The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-08
Funeral of H. H. Mat
 thews Today.
[GHTs ARE ON GUARD
Masons from All Over Alabama
 Are Expected.
Remains of Grand Master of order win Re Laid To Rest Tn Oak-
 wood Cemetery This After

Henry H. Matthews. Most Worshipful
 Master of the Grand Lodge of the Ma
 sons of Alabama, and Past Grand Com mander of th&rnights Templar of Ala
 bama, lay last night in his last sleep in the Masonic Temple. They will take he slept in that place, which was no less
 sacred to him than though 1t were, in
 truth. a place of worship. He slept
 with the uniformed Knights, his bro- thers and comrades in good deeds. sit- ting about in the dress of the ancient order.
 Across the sombre casket of the man who had devoted his life to Masonry and to kindly deeds there rested the sword of his Knighthood. Intertwined with 1t was the belt of gold of the of- flee he had held. A plumed helmet lay upon it and about them were the flowers of a fragrant affection. The head of the great order of Ma sons in Alabama, he had been stricken in his manhood. The summons had come when he had not yet passed the
 meridian of his life, He was called to rest from the burdens of his labors when the shadows were yet before him and before he had begun the gradual
 descent of the hill that loses itself gradually In the shadows of old age But he came to his rest with the Ia uT6iS He ndd aWOH stlll lIGbH anu Wtth no leaf yet withered. The useful life, the strong life and the active life he
 had led was still fresh in the minds of men. The call from labor came so soon, that what he had done was still new and still appreciated, by the mer who had labored with him and Who had
 known the strength and beauty of his life and character.
 Great Honors to Dead. So. the Masons of Alabama are hon bring him as they have honored no man
 in recent years. They are honoring
 him, perhaps, as no Alabama Mason
 was ever honored. He died in office,
 with the harness upon him, the harness
 of the highest office in the gift of Ma
 sorry. It was only his just due. this
 high office, only what was due him by
 the Masonry, for his rare and splendid
 work for the spread of Masonic prin-
 ciples throughout Alabama.
 It was but short while ago that
 he was the head of that picturesque
 order. which has such cplendid his
 tory, the Knights Templar whose sto-
 ry runs through the pages of thous-
 and years history. Closel~ irterwe-
 ven are tttse. Tens'lar and Mason. It
 was, one might say, tho life-wcrk of
 Henry Mathews, to lattr for the
 spread of .ho principles of the Mason
 an dthe Knight Templar. He loved
 the two orders and the fulfllrAent of that love found expression in ceaseless, untiriny efforts for the4r strength and welfare,
 In death Templar and Mason could not but choose to remember how. full of useful endeavor his life had been. They could but pay honor to him, and they paid 1t as perhaps no other Ma son of the State has ever had 1t paid. They are coming from every part of Alabama to follow his remains to the grave. From Birmingham special train is coming to bring those who would pay the last sad tribute to the head of Alabama Masonry.
 He lies in state in the great Masonic