Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1922-12-01
ADDRESS BY PAST GRAND MAS
TER cRITTENDEN E. CLARK,
OF UNITED GRAND LODGE F.
4 A. M, OF MISSOURI.


Instead OF the Grand Master's
Weekly Greetings, this week we arr
presenting the address made by PAS
Grand Master Crttenden +. Clark
now Judge Clark. st. Louis, Mo-, OF
the jurisdiction of the Most Worship.
ful United Grand Lodge Of Free and
Accepted Masons of Missouri. Thi.
address was made at the fifty-sixth
annual communication Of the Mos
Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge
Of Free and Accepted Masons Of
Illinois and It's Jurisdiction. assem-.
bled at East st. Louis, Illinois, DC.
tober, 18th, 1922, and follows:
"Massonry is founded on the great
principle Of the Fatherhood Of God
The Brotherhood of man. In her
teachings she seeks to be a guide to
truth, she teaches man his duty to
God, his country and himself. She
teaches man how 10 live and by a
devoted adherence to her preeepts
we learn hew to lise. She austains
the right and condems the wrong.
ANY Institution in existence today
which; sisvsts5 morals, refines sensi-
hilaies, ndyancess education, re.
licves distress. visits the sick room,
burics the dead, and cares for the
fAtherless, the aged and inirm il
from God, and is doing the work
Christ commanded, and should be
encouraged. commended and upheld
Notwithstanding scores Of secret
societies have been organized, and al
Of them based upon or borrowing
something frdm Freemasonry, this
institution glorying in its antiquity
still holds It's place as the ehiehesi
and best, dispensing light, peace and
joy throughout the earth, as the
waters cover the great deep.
I'm the past there is much for the
congratulations, and the usual aetiy-
ity. New and wonderful inventions
succeed each with startling rapility
Radio Airships- Wireless tele-
sraphy, etc. And while il is natural
10 point to the marvellous growth OF
fhc nation to is enormous increase
IN wealth. to the splendid develop
ment of its educational Institutions,
yet the grandest the most substantial
the most gratifying Of all is the adj
vance Of the womanhood and man
hood Of our people. On its roll OF
heroes, the true assets Of nation
are found, and not in the huctions OF
securities and the shifting balance
sheets. Their deeds become the al.
ieyed currency Of the nation,, hon.
pred at par value in every capital
and port on the globe, enriching the
poorest and enobiing the richest Of
al who boast the Natioiia
when men shall ask what are to
be the nations safeguards of the fu-
,urc2 We would say mot our
Navy" though its ships dot the
waters Of all ports of the world Not
our standing Army maintained to up
along our coasts from eastern Maine
tothe farthest shores of Alaska; but
that splendid trinity Of institutions,
the American Home, the free public
shool. and the church of the living
God. To the establishment Of all
these institutions Masonary has ever
been loyal
"No church can afford to attack
secren societies, that in some inst
ances are reforming this Christian
duty better even than the church it.
self. No particular church has a
monopoly OF truth. We are all liv-
ing under a Common Father, who
viii judge US not because Of our af-
flliation with any particular church
out by our character as exemplfied
by our lives. In the building OF
that character the exxhalted prin-
ciples of Masonry, applied to our
conduct are all powerful and neces-
sary.
We arc learning to look upon use
fnl labor from higher stand