THE MASONIC J 0 U H N A L
Trust in Mother.
TO THE BOYS AKD OIRLS—BY MRS. M. A. KID
DER,
Little dauglitei-8 full of glee,
Bright and happy, fair and free,
Trust in mother
You will never find another
lake, tills one, so good and true,
And so faithful unto you—
Trust ill mother.
Tell her all your childisii woes.
For preciou.s balm she knows -
Sweet and healing j
And her ki.ss tliat’s warm with feeling:
Blessed kiss that never cloys—
All your happy childish Joys
Too revealing.
Maiden daughter blooming fair,
With your opening charms rare,
Tru,t in mother;
Slie’ll advise you like no othe.-;
Locl your secret in your breast,
Share with her who loves you best—
Trust in mother.
Growing sons of hope and pride,
You too need a patient guide.
Trust in molher.
Mot an aspiration smother,
Not a folly fail to tell,
Her sweet counsel worketh well—
Trust in mother.
Girls and hoys where’er you stand.
Scattered throughout our beauteous land;
Tru=t in motlier.
She’ll advise you like no other;
Loving sires you may possess,
But for llroughtful tenderness,
'J’rust in mother.
Masonry’s Glory.
Widows and orphans are supported,
protected and befriended by the Frater
nity, with an eye to their comfort and
respectability, as well as the craving
wants of nature. But this is not all—
jiay, it is not the most glorious fruits of
Masonry at the present day. If one
thing more than another is calculated to
make the Masonic Fraternity feel proud
■of their position before the world, it is
that in every q^uarter of the earth where
Masonry exists, its members are becom
ing alive to the sense of their duty to the
rising generation. The columns of this
paper from time to time have pressed
this subject upon our State,—’tis true a
school for the education of the young
of indigent Masons and Orphans was at
tempted by the local fraternity and after
lingering a sickly period failed and be
came extinct, but what is and can be done
in other States of our beloved Union can
and should be done in the liberal Slate
of New York. Our charity through the
Asylum is indefinitely postponed through
the ill advised and cruel extravagance of
a Hall. Masonic charity has been crip
pled by even cutting off the stipendiary
allowance to the Relief Boards. But
still as Masons we can glory in the good
done in other States and other lands
through education.
There wms a time when our brethren
thought they discharged their whole
duty, if the pressing wants of the poor
were so far supplied as to prevent abso
lute suffering. Time was when the des
titute widows and orphans of the deocasea
M. Masons received but a stinted pit
tance, from time to time, sufficient only
to prevent starvation. There wa.s a pe -
rioJ when Masons, were laboring under
an incubus, which palsied the arm and
contracted the hand of benevolence ; bet
that cloud has long passed away. There
was a time when some Lodges, after at
tending to their business or work, con
verted their “hours of refreshment into
feasting and revelry, and, after footing
the bill, but a scant mite, indeed, was
left for the widow and orphan. How is
it now ? What a happy thrill of joy
there is in remembrance of what the
Fraternity is doing in almost every lo-
cality, and a glorious reformation being |
achieved. Masonic feasts are to be com
mended as at present conducted for they
occur not oitener than a true and proper
spirit should dictate ; fraternal inter
course is desirable and all labor is not
required. With the exception of the fi
nancial times. Masons have consequently
more to give in alms than formerly. But
it la remarkable that tliroug’nout the
United States, England, Scotland, Ire
land and nearly all of the Continental
Europe, a spirit of Masonic benevolence
has spiling up, greatly more liberal and
enlarged in its ch-iracter than was ever
known before. Distressed Masons are
relieved as they ever were, save only with
a more bountiful hand. England justly
carries the palm in its care for the edu
cation of youth ; out of its original troub
les sprung two excellent Institutions.
The Moderns established a Masonic
school for boys, its rival of the Ancient
established the Masonic school for girls
and when the difficulties were healed
both Institutions were continued and are
the glory of England; these have become
two blessed charities, and yet the aged
and infirm are not forgotten for their
home daily exhales “God bless the Ma»
sons.”
, But let us look at our own fair land,
about 1843, buildings and lands were
purchased in Mation, Missouri, for the
establishment of a Masonic College, but
some five or six years thereafter the loca
tion was changod to the city of Lexing
ton, the citizens subsciibing some $30,000
the college is beautifully situated and
will accommodate about 250 students;
its apparatus is complete coming under
the several captions of mechanics, by""
drostatics, pneumatics, electricity, mag
netism, optics and chemistry, its library
is very complete. When it was first in
stituted, it was remarked, that the col
lege would be a bright particular star in
the resplendent galaxy of Masonic glory,
that away out in the far West, in the
neighborhood of sunset, in the region of
Indians, buffaloes and bears, a light had
arisen that will oast its brilliancy for
ward to the eastern climes afar, and
awaken the spirit of a generous, frater
nal emulation in doing good and only
good all the time.” Again, away down
South in 1850, Marshall Lodge, compos
ed of only 70 members, established in
Marshall, Hanson county, Texas, a Fe
male Masonic Institute, which the first
year had no less than 134 pupils, a little
handful of 70 Brothers, in a very short
time, established an Institute that would
be a credit to an old city.
Of other Masonic Schools, such a.s that
in North Carolina, this page has weekly
spoken, and these are Masonry's glories
“Ami all man’s glory unto God’s must turn,”
—JV. Y. Hebrew Leaderr.
A Horn.—A fog horn which, it is
said, can be heard thirty to sixty miles
away, has been added to the attractions
(?) of the Centennial grounds. At some
such distance its unearthly shriek might
be so modified as to he agreeable, close at
hand its effect upon nervous visitors is
startling in the extreme. The inventors
would better prove its value by planting
the horn thirty or forty miles distant.
It is made useful, as far as it can be, how
ever, by shrieking at the opening of the
gates in the morning, and at the hour for
closing in the evening.
The settling of a great hope is like the
setting of the sun. The brightness of out-
life is gone. Shadows of evening fall
around us, and the world seems but a dull
reflection—itself a broader shadow. We
look forward to the coming onely night.
The soul withdraws itself. Then stars
arise, and the night is holy.
Too Muon OP a Good Thing.—It is
very certain that we cannot have too
little of a bad thing. It is just as true
that we may have too much of a good
thing. Any substance with a high flavor
soon palls upon the sense if we have too
much of it, No hungry man would care
to sit down to a dinner of confectionery.
Books made of elegant extracts, or news
paper squibs, or miscellaneous anecdotes,,
are rather dry reading.. There are oer
tain excellent qualities of character which
some people have in excess. We know a
few persons whose chronic amiabilities is
so intense as to make them repulsive.
You do not care to see a man or a wom
an with peipetual smiles. Others
weary you by their sedateness—wooden
people, who mistake gravity for virtue.
Some lalkers offend you by their candor
and communicativeness ; others by their
caution and reticence,
Tlie man who censures without, dis
crimination is of course a nuisance ; and
so is he who praises without discrimina
tion. Even the Bible cautions us against
being “riteous overmuch and once in a
great while you fall in with a saintly per
son whose interest in the next world
makes him oblivious of the duties which
pertain to the present. There are good
people who give too much good advice,
and sometimes wear out the patience ot
saints as well as sinners. Parents may
exercise too much restraint over their
children, and teachers demand too much
study of their pupils.
As a general rule we have too much
talk and too little action. Too many
speeches are made at publ c dinners
and anniversaries and all sorts of meet
ings. Clergymen are expected to preach
too many sermons, and occasionally may
preach too Iona. Lawyers are apt to
traverse the universe in a case of petit
larceny. Physicians, until recently,
gave too much medicine, but they are
doin,a better now. Too many women try
to live by needle work, and too many
men and -y-omen try to earn something
by their pen.
We have too much so-called philan
thropy, which, with the best intentions,
onlv serves to aggravate the evils which
it seeks to cure ; and too manj' societies
do the work which would be much bet
ter and more cheaply accomplished by
a few. If the per centage of receipts
required by some of these great insti
tutions in order to keep the machine in
motion—expended in buildings and sal
aries, and age.ncies and stationery—
were generally understood, we are in
clined to think that many princely be
quests now bestowed upon them would
be directed to other uses.—• Waverly
Magazine.
On the 4th day of July, the Grand
Lodge of Kentucky, at the special request
of those representing the United States
government, laid the corner stone of a
very large building, about being erected,
in the city ot Covington, and to he used
as a Post Office and United States Court
House. Lr, T. N, Wise, Past Grand
Master, as the proxy of the Grand Mas
ter, who is at this time in New York,
performed the ceremony in his usual
graceful and impressive manner. There
was a. very large procession, composed of
members of the various branches of ihe
Order, Lodges, Chapters and Commander-
ies. The ceremonies were witnessed by
a vast concourse of citizens, highly inter
ested spectators of the impressive cere
monies. May they, whose duty it shall
he to carry up> the building and provide
for its completion, remember that except
the Lord build the house, they labor in
vain that build it. May it continue as
long as the principles of those who laid
the corner stone.—Louisville Masonic
Journal.
A Few Golden Rules.
Take hold of duties pleasantly. Walk
side by side with gentleness, courtesy and
true love for your fellow beings, Never
tease or taunt ; no good comes from it,
and your taunts may be remembered with
resentment for years. Let the whole of
your life be mapped out carefully, with
the view of making the best possible use
of it, and foster a love for honorable in
dustry with an eye open toward steady
savings for future benefit.
He who would be wealthy must save.
If your companions do not believe in it,
break away from them, abandon the
countless trifles that are hourly presented
to you. Smoke fewer cigars, go to the
theatres less; and within a year you will
be on the road to wealth, while they
haunt the corners, the theatres and the
bar rooms, spending their money on vice
and that which makes no good returns.
It is a false pride which would make
the average young American “free as
water” with his money. Save it, for old
age will soon come, with its vent for be
nevolence ; perhaps then you can dispose
of it with better judgment.
When the aged oak sends forth its fa
ded leaves one by one to the autumn
blast, its time scarred bark turns black
and the tree dies from old age, and it is
of no more value in the earth ; perchance
then there shoots forth an infant oak,
which will take pattern after its aged
friend and mature t® future worth and
beauty.
So, if a man strives by industry, sobri
ety and civility to wfin an honorable life,
he will inevitably win wealth and honor
able position in the hearts of all, while
all around him will spring up hosts of
imitators.
The Accomplished Farmer.
The following extract furnishes an il
lustration of what is necessary to consti
tute the most accomplished farmer:
The idea that perfect farming consists
only in aptness at labor and strength of
muscle, is at war with true philosophy.
The sailor before the mast, splices a rope,
steers the ship or rows a boat with per
fect skill. Hurled into the sea, he rides
the waves with composure, and is saved
in countless exigencies where a landsman
would surely have perished. Tossed fear
fully on the yard arm. amid the play of
lightning, and sleet and the tempest, he
reefs the sails with imperturable coolness.
Is he a perfect sailor? Oh no.-' Silent
thoughtful students are at work in the
national observatories at London and
Washington preparing the nautical alma
nac. Maps and charts indicating the
shoals and reefs and coast, are prepared
for him at great expense and care. Prof.
Maury has published his directions for
taking advantage of the wind and cur
rents. By all the aids and appliances
which science has furnished, the mariner
can indicate upon the trackless ocean,
almost the precise spdtt, he occupies, and
sleep with composure and confidence.
But is the profound scholar from whose
deduction the ship is worked, the perfect
sailor? Oh! no. But the man who unite.s
the highest practical aptness and skill in
working the ship, with the scientific com
prehension that enables him to use all
the deductions of nautical science he is
the most perfect sailor. He may be
found among the officers of the ship.
The most perfect union of principle and
practice constitute the sailor. What is
the moral.S' Why, that in agriculture,
the most abundant knowledge of all
known natural laws and all applicable
scientific principles, must conspire with
the most perfect skill, aided by energy,
industry, economy, temperance and
health to make the perfect farmer,
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