The farmer and mechanic., 1910-01-18

/ &c
has come down to US through tnat pc
ri<a iaa Tonslder man in any relatlol'
10 hoe changed His home, theH the
| come of hardship and danger, Is Iioa
the abode of ease ana c'ii's
ch1Jrch then the altar OF WleSennS
nrayer and unquestioned ialth' Is nov
fhe Duipit Of oftimes sensation anu
n,berIess tongues and many ques-
tionable methods: his school tneh pue
] = loo but with its hard and fast rules
and its most frequent feruies, II 10"
s,nn}emented by every method liad.
iii, ouide youth to heights OF uselui
knowledge: his farm, the scene ol ,'i1
Intelligent effort and untTaliieu iiaHo'
;e now the field of scientific cultlFa
49, ana skilled labor; his mode OF
I1ocou0tion has changed from q We
bic1o drawn by the stalled OK TO the
lightning speed Of the elegant uil-
man and the dangerous duloliiooiie'
his dress with loW-quartereu Sioe7
and knee breeches, that invited pneu-
n,onia in winter blasts, has gwen place
TO the nobby tailor-made and the eA-
ouicita dress suit; his means OF com
n1nnicating with his neighbour tneh
hundred miles away, was tollsonle aiio
slow while now he rings up ms 1flehd
m Chicago and speaks to the dWellef
in kames-kat-ka:> his newspapers
then Of seldom appearing with little
land government, is now appearing
every half hour and giving him the
| worlds news. from the doingS or the
ancient capitol of BaGdad TO the lat-
! est hippopotamus killed by our ret1red
President in Uganda Wllds; MS Hsht,
| then but q talloW dip carefuily WOUND
around al empty bottle, or more ire
ouently a pine knot whose mellow ra-
| radiance lit many a man to fame ana
| fortune has surrendered to the arc
! light and incandeScent burner, the
! bri!iancy of whose gleam enables shlps
| to shun an ice berg q mile away ana
| its human freight with safety In all
! things else, change; but in Masonry.
/ there is no change. It's eternal pr1h-
ciples are the same yesterday. today,
| forever And this is SO because Ma
eOnry is universal. / am quite sure
! the subject you have assigned me was
| not intended to embrace the uniVer-
SALTY Of MasOnr1--iocally. 1t matters
| but little that there is no land without
| a lodge, that there is no sky that does
not canopy our brethren. We are or
ganized wherever the foot OF man mas
eopped long enough for habitation.
But Masonry is not thing or place
| it is q principle, and because it is uni
versal it has not changed. 1t is the
only universal Truth. a devout
Jew entered Parsee Temple
and beheld the sacred fire. What"
said he to the Priest, "do you
worship the fire." "Not the
fire" answered the Priest, ''it is to US
an emblem of the sun and his great
| heat" do you then worship the sun
as your God? he asked. know yet
not that the luminary is also but g
| uncultivated man requires sensible
work of the Almighty Creator?" I'VE
| know it, replied the Priest, but the
sign in order to form u conception OF
| ph the
| Incompatible source Of light, an image
of that invisible Being who blesses
and preserves all things?" do you
! people them reioined the Israelite
"distinguish the type from the oried-
nal. They call the sun their God and
descending even from this to a baseI
| object, they kneel before an earthly
| flame. Ie amuse the outward, but
| blind the inward eve, and while ye
hold to them the earthly, ye withdraw
| from them the heavenly light. ThOr
halt not make for thyself any craven
image or likeness" How do you des-
! ignate the Supreme Being?" asked the
Parsee. I'VE call him Jehovah. Adoni
hat is. the Lord who is, who was and
who will be- answered the 1sraelite
lime" said the Parsee, "but it is
awful. too A Christian ther
drew nigh and said, I'VE cal
Him Father" The Pagan and
| the Jew tnen looked at each other anC
said Here is at once an image and
a reality. That is a word of the
heart. Therefore they all raised their
eyes to heaven and said with reve~-
ence and love. "Our Father" And
they took each other by the hanG
9nd all three called one another
"Prother." This is free Masonry
Mythic story tells us that the anoien,
eods secretly and invisibly followed
) their favorites in all their wanderings
and when these We're exposed to dan
der or threatened with destruction
would unveil themselves in their
SW,ui beanty and power and stand
forth to protect them from harm or -
. aVenge their wrongs. So free masonry
: surrounds all her children with her
preserving presence, revealing herself
. d a. ,ne houT or sickness, peril and
oahger All the changes of time ha1-a
ofa"n the world closer to the true Ma
l th tnnic prlnclple, [ shall not narrate
= me places where Masonry has ite