Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25
GOSHEN VOICES
DAYS MESSAGE
Speaks at Ceremonies for Knights
TempIar at the Masonic
Temple.
GENERALLY CELEBRATED.
Local Members Carry Out Usual Serv-
Ice AT Same Hour With All Other
Lodges of Masonery.

Conforming to their custom of hun
dreds of years knights Templars
throughout the world today expressed
their Christmas sentiments at exactly
the same hour. Everywhere in the
world where the knights have an or
sanization there was a similar cere-
mony
AT noon today, Washington time.
10000 knights TempIar of the Masonic
order throughout the country. arose In
their lodges and drank the following
toast:
"To our most eminent grand master.
Eenry Warren Rugg, with Christmas
greetings: May his future be as bright
as his shining path Of achievement"
Noon, Washington time, is 10 o'clock
Salt Lake time, and at that hour this
morning the members of Utah Com
mandery No. /, Knights Templar. gath
cred at Masonic hall to participate in
this holiday ceremony.
To this Christmas greeting Grand
Master Rugg has sent the following ro-
sponse. which he VIII make at Wash
ington:
TO the soldiery OF the temple. the
Knighthood OF the Cross. the Brothec-
hood of Christian Chiyahy-two nun
drcd thousand strong-greeting and
Godspeed:
1T is with profound emotion and
grateful appreciation that l respond 10
the suggestive sentiment, honoring me
by Its personal reference. Comrades
hands in templar faith and works The
prestige of the past, the power OF the
present. the promise of the future. may
well inspire us to continued loyal. low
ing service for our cherished order.
Prosperous and strong today as never
before, IL Is one of the worlds mightieSt
forces to translate the truth OF tho
Christian message into mutual helpful
ness and universal brotherhood"
COMMANDER TALKS.
The knights of Commandery No. l.
assembled in uniform this morning at
9:i5. and after the ceremony OF greet
Ing TO the grand master. an address on
tho sentiments of the day was deliv-
cred by Rev. Elmer 1. Goshen. and re-
marks by Eminent Commander John
Il. Breckon. musical program was
also rendered including quartet selec-
Bethlehem" and THE Day Is Past and
Over"
The officers OF Utah commandery arc
as follows: Sir John Il. Breckon. emi-
nent commander: Sir John A. Hough-
ton. geheralissimo; Sir Frederick C.
Richmond. captain general: Sir Sam
uel Paul, prelate; Sir William ]. Lynch.
senior warden: Sir Gilbert B. PfoutZ.
junior warden: Sir John r. Treasure.
treasurer; Sir Elmer o. Leatherwood,
recorder: Sir William H Tawney.
sword bearer, Sir Harry II. Knowles.
standard bearer: Sir Ira II. Lewis war
der; Sir Anthon H Boxrud, first guard;
Sir Henry II. Cornforth. second guard
Sir William 3. Andrews, third guard.
and Sir Adolph Anderson, sentinel.
Goshen'S message IN part:
The following was Rev. Elmer I.
THE history OF Christmas is so in
wrought into every fabric of our life:
the associations of the day are so hap
py. its memories SO precious that II is
most difficult for any one to speak
Christmas message that shall equal
the messages that each heart speaks
for itself. This is the time when men,
ory clasps hands with hope and to-
Sether they sit down beside every fire.
side to weave that wonderful garment
whose beginnings are away yonder
What tender sights and scenes come
rushing in at this blessed time.
CHILDREN AGAIN
THE years have come and gone they
have brought burdens, some sorrow.
left some scars. and we are no longer
children, but men and women with
many privileges. with many RESPONSE
bilItles. But with the coming OF Christ
mas time memory waves his wand and
over again we are children.
This Christmas week all over the
earth where civilization has lighted her
torches. where barbarism still holds
rule and sway, In cities and in jungles.
on mountains and in the plains. along
tho rivers and away out on the for
bidding waters of the ocean. every
where and wherever the foot of man
has touched. the Christmas fact and
the Christmas spirit will this week
light the tapers of faith and sing the
songs of hope.
mo other day, no other event. has
ever had such universal recognition. II
is confined to no one nation, and to no
one people. It is celebrated where
language is as pure as articulate
sound can make it: 1t Is celebrated
where language is scarcely more than
gibberish II Is confined to no one re-
liSion, Tor 1t pushes aside the BAR
rierS that men have reared and sounds
the eternal note that is universal
1T sounds Its message In the palace,
replendent with elegance. 1t creeps
into the hovel where squalor dwclls.
lit softens the hard places con-
secrated to vice. II scales the walls
of the prisons. and through tho
mystic power of memory takes the
convict from his cell back to the
scenes OF innocence and sincerity.
1T leaps the barriers of the lazarette
and carries a message that cheers and
comforts the outcast there; il steals
along the corridors of the hospital.
stopping at each painracked couch to
say Peace on Earth it opens fun
wide the purse of the charitable. 1t
softens q little the spirit of the mser.
1t creeps up the creaking stairs OF
the tenement and having a basket
and n message il sheds over these
something OF its cheer.
WHAT II MEANS.
What does all this mean? Why is
this season and this Christmas day SO
important. so blessed. so growing?
You will say this day commentaries
the birth of q child long sung Of in
song and story even the child who
was born yondcr in the manger in
Bethlehem.
But because the Christ-spirlt saves
both body and soul. because when that
spirit rules q life then meanneSs and
sordidncss and sclfishncss files away.
because of this I'd give all my poor
devotion to him who Is King of Kings
and Lord OF Lords"