Arizona republican., 1921-02-21

here to dip up the great ocean and put it into my little house." And, brethren, this is always the impression that comes to me when I stand in the silent passages while the great work of your order is being administered. I feel that these candidates, like the little child, and if they know where they are lreading, they will have the childlike heart-it seems to me as though pass ing this golden gate they will feel like this little child q have a little temple back within my body, ill my breast, ana now I am going with my bucket and dip up the great ocean of truth and holy and lofty principles and trying to pour the mighty sea into this little house of mine"
 Like tides on a crescent sea, by which, when the moon is new and thin, into your heart high yearnings came yelling and rushing in, came from the distant ocean, whose rim no foot hath trod. Some of us called it longing, others called it God.
 Have you ever noticied the differ ence in men when you tried to study their resources and you looked into their eyes and down into their souls and tried to weigh these men in the balance? Don't you know that tho man who has dared leave the world for a while and who has not been afraid of the silences. who has not been too big a coward to get out somewhere where mighty stiffness enveloped his soul and where God can have a chance in his life. have you ever noticed how a man back from those silent places walked out upon the world with ma jesty enveloping him that ordinary men do not carry. We all thing of the time when the Great Gallilean came out of the solitudes of Nazareth where he had spent 30 years of his life, how in three years, three short fleeting years this Nazarene walked the earth with a grace, glory, a power unlike that borne by any other being, and men have turned and looked back to Naza- reth and said, Since Jesus only had B years to live in the world, why did he spend 30 of these years back behinc the gates, beyond the veil, and then emerge when he was 30 years old with only fleeting three years in which tc teach the heart and soul of the race he came to save" My brethren. those
 30 years of solitude made possible the three years of service. Wasted years
 indeed, No. Those 30 years of prepa-
 ration, of prayer. of stiffness, of com
 munion with God and nature and lofty principles, those 30 years of communion blossomed in the three years of miracle
 work and redemption.
 You remember when that eminent Jew, Daniel, had been exiled to Baby lon and the king had issued certain edicts to regulate his life, and one ot these habits of Daniel fnterfered witt the kings edicts. and the raw said that Daniel must cease that strange prac- tice of his of going apart from the
 world and going up the stairs to ar open window and looking ovre the par apets of this, pagan city back to the golden gates of old Jerusalem ant praying. The king said Ut must cease" But, day after day, just the
 same, Daniel went up rnese stairs te
 the upper window, and three times 2 day in the solitude he prayed, while the eternal light fell upon his fact from the eternal City of the Soul.
 And I declare to you tonight, tha- Daniel, this lonely, silent, worshipins Jew, rose above all the majesty anC
 might of this heather capital; Danie was mfghtier than all the lions; Danie
 was greater than Babylon itself "Ant
 smile" said Daniel, ito think God | greatness flowed around my incom
 pleteness; around my restlessness, Hi
 rest"
 I believe you can recognize Mason | if he doesn't wear a pin There is al | old tradition that in Roumania up il | the crags around a, hard path is foun' l a garden of matchless beauty and o 1 indescribable fragrance. Very fey people possess the fortitude necessar l to attain those cliffs and pass throug l the narrow gateway and enter tha garden, but the Roumanfans alway
 knew the man who had ventured an who had persevered and who ha found this garden of the gods, becaus' 1 they said, this was their tradition that when he came back into the cit there was that settled, fine fragrano that clung to his clothes, and every
 body in the streets woulo say, He ha
 been to the Roumanian gardens"
 The most serious word that I ca
 utter to you tonight, my fellow Mason
 and our friends here, is that the ma
 who has been back and has knelt the gate of silence in Masonry is rec ognized out in the world because-no
 I say if he understood the meaning (
 the silences at that gate-he walk
 with his head erect, and with h
 lungs full of oxygen, and there is new pride in his eyes, and new an
 calm majesty that possesses his spiri , and he carries the fragrance of tf garden back with him into the worl May read you this other word frol Ezekiel which describes again u , 1 East Gate of the Temple: And brought me back again, and behol waters issued out from under the gat from under the threshold of the gat eastward, and the Angel took hi down a thousand furlongs, and sa ' Now measure the waters And the r found the waters came up to the al , kles. He took him thousand ful l longs further, and he saids No r measure this water again, and
 measured, and the water came up 3 his knees. The third time the Ang ? said, after a thousand further fu E longs, Now measure the third tim \ and he measured, and the waters can 5 LID to the Joins. He took him on aga ? a thousand furlongs Now the Ang 9 said to the Prophet, Measure u 2 waters And he measured, and sa { it was now a river; the waters we ? too deep to be measures, and the rIV g was so great that it could not 5 crossed. And then the nngel sald g the Prophet, Wherever these wate t shall come, they will heal everylhlh - and everything shall live where u river flows
 And so, out of te Gate of Silenc . we come to the Gate of Service, al find that Masonry has itself two area . if has worship and it has Work, , has silence and it has Service, It n