Christian Cynosure . he more reason why the para-phernalia should be worn, even thoughthe chairs only are filled, you will be sur-prised how much more impressive themeeting is under such circumstances thanwhere there is a lack of paraphernalia. Must Impress New Candidate. Of course, every Ruling should havea Degree Team, but where this is notpossible the proper use of paraphernaliawill go far toward filling what otherwiseis a serious defect in the lodge roomethics. No Ruling can afford to fail toproperly impress the newly initiated can-didate, and sometimes the older membersneed a lesson in tr
Christian Cynosure . he more reason why the para-phernalia should be worn, even thoughthe chairs only are filled, you will be sur-prised how much more impressive themeeting is under such circumstances thanwhere there is a lack of paraphernalia. Must Impress New Candidate. Of course, every Ruling should havea Degree Team, but where this is notpossible the proper use of paraphernaliawill go far toward filling what otherwiseis a serious defect in the lodge roomethics. No Ruling can afford to fail toproperly impress the newly initiated can-didate, and sometimes the older membersneed a lesson in true fraternalism quiteas much as do the young recruits. Lookto your ritualistic work and your para-phernalia. The foregoing editorial from the organof the Fraternal Mystic Circle showsknowledge of human nature, and particu-larly of joiner material.* True fraternal-ism consists largely of ceremonial,,aprons and ribbons. As the man on the watch-tower hasthe widest horizon, so he who is nearestGod has the fullest 11(5 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE). August 1904. REV. CHARLES FISHER, Pastor of U. B. Church, and His Exilogjy ofOddfellowship. Wolfsville. April 26, Mountain Lodge. No. 125, I. O. celebrated tJie eighty-fifth anniversary ofthe founding of that order with divine serv-ices in the U. B. Church of this place. Thespeaker of the day was Rev. Charles Fisher,pastor of the F, B. Church. The church wasfilled with an attentive audience. The eulo-gy or address was an eloquent plea for. anddefense of. secret orders in general and OddFellowship in particular. Unless your corre-spondent misunderstood the speaker, heclaimed that they originated in the ritesand ceremonies of the Grecian temples ofEleusis and Celsus, and that after the churchhad torn out the 120 planks inserted in itsplatform by Jesus Christ, the mystics orsecret orders restored them and gave tothe world primeval Christianity once eulogized the Greek philosophers andclaimed that Martin Luther w
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