The Washington herald., 1914-04-10
|MAS0NS PUT OUT
SYMBOLlCLIGHTS
Mithras Lodge, Of Perfection,
No. |, Celebrates Maundy
Thursday.
BANQUET ALSO Is HELD
Several Addresses Are Delivered and
Toast Drunk in Silence to
Albert Pike.
BANQUET ALSO Is HELL

The brotherhood of man, of all races,
was the predominant note at last nights
celebration of Maundy Thursday by
Mithras Lodge of Perfection, No. /, Scot
tish Rite Masons, at their home, Third
and E streets northwest. The solemn
! ceremony of extinguishing the seven
symbolic lights, with appropriate music
by a choir, brought the exercises to a
close.
From the lodge home the members,
numbering about 300. went to the New
Ebbitt House, where was held the annual
! mystic banquet. This was private. The
celebration at the lodge rooms was given,
toward its close, a semi-public character
by the reception of several visiting
brethren and a few nonmember visitors
With the putting out of the lights the
passing of the world was symbolized or.
in the view OF the Scottish Rite. the world
was lost. not to be found again until
the same lights are relighted. They will
be lighted again next Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, when the members will re-
assemble.
Power of the President.
Wise Master r. F. Mentzel presided at
the lodge room ceremony. James A
Bailey was senior warden. and John Won
Hermann Junior warden. II. P. McIn-
tosh was master OF ceremonies. Several
speeches were made. Brother Edgar c.
Snyder, thirty-second degree, responded
to the sentiment, Tho President and Our
Country"
THE men who framed the Constitu-
tion," said he, land the States that par
ticipated in its adoption were disguised
with the feebleness which had been
shown under the confederation, and as
natural consequence went to the other ex-
fra, sr ole H. u.
power that is not possessed by any ruler
in the world today save the Gar and
the Sultan.
THE trainers Of the Constitution could
not foresee the almost unlimited powers
that would be centered in the President
when the United States would consist of
forty-eight States. extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and embracing
3.2Oc. 900 square miles of territory. with
dependent colonies upon which the sun
never sets.
Few Presidents have actually used
this power for selfish or unpatriotic pur-
poses. and when they have the recall has
relentlessly been invoked"
Tribute to Albert Pike.
To Albert Pike. for many years the
supreme officer of the Scottish Rite
Masons in the Southern Jurisdiction,
toast was drunk in silence with all mem
bers standing. Pike was eulOgized by
Stirling Kerr. jr.. when he responded to
the toast: TO the Grand Commander.
James d. Richardson"
Roe Fulkerson responded to the senti
mcnt: ITO all Masons and Masonic
bodies. of all rites and degrees, over the
surface of the earth: honOrs and laurels
to the worthy: health to the sick; COM
fort to the needy, and succor to the OPP
pressed everywhere"
Rev. William TaylOe Snyder. responded
to 'Maundy Thursday Sentiment" WILL
lam L. Boydon, to THE Supreme Coun-
cil:" T. John Newton, to THE Grand
Lodge Of the District of Columbia"
The lodge paid a silent tribute to six
brethren who departed during the last
year. Charles Webster Hancock, William
Leaf jackson. Frank Ivey Wood. Chris
topher c. Yeabower. Henry AChterkir
chen. and Ferdinand W. Calaghan.
Senator William Howard Thompson.
of Kansas, n Scottish Rite Mason. was
the only speaker at the banquet. The Rev.
Mr.. Sny der delivered an invocation.