The Republican journal., 1915-06-24

of unusual enjoyment The class motto was
Esse Guam Videre; class colors. green and
gold; teachers, Joseph A. Lineham, Miss Gladys
Nash; superintendent, William B. Woodbury..
Neat folders contained both graduation and
dance programs.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES. Sunday
morning, June 20tf. a practical Saint Johns
day sermon was delivered to the members of
Mariners Lodge. Number GO. F. and A. M. by
Rev. C. H. Mckinney, member of the order.
The scripture reading was from II Chronicles
and chapter. Solomon finding it impossible to
procure within his own kingdom sufficient
materials for the construction of the Temple
communicates with neighboring king. who
not only agrees to exchange for grain oil and
wine the necessary timber; but also to send a
man skillful in work upon metal, wood and
linen. Little is known concerning this man,
who bears the name of his king, Hiram. From
his Jewish mother he inherits religious ma
ture, and from his father, man of Tyre, his
skill as laborer, making him character
worthy of study, for it is by the uniting of
these characteristics, Christianity and skill,
that we may solve our labor problems. Having
collected the materials, Solomon begins the
great task. AS Masons you are familiar with
the construction of the Temple, having adopt
ed the implements of the work as the symbols
of your order and preserved the traditions of
Operative Masonry. Older men of your num-
Der who have passed from your Lodge Room
had at heart the spiritual teachings of these
great lessons. You younger men who have
taken their places will do we'll to give them
careful study. In your three Charges to the
candidates you emphasize Good Citizenship
Our forefathers found it necessary to educate
the common people who were to carry on the
new republic and established schools and the
free press. Their children must also receive
moral training land SO in every settlement they
build both schoohouse and church. Liberty,
equality. opportunity, intellect and morality
are our heritage. Parents train the child in
early years ard the school develops his native
ability. The Church stands ready to drill his
moral faculties in right living. Other institu-
lions BOAST of their antiquity, but the Church is
older. Masonry is the Father of mystic rites
and secret societies, yet its history is tradition
al where the history of the Church is complete.
Empires rise and fall, the Church goes on. In
dividual churches pass, but their teaching is
eter malt is God in the soul. Destroy all the
ology all prayers and all hymn books, and God
affairs will go on. Christ's followers in all ages
have expressed their love in cathedrals.A Artists
and musicians have ever given their best to
adorn the service and all that is worthy in lit
erature received its inspiration through the
uplifting of the soul. Masonry admits the
superiority of the Bible above all other books
and make 1t a nece ssary part of the Lodge room
furnishing. Why prize it so in the Lodge
Room and neglect it in every day life? 1t is in
the Cathedral of the Soul that such treasures
should be hidden, In our land it is SAID that
there are 100000 young people under seven
teen years of age who never enter church of
any denomination. We are charging the
schoolhouse and neglecting the Church. Is it
Good Citizenship to feed the mind and starve
the soul. We are teaching our young peo-
pie that hot water will scald the flesh and
forgetting to tell them that unchecked pas
careful to dredge our harbors of their slime;
and allow filth y utterances to ooze from the
mouths of little children unchecked. Our
press, established for the education of the
public, prints glazing pages of sensation at the
feverish demand for that which is unwholsome.
We are citizens of a great republic, but if We
continue to ignore these very things can we
be Good Citizens? When Church, School and
Lodge work together what can they not &C.
complish? By their united strength they may
win the favor of God and man. Let not the
Church member stand aloof or the Mason say
that his Lodge is his Church, Three fourths of
all the members of secret societies are also
church members and these are the best mem
bers of the societies. With such close rela.
tons, why 90 we stand apart? God bless US as
we make the effort to better our homes and
towns.