The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
That Fraternity Attends Service
at st. Marks.
OBSERVED ST. JOHNS DAY
In Accordance With the Custom of the
Order Throughout the World-Rev.
Alfred Brown Preached an
Eloquent Sermon.

invariably Junn the BdptlSl, VINO was
born .'at the beginning of the second
half of the year TAO A. U. c." accord
ing to secular history, is practically
the patron saint of the order, and his
memory is honored by it much after
the manner in which the Knights Of
st. John or hospitalers honored it in
ages past. 1t is the custom of Free
Masons to attend divine service on st.
Johns day. So it was that last night
the members of Acacia lodge, No. 49,
A. F. and A. M, attended st. Mark s
Episcopal church, in body, and list
ened to an eloquent sermon by the rec
tor, Rev. Alfred Brown, addressed par
ticularly to the Masons In addition to
the Masons large congregation was
present.
The rector took his text from the first
lesson. Kings VII, II, 13-as follows:
And King Solomon sent and fetched
Hiram out of Tyre He was a Widows
son of the tribe of Naphtali and his
father was man of Tyre, a worker in
brass; and he was filled with wisdom
and understanding and cunning to
work all works in brass. And he came
to King Solomon and wrought all his
work.
The building of the temple of Solo
wonderful pillars was the theme of the
sermon, the argument being that
strength and beauty as united in the
temple was significant of the strength
and beauty of the perfect life.
About this divinely suggested tenn
pie, with all it's several items of
grandeur and Device" said Mr.. Brown,
acteristic than the idea which CLEANS
forth from the description of the pill
lars built by Hiram--upon the top of
the pillars was lily work. an illustra-
ton of that work into which he threw
his thoughts, not only about the ma
terial temple, but about all divine
realities: Strength and beauty are in
this sanctuary The pillars, how mas
sively grand, towering and sublime, yet
fretted over and covered with grace
fulness. Even lily work of choicest
artifice. The man who built them
threw his soul into them, and his soul
was inspired to do the best with his
hands. All work ceases to be drudgery
when the workmen think of themselves
and their work as from and for God.
How shall we most fifty express our
sense of the divine worth? was the
thought then. What is it today? To
serve God is not simply to be rapt by
religious emotions. Believing that in
the simpler work-a-day matters of con-
scientiousness and painstaking about
our daily calling it is within our power
to please to grieve him, let us give him
our best. H.a ~
Let there be Soundness and honesty
of service in Gods spiritual temple All
work that is worth doing at all is
worth doing well. Let the giver give
cheerfully; let the teacher give himself
in his teachings; let service be not by
constraint, but willingly.
"A cum of cold water NAV not ha
unacceptable, but meat may sometimes
be more serviceable and more accept
able.
"a prayer for the troubled is good,
but suffering patience is better.
We'll doing is doing ones best.
"A really spiritual endeavor is an eff
fort in which the spirit of a man shows
itself, as in a good painting a mans
soul peers from the canvas.
I'm ones own soul culture we should
not present a MANNED sacrifice, when
we ought and can offer an unblemished
one. Let all our works be done in
truth, as in Gods sight and for his in
spection and finished with lily work.
If upon the top of Hiram's pillars was
lilly work, SO majesty, crowned with
gracefulness, will be found in all the
divinest thought. Religion is one of
these divine thoughts. Revelation is to
provoke religious life. and in religious
life there is beauty as well as strength:
strength as well as beauty. Upon the
top of it's pillars is lily work These
words have been applied to the frame
of nature as follows: How mighty
and massive is natures frame Strong
are the worlds pillars. Yet what pro-
cession of things graceful, even sport
lively graceful, does the earth contain
Beautiful is the lily work.
s'In all Gods works will be found per-
f1oA L, 4 H.,
spiritual in man the same blending of
the strong and the beautiful. The mas
siveness of religious principle which it
takes time to establish and build up is
adorned with many grace and
crowned with many flower picture
1.-THE pillars must be before the florid
ornamentation; the strong mountains
before the forests and flowers of the
field. Strength, assertive and resistant,
is essential in healthy, spiritual life.
BE We strong we are commanded: be
We very courageous
Strong are the pillars of Gods spirit
ual temple, deeply laid the foundation
in force of principle. in power of life.
Beauty is also in Gods sanctuary, and
upon the top was lily work. one of its
simplest illustrations. Nature fur
nishes a series of types in this respect
and similarly out of the settled rock
like principles of religious faith spring
many beautiful plant of grace. From
Davids son Solomon has sprung the
greater SON. From the temple and its
beauty of form and ritual has sprung
the church and its beauty of holiness
From the stern law which the master
came to fulfil (not to Destroy have
sprung the sweet graces of Christian
faith, hope and charity.
LAS in the human life of Christ, so
also in the manifestations of Christ
ever since, brave endurance and meek
patience is exemplified strength, man
~ and courageous; beauty, touching.
pathetic and graceful.
"Those pillars in Solomon's temple
beautiful in their grandeur-they rep
resent true religious life, massive,
towering. sublime, yet crowned with
the graceful, wrought upon the top in
lilly work You are firm and true to
principle; let the beauty of holiness
beam forth from you. Let not the
sacredness of your life ever be forbid
ding-shine forth. Possessed of the en-
during vitalities of the hidden life be
also clothed in the comely garment of