The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-04-10

The bodies of the Ancient and Ac-
copied Scottish Rite, sitting in the
Valley of Nashville, State of Tennes-
see, acknowledge and yield allegiance
to the Supreme Council Mother
Council of the World) of the Inspec-
tors-General, Knights Commanders
of the House of the Temple of Solo,
mon, of the Thirty-third Degree of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry for the Jurisdic-
ton of the United States of America
and Canada, were visited by the Sow
ereign Grand Commander, Supreme
Council of Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite and Sovereign Grand
Inspector-General for the States Of
Tennessee, Sir Milton F. Fields, 33rd
degree, Sunday, March, 20, in the
Asylum of Betheden Consistory in the
Valley of Nashville, Tenn, also in the
Oasis of the Menat Temple of the
Mystic Shriners in the Desert of Ten
nessee. The Sovereign Grand Inspec-
tor-General of the Supreme Council
was delighted with the work done in
the Valley under the management of
Prof. w. S. Thompson, 33rd degree,
Inspector-General of the Middle Val
ley of Tennessee, and his co-fraters,
Sir J. A. o. Broughton, 32nd degree,
Minister of State of Betheden Con-
sistory and Illustrious Potentate of
the Menat Temple of the Mystic
Shriners for the Oasis of the Valley
of Middle Tennessee, and Sir Mark
Parker, 32nd degree, Grand Master of
the Lodge Knights of Rose Croix of
the Betheden Consistory, was ad-
vanced to the honored and coveted
position of Sovereign Commander-in-
Chief of the Betheden Consistory of
the Valley of Nashville of the Scot
fish Rite Masonry; he was accoladed
and installed by the Sovereign
Grand Commander Supreme Council
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Masonry and Sovereign Grand Inspec'
tor-General for United States and
Canada Sir Milton F. Fields, of St.
Louis, Mo-, 33rd degree. There is
also now ready a large class of
Knights Templars to take the Scot.
fish Rite Degrees, which will be an
nounced later. Probably no event in
the masonic annals of historic Nash
vile has ever furnished more
anticipation and Importance than
the approaching Scottish Rite
Convocation that is to be held in the
month of April Every preparation
is being made to have the occasion
a memorable one. The Sovereign
lGrand Commander our beloved broth.
err Milton F. Fields, of st. Louis, Mo.
33rd degree, has honored this Ma.
sonic community by giving it the OPP
portunity to fix in the broad frma-
ment of Freemasonry a new Constel-
lation among Scottish Rite bodies
, that shall blaze, doubtless, as one OF
the most brilliant Of groups in the
!, Southern Jurisdiction, especially in
the Valley of Middle Tennessee. And
how vast an empire is this Southern
/ Jurisdiction, so termed over which
our Grand Commander and the SUI
- irene Council-the Mother Council
Of the World-have sway! Upon it.
= somewhere, there is always light;
, somewhere the dawn light in the
, East rends the veil of night, or else
, beyond the Peaceful Sea" to far
-. off Cathay, there fingers the purple
S Golden afterglow Of fading day tt
= mote from an eloquent apostrophC
of the Grand Commander, within
our boundaries we include the snow
mantled West with it's youthful vic