2 0 J U k 19IU MASONIC TOKEN. WHEREBY ONE BROTHER MAY KNOW ANOTHER. VOLUME 5. PORTLAND, ME., JULY 15, 1910. No. 13. Jun. General—Fessenden I. Day, Lewis­ the sceptre of dominion and free from the Published quarterly by Stephen Berry Co., ton. concealments of the flesh has touched the No. 37 Plum Street, Portland, Maine. Recorder—Millard F. Hicks, Portland. unseen and eternal reality back of all Ma­ sonic symbols, and sleeps with his fathers Twelve cts. per year in advance. Maine Council Red Cross of Constantine, in honored sepulture, which with the last Portland: great Laureate of his beloved country who Established March, 1867. - - 44th Year. Sovereign—Silas B. Adams. sang of England’s deathless fame, we, too, Viceroy—Harmon C. Crocker. "Doubt not that for one so true Advertisements $4.00 per inch, or $3.00 for Sen. Gen.—Albert W. Meserve. There must be other nobler work to do. half an inch for one year. Jun. Gen.—Llewellyn Carleton. And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that we can weave him. No advertisement received unless the advertiser, Recorder—Samuel F. Bearce. or some member of the firm, is a Freemason in Speak no more of his renown, good standing. Eastern Star. Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him, A CALL FROM THE SEA. The Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star God accept him, Christ receive him.” met in 18th annual session May 24th and Governor Fernald followed with the Green waves under her fore-foot, 25th, and Miss Edith A. Lenfest, of Thomas­ Gray meadows dim on the lea; toast: We have done with joy and sorrow, ton, was elected Grand Matron; Charles W. To the memory of one, the ruler of a na­ Swing round her head to the sea. Carll of Cumberland Mills, Grand Patron; tion, whom the world mourns to-day, His Nine men of the schooner Annie, and Mrs. Annette H. Hooper of Biddeford, Most Excellent Majesty, the late Edward Bound out of the bay again, the Seventh, King and Emperor, whose in­ And the old songs die behind us Grand Secretary. There are 151 chapters In the clank of her mooring-chain. fluence radiates throughout the world and and 10,112 members. Gain 860. Charity whose dignified and happy reign was made For the East and West are calling, A wind blows out of the South, fund §2,801.74. illustrious by his lofty aim, that peace And the winter stars lift brighter, through justice should reign among all the And the brine stings salt on her mouth. Four brothers of the name of Jackson people of the earth. Nine men of the schooner Annie (Love is as a tale long told), were raised in Deering Lodge, Portland, We go to the mother that bore us June lJth, in the presence of 300 brethren. Si. John's Day. Anil the things we knew of old. A lunch followed. Maine Commandery of Gardiner spent The song of wind in the rigging, The drumming rain on the sail, the day at Tokoma near Gardiner. The swing of the roaring chorus Mystic Shrine. As they lay her head to the gale. Maine has invited Lewiston to be its Kora Temple had a field day at Lewiston guest in 1911 on St. John’s day and has ap­ Ah! Love, will ye deem us cruel June 1st, when 700 members met to wel­ That we leave ye here alone? pointed a committee of arrangements. But the wide sea calls her children, come the Grand Potentate of the Order, Each goes at last to bis own. Fred A. Hines of Los Angeles, California. Haverhill Commandery of Haverhill, Green waves under her fore-foot, Gray meadows dim on the lea; There was a fine procession and a big clam­ Mass., arrived in Portland Thursday and We have done with joy and sorrow, went straightway to Peaks Island. Swing round her head to the sea! bake at Lake Auburn. In the afternoon —\J. JVinder Good, in the Spectator.] there were automobile rides and field games Friday, Portland Commandery took them and at 5 o’clock a banquet in Lewiston. in charge and gave them a dinner at Long MASONRY IN flAINE. In the evening a class of fifteen were ini­ Island, trolley rides around the city after tiated. the return, and a banquet at the Falmouth Scottish Rite. in the evening where 300 attended. Dunlap Chapter Rose Croix, Portland: On May 20th, at St. Stephen’s Church, St. Alban Commandery of Portland, 90 Master—Albert H. Burroughs, West­ Portland, memorial services were held in strong, started on Thursday morning for brook. honor of King Edward 7th, after which the S. W.—Herbert W. Sears. Bangor and were joined at Waterville by special guests were received at the Portland J. W.—Francis E. Chase. DeMolay of Skowhegan. St. John’s of Sec.—Albro E. Chase. Club. Grand Master Ashley A. Smith with Bangor gave them a banquet Thursday his officers attended to represent the Grand Maine Consistory, Portland: evening and on Friday took them to Bar Lodge, and at the Club he gave the follow­ Commander—Alfred S. Kimball Norway. Harh^^whene they'.had dinner, return- First Lieut.-Com.—Frederic W. Adams, ing toast: bi th^ejop .take the eight Bangor. Our words and our tears mingle to-day oJcroUFtram for'horned . Second Lieut.-Com.—Albert W. Meserve, with the mourning of a mighty nation, and- Kennebunk. in the language of our ancient Scriptures,— Dunlap Commandery of Bath Entertained Secretary—Albro E. Chase, Portland. that undimmed Light in Masonry, we say, Bradford of Biddeford. "How are the mighty fallen 1 How is the Red < ross of Constantine. strong staff broken!” St. Omer Commandery of Waterville en­ The Grand Imperial Council of the Red The mournful martial music of a nation’s tertained Palestine of Belfast and LewistotC, Cross of Constantine met in Lewiston for sorrow sweeps across the seven seas, and catching some echo of it, we bow in mem­ of Lewiston at Oakland. There were about' the first time, May 17th, and elected : ory and veneration of the gracious, gentle, 300 in the procession. A banquet waiji I. G. Sovereign—Wm. J. Burnham, Lewis­ great and kingly soul, who for many honor­ given at ihe Central Maine fair grounds, at ton. ed years held the potent gavel of Masonic G. Viceroy—Albro E. Chase, Portland. Mastership, and now at the call of the King which Grand Commander Warren C. Pla/i- Sen. Gen.—Chas. J. Wadleigh, Bangor. of Kings and Lord of Lords, has laid down brook presided, and addresses were mdde 98 MASONIC TOKEN, JULY 15, 1910. by Grand Junior Warden Charles F. John­ The Mexican Masonic Journal is an oc­ of the member, the tiler usually purchasing son, Grand Senior Warden Ralph E. Crock­ tavo of 20 pages published quarterly in the | it for him and bringing it to the meeting at which the brother is to be raised. The wor­ ett, Rev. Ashley A. Smith, Grand Master city of Mexico at 50 cents gold. It is print- i shipful master and past masters always of Grand Lodge, Thomas H. Bodge, Grand ed in English and is published and edited ! wear, in place of the three rosettes on the High Priest and James H. Witherell, Grand by Dr. C. Homer Woodruff. Naturally it apron perpendicular lines upon horizontal lines, thereby forming three sets of right will circulate among the English speaking Master of the Grand Council. angles; the length of the horizontal lines to Trinity Commandery of Augusta went to people in Mexico and in the United States. be two and a half inches each, and of the perpendiculars one each; these emblems Gurnet on the New Meadows. In the States it will bring Mexican Ma­ sonry before the Craft for recognition. are usually of silver. In most lodges the Claremont Commandery of Rockland en­ worshipful master and his two wardens tertained Hugh de Payensof Melrose, Mass., The Masonic World is a 16 page quarto wear gauntlets, and all officers of the lodge paper started July, 1910, in Kansas City, in England wear collars of their office, from and both were on the new schooner launch­ the apex of which is suspended the jewel ed that day. The name of the schooner Missouri, monthly $1. Alfred E. Young, of the office. was changed from Tarratine to Hugh de manager. It is a handsome paper. The business of the lodge is all done in the first degree, and when occasion requires Payens and was christened by Mrs. Milton Johannesburg, South Africa, has a new the lodge is opened in the second or third A. Stone, wife of the Commander of that masonic paper to take the place of the Re­ degree for the purpose of masonic labor, body. view lately deceased. It is the Masonic then returns to the first degree. With us the candidate is told that he is Hugh de Payens afterwards came to Journal, a quarto of 28 pages, published " made a mason ” when initiated in the first Portland and quartered at Peaks Island. monthly at 12s. 6d. a year, started May 31, degree, but he does not acquire any of the St. Aldemar Commandery of Houlton en­ 1910. It is an interesting journal. rights or privileges of Masonry until he has been " raised to the sublime degree of a tertained Hugh de Payens of Calais and Advantage of the Blind. master mason.” In the English system he Camden of Camden. is, when initiated, de facto a mason, and A correspondent, writing on the illiteracy of the native classes, points out a strange can take part in the proceedings of the lodge Jerusalem Commandery of Fitchburg, in that degree.