The Lamar register., 1922-04-19
KNIGHT TEMPLARISM
Continued from Page Two)


day, and ask for qualities which last
no longer. My fathers will be to me only
as the ground out of which my bread
is grown; dead, they are but the rot
ten mould of earth, their memory of
small concern to me. Posterity, |
shall care nothing for the future gen.
erations of mankind.
But knowing that we shall live for
ever, and that the Infinite God loves
all of us, we can look on all the evils
of the world, and see that it is only
the hour before sunrise, and that the
light is coming; and SO we also, even
we, may light little taper, to illum-
mate the darkness while it lasts, and
help until the day-spring may come.
-"The rose of Jericho grows in the
sandy deserts of Arabia and on the
Syrian housetops. Scarcely six inches
high, it loses its leaves after flow
ering season, and dries up into the
form of ball. Then it is uprooted by
the winds, and carried, blown, or toss
ed across the desert, into the sea.
There feeling the contact of the wa
ter, it unfolds itself, expands its
branches, and expels its seeds from
their seed-vessels. These, when sat
urated with water, are carried by the
tide and laid on the seashore. Many
are lost, as many individual lives of
men are useless. But many are thrown
back again from the sea-shore into
the desert, where by virtue of the sea-
water they have imbibed, the roots
and leaves sprout and they grow into
fruitful plants which will, in their
turns, like their ancestors, be whirled
into the sea-" God will not be less
careful to provide for the germina-
ton of the truths you may boldly ut
ter. "Cast thy bread upon the wa
ters, and after many days it shall re-
turn to thee again" For the fore
going reasons 1t is therefore our duty
as Knight Templars to be outspoken
In the enforcement Of law, and by our
own examples show that the neces-
sity Of practicing the moral truths is
an obligation.
The ancient Knight Templar believ-
ed in the immortality of the soul which
is also a Fundamental principle and
belief of the Modern Templar. How
ever created, or invested with separ-
ate existence, the Soul which is but
the creature of the Deity, cannot know
hend its own individuality. 1t can
not even comprehend how the Being
which it and the body constitutes. can
feel pain, or see, or hear. 1t has
pleased the Universal Creator to set
bounds to the scope Of our human and
finite reason, beyond which it cannot
reach; and il we are capable of COM
pretending the mode and manner of
the creation or generation Of the uni
verse of things, He hath been pleas
ed to conceal it from us by an i'm
penetrable veil, while the words used
to express the act have no other de-
finite meaning than that He caused
that universe to commence to exist.
1t i. enough for US to know, what
Masonry teaches, that we are not all
mortal; that the Soul or Spirit, the
intellectual and reasoning portions of
ourself, is our Very Self, and is not
subject to decay and dissolution but
is immaterial, survives the death of
the body, and is capable of immoral
ity; that it is also capable of improve
ment ard advancement, of increase of
knowledge of the things that are di-
vine, of becoming wiser and better,
and more and more worthy of i'm
morality; and that to become SO, and
to help to improve and benefit others
and all our race, is the noblest ambi-
tion and highest glory that we can
entertain and attain unto, in this mo-
mentary and imperfect life.
Life is battle, and to fight that
battle heroically and well is the great
purpose of every mans existence, who
is worthy and fit to live at all. To
stem the strong currents of adversely,