The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-07

understand that the other man is at the
bottom like himself. Each Of us should
understand that and try to approach the
subject at issue or any problem that
arises with a firm determination not to
be weak or foolish. That Is helpful TO
your neighbor.
'"Timid endurance of wrong doing may
often be to commit one of the greatest
evils that one possibly can commit against
ones fellows. but we will acknowledge
that while insisting upon that, that there
must be no yielding to wrong ana yet
IL is ever necessary to remember that
you cannot appreciate the rights of the
case until you are able to see and under
stand how your neighbor looks at 1t,
how he Is affected by 1t You take any
lodge, where, as 10 he case in our own
little lodge, you see the capitalist ana
wagc worker, men of ell classes, men OF
every lSird Of social position ana wealth.
and see them meeting together as Ma
sons in the fullest sense of the WORD.
when one sees a lodge such as that,
meeting such as that, one sees how
certain small fragment Of our Industrial
problem is to be solved.
1T is not possible to present the idea
that 1 would Ike to bring QUITO nave
all the best of all classes represented in
masonry IN every ulSthaClI Jul ~ 40 F'S
sible for each of us to get out into the
world trying to apply in his dealings
with his fellows the Lessons of Masonry
as they are taught in the lodge and as
they are applied IN the brotherhood. Ana
8, we can practically learn from Wash
ington how to deal with problems OF
today.
TT was not Washington's genius alone
that made him a good man OF all tlmes'
You. Worshipful Grand Master, here TO-
day spoke of the great colossal world ns-
ures ;of Alexander, Of the career OF Han
nibal. the mightiest warrior Of the ages;
of Caesar and Of Napoleon, each of whom
combined in a wonderful degree the ca
pacities Of Emperor, ruler and law giver.
Great men, but twice fortunate the ma
lions that number no one of them among
its men. Great men who loom ever larg-
err through the ages but well 1t is for us
that we see their figures through the
rnists across the seas Great men, but
greater far was washington; greater far
was that man who should have been
Mason-Abraham Lincoln. Great men,
but less great than our heroes because
our heroes really did have 1t In them to
prefer their sellowmen to themselves to
prefer the state to their ambition, to
their own fancies or real well-being be-
cause our heroes were heroes for us pri-
mariIy and not for themselves.
I'VE are not here to have chance. any
of us, to do any work that remotely ap-
uroaches the work done by them. But
each of us has his work and accordingly
as in the aggregate all of us do or do not
do our several tasks, will we be judged
Accordingly as this is done or not done
will this nation succeed or fail.
washington and Observation-Disclosures
who when he came into a lodge OF Free
and Accepted Masonry came in on an &C
tual quality with an humble farmer or
mechanic or any one else who is In that
lodge. washington, the Virginia country
gentleman, the gentleman OF good stand
ing. a man brought up for work. Ot
course no man can he a good citizen or
do good for our government II ne mas
rot been brought up for work. but ne
vas brought up to work under broader
ssier and softer conditions than the ma
jority OF his fellows.
EVA arlington on one side and Lincoln
on the ether. Lincoln. the uncouth farm
er's boy, was reared in the grinding toll
and poyerty of a small cabin on the from
tier The man who worked with his
hands; the man who never knew what II
was to walk in soft places OF the eartn
and who made his way up until in our
pantheon his figure stands beside the dead
hero OF Mount vernon Ihere are TWO
things to be remembered. There Is just
that much of temptation before our
people-a temptation that Is just as i'm
portant to be overcome and thrust TO
one side. the temptation TO defy improp-
erlv the lack of material being; the lack
of successes.
oAs there is temptation TO bow down
over much to successes there Is also the
lack of appreciation There is little
hook that has been recently printed
translated from the French. written by an
Alsatian by the name of Frank Wagner,
who II he is not a Mason. ought to be. IL
is called the Simple Life and l wish II
could be circulated as a tract IN numer-
Gus quarters of our country. Inc writer
dwAlis esneciauy upon two sides-to the
baaeness OF paying overmuch heed to