Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-14


August 11-Mizrah. M. $.
August IS-Aremc. No. 10.
August 1a-Esthcr, No. >. called off.
Commander Francis A. Sebring of Co
llmbia Cominandery, No. =, is a busy
man these days. Aside from the in
creasing number OF petitions that are
crowding in upon the commandery. max
in., q summer 'calI-off' impossible. Com
mander Sebring is giving a great deal
of his time and his closest personal at
tention to the forthcoming Masonic pill
grimase To Atlantic City September 10
to II. The reduced cost of round trip
hotel and accessories have caught the
fancy of many of the fraternity, and the
outlook promises large delegation to
the seaside the second week in Septem-
Der. The pilgrimage is not restricted 10
members of Columbia Comlnandery. or,
indeed, to the Knights Templar but
members of the fraternity from the blue
lodge up invited and assured the
time of their lives Those who pro-
pose TO take The pilgrimage are required
to enroll not later than September l..
that the hotel at Atlantic City may know
how to provide for the party. The cost
Of the trip is put as low as SlJ for the
five days.
The religious services al the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home Sunday, August
~. at : o'clock in the afternoon. will be
held under the auspices of Arminius
Lodge, No. - John Wischhusen. master.
Rev. DR.. Abram Simon and Rev. George
Brodthage will conduct the services. Con-
vayances will meet the cars at Takon1a
Park. Master WischhuSen has extended
"a tppn aI.tI "a n tn h.a fy.lta -
attend.
The last circular of La Fayette Lodge.
No. 10, announced that the stated COM
munication of the lodge which falls on
August 10 would. it was hoped, find the
business of the lodge in such condition
tina, the communication might be called
off. There is no bulletin to what
would be done posted at the Temple.
The councils of cryptic Masonry, Wash
neton and Adoniranl, calendared to meet
the coming week, have been called off
till September.
S. r., will confer the. fourth and fifth
degrees at Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1907
q street northwest. next Tuesday even
ing, beginning at 80 O'Clock.
Kallipolis Grotto of the Yelled Prophets
gathered in Il score of new members at
its last session. The officers and mem
bers of the srotto are actively proselyt-
ing and express confidence that there
will be a round hundred initiates to re-
ceiye the degrees at the ceremonial SEES
sion in September. 1t is said that many
who have not heretofore beer kindly dis
posed toward the new order are being
Won over by the clear exposition now
being made of its tenets and purposes.
Provincial Grand Master Richardson
has announced the following staff of Of
licers in the Royal Order OF Scotland
for the current year:
James Daniel Richardson. provincial
grand master for the United States;
George Mayhem Moulton. Chicago. pro-
vincal senior grand warden: James
Isaac Buchanan. Pittsburg. provincial
Junior grand warden: William Oscar
Roome. Washington. provincial grand
secretary; William Holman. New York,
provincial grand treasurer: Thomas
Robert Morrow, Kansas City, provincial
grand swordbearer; William Bromwell
Melish. Cincinnati. Ohio. provincial
grand bannerbearer; Richard Pardee
Williams, Washington. provincial grand
chaplain; George Edgar Corson. Wash
ington, provincial first grand marischal:
Sterling Kerr, jr., Washington, provin-
cial second grand marschal; Andrew
William Kelley, Washington. provincial
first grand steward; William Busby,
McAlister, Okla, provincial second
grand steward Everett Chamberlin
Benton, Boston. provincial third grand
steward; Henry Somerfield GOWNS.
South Bound Brook. n. J., provincial
fourth grand steward: James Hays
Trimble. Washington, provincial grand
guarder: Harold Postle Carl Spencer
Stewart. Detroit. to be orSanist
In 1878 the Grand Lodge at Edin-
burgh. Scotland. instituted the Provin-
cial Grand Lodge of the United States.
with Albert Pike its provincial grand
master who held the office until his
death in 1891. He was succeeded by
Josiah Hayden Drummond of Maine.
who died in 1907. when James Daniel
grand commander of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite, was made pro-
yincial grand master.
II is impossible to say when the degrees
of H. r. NJ. as conferred in the ROYAL
Order of Scotland, We're established. but
there is every probability that originally
they were the same as. OF similar to. the
rite practiced by the Essences. a body
which as was sat Sfa torilE shown by a
writer in Blackwood's Magazine january,
1910 DIP. 112-116). not III existence,
as Josephus alleges, before the Christian
era Its members were the early
Christians themselves. who assumed the
name Essences to avoid persecution. TAX
ing their name from the essen, or breast
plate of the high priest. BY institutins
AZ the same time different degrees of in
struction, they prevented their prosecutors
from getting any knowledge of their
tenets except from the neophytes, who
could communicate little.
The Culdees introduced Christianity into
Scotland, and there Is every reason to
believe they preserved among themselves
a knowledge of the ceremonies adopted
in Judea.
The building of the Abbey of Melrose
and other places of public worship i'll the
twelfth century by a band of Workmen
from abroad, under the direction of an
experienced master. or architect, was the
means by which Free Masonry was in
troduced into Scotland, and it would ap
pear that the Culdees and these builders
soon came to a mutual understanding
with regard to ii. This, perhaps. Is the
period when. the order of III. X. NJ. be-
came Masonic, and was employed to eX
plain in a correct Christian manner the
symbols and rites employed by the archi-
tects.
This may also explain how the Royal
Order is adapted to all who acknowledge
the great truths of Christianity, as SYM
holic Masonry is intended to apply to
all who acknowledge supreme God. 1t
is also highly probable that it was in
consequence of this understanding be-
tween the builders and the Culdees that
the three degrees OF St. Johns Ma
sonry, and more particularly the master