Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-28
ENTERING ITS NEW ABODE.
Continued from First Page.


a single element of attractiveness,
their union has developed and
multiplied the factor of strength
We have three masonic streams
with sources in France, Scotland
and California. They have con
veyed and from this evening have
their confluence in this temple.
Each has its peculiar character
istic aud traverses different fields
but this fact does not unfit them
for conjunction. Shall we not
regard these streams as tributary
to the greater and grander stream
of masonry in general, whether
one predominating or controlling
but all blending in the general
welfare.
May there be no more friction
between our lodges than between
the streams which unite in
greater river, all of which flow in
the same direction with no rivalry
save the rivalry of unity.
Mr.. Toastmaster and brethren
of the sister lodges with whom we
are from this time brought into
closer association it will ever be
the proudest recollection of my
masonic career that l was Master
of LIE Progress at time when the
last barrier to unity was burned
away. 1 close with the fervent
hope that this unity may become
so perfect and assume such diff
mite form that this temple may
ultimately itself become a source
of the purest masonry, and that
we may all surrender our foreign
charters and ever bear true allie
glance to the Grand Lodge of
Hawaii.
MAY brotherly love prevail and
every moral and social virtue ce-
ment u.s."
Bro. Il. p. Dole was asked to
speak to the sentiment, "Masons
Past and Present in the Hawaiian
Islands," He caused a roar by
saying he never missed his friend |
the toast. master in a Masonic
lodge excepting on an occasion
like this. Presumably the speaker
had been selected to respond to
this subject because there were
few there who knew less about it.
Yet from the unity he saw around
those tables he judged that
masonry must be a success in Ho.
nolulu. The now and the then,
the past and the future, which
should include the present, made
up the field of masonry. There
was great discomfort throughout
the world. People could not get
in their education the knowledge
that would enable them to cope
with such discomfort. Preachers
would tell them that only the
Church of Christ could deal with
the sorrows of humanity. But he
could tell them that masonry
the parent of all kindred ORDERS
had something TO DO with teaching
the principles of brotherly love.
With the Knights of Pythias and
other orders, following fhe lead of
there were four millions
OF missionaries Cor the fraternity
of the human race in the world.
cloud applau .se.)
Mason. that are gone-gone
out not forgotten"
20 on A. Hassinger said: Wor
10 ..pful sir, Bro. Toastmaster and
brethren. - Let us for few
moments draw aside the veil that
has closed down upon years that
are past and gone, and looking
back to the days when Free
masonry, the handmaiden of reli-
gion as we'll as of civilization,
brought her searchlieht rays to
bear upon these mid Isl
ands, we find that in lS43, just 55
years ago, few pioneer settlers
and visiting ship masters, formed
at Honolulu, a Masonic Lodge
which they named LIE Progress de
rOceanie. This Lodge was insti
tuted under the authority of Bro.
LIE Teller, the Captain of French
whaleship who was duly en-
powered by the Supreme Council
of France to institute Masonic
Lodges in ports of the Pacific
Ocean where no other Masonic
jurisdiction existed.
Distance from the parent body,