The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-12-11
HIGH TRIBUTE OF
BROTHER MASONS
COL LODGE ADOPTS REso-
LUTloNs ON DEATH or SEN
ATOR cARMAcK.
HIS MURDER is DENOUNCED
Was q Great Crime Against The
Laws Of Almighty God
Ard Man.

+ Columbia Lodge Of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons has adopted the fol-
i lowing resolutions on the death of the
late Senator Edward ". Carmack:
Again the alarm has sounded at the
door Of our lodge room. Brother Ed
ward Ward Carmack, whom we all es-
/ teemed and loved, has been summoned
to appear before the Great Ruler OF
the Universe, there to give an account
of his work here. We bow our hearts
and heads with profound grief and sor-
row at his untimely and cruel death,
and are amazed and astounded that
any one could have conspired to take
the life Of so good and so great a
man as our beloved Carmack.
/ No freemason upon whom the pre-
cepts OF our noble order have made an
/ impression for good, or has ever had
responsive awakening as to the duty
he owes to his fellowman could help
being shocked and Mortified at his
untimely end.
He had done nothing that merited
censure or reproach much less death.
All Masons know, that one of our prin-
cipal tenets is that Mason should
give up his life rather than his in
tegrity, and that he should never vio-
late his vows or betray a trust.
While Brother Carmack was young
in years as a Mason, he had compre-
hended correctly it's cardinal virtues
and inestimable jewels, and in his
death showed his inflexible fidelity to
right and duty We have no doubt
but that the work of his life has
passed inspection, and been approved
by the Grand Architect of the Uni
verse, and he given to "eat of the
hidden mama" and has received the
white stone with new name" that
will insure him perpetual and UNI
speakable happiness at the right hand
of God our Father,
He stood for civic righteousness and
the betterment of mankind; for the
suppression of evil and wrong doing;
for the destruction of that which tend
ed to drag men down and bring sor-
row, misery and want upon the
women and children of the whole
country; he sacrificed his life to save
others he died because he dared to
oppose the powers of evil, Truth and
justice are divine attributes and can
never perish and he who looses his
life in just and righteous cause will
live forever in the hearts of the good
and true,
Every principle of freemasonry has
been violated in his taking off.
Our teaching and precepts would be
as sounding brass and tinkllng SYM
bols should we fail to put the seal of
condemnation upon this great crime
against God and man
Therefore, be it resolved, by Column
bia Lodge, Number 81, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, that In the death OF
Brother Carmack the fraternity has
lost true and worthy member, the
church a consistent and devoted fol-
lower the State and Nation a tried
friend and patriot, who could not be
bought or deferred from the right, his
wife and son a loving and tender hus-
band and father
Resolved, that as Masons and
friends we hold him up to the world
as noble and worthy character, and
pledge ourselves to keep warm in our
hearts his memory and noble deeds,
and unselfish life, and use every hon.
orable means to drive the liquor traf-
fc from our State and Nation, for
which he died a martyr.
Resolved, that we most sincerely,
and deeply sympathlze with
ais heart-stricken widow and son in
heir great sorrow and bereavement,
md commend them to Him who will
old them in the arms of His love and
protection.
Resolved that these resolutions be
spread upon our minutes; that we
wear the usual badge of mourning for
hirty days, and that a copy be fur
lished the family of the deceased, the
ounty papers and Tennessean for
publication, and copy sent to South
Iemphis Lodge, No. 11S, F. and A. NJ,
I which he was a member.
j. r. WILLIAMSON,
w G. WHITTHORNB,
" II SMITH