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the Mark Master I have penetrated the quarries , found my own best block , brought it up for a place in the walls , and claimed my penny with the rest ; I have shared the responsibilities of the Past Master seated in the oriental chair of King Solomon . As a Most Excellent Master my

hands have aided to rear tho capstone to its place , while my lips have sung the triumphant strain , " AU Hail to the Morning , " of Thomas Smith Webb , and my face was bowed to the pavement in acknowledgment of the descent of fire and cloud . As a Royal Arch Mason , returning from

exile in Babylon , my feet have wandered weary and sore , over rough and rugged ways , seeking the Sacred Hill As a Select Master I have wrought in silence , secrecy and darkness , upon the mystic arches within the Holy Mountain . I have stood as a Knight Templar , with companions loyal

and brave , wielding my brand excalibur two-edged and cross-hilted , while guarding the shrine where the body of my departed Lord was laid ! In all my career as a Mason I have ever held that excellence is granted to man only in

return for labour ; and nothing is worth having that is not difficult to acquire . My life has been thus far a contest with obstacles , bat no man would be what he is had he tamely suffered the difficulties of life to overcome him . "

It is no marvel that , such an heroic . spirit , so enlightened and enthusiastic , with a presence so winning , manners so courtly , and sympathies so childlike ; with natural endowments so great and commanding , allied with literary attainment ao varied and extensive , and dedicated withal

—in mind and heart and life—to an Institution so pure in its morals and so ennobling in its philanthropy , should become a conspicuous living landmark in onr midst—a bright and shining light in the Masonic firmament ! The highest official stations were tendered him by the

brotherhood and were rendered still more illustrious by his incumbency . From tbe almost innumerable posts of distinction to which he was called we may note the following as most important : Grand Lecturer of

Tennessee and Kentucky from 1850 to 1854 ; Most Excellent High Priest , Eminent Commander , Thrice Illustrious Grand Master ( Cryptic Rite ) , Grand Commander-in-Chief Princes of Royal Secret 32 ° , Supreme Consistory of Kentucky , 1859-60 : Chief Conservator from 1860 to

1865 ; Most Worshipfnl Grand Master of Kentucky , 1858

59 ; Grand Patron Eastern Star , & o . In this degenerate age of office seeking , to his lasting credit be it spoken , that in all these promotions no artifice was ever employed , no disreputable intrigues ever resorted to ; but by tho mere ascendancy of his genius he rose and took his rank 1

It is true that dnring his tenure of service in some of these official stations , notably that of " Chief Conservator , " it was his misfortune to encounter the buffetings of an adverse tide ; but nobly sustained by his own conscientious convictions , all the obstacles in his pathway operated like

the pressure upon a well-tempered spring—only to prove the strength of the metal and its power of resistance . Ia his impatient zeal , not always " according to knowledge , " to accomplish a praiseworthy purpose , through the " Order of Conservators , " oar distinguished brother awakened , for

a time , an undue clamour among the Oraft , as to his alleged " innovations in the body of Masonry , " and especially in onr own Grand Jurisdiction , in which has ever existed a sensitive distrust of all invading jurisdictions , and in which tho admonition of our Great Light , " to avoid the

appearance of evil , " bas become a pronounced feature in tho orthodox faith of tho Fraternity . But although some of the teaching methods of Bro . Morris wero thaa held as objectionable , and so declared by tbe Grand Lodge of Kentucky , his Masonic fealty was never questioned or his personal motives assailed .

Nevertheless , morbidly sensitive as he was to the slightest breath of censure or reproach , bo virtually dropped out for the time being from our assemblies in Kentucky , both Grand and subordinate , lt is however a moat gratifying fact that , in view of his consistent coarse as a

good and true Mason , and under the influence of his exemplary life in our midst , inspired as it was by the example of the Great Teacher , " who when reviled reviled not again , " there WHS a gradual subsidence of all prejudice whatever ; and for years past and up to his lamented death ,

he had resumed bis former relations to onr Grand Body , aud exerted his accustomed influence in shaping her policy and determining hor jurisprudence . The Grand Lodge ot Kentucky , over whiqh he had presided with distinction , whoso Constitution ho bad drat ' tedj and whoso Foreign

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Correspondence ho had long and ably conducted , was prompt to extend to him unmistakable and repeated assurances of restored confidence and brotherly love . Tho well-intended but Utopian Order of Conservators was dissolved ; and with it passed away the only cloud which

had intervened between the Kentucky brotherhood mid this great Masonic light , leaving our sky moro clear and bright and beautiful than before ; and , thanks to tho Allwise Architect , it was vouchsafed to our Grand Jurisdiction whioh had exultingly hailed the resplendent rising of this

great light , and which had proudly basked in its noonday splendours , to receive also the hallowed radiance of its departing sheen as it grandly passed away in its fall-orbed glory from our Masonic horizon ! The published works of Dr . . Morris are valuable and

voluminous , and number over seventy volumes , and ' are sufficiently varied in scope and tqpic to constitute of themselves a respectable library . Those most . generally familiar to the reading public , and especially ' ^ 6 tho Masonic brotherhood , may be classified as follows : i ¦ ¦ : : MASONIC JURISDICTION . —Code of Masonic law , 1855 ; the first work upon this subject ever issued ;

MASONIC RITUALS AND HAND-BOOKS . —Freemason s Monitor twelve degrees , 1859 ; Miniature Monitor , three degrees ; Eastern Star Manual , 1859 ; Rosary of Eastern Star , 1865 ;

Guide to High Priesthood , 1865 ; Ritual of Knight Templary , 1858 ; Special Help for Worshipful Master ; Same for Senior Deacon ; Same for Secretary ; Funeral Book of Freemasons—all fonr published in 1866 ; Priidence Book of the Freemasons , 1859 : Masonio Ladder ,

1866 ; Dictionary of Freemasonry , 1867 ; Guide to the Consecration of Masonio Cemeteries , 1857 ; Discipline of Masonio offenders , 1860 . MASONIC BELLES LETTERS . —Masonio Poems , 1864 and

1876 ; Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry , 1852 ; Life in the Triangle , 1853 ; The Two Saint Johns , 1854 ; Lodge of Mystic , 1862 ; Tales of Masonio Life , 1860 .

MASONIC HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY . —Freemasons ' Almanacs , 1860 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 ; Masonic Reminiscences , 1857 ; History of Freemasonry in Kentucky , 1859 ; Life of Eli Bruce , 1859 .

MASONIC REPUBLICATIONS . —In a series of thirty octavo volumes , under the general title of Universal Masonic Library , are comprised fifty-six distinct works , including writings of Oliver , Mackey , Town , Portal , Preston ,

Hutchinson , George Smith , Morris , Anderson , Harris , Calcotfc , Ashe , Laurie , Dovertot , Gourdin , Taylor , Creigh , Brown , Morton , Arnold , Towne . TRAVELS . —Freemasonry in Holy Land , 1872 .

MASONIC PERIODICALS . —Kentucky Freemason , 1853 ; American Freemason , 1853-8 ; Voice of Masonry , 1859-67 ; Light of Masonry , 1873 . Besides the works thus catalogued he was . for more than a quarter of a century a

regular contributor to the various Masonic and literary periodicals of the day , and a constant worker with pen and tongue to utilize to the best advantage the almost boundless resources of his well-stored mind and

overflowing heart . As a compiler , he was discriminating , laborious and painstaking . As an historian he was moro emulous of accuracy than ambitious of stylo , and therefore more authentic than brilliant , more authoritative than

diffusive . As a literary author and contributor' his subjects ^ ore wisely selected and always of the highest moral tone , and his style uniformly chaste , pure and elevated . .: ;¦ ..: _<¦ , . . ¦ , . _ - . .-.. .

" Not one immortal , one corrupted thought , ' Ouo line , which , dying , he would wish to blot . " ' ( To bo continued . ) ¦

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St . Martin ' s Lodge , No . 379 , of Mark Master Masons , Liskeard , on the 3 rd instant unanimously olected Bro . W . H . Stantan S . W . as W . M . for the ensuing year ; aud unanimously re-elected Bro . W . Nettle P . M . P . P . G . J . W . ( is Treasurer , and Bro . R . Penwarden as Tyler .

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