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

queut and regular masonic com
munication.
A year or two later, Lodge L'
Progress resumed its meeting'
and several of its original mem
bers who had joined in the organ
ization of Hawaiian Lodge, de-
mitted and returned to their "frs
love-"
From this on, there were two
regularly established Lodges in
Honolulu until 1895, when Pacific
Lodge was organized. All three
of these Lodges while working
under different grand bodies, are
in houri-hing condition and
Freemasonry in Honolulu, as a
fraternal, charitable, educational
and law abiding element, stands
perhaps unequaled in any com
munity of like proportions,
throughout the Globe.
In outlining-however briefly
the history of the Order as estab-
lished here, there comes to mind,
the men who wrote the Preface
and made that History. The two
are inse parable.
And it is fitting that we should
keep in fond, fraternal remem
brance, those who in the spirit of
Brotherly Love and Relief, erect
ed our first altar and built up our
Order in this mid-ocean land. 1t
was an outpost in a lonely sea but
destined to become a link in the
great chain of progress and the
brotherhood of man, connecting
the Occident with the Orient; and
those who first uplifted here our
Three Great Lights" builded bet
ter than they knew.
They were earnest workers,
those men of our pioneer days.
They were drawn from all classes
and conditions.
The merchant, the mechanic,
the doctor, the clergyman, the
lawyer, the mariner and the royal
sovereign of the land, all met up
on the evel in the lodge room,
and labored in unison for the wei
fare of the order.
All of the original membership
have passed away and with them,
a number of brethren of a later
daw, who during their lives were
in both word and deed, worthy
successors and followers of the
landmarks established by the
pioneer Brotherhood, continuing
stesdfast and faithful to their
VOWS until their summons came
for a Higher Lodge.
Two or three of the earlier
members Of both Lodge were
buried in other lands, but a large
majority are at rest beneath the
sod of the beautiful valley of
Nuuanu.
To name the brethren who were
tried and found true and who are
kept in memory because of their
good works, would require that
we call the complete roll of our
honored dead,
Fragrant be the Cassia
That DER their place OF rest shall
flourish.
But it is no reflection upon
other brethren who are gone, t.
say that among those who served
with marked credit and nearly all
of whom attained the mastership
of either or both LIE Progress and
Hawaiian Lodges and who were
buried here by the craft were
John Meek, Robert G Davis, j.
Irwin, Henry Macfarlane, Richard
Coady, VIM. Wond, Asa Thurston,
r. G. Wyiie, Kamebameha ",
Lorin Andrews, B. f. Durham,
III. f. Poor, A. l. Cartwright, G. S.
Barlow, Kalakau, Jno. o. Domi-
mis- and one whom we mourn as a
recent bereavement, Theodore G,
Porter.
They were prominent in bust
ness life, honored in the commu-
nifty as good citizens and exem
plary as Freemasons. AS such
we can fittingly apply to them the
sentiment expressed in the Toast.
"Gone, but not forgotten"
"The Objects and Influence of
Masonry" Mr.. Neumann an
nounced, was to be spoken to by
one who was not only specula
i've, but in a manner an operative
mason, the architect of that build