The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-07-11

ed before said lodges can be repre-
scented in the State Grand Lodge
meetings, and all new laws passed by
the State Grand Lodges must be sub
mitted to him to refer TO the Ma
tional Committee of Management for
approval or rejection. BY virtue OF
this law, which is an expression OF
the will and desire of the sovereign
body of the people, / have come to
do my duty.
Official Responsibility.
The desire to hold Office is one OF
the natural passions of mankind and
the conquest for leadership is the one
motor power that has been foremost
in lifting man from the savage of the
wilderness and mountain cave to the
philosopher and seer of the twentieth
century Few in adopting the mantle
of Office consider the greatest virtue
of Office holding is service and not
honor and power. The gift of office
is the bestowal Of a trust and de-
mands suffering and sacrifice. the
man or woman who accepts office ana
Immediately feels the weight OF such
Office and spends hours in solitary
thought, bordering whether or not he
or she can honestly and honorably
bring about such improvements and
results that the people will be elevat'
ed and uplifted, will some day rise TO
the dignity of leadership. On the
other hand, the officer who accepts
the position and feels no impulse otn
er than the Importance of being an
officer. will never advance from the
starting point and the cause they rep
resent must of necessity suffer. There
is no Office in the Mosaic Templars
of America, from Grand Master tc
Outer Guard, that does not place upon
the holder responsibility concrete
and clear. There are no offices con
ferred for glory as the success OF TINS
order travelled over no royal highway
but across the mountains and ovel
! the seas. The man or woman who can
not see in the Office he holds any latl
tude for constructive work is down
amongst the masses and not elevated
to the point to see the great plains
of endeavor which spread out ahead
The Grand Master is held to produce
meet for repentance and the Worthy
Warden must bring UP something
tangible to show his fellowmen that
they properly reposed their trust
When the Master gave the talents to
his servants, he did not specify what
they should do to get results, but lett
each and every one to take the lnltla
tive. Because he gave one servant
five talents and another only one, ne
did not excuse the one with the lone
~ talent. Thus it is in all walks Of
life. When l took the highest Office
in this order, l spent months exam
ming all the conditions that surround
ed it. / found general spirit o.
lethargy permeating all departments
There were generals who had nevel
fred a musket; admirals that haC
never sailed a ship; cavalrymen tha
had never straddled saddle. deter
mined to get out and work one veal
without ceasing or resting and see l.
there was any virtue in the old adage
mo excellency without toll" If my
remedy for existing conditions i'm
proved matters, then I had made VI
my mind that everybody from the
king to the outer sentinels would have
to work and those who could no
work would have to fall by the way
That experiment proved the salvation
of the order and is the basis upoI
which our present greatness rests.
Our order has had the most phe
nomenal growth of any order in tn,
United States in the past eighteel
months. This growth has beef
brought about alone by the gospel o