The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-10
MASONS LAY THE
CORNER ! !. Stone
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iversal. It's domain is the white
mans world, it's ritual finds express
sion in all the languages of civiliza-
ton and is the embodiment of eau
casion enlightenment and progress;
it's temples are to be found in every
commonwealth from the Orient to the
Occident and it's membership consti-
tutes a living chain of brotherhood
that encircles the earth.
Gin the mad holocaust of war that
has enveloped three quarters of the
civilized world with vale of mad de-
struction of human life and human
effort; when the wealth, the resources
and the cunning inventive genius Of
mankind have been prostituted from
creation to destruction wise friends of
humanity have come to know that the
divine dynamic power of the worlds
two great moral forces, the church
and fraternalism, must be invoked to
stay the terrible work of damnation
and restore peace and sanity among
the children of men.
"The Church and Fraternal organi-
cations, since first the flight of time
began, have been the two great heav-
en-inspired agencies that have inter-
posed to protect the oppressed from
the oppressor; the weak from the
strong and the poor from the rich and
powerful, among nations and among
men. Remove these powers of right
eousness and the code of hell would
rule and reign over all affairs mum
dane.
"Perfect concord has not always ex-
listed between these moral forces.
Jealousy, prejudice and animosity
have, to a certain extent, kept pulling
them apart instead of pulling toge-
Their and the good work of the one
has been neutralized by the opposi-
ton of the other.
"This condition is rapidly passing
away. 1t never ought to have existed,
for while both are engaged in the COM
mon work of elevating mankind to a
higher and nobler standard of thought
and living, their functions are differ
ent and their work lies in different
fields.
cit is the function of the Church to
90 out into the highways and byways
and gather in the bad and with the
assistance of the divinity that has
been injected into their organization
transform them into the good.
cit is the function Of Fraternal or
CARNATIONS to take the good and by
surrounding them with human safe
guards and human fellowship keer
them good.
zone is a maker; the other is
keeper; they are not competitive
forces, but coordinate.
"When the dream of the worlds
best minds is realized and the idea
union of the makers and keepers l!
full and complete, oppression, greco
and graft will die the death; wars will
be no more and peace and prosperit!
will reign from the rising to the set
ting Of the sum-" -.i-rm f'tr
Following Mr.. Eddy's talk the beau
tiful granite stone was placed In pc
sition at the first floor level of thu
southwest corner of the building. Thu
copper box in the bottom of the stone
contained the following:
The Book of the Law.
Roster of the Officers and Member
of Star in the West Lodge Lodge A
F. & A. M, No. 60, August 3, 1916.
| Roster of Officers and Members O.
Sank Centre Chapter, R. A. M, Aug
8, 1916.
Roster of Officers and Members O.
Sank Centre Council No. II, Roya
and Select Masters.
Roster and Officers and Members O
Naomi Chapter, Order Of the Easter
kStar.
Proceedings of Minnesota Gram
Lodge 1916.
Proceedings of Minnesota Gram
Chapter 1915.
I Souvenir edition OF Sauk CenCr
Herald issued Nov. 4, 1915.
Current issues of the Sank Centr
Herald.
After the laying of the corner ston
by Grand Master Pinkham, Rev. Johl
Boden, grand orator of the Gran
Lodge, and pastor of large Episco
pal church, Merriam Park, st. Pau
, gave splendid address. The gentle
man is finished orator, and the Her
aid had hoped to have a synopsis o
his address for publication, but wor
reached him too late to comply wit
the request.
Rev. Boden is a splendid, broa'
minded citizen, intensely American
and the large gathering gave him tn
closest of attention, notwithstanding,
the fact that the afternoon sun wa
extremely hot.
Old Glory and the national color
were the decorations for the occasion
It was nearly o'clock when the ex
e1cises were completed. It had beel
n1ornad m tako tho Grand TOdpe of