Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-03

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stained their altar one with TIL
bered only to be abhorred; but idea
founded on divinity and humanity ar
indestructible. They endure because
they are eternal.
Whatever of credit and prestige
may lie derived from the stamp o.
antiquity, this institution may right
fully claim, for Free Masonry bears
that stamp. When that mighty army
gathered from all parts of Europe
~marsnalled under princes and kings
started uopn its first crusade to rescue
the tomb of the Savior from the pro
fame touch of the Saracens. there
marched In its van a brotherhood Of
chiyalrous knights. That same fra
ternlty, not in its infancy, had wit
messed the advent of him whose tomb
they would nov defend. Ancient Free
Masonry was old when Caesar landed
on the shores of Britain. old when
Alexander. carried the civilization of
Asia into Europe. 1t antedates Rome
and Carthage, Athens. the years of
Confueius, Budda, David and Solo
mon. Who can say but that the foun-
dalton of Egypt's greatest pyramid
was laid with appropriate ceremonies
by representatives of this institution.
! do not know where. or when, or by
whom its first lodge was organized;
but that we all know, that dynasties
have disappeared, thrones have crum-
bled, whole races of men rave been
annihilated, governments have sue
ceeded one another with a frequency
beyond the power of history to record,
civilization has risen to the highest ex-
cellence, has been submerged in the
darkness of the middle ages, and has
emerged again since That day. l do
not know whether that organization
was affected in one of the sacred
groves which shaded the banks of
midas sacred river, in the 'granary
of Egypt blessed by annual overflow
of the Nile, in the double valley of
the Tigris and E~uphrates, or within
the unfinished walls of Solomon's
magnificent temple, but this | do
know, that the old India is no more,
Egypt with her pyramids and obelisks
and sciences no longer rules the
world, Chaldaea, Assyria and Baby
lonia, with their tower-temples, cune-
form tablets and libraries, with their
royal sports and hanging gardens,
nave ceased to be. The kingdom of
Solomon with all its grandeur and
sacred associations is o to be found
on the map today. Greece, who on
quered the world more by her arts
and sciences than by her armies long
ago, fell to pieces as a result of her
pride and her excuses. And Rome,
imperial Rome, who gave laws to the
world, whose armies blazed the way
for Christianity, became a prey to
Romans, her armies bought with trib-
ute money while this institution, prob
ably antedating any and all of them,
has thrived and flourished and de-
seended tons with the same spirit of !,
universal motherhood of equal
democracy as that which existed by
legend among its traditional foun-
ders.
along with changes in the nap of
the world, along with the stored up
wealth of thought and skill of all the
centuries that have passed, the literal
ture of the Hebrews, the philosophy
of the Greeks, the institutions and
classics of ancient Rome, the best
thought of the best intellects of every
age and every cline, the laws and
customs of all nations and all peo-
pies, the products of inventive genius
and creative skill of the men who
have contributed to the welfare and
happiness of humanity. there has
to us a heritage which time has
been powerless to tarnish and which
evil has been unable to blight.
ffNOt nnIxr ic fhic tpttc af MaCnnrus |
it Is applicable as well to those who
are without. Truth by whomsoever
discovered is immutable and ideas are
The dark-eyed, d~ark-haired
Hebrew sage sitting under date or
palm tree watching the slow moving
Nile as it sought the sea, the Grecian
philosopher reclining on the porch of
Plato beholding the low flying gull I
skim the blue Mediterranean, the
stole wandering amidst scenes
IF barbaric splendor in the Imperial
City' each pondered the ever-asked
never-answered questions of life
love and immortality which con-
'ront us and found comfort and con
and hope only in the idea of
brotherhood. the measure of
hat responsibility which each genera I
owes to all that ave preceded [
to all that are to follow. /
''ro me there is something almost I
In that same idea of uni
iersal brotherhood and in the spirit {
which 1t ~engenders. That spirit which {
been responsible for the forming {
# many fraternal ties. organized and |
,erpetuated in general to soothe the c
Unhappy, to ~sympathize with the I'M q
ortunate, to compassionate their mis- t
ries and to restore peace to troubled S
ninds. The true worth of such fra O
can never be known to those q
mo remain without, for while written f
history can and does record some of I
he achievements of these organiza- /
Ions, that which is recorded is but il
nfinitessimal when compared with I
which never has been and never il
be reduced to writing. 1t is not a
n unreasonable assertion to make h
through these same silent, secret. $
yet lawful influences nations have a
cen developed, ignorance and super c
titton banished. and humanity lifted t,
D a higher and nobler plane of f
elton. II
Nor is this idea of universal @
rotherhood-this longing for society D
nd the strength of union peculiar to o
Not only do we find men col 81
scted in tribes, communities and So "
ieties, but We find cattle in herds, n