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GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS.
This is a plain, common-sense document, givit;lg an account of his administration in a business-like way. He thus expresses his views of the "object in Assembling": My Brethren, we have not left the shop, the office, the factory, or the farm, to assemble for pleasure alone; we are here for a purpose-to do something for God, our fellow man and ourselves. "We have most important labors to perform. We are to blaze a path to be followed by our childrens' children. What we do will become history. 'l'hen, if we are to write history Jet us write it well, without undue favor or affection. We are not time~ servers; we are the servants of a noble cause. Let us be about our Master's business. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
He announces the death June 21, 1906, of Joseph Thormeyer Davidson, Grand Tyler, and the appointment of Herman H. Erdman to fill the vacancy. He reports the arrEst of the ch~rter of Hood Lodge, No. 602, Adair County, and justifies his action in these words: BRETUUEN-It appears from the statements of a number of Brethren made under the sanction of their Masonic covenants, that officers and members of your Lodge appeared in public, clothed as a Lodge, while in a state of intoxication, and thus attended the funeral of Brother Wm. 'Wamack, in January, 1906; so that the solemnity and dignity of the occasion was seriously impaired, and the honor and reputation ot the Fraternity was thus brought into disrepute. It also appears that charges having been preferred against a number of members of your Lodge, and report of the committee made thel路eon. that the same were dismissed without taking the sense of the Lodge as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. The said Master also neglected and failed to cause charges to be preferred, or even to reprove 'Brethren who appeared in the Lodge under a state of intoxication; who bronght deadly weapons, and used profane language in open Lodge. 'rhis immora'I, intemperate conduct appears to have made no impression upon the Lodge, other than a mere incident, and the enormity of the offenses seem to be beyond the comprehension or appreciation of the members, which tends to show that they do not seem inclined to enforce the law in such cases made and provided. Therefore they should not hold a charter under the authority of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky.
These fellows are a fair sample of some of the goats that creep into our Lodges and don the lambskin. They must have been of the "baser sort." It is bad enough to get drunk at a banquet, but when it comes to getting drunk at a funeral.we are not surprised at the "putting on the lid" In Kentucky. He reports $2,564.15 forwarded to San Francisco for the relief of the sufferers by the earthquake. Dispensations were issued for nine new Lodges. We notice that none of these 'Yere in Adair County. SUGGESTIONS.
Under this head the Grand Master says: The expetlence of the past year has demonstrated that the Craft in somll sections are either ignorant of the law or they treat it with contempt.