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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , MAY 31 , ie >; j .

The Red Cross Of Constantine In The United States.

THE RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE IN THE UNITED STATES .

We have received the " Proceedings of tlie second annual Grand Conclave o ! : ic Knights of the Rod Cross of Constantine and appendant

Orders of Pennsylvania , ' he-Id at Allentovvn , Pennsylvania , on tlie 201 I 1 Fcbruarv last . From this notice we learn that the Order , which was established hut one . year previoush , v . nw numbers ,

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in Pennsylvania , no less than 14 Conclaves which are named and located as follows : — 1 . ( U . S . ) Premier , Washington . 2 . Orient , Bloomsberg . 3 . Constantine , Reading

4 . Trinity , Harrisburg . 5 . Mary , Allentown . 6 . Bellefonte , Bellefonte . 7 . Allegheny , Allegheny . 8 . Philadelphia , Philadelphia , 9 . Earl of Bective , Towanda .

10 . Red Rose , Columbia . 11 . Rose of Sharon , Rouseville . 13 . Corry , Cony . 13 . Sage , Franklin . 14 . Lily of the Valley , Titusville .

Appended to the " proceedings" are the statutes of the order , including neatly executed engravings of the regalia , and a draft of bye-laws for the general use of subordinate Conclaves , and a

variety of forms of petition , recommendation , charters , dispensations , returns , diplomas , documents , certificates , reports , ccc . The whole

exhibits an extraordinary state of completeness , notwithstanding the short time that the order has been established in the State .

The address of the M . l . Grand Sovereign , Calvin L . Stowcll , is a document so full of interest that we feel constrained to make therefrom the following copious extracts : —

ADDRRSS . Emine'it and Illustrious Knights of the Imperial Ecclesiastical , military , and Masonic Order of Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine , and the

Appendant Orders of the Grand Council of the Slate of Pennsylvania . Called by your unanimous vote to be the iirst Grand Sovereign of the first Grand Council of

Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine , established in the United States by authority of the Earl of Bective , Most Illustrious Grand Sovereign of the Grand Council of England , I

cannot be insensible of the high honour conferred on me , and from my heart thank you sincerely and fraternally for this proof of your estimation of my Masonic abilities .

Whatever these may be , I shall place them all upon our Masonic Christian altar , and devoutly ; isk the Grand Master of Assemblies , for the sake of His Son , 01 , r Saviour , to direct and prosper all

our doings , so that ihe pure , elevating , and evangelising principles of our Oriler maybe disseminated to promote I lis glory , the good of every Christian Knight , and our brethren of every

degree 111 the great Masonic family scatiered over the face of the earth . Knighthood , with its principles , its ceremonies and its grandeur , runs far back in the history

of time , and since man first began to wage war against his fellow , have marks and badges been given by the Commander to the meritorious for signal services and daring exploits .

No nation has ever existed which has not been distinguished by some peculiar and characteristic device . Thus , the Israelites choose the Hebrew letter Tail ; the Scythians , a thunderbolt ; the

Egyptians , an ox ; the Thracians , a likeness of Mars , the god of war ; the Romans , an eagle ; the Persians , a bow and arrows ; Prussia , a double-headed eagle ; England , a lion ; and our own beloved America , the eagle .

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The founder of our Order , the immortal Constantine—immortal , because he was the firsl Christian Emperor—chose for our distinctive badge , the cross and its motto , In hoc signo vinces

What thrilling memories are clustered around this device . A Saviour and his sufferings . His birth , life , death , resurrection , and ascension are all presented to our view . His divine teachings

all tending to redeem this sincursed world , and regenerate its inhabitants , through the potent , silent but all-powerful and all subduing influence of the cross , for by this sign we conquer . Since the time of Constantine other Orders of

Knighthood have been established , ( numbering about seventy-three , ) as the historic page abundantly shows , but none can boast of a voice littered from on high with the emblem of man ' s

redemption as its device , neither can they be compared with the Red Cross of Constantine , the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the Order

of St . John , as the means of elucidating to the novitiate those eternal truths taught in our first Great Light .

Our Orders , in their history , their conception , and their grandeur , infinitely surpass all others , and He who spake to the great Emperor , in the year of our Lord 313 , and exhibited to him , both

the sign and the motto , not only at the setting of the sun , but in his dreams , in the night season , has rendered them imperishable and deathless . We greet all other legitimate Orders of

Knighthood , and recognise them as co-labourers in the dissemination of great moral principles , but while they gather truth from some event of a national character , or by exhibiting the public

and private virtues of an individual , of warriors or statesmen , our Order teaches lessons far more sublime . It infuses into the heart the genuine principles of the new dispensation , of Christ as

the Second Person of The Trinity , co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit . It teaches our members to keep our solemn vows continuall y' before their minds , commanding us

to feed the hungry , give drink to thirsty , clothe the naked with a garment , visit and ransom the captives , give the widows and orphans where to lay their heads , visit and relieve the sick , and

thereby become Christ-like in principle and action . In assuming our vows these tenets are inwrought in our hearts , and are therefore necessarily carried out in the active duties of life ,

because we are taught to love one another , to bear with one another , not to speak evil of one another , to pray with and for one another , and to unite together as children of one parent , and brethren of one family .

Such are the precepts and prmcijiles taught within and without our Conclaves ; lience our Knights are reminded of the duties they owe to their God , their country , their fellow-men , and

particularly their brethren an J Sir Kni ghts , and by following the divine injunctions , 1 may , in language of our ritual , truly say , that "faith will sustain their steps , immortal hope cheer their

souls , and charity crown their lives . " Nay , these eternal truths will alone satisfy Divine justice , justify man ' s repentance , and prepare him by

deeds of mercy , pure beneficence and an humble and contrite heart , for ihe happiness of the life that now is , and for that which is to come