The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-19
MECCA OF MASTERS.
Continued from Twelfth Page.)


hood, sympathy. and help, of comfort
and aid and ministry.
All over the world the order is
growing. Since June l there has been
{. net gain of more than 5000 members
in Georgia, and twenty-four new
lodges have been organized. To-day
there are nearly $4,000 followers of the
white banner in the state of Georgia.
But we must not rest on our laurels
but shoulder to shoulder, carry forward
the banner and advance our princi-
pies. until no man has known it not
until the world is linked in universal
brotherhood.
odd Fellowship is the great answer
to the first great question that sprang
from the hearts of man. 1t answers
tne question that trembled on the
blanched lips of Cain when he cried:
Am my brothers keeper?'
1t answers the first great
plea for the brotherhood of man,
and the answer come ringing down
through the centuries like the throb-
bling notes of some great human vio-
lin.
Not Mythical Order.
The brotherhood of man was once
looked upon as existing only in the
roseate hues of the clouds, a subject
DER which philosophers might dream
and poets sing. But five men sent
their kite UP into the clouds, like
franklin of old, and from the roseate
hues they brought down the dream
and applied it practically in the cool
hands that minister to the parched
lips, to the feveret brow; in the lips
that whisper words of comfort and
hope, in the warm, tender hand-clasp
of brotherhood.
1T is. not charity but Justice; char
ity warmed by justice and sweetened
by love. Man has been starving for
a kind word, dying for want of
warm hand-clasp, and this want we
minister to. The lines are drawn
strongly against selfishness and greed.
1t teaches that all men are equal. 1t
teaches Independence. We are but
cogs in a great wheel letter of the
alphabet. Alone, that letter is only
a symbol, but under the touch of
master it becomes the Ten Command
ments or the Sermon on the Mount.
The history Of eightyfour years has
written upon the order the word I'm
perishable.'"
The speaker closed with a brilliant
peroration, picturing the future of the
order. spreading into all parts of the
world until the wild rose of to-day
morrow and, lost in the universal
love, the Tower Babel becomes but a
myth.
other Features of the Meeting.
One of the features of the reception
to Grand Master Hynds last night
was the first appearance of Forest
City Canton, No. 1. Immediately after
the committee had escorted the grand
master to his chair, the Canton, clad
in their full regalia, entered the hall
under the command of DR.. w. B.
Orear. They were drawn up before the
grand master, and as the command
presented arms, the commander well
coined the master to Savannah, and
announced this as the first appearance
of the Canton.
Following the address, an hour or
more was spent in Misunderstanding, the
members of the lodges and of the two
Rebekah lodges all coming forward to
greet the grand master.
The programme for the early part of
the day yesterday was carried out in
detail as announced in the Morning
News. To-day at.7noon a committee,
composed of the noble grands of all
the lodges of the city and of the two
Rebekah lodges wifi meet the grand
master at the hotef at noon and escort
him about the city.sr They will then
proceed to Thunderbolt, where an elab-
crate fish dinner will be served.
The remainder of the day will be
spent with Grand Secretary Tyson in
discussing matters Of interest to the
Grand Lodge. Tomorrow the grand
master will leave for his home in
Atlanta.