Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-21
FAITHS BLENDED
IN SCOTTISH RITE
Knights of Rose CrOix Exem-
pIify the Universally of
Their Order.
SYMBOLIC LIGHTS "OUT";;
TRADITIONAL BANQUET
Vice President Marshall Delivers
Address-Pledge of Fealty by
Texas Body-Given Jewel.

Concentrating the Last Supper of
the Christian; the Feast of the Pass
over of the Jew. and the Feast of the
Young Lamb of the Hindoo, in testi-
mony of the universally of Scottish Rite
t'reemasonry. Evangelist Chapter. No. 1,
knights Rose CroX, last evening. at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral, Sd and e streets
northwest, held it's annual Maundy Thurs
day services, which include the ex-
tingushment of the symbolic lights and
the traditional banquet. The rites are
among the most solemn of the order and
terminate Sunday afternoon at o'clock
in the cathedral with relighting the SYM
bolic lights
The Vice President of the United States,
himself Sovereign Grand Inspector Gen
eral of the Rite in the Supreme Council
for the Northern Jurisdiction of the
United States. was present to take part
with the brethren, not, as he himself an
nounced as the Vice President, but as a
loyal and devoted son of the Rose Croix
He empha sized this thought in an ad-
dress later in the evening during the
progress of the banquet.
Vice President Marshall sat at the head
table with Sovereign Grand Commander
James D. Richardson, Secretary General
John III. CoWieS and Deputy for the Su-
preme Council of the Southern Jurisdic-
ton in the District of Columbia Stirling
Kerr, jr.. together with Grand Master of
Masons Charles f. Baldwin and other
high Masonic dignitaries of the local and
other bodies throughout the country
/ Part of Esoteric Ceremonies.
The eXtinguishment of the symbolic
lights is part of the esoteric ceremonies
of the Scottish Rite. simple and impress
sve in character. and it was performed
by the officers of Evangelist Chapter.
with James II. Mcintosh. thirty-second
degree. X. c. c. H., as wise master; Rob
ert f. Mentzel thirty second degree,
senior warden; j. Archibald Bailey, thir-
ty-second degree. h. c. G. H., junior war
den: John H. Won Hermann, thirty-sec-
ond degree, X. c. c. H., orator; Louis
Goldsmith. thirty-third degree honorary,
almoner and treasurer; Elmer E. Simp-
son. thirty-second degree, *. c. c. H.,
secretary. and George r. Davis, thirty
second degree, master of ceremonies.
During the evening the handsome jewel
of a knight commander of the court of
honor was presented to Past Wise Master
Fred M. Book, thirty second degree. IL. G.
e. H., by Deputy Stirling Kerr, jr., thirty
third degree honorary, with an address
that paid high tribute to the loyalty and
services of Mr.. Book.
Past Wise Master Francis A. Sebring,
thirty-third degree honorary. presided at
the banquet which followed in the banquet
hall of the cathedral, and Rev. William
Tayloe Snyder, thirty-second degree, rec
tor of theTchurch of the Inca rnation, deliv-
cred the invocation. Seven toasts in all
two of them standing and in silence, were
drunk in cold water by the large gathering
of Rose CrOiX knights and their guests.
There We're two silent toasts, one to the
memory of Albert Pike, the great SOW
ereign grand commander OF the Southern
jurisdiction, who restored and beautified
the Ritual of the Rite, and is credited
with starting the order on its present ca
reer of progress and usefulness and the
other ITO the memory of the brethren of
this degree (the degree of knight Rose
CroiX, whose labors here below have
Toasts and Responses.
Other toasts eloquently responded to by
members of the rite We're drunk as fol-
lows: ITO the President of the United
States" with response by Carter B.
Keene, thirty degree, who traced
in the characteristics of President Wilson
a likeness to the true Mason-"one born
but not labeled; ITO the Supreme Coun-
Gil of the Thirty-third Degree for the
Southern jurisdiction of the United
States and the Sovereign Grand Com
mander James D. Richardson with re-
ond degree, *. c. c. H., and past wise
master of Evangelist Chapter; ITO the
Grand Lodge of Masons of the District of
Columbia" with response by Grand Mas
ter Charles Z. Baldwin; ITO all Masons
and Masonic Bodies of all Rites and De-
grees Over the Surface of the Earth,
Honors and LaurelS to the Worthy,
Health to the Sick, Comfort to the Neeuy
and Succor TO the Oppressed Everywhere
with response by l.. Cleveland McNemar.
president of the International Conference
Class of Initiates, and To the Meaning
and Mission of Masonry" the response to
which was to have been made by Rev.
John Wesley Hill, thirty-second degree.
who was prevented from being present by
illness.
Vice President Marshall's Address.
After the formal toasts, which are reg
ulary prescribed by the statutes for the
traditional banquet, Vice President Mar
shall was introduced by Toastmaster