The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-02-20

and flow of ages and must forevel
continue so to be as long as it EN-
bodies in itself and preserves un.
tarnished the priceless records oi
mankino's noblest ideals, as long
as it formulates in burning words
of hope and faith, the earnest
strivings of mortals struggling fol
the Ii hit Of imperishable truth.
While Napoleon, the Great was
engaged in the conquest of Egypt,
he onoe Assem- bled his soldiers at
the foot of one of the giant pyra
mids which here and there stood
the Egyptian plains and addressed
them with the stirring introduo-
tory words, Soldiers of France
thirty centuries now look down
upsn YOU" In the same manner
might | point to Freemasonry.
une Of the worlds monumental
pyramids, with its broad base
resting firmly upon the solid foun-
dation of fraternal humanity, and
its side lines tapering to a point
expressive of now the noble Ma
sonic ideals of charity, justice,
harmony and duty must converge
or meet in the idea of the one Su-
preme Being, and then might l
too utter tho words. soldiers OF
enlightened truth; behold the
grand testimony of three thousand
years or more confronts you now
You stand at the foot of verit-
able Sinai Mountain of truth from
whose heaven. touching summit
has Il lng resuunded the glorious
principles of life and humanity. "
Not in the thunder and reverbera-
tions of fierce and fiery pattle, no.
in the CORY annals of strife and
fanaticism, is tho glory and
grandeur of Masonry revealed to
the mind, but in the soft and me-
lodious accent of brotherly love-
making itself heard in the rise and
fall of empires, out lasting all,
transcending all and sounding
persistently above the din and
noise of passing centuries.
Well might we prize and cher
ish this goodly heritage that has
come uown tolus and continue to
press bravely onward, hoping and
working for the millennium day
when "out of the noise of strife
and roaming shall come" Il
broader, juster broth srhood, a
deep equality of aim, postpon. ny
AL selfish seeking to. the general
good,
Surely there shall come time
when each shall to another
Be as God would have him
brother unto brother.
10 you, brethren of the Grand
Lodge of Mississippi who come
here prompted by your devotion
to the cause of Masonry, and il
the spirit of nest earnest an
ideal endeavour, we of the loca
lodge of Free Masons. say in til,
words OF Shakespeare: "Yom
worth is warrant for your well
come" We feel in welcoming
you that we are hunoring ourselves
in slowing honor to the men who
have given themselves to tht
teaching and living of the noblt
principles of Masonry. We shall
be- the better for your coming
since your deliberations in oul
midst must serve to intensit,
within US the consciousness of oul
duty and obligation as mem mbers
and impart to US a profounder ap-
probation of the powerful claims
of brotherhood. We fondly hops
that your stay IN our midst will
prove source uf pleasure to yuI
as it will most certainly TO US, anc
tnat when you return to your re-
spective homes. you will take
with you the plensantest recollec-
tians of the Convention OF 1904
In the name of Greenvlll,
Lodge 206. once more ! extend to
you hearty welcome and reaol
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