THE M A S O N f e JO U R N A L
5
BROTHER.
BY UNOI.E DAN.
Of all th:i title.T sougnt by men,
I would not ask another,
Than that, when spoke.i from the heart,
Gives me tlie name of Brother.
Tliis talisman unlocks the soul!
And holier instincts glow;
The hand’s warm grasp, the sp taking eye,
Show whence these feeling.s flow
l.et hollow courtiers play their p.art,
A:id Fashion's vot’ries bow.
Or soMiers bnive Ihcir banners wave,
"L'is but a hcirll 'ss show.
Were 1 a King or Emperor,
tVith wealth and tith-s other,
1 wouid (leein myself still poor indeed, •
Were I without a Brother.
For kingdoms Itave'their limits set,
Eacli empire, lias its bound ;
Blit the, lioly bonds of Brotlierliood
Vlasp tlio wiiole world around.
The love that each tine Brother bems
Sheds sunshine in tlie storm,
And'mid.'t the wintry chills of life
Keeps O'lr affections warm.
'i'heii write this epitaph for me,
Wlieii lifi lu.s closed its span :
Ben ‘.atli this stone a Brother sleeps
W'lio loved Ins fellow-man.”
Ausiralia, and while there he was in
formed of the following facts, which he
communicated to us. A party of white
men attempted to cross that great con
tinent, but they all perished by thirst
■ and starvation but one man. This man's
strength at last gave out, and he laid
■ himself down in the parched desert to
die. lie had not been lying there long
i before a tribe of Australian savages came
up, and would in a few seconds have
i killed him, had he not made thatiign
I which is never made in vain. The chief
I was a Mason ; he threw himself along-
I side of the Englishman and restrained
his followers from murdering him. He
gave him food and drink, kept him till
restored to strength, and then escorted
him to the nearest white settlement.—
N&rfolk Landmark.
Lodge Dues.
I Masons should pay Lodge due.s with
j the same punctuality as tney would pay a
j promissory note or an accepted draft. It
I is a bond, a contract, due at a certain
j time, and if not attended to, or paid
] when due, should be renewed or canceled
j by proper action of the Lodge. More at
tention should be paid to Lodge dues.
I It is the capital of the Lodge—if not
i guarded, protected, preserved, the Lodge
I might as well go into liquidation as a
I worthless bank, and cease operation.
I The funds of a Lodge belong to destitute
! worthy Masons, their wives, widows, or
orphans. It is a fund also that should be
Fellow-craft, every matohlooK would be | building re
instantly lowered,^and he would be | spect^ble, convenient, comfortable, and
received as ^ j jt furniture, books, and
tools to pei form the labor and work as-
T1i3 Mystic Masonic Tie.
la tha ivildernes.? of E lorn the hind of
thi children of Ishmael is still raised as
of old against every stranger, butif some
Mason of this city wsre to meet these ma
rauding sons of the desert, at the sign of i
corned to their tents and
brother.
A friend of ours—an officer of our La-
YV long sin^e deceased—was once wan
dering about in the narrow lines of sn
Ea.itera o.ty, h.ivlng lost his way in their
inextricable labyrinths. Suddenly he
was startled by the fiightful words,
“Christian dog! Chriotiaa dog! !” He
turned, and beheld approaching him a
crowd of enraged Mahometans, each with
a large stone in his uplifted hand. The
Ideutenant saw no escape from the most
terrible of deiths ; fo. wiih the exception
of the mob now almost upon him, he
could see no human being, save an old
man sitting in his door, and apparently
looking out for the fun to begin of stoning
a. OLristiau to death. Luckily the
A Beautiful Swiss Custom.
There has become to be something stir
ring and sweet in the verv name of “.VU
piue horn," its associations are all .so mu
sical and full of the hills. What must it
be to actually hear it —iiid to hear it, too
on occasions such as are describe! below, .
when the voice of the liuest iiutriiment ;
takes its finest meaning. !
Among the lofty mountains and elevat- .
ed valleys of Switzerland the .-Vliine horn!
hag another use besil-Ji tint of sounding
the far-famed‘Bans des Vaches,” or 'Oow
Song,” and this is a very solemn and im
pres.sive nature. When the .sun h*s sot
in the valley, and only the snowy sum
mits of the mountains gieain with goulen
light, the herdsman who dwells upon the
highest habitable spot take.s his horn and i
Dronounoes audibly .and loudly through ,
£. speaking trumpec, ‘'Prai.se the Lord j
God!” j
As soon as the sound is heard by the
neighboring huntsmen they ha.ste from
their huts, take the Alpine horns and re- '
peat the same word.s. This frequently i
lasts a quarter of an hour, and the name
of the Creator resounds from all the moun
tains and rook cliffs around. Silence at
length settles ov-ir the scene. All the
huntsmen kneel down and pray with un
covered heads. In the meantime it has
become quite dark,
“Good-night!"’ calls the highest herds
man again through his horn. “Good
night” again resounds from all the moun
tains through the horns of the huntsmen
and rocky cliffs. The mountaineers then
retire to tlieir homes and to re.st.
taasonio
A
TO THE
MASONIC FEATERNITY
IX
North Carolina
and the South.
signed it to do in an intelligent*and cred
itable manner. A Mason knows very
well when he should pay his dues—the
by-laws ot his Lodg.i, that he has selemn-
ly promised to “stand to and abide by,”
state the time that he should pay th-m.
There is no more apology for ignorance
or neglect in paying Lodge dues, than for
breaking any other monied contract with
out a cause. Unlike a bank, or individ
ual, a Lodge will never force a brother
t.o pay dues when he is destitute or una
ble. It extends the time, or cancels the
note, and it is this very fact that causes
brothers to presume that they can neg
lect their obligat.ons, and make their
Lodge a convenience to their own neglect
Tills U emphatically an age of progress.
The woi kl moves apace, but with us, especially
of the South, Masonry languishes, because
laekingaproperdissemination of those pure
in-inciples peeiiliar to our grand old Order.
Our brethren ofother m ire favored sections
have their periodical literature, and are bright
aiul pi-osperou.-;; we, too, should flourish and
blossom as tlie rose.
Th-'i-e are in the South nearly 200,000 Frec-
ma.son.s, and recognizing the imperative need
for a regular and permanent Organ peculiarly
suited to the demands of this vast number
“who are linked togetlier by an indLssoliible
chain of sincere affection,” we liave establish
ed ill the city of Greensboro, N", C„a lirst-clas.s
WEEKLY MASONIC
NEWSPAPER,
If your girl, or her big brother, comes
along and points a pistol at you, and tells
you to walk down to the minister’s and
be married, go right along and do it; the
marriage will be bogus. That has recent
ly been decided by the supreme court of
New Yoik.
GREENSBOEO “ PATEIOT.”
Established 1821.
A THIRTY-TWO COLUMN WEELY
CONSERVATIVE IN POLITICS.
thought crossed the officer s mind that | ]j^2iness. Pay you' Lodge dues, broth- ^
the old man might be a Mason he made j cents, crone dol- i
.a sign, and instantly the Arab ■'ushed | p^j^y jj. . you owe it—jdevoted to tin progrtss of the elate
out, and placed himself by the side of j Jg ju.st—it is due. Be a man—an hon j
the “Chi'i.stian dog. drove off his would- j ^ Mason, and pay your |
be-murderers, and conducted him safely , jjonest debts. As a rule, a Lodge that is I
to his ship. I negligent about collecting dues, general-
We can cite'another instince of the l ]y does poor work ; has slim attendance
fidelity of an Eastern Mason to his duty. | Lodge meetings ; gives little or noth-
About nine years ago an American ves- j ;„g fd- charity, and grows up ignorant of
sel was wrecked off the shores of one of . Masonry, and their duties as Masons.—
the Asiatic islands. None were saved | Money is one of the foundation stones of
from the waves but the captain, who, be- . dj benevolent and good societies; other
ing a very expert swimmer, reached the things are essential besides money to
land. The barbarous natives carried ,nake a good Masonic Lodge; but a
him to their Sultan. \\ hen ushered into prompt payment of dues begets mai.3'
the pre.senoe of the despot, the captain : other elements that naturally are pre
made himself known as a Mason. The
Sultan immediately met him on the
square, received him as a brother, treated
him with great distinction, and promised
to send him to Calcutta by the first op
portunity. The climate was however, so
pestilential that our captain soon fell
sick with the jungle fever. The Sultan
nursed him through all his illness, enter
tained him like a prince till he recovered,
furnished him with an abundance ofmon-
sented to Masons who see the necessity
of paying promptly their Lodge dues.—
Masonic Jewel.
Masonry.
The universality of Masonry is well
illustrated in the First Masonic Lodge of
Jerusalem, the Master of which is an
American, the pait master an English-
I man, the senior warden a German, the
junior warden a native, the treasurer a
rublislietl by
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AT
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Turk, the Secretary a Frenchman, the
ey, and sent him to Oalcutta, whence he : jmjjgj. gThere are Chris-
returned to America. | tians, Jews and Mohamedans in the
We will give yet another example, for | Lodge,
which we are indebted to an officer of the j Select advertisements admitted in the
British Navy. Fie had been stationed in ' Masonic Jouknal.
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