Weekly journal-miner., 1910-01-12
MEMORABLE NIGHT
 FOR SIR KNIGHTS
Installation of Officers, Addresses And Banquet Combine to Make An
 Enjoyable Event.
From Sundays DaIly)

l MHO HIS DIOD'
 osition as heretical.
 On the night of Christmas, 1920,
 fifteen days after he burned the
 memorable Papal Bull, publishing his communication from church rites and privileges, Luther was made a Free Mason.
 He relates the incident as fol
 lows:
 "A helper will be raised up to me {;
 l will have faith in this, my darkest
 hour. My companions conducted me
 to the Guild Hall, where I was with
 many ancient ceremonies, introduced
 among the brethren of the mystic tie.
 Judge my delight and surprise when
 the first thing I beheld was a copy
 of the Holy Bible, the book which I
 ever acknowledged the rule for my
 faith. I was then told that volume
 lies ever open in the hall to be con- suited by the brethren. Rapidly was l advanced from step to step until reached the grade which entitled me to wear this medal. and know the meaning of its mystic inserip- tiOn.''
 Enveloped within the tenets and teachings of this venerable and mys- tic order, social, political and relig- lous; social, because of a duty to assist, protect and defend the weary, wayworn traveller who finds the heights of fortune inaccessible. and the thornv paths of life broken, ad- verse and forlorn; political. because of the wisdom and prudence with which he is led along the paths of uprightness and integrity; and relig- ious, because of the recognition of one divine Mind, having power over, and bringing us within His intelli- gence-is a religious sentiment. a full ceremonial expression of which was not provided in its ritual.
 From thence sprung the chivalrous order of Knights Templar. the char acteristics of which are Charity and giving of aims to the poor and weary pilgrims travel ing afar; suecOr to the needy; bread | 10 the hungry; clothes to the naked, | and binding up the wounds of the af- fiicted; dispensing justice, reward ing merit and encouraging truth and | benevolence
 It is a creed of the Templar that | all the hopes of his poor. perishing body rest upon the truths revealed | in the Word of God, and that among all the. vicissitudes of life. an un- swerving faith in those truths can alone afford him that strong conso- ation which the world can neither give nor take away,
 The ceremonies of the Order of ! Templars are strictly Christian, and n sentiment with a stretching arm md axAan1al eler to the Star of Bethlehem, that 1 celestial brilliant in the Eastern sky, whose lustrOus splendOr illumined the King.
 On that day prophecy was fulfilled. There was born into this world of 9nvy and passion, the Infinite idea If eternal Life. Truth and Love, made manifest in a form and intelli- renee within the understanding of human experience.
 The Christ religion was proclaim d. A religion free and within the each. of all.
 The Christian religion grew with intensity. Fanaticism and dolatry in the East became alarmed, md challenged to battle that Love which became a flaming sword. in the friction caused by its destruction If evil.
 Western travellers. returning from Palestine, Jerusalem and other far Eastern points, told narrowing tales If the prosecutions of the Christ ans. Defenseless women, innocent ,hildren and struggling men were orn, tortured and destroyed in the llleged defense of the Koran. Pal sstine, the Holy Land. was in the power of unbelievers. The sepulcher If Christ was in the hands of in- idels. Christian blood was shed without mercy.
 In the twilight of the Dark Ages nen were just in a state of mind to receive a strong religious excitement. The joys of paradise were promised o all who would fall in the holy ,ause. The reverence for the des- acrated women and slaughtered babes stirred the enthusiasm of men to un- oridled chivalry.
 Then it was that Templarism in he West came into life The war 'pirit was rampant. Armies were nobilized and trained; the Crusade vas launched, and under the leader ship of plumed, armored Knights, with drawn steel. "On to Palestine md the Holy Sepulcher" was the bat le cry. Victory perched upon their banners and martyred blood was lvenged
 At the cry of distress. the sword If every true Sir Knight will leap rom its scabbard in defense of in locent maidens, destitute widows. helpless orphans and the Christian 'eligion. Il
 That there is no oblivion. but i'm mortality, is the creed of the Tenn olar warrior, and is illustrated in he "Legend of the Bible" drama ized in the teachings of the order.
 ''In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn, toward the first day If the week, came Mary Magdalene, md the other Mary. to see the sep llcher. And behold, there was treat earthquake, for the Angel of 1 he Lord descended from heaven, and .ame and rolled back the stone from