Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-09
MAS0NS At BANQUET
Great Scottish Rite Feast on
Maundy Thursday Held.
SILENT TOAST TO PIKE
President Taft Lauded by DR.. Abram
Simon.
SYMBOLIC LIGHTS PUT OUT
Rose Croix Knights Conduct Secret
Ceremony Peculiar to Day of
Masonic Calendar.

list Chapter, knights of Rose Croix, A
A. s. r., for Maundy Thursday, ant
purely esoteric in character. was follow
ed by the indispensable banquet" The
great feast of the year in Scottish Rite
Masonry, at Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1OOi
G street northwest. last night.
The symbolic rites were open to thos
only who are members of the order The!
were conducted. in the absence of Wise
Master Ellwood P. Morey, who is II
Mexico, by Fred NJ. Book, as acting wise
master. He also was POSTMASTER at the
banquet.
The banquet began with an invocation
by Judge Ivory G. Kimball. Six toasts
were drunk. one in silence to Albert Pike
central figure of American Scottish Rite
Masonry.
Dr.. Simon Lauds Taft.
In responding to the toast The Presi-
dent of the United States,'' the Rev. DR..
Abram Simon paid tribute to President
Taft, whose life. he said. is that of an
open book that records in all his field of
action from his schoolboy days to bis
present exalted position the fact that he
/ lives up to certain fixed principles.
He represents" said DR.. Simon, al
that is best in our American life and
civilization. Above and beyond all others
he is the Maundy Thursday President OF
| the United States. His whole career
breathes the spirit of goodfellowship and
pacfication.
His administration is going to mark
the tightest union Of the most diverse
forces we have ever witnessed. He will
| break down the barriers Of the past and
blaze the way to a more glorious future
His is not the character that finds
| its glory in the limelight nor it's courage
| in quarreis and the provocation Of his
fellow-men. But with that calm. quiet
lofty principles and love of country, tenn
pered with a we'll balanced judicial mind
he makes his conquests."
Referring to President Taft's work in
the Philippines. DR.. Simon said he had
transplanted in a few short months to
those islands, peopled with suspicious and
mistrusting Malays and others who were
utterly ignorant of American life and
its methods. that which it had taken
those who had lived before him more
than hundred years to develop in this
country.
He is the first Anglo-Saxon," said the
speaker, ever actually accepted and ac-
knowledged by the brown men of the
orient as a brother
DIR. Simon prophesied that during his
administration President Taft would
bring into closer fellowship and harmony
with one another all classes of society.
He is now writing said DR.. Simon,
1.-The best canto in American glory and
American democracy in reconciling the
spirit of American life. He has justified
America and her experiment in the eyes
of the orient, in the eyes of the whole
world.
Toast to Blue Lodge.
Grand Master Henry *. Simpson, in
responding to the toast, The Grand
Lodge Of Free and Accepted Masons of
the District Of Columbia lauded the
blue lodge.
The Maundy Thursday Sentiment
was responded to by Thomas &. Noyes.
In his address he referred to the strug-
gle among mankind from the remotest
ages of antiquity for power and wealth.
developing in it's course the thought of
man for what he has and not for what
he Is.
Here and there throughout the annals
of time, said Mr.. Noyes, we find a SUBJ
lime character. teacher, scientist, that
comes like a great searchlight that
pierces the darkness into the heavens
and reaches God. Such were Moses.
Socrates, Buddha and Jesus of Naza-
re5h. All these lights concentrate at
one point and reveal to us one God, the
God of all men, races and creeds. and
that that God is the God of Love.
Jesus more clearly than all the others
taught the doctrine Of love for our fell
lowmen, the love for humanity that
stands out and apart from all others.
the great truths of the FatherhOod of
God and the brotherhood of man. He
was the great eXemplar Of the love that
serves.
Frank f. McMillin answered to the
toast Our Country He symbolically
interpreted the meaning of the compO-
nent elements of the national flag.
History Of Masonry.
The Universally OF Masonry, the
last toast of the evening. was responded
TO by Harry Rothschild who traced the
origin of the fraternity back into the
early ages of the world and its spread
among all nations and tongues of the
earth.
Mr.. Rothschild explained that Masonry
was brought from the east to the western
| world by the Phoenicians. 1t was originally
a fraternity of practical builders, archi-
tects and artificers, whose art and skill
were manifested in the construction of
the most beautiful temples the world has
ever seen.
For eight centuries Masonry continued
an operative fraternity. 1t has now be-
come a purely moral and benevolent as
| ISOLATION, whose great aim is the cultiva-
ton and development Of the moral senti-
nlent. the social principle and the benevo-
| lent affections. higher reverence tor
| God and a warmer love for mankind.
| At the conclusion of the festivities
America" was sung by all present in
! chorus.
During the symbolic rites ]. Walter
Humphrey sang Natures Alteration
by Beethoven: within This Sacred
DWELLING from THE Magic Flute" by
Mozart, and THE Holy City" by Adams.
PARKWAY Visitors.
| In addition to a large attendance. rep
resenting the leading lights in Masonry
| of the District, and especially the Scot
fish Rite. visitors from other jurisdic-
tions were present. as follows: DIR. Aus
| tin B. Chamberlain. secretary general OF
| the Supreme Council and sovereign grand
inspector general for Texas: II. NJ. Sny-
| der, Army Consistory, Leavenworth
Kan: w. c. Rodgers. Arkansas Con-
sistory. Little Rock: Cyrus Kehr. Tennes-
see Consistory. Memphis: Charles II.
Barth, X. c. G. H.. Army Consistory,
Leavenworth. Kan; #. r. Pappe, T. s.
Parvin Consstory. Sioux City. n. D.; ].
S. Cotton. Oriental Consistory. Spokane,
Wash: Miller G. Sherwood. Central City
Cons.story. Syracuse N. Y: Harry c.
Fithian, Williamsport Consistory. Penn
Cincinnati: F.. A. .Strickratt. Topeka Con-
s'story. Kansas: j. II. Shepherd. Indian
Consistory. oklahoma: e. L. Rohm. Har-
risburg ConsistOry. Pennsylvania: c. c.
Calhoun. Louisville Consistory. Kentucky:
Judson s. Hill, Cincinnati Consistory.
Ohio: Clarence T. Mcintyre, Houston
Consistory. Texas: Representative L. B.
Hanna, thirty-third degree. Fargo Con-
| sistOry, North Dakota; w. j. Morrison
Fargo Consistory. North Dakota and
Harry C. Perdue. Pittsburg Consistory