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Tidings From The Craft In The United Sta...
" One more we yield the ravening tomb ; 3 Tis Thy command , our Brother dies ! Once more a pall of funeral gloom-Once more the tribute of our sighs . " Teach us , 0 Lord , our days to sum , That we to wisdom may incline ; What steps of life are yet to coirie , What gloomy steps of pain and sin .
" Music by the band . - " Masonic Eulogiuin upon the life and character of Jesse Edmonsfcon , bv Rob Morris , Deputy Grand M
" closing hymn for knights templar " Precious , in the ^ i ght of heaven . Is the scene vdiere Christians die ; Souls with all their sins forgiven : To the courts of glory fly : Every sorrow , every burden , Eyiery cross , they lay it down ; Jesus gives them richest guerdon In his own immortal crown .
" Here , above our Brother , weeping , 'Through our tears we seize this hop e ^ He In je sl * s sweetly sleeping , Shall awake in glory up . He has borne his Cross in sorrow , Weary pilgrim , all forlorn ; When the sun shines bright to-morrow , : 'Twill reveal his sparkling Crown . " Knights of Christ , your ranks are broken
Close your front , the foe is nigh ; Shield to shield , behold the token As he saw it in the sky . By that sign , so bright , so glorious , Ye shall conquer if ye strive ; And like him , though dead , victorious In the courts of Jesus live ! " Concluding Prayer , by Rev . N . P . Ramsay . The procession will return to the Hall , where the exercises will be concluded " with an Address by the Right Worshipful George Whitcomb , of the Grand Lodge of Missouri . "
The Result oe Discord . —Never lend an ear to those who insidiously endeavour to dissuade you from your duty , but rather reprove them . I have known a good Loclge , numbering fifty members , entirely destroyed by the admission of a single mischief-making candidate . In three years he had succeeded in fomenting so many disputes , and creating so much dissatisfaction , that its oldest and best members gradually dropped off in disgust , until the numbers were so much reduced that a Lodge could not be opened ; and at length the furniture and jewels were sold , and the warrant resumed by the Grand Lodge . —Booh of the Lodge , 3 n 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Tidings From The Craft In The United Sta...
" One more we yield the ravening tomb ; 3 Tis Thy command , our Brother dies ! Once more a pall of funeral gloom-Once more the tribute of our sighs . " Teach us , 0 Lord , our days to sum , That we to wisdom may incline ; What steps of life are yet to coirie , What gloomy steps of pain and sin .
" Music by the band . - " Masonic Eulogiuin upon the life and character of Jesse Edmonsfcon , bv Rob Morris , Deputy Grand M
" closing hymn for knights templar " Precious , in the ^ i ght of heaven . Is the scene vdiere Christians die ; Souls with all their sins forgiven : To the courts of glory fly : Every sorrow , every burden , Eyiery cross , they lay it down ; Jesus gives them richest guerdon In his own immortal crown .
" Here , above our Brother , weeping , 'Through our tears we seize this hop e ^ He In je sl * s sweetly sleeping , Shall awake in glory up . He has borne his Cross in sorrow , Weary pilgrim , all forlorn ; When the sun shines bright to-morrow , : 'Twill reveal his sparkling Crown . " Knights of Christ , your ranks are broken
Close your front , the foe is nigh ; Shield to shield , behold the token As he saw it in the sky . By that sign , so bright , so glorious , Ye shall conquer if ye strive ; And like him , though dead , victorious In the courts of Jesus live ! " Concluding Prayer , by Rev . N . P . Ramsay . The procession will return to the Hall , where the exercises will be concluded " with an Address by the Right Worshipful George Whitcomb , of the Grand Lodge of Missouri . "
The Result oe Discord . —Never lend an ear to those who insidiously endeavour to dissuade you from your duty , but rather reprove them . I have known a good Loclge , numbering fifty members , entirely destroyed by the admission of a single mischief-making candidate . In three years he had succeeded in fomenting so many disputes , and creating so much dissatisfaction , that its oldest and best members gradually dropped off in disgust , until the numbers were so much reduced that a Lodge could not be opened ; and at length the furniture and jewels were sold , and the warrant resumed by the Grand Lodge . —Booh of the Lodge , 3 n 2