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THE MASONIC JOURNAL Obstacles. Theri was a wholesome morj.1, rely on it, underlying the brisk narraiive of that old fairy tale of the adventurous knight who sought to fill a pitcher at the euchant- ed fountain. As he climbed the hill, on the crest of which the wondrous water bubbled up, strange voices assailed his ear. There were the fierce threats of bitter foes, the roar of a raging crowd, the goft blaudLshmeuts of gentle and upbraid ing love, Yet the good knight pressed steadily oii to the goal, while all around him cropped out in ghastly profusion from the fatal soil a number of tail black stones, representatives of faint-hearted aspirants who had turned their heads, and had been petrified as a punishment. Every day s experience confirms the truth of the alle gory. For obstacles are of two sorts, the soft an i the hard, and of these, perhaps, the former, like sunken rocks in a ship’s course, are the most dangerous. The more familiar class ofobstagles are solid stumbling-blocks, real, tangible bar riers that proclaim “no thorougiifare, in unmi.-itakable language, and that must be scaled by the daring, or hewn down by the strong. Sometimes these hindrances bar the way, not of an individual, but of a people. We see nations which seem from the outset, to be too heavily weight ed for the race of life. The Tbibetian, cowering among rock.s to escape the bit ing wind, car. scarcely be blamed if the nineteenth century finds him as he was ages ago. A climate of iiuperious cold, a stonv soil, a girdling wall of sky-pierc ing mountains, no roads, and it may al most be said no fuel, unite to keep Thibet the land of hunger and emptiness which it has ever been. The Icelander, who cannot afford fire except for cooking, and wkose -^intci fare iS an unwholesome di et of wind dried fish and ill-fed pork, has positively retrogra.ted since the days when his ancestors colonized Greenland. The old insular Soandinav.ans owned forests long aiuoe devoured by the lava of the giant volcanoes ; their cattle graz- ed over many a square mile of pasture that is now but a oiuder-strewn de.sert, for natrue herself appears to have served her writ of ejectment on the dwindling population. There are other doomed tribes whose sum-total yearly lessens. The Esquimaux, whose national life has been one long struggle with frost and starvation, are dying out, slowly but sure ly, like one of their own skull-lamps when the sea -oil runs dry. Maori and Hottentot, the black race of Australasia and the red race of A.merica, wane with startling rapidity. The Polynesian is landers were diminishing in numbers, even before Cook first sighted their bread- every shipload of Prison cheese, or Guel- ders butter, repre.sents a triumph of un flagging industry and dogged courage. Those who redeemed their country from the waves of the North Bea were surely competent to m&c the most of its re sources, and the same may in a less de gree be said of Flanders and the spade- husbandry that has turned a barren bed of sea-sand into a huge market garden. The Rhenish vine.ards are ugly when compared to those Tnskan enclosures where graceful vines form fantastic arches from tree to tree, and where the heavy, purple grape-bunches hang mixed with apple and plum, pear and chestnut, one tangle of variegated green and ripening fruit. Butin Rhineland each terraced ledge that lines the tall river-cliff has been painfully won by hard work. It was no light labor to level those shelves of solid rock to plant that system of lad ders heedi'uliy uinued to the orag-front, to carry up by basketfuls the very earth that should nourish the tender roots of the young vines, and to tend them in all weathers, jealously watching over every nu'sling shoot, and setting a nightly guard to secure the maturing clu.sters fr. m thieves, b.peil and four-footed. Here is no instance of nature's lavish bounty, but of a valnabie crop reared by incessant and self denying toil. A Mother who had two little children both girls—the elder a fair child, the younger a beauty and a mother s pet. Her whole love entered in her. The eld er was neglected, while “Sweet, (the pet name of the younger,) received every at tention that love could bestow. One d.iy after a severe illness, the toother was sit ting in the parlor, when she heard a child ish step on the stairs and her thoughts were instantly with the favorite ‘ Is that you. Sweet.?" she inquired. “No, Mamma" was the sad and touch ing reply, “t’isn’t Sweet, it s only me? The mother's hea; t smote her, and from that hour “only me" was restored to an equal place in he’ affections. DIRECTORY. Gr.vndeu.i of M.^-SONry.—Freemason ry to-day is one of the great moral levers of the world. It penetrates every im pulse of man’s better life, and is diffused in every noble action of the soul. The cycles of the nineteenth century, as well as past ages, ring with its utterances. Passing the bridge of time, its fraternizing principles marches on with increasing majesty, and its great task widens with its strengiu into new conceptions and nobler institutions. Bearing the spirit of Faith, Hope and Charity, it stal'is on, ever pro claiming in lofty tones the purpose of God ! Let the sublime principles of Freemasonry be acted out, and the world will be conquered—the widow and the orphan, the suffering and distressed, will proclaim in trumpet tones the excellency of its plans, the utility of its triumphs. In a word it presents to the eye the moral history of the human heart, and the time cannot be far distant when its fraterniz ing principles will embrace the world, as the glnr ous rainbow based on ocean. Sf ans the sky. But above all, a personal fidelity abso lutely incorruptible, should be the char- acteri.stic of every Mason ; and none should gain admission to your temples who are not so organized and tempered that, "ihatever emergency mav arise, and whatever temptation may assail them, there shall be no sa'rifice of one jot or tittle of the faith they have plighted at The Central Protestant, V RELIGIOUS WEEKLY .-VND FAMILY NEWSl'AL'KR, Published at Greensboro. X. C. Siib.-eription Price, with postage, .JS.IO. J. L. MHTI.^UX, Editor. \V. R. ODELL, Asaouiate. Tiiepaper is now in its sec.nn 1_ volume,, and lias a large and growing eirciilatioii. At the same time, tliat it is tlie ilffle.ial Organ ot the N. (t Oonfcreiiee, Metiiodist Pi'otestjuit Churcli, such is its liberaiity and catliolicity of spirit tliiit it is suecessfuliy reaeliiiig out in all (liri-ctions and among all tlie deiionniiaiioui oftlieSlalc, an4 wliereverit lias appeared is received witli uncxceiiliouable lieartiness and approval. „ . . . One oftiie featnre.softlie Central ProUniant, and wliieli is part ami piu'cel of itself, is the brevity and spiciness of its articles, on whicli accounttlie leading newspaper man oi tlie State pronounces it superior to all other-. Tliose, wlio know him, readily concede Unit tliere is no appeal from ins judgment. A paper so eagerly souglit and so tliorougbly read, must also be an excellent adveiti-ing medium, a fact whicli llie prompt and repeated answers to its advertisements abundantly proves. If you want a paper tliat is readalde, lively, entertaining and profltalde, subscribe for tlie Central L’roteeiant. If you have an advertisement wliicli you dv'.sire sliould liave atteiitivecousideralion, insert it in tlie Lenirat Protestant. Address tlie editors, Greensboro, A. G. Gkand CounciIj of N. C.—.Jolin Nichols, of Raleigli, M. I. G. M.\ D. W, Bain, Raleigli, G. Recorder. Grand Chapter ok N. C.—Tlios. S Keenan, Wilson, G. H. P,, D. W. Bain, Ral- elgli, G. Seef y. Grand Lodoe OF N. C.—Geo. W. Bloimt, Wilson, G. M., D. W. Bain, Raleigli, G. Sect'y. Greensboro Councie No. 3, R. & S. M., Grcenslioro.N. C.-Tlios. J. Sloan, T. I. M., S. E. Allen, Recorder. Time of meeting; 3rd Wednesday night of each iiionlti. CiiORAziN Chapter, No. 13, Greensboro, N. C. Thos. J. Sloan, lliyh Priest, J. N. Nid.-on, iSecretary. 'I'ime of meeting: 3rd Friday night of each iiiontli. Elmwood Lodge, No. 246, Greensboro, N. C.—H. N. Snow, W. M., S. E. Allen, Secretary. 'I’ime of Regular Commuuications: second Saturday niglitof eacii montli. Caswell Chapter, No. 38, Kinston, N. C.. —S. II. Rountree, Iligk Priest, Alexander Nleoi, Secret ary. Time of meeting: 1st and 3rd Timrsdays in eacii inoiuii. Kin.ston Lodge, No. 310, Kinston, N. C., —Tlios. A. Harvey, IV, M., A. S. Padrick, Secretary. Time of Regular Communications: Thurs day evening of eacii week. T^-^SONIC The Raleigh News, liAir.Y’ AND WEEKLY, PUBLISHED HY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Devoted to the best interests of the State oi North Carolina, to the success of tlie Cqnsj-r- vative pai tv, tlie developin''lit of tlie liid.ie wealth of the State, cause of immigration inc our midst and tlie advaucenient of tlie wel'iiu , of oiir people in everytliing tliat serves to make a State iirosnerons and independent. Its advertising COIilJMNS will be found of great advantage, as tlie Daily enioys tlielarge-t ciiv"latioii of any Daily ii the State and is doulilc tlia'' of any Daily pub- lislied in Raleigli. ami tlie Weekly circulatesiu every county in tlie State. Pates moderate. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily—oneyeai, $-5,00 “ Omontlis, 3,06 Weekly—one year, 1.00 JOHN D' CAMERON, Editor. .lORD.AN STONE, Assoeiate Editor, E. C. WOODSON, Local Editor. TO THE MASONIC FRATERNITY IN North Carolina and the South. GREENSBORO “PATRIOT.”; your altars. There can be no divided fruit groves and coral reefs, and their de- fealty or devotion among us. cadence has been, as usual, the quicker for the white man’s visits. War and drought, and slave-hunts are telling fast on the census of pagan Africa, and of all non-European races, only those of China and Japan appear to retain their sturdy vitality. Material obstacles, if not absolutely overwhelming, are precisely those which a vigorous nation confronts the beet. Even here in England, a feebler stock than our own would hardly have crowd ed a forest of masts into their ports, or encumbered their wharves with heaped up merchandise from every quarter of the globe. Our soil and climate do not ena ble us to dispense with skill and care. We must farm well, and make our coal and iron do us yeoman’s seivioe, and plough every sea with the keels of our trading-ships, if we would keep our place among nations. What is true of England may safely be said of more countries than one. Every hay-crop raised in Holland, I am one of those who demand of my Masonic breth ren exactly what I propose to give them in return—a loyalty to my vows which no earthly influences can shatter or im pair. I demand that the moral standard of the ancient brotherhood shall be stead ily advanced—raised higher and higher and yet higher—until the golden period shall come again, when the simple name of Freemasons shall bea guarantee of manhood, faithfulness and integrity. Let us not be content with any half-way ex cellence. The genius of our Order de mands all the perfection attainable, and in these respects, at least, humanity is capable of absolute perfection.—Grand M(ester Praat, Cal. Established 1821. A THIRTY-TWO COLUMN WEELY' CONSERVATIVE IN POLITICS, and devoted to tlie progress of the State, New York Commercial: Spilkins, who is a Knight Templar,started for New Or leans the other day. Mrs. S. insisted upon going along and taking the child ren, but Spilkins positively refused, on the ground of historical precedent. “The idea,” said he, indignantly, “of St. Ome'r or St. Jean d’Acre marching into Pales tine with a baby in each arm, and women clinging to their elbows! No Madame,” And Mrs. Spilkins stayed at home. Ii*u1ilislied by DUFFY & ALBRIGHT, AT per Y"ear—$1 for Six Months, "A splendid Job Oflieo attiiclied. Tills is cmpliaticaliy an ago of progress. Tlie woi'ld moves apace, but witli us, especially of tlie Soutli, Masonry 'anguishes, becau.se lacking a proper dissemination of those pure principles peeiili ar to our grand old Order. Our bretlireu of other more favored sections liavetlieir periodical literature, and are bright and prosperous; we, too, sliould flourish and blossom as tlio rose. There are in tlie Soutli nearly 200,000 Free masons, and recognizing tlie imperative neeii for a regular and permanent Organ peculiarly .suited to the demands of tliis vast numlier ■wlio are linked together by an indissoluble chain of sincere aflectiim,” weliave establish ed in tlie city of Greensboro, N. C„a flrst-class W EEKLY MASONIC NEWSPAPER, such as tlie dignity and iidvancemeut of tlie Fraternity will approve. Its Liticuature will beymre, and o£ the liigliest order; making tlie JouUNALa lit com panion for the most cultivated and refined, and a welcome visitor to anj’ liousehold. In tliis connection we liiive engaged the services of able ami popular writers wliose liearts glow with a fond desire for tlie perpetuity of tlie Ancient I.aiidniarks of our “Mystic Rites,” ami we will spare ueitlier labor nor expense to make tile paper a. liigtily instructive and popu lar Family and Masonic visitor. With a journalistic experience of several years, and a determination to give all our time, talent and energy to tlie promotion of this important enterprise we liope to receive from our Masoiuc brethren tliat liberal confidence and support whicli, by an entire devotion Ih its success, we liope to merit. All money .sliould be sent by Check,; Post-Ofiiec Order or Registered Letter. Address E. A. Wilsoai, Green^WRo, N. C\ WANTED. .1.000 suliseribers to tlie Ma- soxrc Journal by first of December. ADVERTISE,. ADYERTISE, ADVERTISIL
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