The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-06
A Banquet in the Temple Hall-New
z Official Roster--The Toasts-Fitting
Nddresses We're Mades

officers.
Right Worshipful Master - John
Phillips.
Deputy Master-C. b. Ripley.
Substitute Master-Frank b. Auer-
bach. "A H
| Senior Warden Norman f. Gedge.
Junior Warden-W. Austin Whiting.
! reasurer-William o. Atwater.
Secretary-Henry II. Williams.
Senior Deacon-Edwin Hughes.
| Junior Deacon Black.
| Stewards-E. Faxon Bishop, L. {
Ables.
Inner Guard-Frank l.. Hoogs.
Chaplain-R. f. LANCE.
Tyler. NJ. Angus.
/ Past Master Cooper was selected as
POSTMASTER. Before proposing the
/ first toast he gave a brief but inter-
esting history of freemasonry in Scot
land.
Past Master Ripley responded to the
toast, Operative and Speculative Mas
onry Compared" He said:
Right Worshipful Master-Breth-
rem. Knowing that | stand in the pres
ence of many able speakers, who are
filled with good things,-physcal and
intellectual-Ishall not presume TO
occupy many moments of the time
which those who are to follow me can
better use to your pleasure and profit
In considering Operative and Specula-
regard Operative Masonry from the
standpoint of Masonic Ritual. where
in we are taught that it is Il proper
application of the useful rules of ar
chitecture whence a structure Will
derive figure. strength and beauty,
and whence will result a due proper
ton and just correspondence in all its
parts We have no narrow concep-
ton of the great truths in the lessons
taught us in Speculative Masonry;
while Operative Masonry lays the
foundation of its edifice deep down on
the solid rock, and rears the walls of
enduring granite until at last they are
surmounted by the glistening dome:
so Speculative Masonry builds to with
stands the ravages of time, its founda-
tions are laid deep down upon the
eternal truth as given in Gods Holy
Word, the walls are builded of ''per-
feet ashlers" united by the cement of
I Iyh ~
the dome is no less than 1.-The clouded
canopy or star decked heaven" In
our definition quoted we notice that
the result of the proper application of
the rules of architecture is figure,
strength and beauty" So in Specu-
lative Masonry, with the three great
lights of Masonry ever upon their
, affairs, those who have gone before us
the work of Speculative Masonry
builded better than they knew. They
reared an institution which has in
deed figure strength and beauty
1t has been the refuge for the oppress
ed and unfortunate in all ages; from
its towers the lights of "BrotherlA
, Love, Relief and Truth" have shone
out into the darkness of ignorance
. superstition and utterance, and d,
Operative Masonry builds the massive
I battlements to withstand the attack,
of barbarous force, SO Speculativ,
Masonry rears its towers of strength
to withstand the never-ceasing at
tacks of bigotry, injustice and oppres
sion.
Where the great moral virtues" are
practiced outside the walls erected 10y
Speculative Masonry which are in
culcated within them, there will bt
found peace and good will to men,
there civil liberty and all the God
given rights of man will be fostereC
and protected. | stand in reverence
within this world with edifice erected
by Speculative Masonry, it towers
above all other human institutions de
signed for the rebuilding of manl<ind
, it has ever stood out in its strength
and beauty" amid the storms of per
secuton as the bulwark of enlightened
liberty and true patriotism; ii is ar
institution within whose walls tho
. "King, Prince or Potentate' stands OF
level with the humblest artisan, anC
ii is this recognition of the Father
hood of God the Brotherhood of Man
which has put it in the power of thos'
who work in Speculative Masonry L
hasten the day when war shall he M
, more, when the widow and orphan
shall not want, when peace and plen
ty shall prevail. Would you know o
the labors of those who have worked
in Operative Masonry; look where yol
will, the world is filled with the re
suits of their labors. Would you know
, of those who have wrought in Spec
J. ulative Masonry, read those pages o