The Republican journal., 1905-06-22
WALDO DISTRICT LODGE. LOG. 7

was held with Belfast Lodge No. 30
Saturday, June 18th. The meeting was
called to order at II a. m. by District
Chief Templar Tolman H. Fernald, and
the following officers responded to the
roll: District Vice Templar, Mabel
Rose; District Secretary, Elizabeth L.
Bracket; District Superintendent j.
T., Ella Pillsbury; District Sentinel, l.
W. Cottrell. The appointments for
vacancies were as follows: District
Counselor, E. R. Knowlton; District
Treasurer, Emma 1. Huxford; Chap
lain, Lora Maxcy, Past District Chief
T., NJ. J. Dow: Marshal, l. w. Cottrell;
Deputy Marshal, Minnie L. Knowlton;
Guard, Lewis Godding. The degree
was conferred upon eight candidates.
During the noon recess dinner was
served by the local lodge in the con-
yenient dining room adjoining the hall.
The afternoon session convened at l
O'Clock, when the reports of officers
state of the order in the county was
given by the secretary as materially
unchanged, bul that new interest was
being manifested in some localities.
The address OF the District Chief Tenn
plar was able and exhaustive and by
unanimous vote was ordered to be
printed.
DISTRICT TENIPLAR's ADDRESS.
To Waldo District Lodge:
Brothers and Sisters: After period
of several years we again meet in quar-
terly session in the beautiful city of
Belfast, and it affords me great pleasure
at this time to bid you welcome to our
city and lodge room, and to extend to
you the hand of fellowship. brotherly
love, and good will, in this good cause
of temperance.
While we who are today engaged in
this great cause may never witness the
vast amount of good that will be accom-
plished by this and other meetings, OF
a similar nature, we are led to COM
parison of all other great and good
works, the seeds of which have been
sown long before the time of harvest
appeared.
We hope to reform many from the
terrible habits of intemperance, and
while we are INDUCING in this hope we
know that good impression is being
made upon the young and rising gener-
alton who are soon to follow us Ill this
work of humanity, and will IL doubt
point to you, who are today engaged in
the work, as having sown the seed that
placed their feet upon a firm foundation
and inspired their hearts to a work that
is worthy to be called good.
We expect that our gathering here
will infuse new life and energy into
this great work of temperance, and
this meeting.
In looking over the past we see many
mistakes we have made and much LETT
undone that should have been done.
Let us look back Oh these past mistakes
and lost opportunities only to be bene-
fitted by them and resolve to do better
in the remaining months of our District
Lodge year. We also see much good
that has been accomplished, for which
we should ''thank God and take cour-
age
There is much to be done in Waldo
County, i'll educating the people, es-
peciaiy the young, in the great truths
Of temperance and prohibition, as we'll
10 assist and encourage our Sheriff and
others who have the enforcement of
law III charge. Let us go forth, i'll the
name OF the Gentle NaZarine, to this
work which is SO dear to every one who
has taken our holy vow and we shall
surely come off victorious.
The ladies God bless them. Here as
elsewhere they are foremost in every
great and good cause. They make our
entertainments what they are, and are
never firing i'll their efforts to advance
the interests of the temperance cause.
And when the mothers, the wives, and
the sWeethearts, are interested in any
cause, what should we expect but sue
cess
Mothers, teach your children that
temperance is a great virtue. Wives,
remind your husbands that if they de-
sire to be all that men can be to a wife
and family they must be temperance
men. Sweethearts, if you desire to be
a happy wife and mother, beware of
your choice Think well and long be-
fore deciding.
It has been said, ''Old men for
council, young men for war" In our
lodges we need the older ones to give
the work dignity, and to council and to
do the work of educating; while the
younger are needed for the more active
work outside, as we'll as inside, the
lodge room. Let not one despise the
other, but let us go forth, hand in hand,
heart to heart, to this work, for q
''house divided against itself cannot
stand; therefore let nothing come up
to cause any division among our
workers
1t has been said that Good Templary
must be building-building lodges,
building houses, building good deeds,
building character, building happiness
and love, all about them" There is
room in the world for all the building
of this kind that can be done by all the
well-disposed everywhere. Let the
Carnegles build libraries, the Rookie
fellers build churches, but the great
Good Templar Order should increase its
efforts to build happy homes and make
happy men, women and children.
Fraternity is one great principle of
our Order. Every member is a brother
or sister, and the institution taken as a
whole is a great brotherhood in the
family of man. 1t is a society where
all the members have a common in
terest, and are bound together by strong
and enduring ties. The Good Templar
Order contempates the whole globe as