, Tyler.
The installation of the above officers
for the ensuing capitular year took
place under the direction Of Past Grand
High Priest Odell S. Long (who by re-
quest, occupied the East assisted by
Companion James McCahon, Grand
High Priest who served as Grand
Marshall, and the entire ceremonies
were impressively rendered much to
the enjoyment of all present. At the
close of the installation ceremonies,
Companion Long made some timely re-
marks, and in closing them, promised
to deliver a lecture TO the brethren in
the near future, on the subject of cap
itulary Masonry, and the Companions
deemed it a happy thought, and l be-
lieve the Temple lodge room will be
filled by zealoCS craftsmen when that
event occurs.
The year just closed has been not
ONLY an eventful one for Wheeling
Union Chapter, but profitable one also,
for about tweny-four members have
been added to her roll and to do so,
the officers have been Jealous and
faithful. attending and working at six
teen conversations. Only two have been
taken from them in twelve months by
death. Alex. Frew and Geo. NJ Varney.
The membership is now 217, the largest
ever known in its history.
But two meetings are on the docket
for next week. On Wednesday, Wheel
ing Lodge No. ) will meet, as has been
the yearly custom, on the eve of st.
Johns day to install its officers, and
Worshipful Master Speyer desires the
presence of not only all the brethren
of his Lodge, but also those of all sister
Lodges TO attend the feast of st. John.
On Thursday evening, Nelson Lodge
No go will hold monthly communi-
cation, at which time the first and sec
ond degree will be the work of the
evening, and while it is expected all
the faithful members who rarely miss
the Lodge meetings will be there, the
brethren of sister Lodges are invited
TO assist in doing the work on that &C.
casion.
Through the kindness of a Shriner
friend that abides in our neighborhood
We had the pleasure of perusing num-
Der of the daily papers of the city Of
Detroit, and we can say that the Illus
trations of the happy event Of the Mystic
Shrine which took place early in June
there. were out of sight, and would
be worth reproducing if space permit
ted. One especially, that showing the
tablet lately resurrected at the town
of Wyandotte. made about the year one,
on which was delineated the first
lineup of the Shrners. The subject Of
the scene is much eXhiliariating, and
all seem on the eve of getting some
thing. even the animal is there to get
his trunk filled. as well as the goat,
ready to butt the head out Of the ma
chine, if the fellow failed TO drive the
spigot.
As many of the craft have requested
other Masonic reading in the Masonic
column of the Sunday Register than
that of the doing of the several bodies,
we will give a few thoughts we think
will be profitable to them. We read
recently in 'fThe American Tyler
from the subject The Broken Arch in
Masonry" as follows:
I'm the school readers of days long
gone by, was found a striking allegory,
entitled the vision of Mira and a
picture therein, illustrating it, where
was seen a bridge spanning an awful
chasm. At the side of the bridge
showed a series of beautiful arches,
upon which rested a handsome cause
way. over which a vast multitude Of
people were passing gay and joyful, I'M
der the clear light of the MONDAY s
sun. On the farther end the bridge
was obscured in mist and darkness
which seemed to envelOp it, so that
the final fate of those who passed over
If was lost. Closer observation, how
ever disclosed that one Of the arches
was broken. over which the needless
crowds were plunging into oblivion,
unobserved, and unknown by those
following them.
Time and again has this allegory
served as a hitching post, to when
moral and religious lessons might be
attached. but we as Free and Accepted
Nasons" can make use Of it for a more
practical purpose, viz: that of showing
the fate of many who enter Masonry,
either for the qualification Of curiosity,
or the still more ignoble, inglorious
motive of mercenary or self-interest.
II is noticeable among the craft, that
they have within the environment or
Masonry class Of men who seemed
from The first to the highest degree, to
be governed throughout by mental
reservation to suck the Masonic lemon
dry and then to cast 1t aside, and VINO
have spent the best part OF lie time:
and much money to the attainment OF
overv grade in and out of Masonry, and
anneor 10 stand we'll among their EEL
lows and have burned gallons OF mid
night oil in studying the key-words, IN
n,5moraiiz.ng the work of the craft,
while in many instances they have
ag -ri and been gratified by having
been inducted into the highest Offices
in tn Sit of the brethren. They de- de.
i;sbt in exhibiting to the world the
;nsignia Of the grade in Masonry to
which tbey have attained, and having
U ~m from arch to arch, along the
Masonic Mason bridge. till they have fully
'tooI,nd tbe foremost ranks, and are all