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Dalhousie Lodge F.& A.M.

History of the Lodge by Brother Lewis E. Binney

Fiftieth Anniversary 1860 - 1910

JUNE THE FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN

Newton, Massachusetts

INTRODUCTION

OUR INDEBTEDNESS TO THE PAST

Perhaps no previous period in the history of this country has enjoyed greater national prosperity, or been marked by larger progress in the fields of science, invention, arts, and learning than the half century just passed; and as we rejoice to-day in the successful completion of half a century of the life of Dalhousie Lodge, let us very briefly review some of the notable events and wonderful changes which have occurred, and more than incidentally reflect upon our obligations to this past age.

Fifty years ago the black shadow of an impending civil strife with all its attendant horrors was spreading over our land. A foreign war, happily of short duration, like the passing of a cloud athwart the sky, has since darkened the horizon. The cruel hand of the assassin has stricken from the roll of the living three of the nation's beloved and honored rulers. While earthquake, conflagration, and flood, disasters, incident to all times, have devastated property and destroyed life, yet despite these calamities the bright sunlight of peace and prosperity has dispelled the gloom and cleared away the darkness of the era's dawn and sheds its radiance over our fair land to-day.

The telephone, wireless telegraph, development of light and power, and innumerable other inventions in electrical science bordering on the marvelous; triumphs of engineering skill, stupendous in magnitude, surpassing the pyramids of ancient times; wonders in architectural construction rivaling even the magnificent Temple of Solomon; the conquest of the air and the depths of the sea; the discovery of radium, the X-ray, and other notable revelations in chemistry; the extension of countless miles of railways, and the multiplication of ingenious and powerful machinery far beyond the dreams or conception of previous times are but a few of the material achievements of this great age of invention and progress.

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