The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-12
Every business man of Bemidii
should arrange to attend the
mass meeting called by the Be
midi Improvement League for
next Saturday afternoon at 3.

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crowd an heretofore incalculable
amount into single lifetime, and
most things are done in hurry.
Compare the great number of books,
magazines, and papers, of our day
/ with even quarter century ago.
I More people are reading, and people
are reading more than ever before.
The scientific world is uncovering,
and the printed page is revealing to
US ever larger conceptions of truth.
But truth is only of value when, and
in SO far, as it is brought into such
relation with our lives as to affect
our living. To be of any real value,
facts must be related to each other
and to the common mass of truth.
This requires careful adjustment.
You have seen a child studying
over a sectional map of the United
States. He must not only know
each part, but he must know the
relation which each part bears to
the whole. We must think. And
you and [ must think of our facts.
And just here is our danger-that
we do not think enough. That We
are thinking as much as in the
past is not sufficient for our time.
To merely memorize the thoughts
of others, however brilliant those
thoughts may be, is not enough.
We must think for ourselves. We
must adjust our facts. It is I'M
/ doubtedly a~fact that there is suffi-
cient clothing in the world to COM
fortably clothe every man, woman
and child. It is equally fact that
thousands in our land have not
been comfortably clothed during
the past winter. Here are two
facts not properly adjusted. Some
one has not thought enough.
One of the most stupendous
facts in the worlds history is man
himself. We are come together to-
day to celebrate and commemorate
another fact of tremendous power
the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
do not need to argue with Knights
Templar concerning the facts them
selves, but is it altogether out of
place for me to ask the question
whether with us these facts are so
perfectly adjusted that one acts up
on the other.
The pupose of Free Masonry, if
| have read the lesson Alright, is to
help men, whose trust is in God,
that they may serve Him the better.
To this end are explained to US the
three great lights of Masonry, and
we are presented with and taught
the uses of the various working tools
of our profession. For like pur.
pose we are clothed with the emblem
of innocence. So too, we are caused
to look upon the symbol of Deity
ever suspended above the Masters
chair, and taught that in the pres
ence of Him, every Mason must
most humbly bow. Masonic Light
is but another way of expressing
Gods truth.
It must be borne in mind that
/ the events which gave birth to
Free Masonry took place at time
when Gods people Israel were
looking forward to the fulflment
of the promise of the coming OF
Messiah, and preparing themselves
| for His coming. 1t was nearly, il
not quite, a thousand years after this
that the Son of God assumed human
flesh and appeared among men.
4 It should fill our hearts with extreme
gratitude that one of our craft was
chosen Of God to herald the coming
of His Son, and that at least one
other was found worthy to be mum.
bered among the original twelve
who first bore the message of the
!. Gospel to a fainting world
And what was the Gospel that
these brothers of ours heard ano
taught Was it not this? That the
/ light for which they had been SC
long seeking had at last been dis