Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-09
PYTHAGORUS.
Bv Thomas G. Jenkins.

When we look back through the long
vista of passed ages, our attention IS
necessarily attracted to certain proml-
nent marks and deep depressions made
by the feet of great men on the sands
of the past centuries OF this terrestrial
globe Missionary can pre-emlnently
lay claim to it's share of eminent men,
men who have lived to make imperish-
able names for themselves and confer
permanent benefits for the race Of
mankind following them down the I'M
ending ages of eternity-men who have
made this world better and brighter
for their transitory passage through
this human span of life.
Tonight time will permit us to
touch but lightly as the butterfly wings
its flight from flower to flower merely
passing to glance and hurriedly sip the
Nectar from the lives Of these eminent
Masons, each culver of the wing watt
ing us backward from 100 to geo years
leaving unnoticad and untouched many
of the brightest flowers Of wisdom and
philosophy which have lived to teach,
to bless and cheer the weary wayfarer
journeying through this changing
world of joys and sorrows.
(Bu6 uUliuTSu anu IulTly-JWO years
back and we are brought face to face
with one of the brightest lights. one
of the grandest men that this world has
ever produced; his true and kindly
spirit moves among Us yet. His clean
pure life only emphasis the fact that
truth is divine attribute and the
foundation Of every virtue. His name
sends a thrill of patriotism through
every nerve and fibre of the human
frame. Who can SO truly ask, Lives
there a man with soul SO dead who
never to himself has said this is my
own. my native land?'
His monument stands to-day in the
capital Of this free and enlightened
COUNTY, bearing this beautiful inscrip-
ton: First in peace, first in war, and
first in the hearts OF his countrymen.
1t is needless to say I'refor to our great
Immortal brother, George Washing
ton, first President Of the United
States of America, to whose sacred
memory / bow in admiration. acknowl
edging him next to Goo the Father of
this great and glorious country
Pack 126 years and we are in The
presence of one whom kings delighted
to honor, the last of that noble line
of operative Grand Masters. No man
did more to establish the fallen glory
of our vanerated order, no man did
more to render it honorable in the eyes
of wise and good men. to be an ac-
complished and scientific Mason. In
his day kings, princes and mobiles es-
teemed it a high privilege to become
members of that craft which engen-
herad 1.-The love of the sciences, shedding
luster and glory over the government
that patronized it. The name of that
learned and distinguished astronomer.
mathematician and philosopher who
was contented to be dragged up in a
frail basket TO the dizzy heights of the
top of st. Pauls Cathedral at the en-
inent peril Of his life, will live for
cycles after that browning masterpiece
OF his skill, that model of excellence
which immortalized his name, lies
crumbling in the dust His tomb in the
crypt of the cathedral is appropriately
inscribed with the words: "If you seek
his monument look around" Sacred
to the memory of Sir Christopher
Wren.
Another step and we are shaking
hands with that great artist whose
works in sratuary are models even Of
the present day. and will probably con-
tinue to be models as long as civiliza-
ton and the love Of the beautiful ex-
lists In the loving hearts of humanity
He was the most celebrated drafts
man and the most distinguished artist
of that or perhaps any age. His long
life was spent in the glorious cause of
both operative and speculative Ma
sonary, and he left behind him fame as
imperishable as the worlds history
The high esteem in which Missionary
was held in that day will be illustrated
by stating that Cosmo, the Duke of
Tuscany. stole the corpse of Michael
angelo. and at the head of grand
procession CT Masons buried it with