Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-28

their environment - men IKE
Simon Bolivar in South America,
Marco Bozarris in Greece, Carr.
baldi in Italy. Looking to that
nation of which they hoped soon
to become part, they saw the
Father of that nation and all OF
his successors, with perhaps only
two exceptions, members OF the
masonic order. Nearly all the
great general of that nation bad
been masons. Wherever they saw
intolerance and bigotry opposed
they saw masons controlling
affairs.
"The Blue Lodge" as the al.
TINA thule of all knowledge, was
connected with
Bro. Robertson of San Fran
cisco, who said his heart was too
full and his head too empty to
respond to the subject of the
higher masonry. He had been
asked to come to Honolulu to
teach the masons, but connected
with the educational department
as he was, he could not find time
to come down, so left the business
to his younger brother Mr.. Abel.
But if he could get away next year
and they wanted him he should be
glad to come. When he came to
San Francisco first he thought his
services as a lawyer would be in
constant demand. He landed there
with four dollars in his pocket
and "a ,million in his cheek, to
find that there were ahead of
him Gamaliels compared with
him, and he was glad to take
charge of a small school, which
was the thing that made him.
That was about twenty years ago.
One of two visitors to his school
was the late humorist, "Mrs. Part
ington," or by his real name Par
sons Shillaber. The school was
reviewed in spelling and the word
guerilla" coming up it went on to
the tenth boy; who asked whether
it meant a man or monkey. He
answered, ''you pay your money
and you take your choice" and
"Mrs. Partington" declared he had
never spoken anything so witty.
The speaker paid high tribute
to Honolulu, asking where could
100000 people be found equal in
intelligence. Honolulu had all
the requisites of California or any
other State for becoming a part OF
the Union. Thirty years ago the
speaker was a Johnny Reb," and
when his side was beaten he never
squaled but took his medicine.
The present trouble was working
for three things. 1t had COM
pleted the reconstruction-there
was no North and no South now.
The speaker claimed to be an
honorary citizen of Hawaii. There
was in Honolulu a larger percent
age of Scottish Rite 32nd degree
than in any other place on the
earth.
What did Christ teach that ma
sonry did not teach before Himp
And what did masonry ever teach
that Christ did not live out on
earth? Masons should conduct
their lives so that each would re
ceive at last the praise, well
done good and faithful servant"
Bro. b. F. Dillingham; was re-
ferred to as the Colossus of
Rhodes" (Roadsl by the toast
master, and asked to speak on the
prosperity of the Islands" He
said he was too much of an infant
in masonry to presume to make a
speech. A good mason he believed
must be a good Christian. Ad-
miral Cervera's chivalrous recog-
milton of the bravery of the seven
men his enemies who sunk the
Merrimac showed that there was a
good deal of human fraternity in
the world.
Mr.. Neumann said that Mr..
Robertson had only told of one Of
the three things the war was do
ing. He supposed he meant to
say for the second the unity pro-
noted between America and Eng
lond. Brother Jonathan and John
Bull had hitherto been caricatur-
ing each other. 1t was the voice
of Chamberlain that first resound
ed through Europe, and the adage
was realized, Blood is thicker
than water" The two nations
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