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solute silence, hearing and seeing. OBJ
serving and absorbing knowledge; they
were subjected to insults and annoy
ances, but by their continued silence
proved their fortjtude and humility.
His school, after existing for thirty
years, was suddenly brought to close
through the malice and instigation of a
certain wealthy and influential man
named Kilo, of Crotona, who, having
been rejected for admission, in a spirit
of revenge aroused an excited mob who
attacked the scholars while assembled
in the house of Milo, set fire to the
building, burned his writings, and
about sixty of his disciples were then
burned to death. The school was
never reopened and after the death OF
Pythagorus summaries of his teach
ings were made by some OF his discl-
pies, yet many have to this day re-
manned unexplained.
He was bern at Samos about 5S6 years
before Christ, he studied under Milesus
who acquired his knowledge in Egypt.
That he was the greatest man OF his
day cannot well be questioned. His
knowledge was so thorough compared
with any other of his day that he
needs must leave behind him the char
acter of a great and learned man. He
traversed through Asia, Africa anc
Europe in search of knowledge. IN
Egypt he was initiated into several or
ders of high priesthood and raised TO
the sublime degree Of Master Mason.
He lived twenty-five years IN Egypt,
when Cambyses sent him to Babylon
and Persia, where he studied under the
Chaldean magicians and returned 10
Greece nine years afterwards, and mere
he became the head Of Sect ALREADY
referred to. After the destruction OF MS
school he fed to Matapontium ana
sought a refuge from his enemies IN the
Temple of the MUSES., where, 1t is salo,
be died of starvation SOS years before
the birth of Christ, at the advanced age
of 80 years.
His superior knowledge Of the
sciences wrought mighty reVolutlon N
Greci3n thought and progress, geometry,
and architecture became the passion OF
the age, and taking man as the modei
of architecture, the fine arts were cul-
tivated with great energy and enthusl-
asm. The knowledge of the arts and
sciences became stepping stone 10
power and influence. Masonry had
ever taken the lead in cultlyatlng ana
storing the mind with useful knowledge
and disseminating the principles OF
friendship, morality, brotherly love and
virtue: and Greece, instead OF borrow
ing knowledge from Egypt, became the
teachers Of Egypt and OF the Whole
civilized world.
We have taken brief imaginary
Journey, retracing our steps back, back,
back through that long avenue OF time
to those glimmering lights that we SO
dimly see shining away back in the dis
tant past, away back to those lights
that seem so small at such an immense
distance, but when we approach them
they shine with the respondent bril-
liancy CT the everlasting stars in the
canopy of heaven
We stand amazed at the wonderful
events that have occurred during that
space of time; nations have f1ourished
and decayed-they are not. They have
passed away like pale mushrooms ap-
pearing in the dewy crystal tipped
grass Of the early dawn, but when
even came they passed away like
the shadow and continueth not, or, like
the fleeing vapor of the early morn,
have been blown away by the breath OF
that almighty ruler of the Universe,
leaving no visible trace of their
grandeur, greatness and strength. Their
grandeur has vanished, their greatness
diminished, their strength has become
the weakness Of hoary old age, but the
names of these great and good Masons
will live while the eternal ages roll.
Lives of great men all remind us,
We might make our lives sublime.
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time,
Footprints that perhaps another,
Sailing DER lifes solemn man.
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing may take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
| With will for any fate
| Still achieving. still pursuing,
| Learn to labor and to wait.