MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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With the ladies dressed in their white uniforms and capes and the men in palm-beach suits with flags and banners, the Philadelphians made a great spectacle.
TUESDAY SESSION June 22nd, 1920
Hospital Dedicated
(From The Daily Bulletin, printed Convention week).
. One of the features of the Convention and the main event of Tuesday’s official program was the dedication "of the Memorial Hospital by Philadelphia Lodge No. 54. This magnifi-cient gift, aggregating a total cost of approximately $125,000.00 was made by “the big lodge” of the Order in honor of it’s 46 members who made the Supreme sacrifice in the recent World’s War. A year ago the cornerstone of this magnificent building was laid with elaborate ceremony by the Philadelphians present at the convention, and although the building is by no means finished, it is believed that within a few months it will be furnished _ and ready for the work for which it is intended.
At 2:30 P. M., the Philadelphia delegation assembled on the driveway in front of the Auditorium and after the usual lining up and assignment to places, the procession started for the Hospital. The line w׳as formed as follows:
Mooseheart Student Band.
Mooseheart Cadets.
Marshall, John W. Ford.
Assistant Marshalls, Harry W. Mace and John J. Ryan.
Supreme Officials.
Officers and Past Dictators of Philadelphia Lodge.
Physicians of Philadelphia Lodge.
Members of Philadelphia Lodge.
Members of Philadelphia Chapter No. 4, Women of Mooseheart Legion.
Band.
Various delegations.
The men from Philadelphia looked natty in their new Palm Beach suits, uniform straw hats, red ties and white shoes, and were the recipients of considerable applause along the line of march. The palm however, must be awarded to the ladies from Philadelphia, who attracted considerable notice in their Quaker attire. Cheers and applause for the Quaker ladies were in evidence continuously, the garb being rather unfamiliar to many of those present at the convention.
Upon arriving at the Hospital, the entire Philadelphia delegation arranged themselves upon the main steps which spacious as they are could barely accommodate the 175 members of the party. Brother John W. Ford, the Dictator of Lodge No. 54, to whose inspiration the wonderful gift is mainly due, made a preliminary address to the assembled thousands, during the course of which he spoke of the origination of the idea and the unanimity with which his proposition to his lodge was cordially endorsed. “Mooseheart, the Happiest,” was then sung, after which the Reverend Owen Jones of Baker, Oregon, delivered the opening invocation.
Brother Ford, then in a splendid address presented the Hospital to the Mooseheart Governors, his speech appearing in another place in this issue. Director General Davis accepted the gift in an address that touched all hearts. Brother Carl P. Berger, of Philadelphia, the architect of the building, was introduced, and Vice-Dictator Harry W. Mace of Lodge No. 54 addressed the assemblage in reference to the handsome bronze bas relief erected just within the main entrance to the building portray’ng the lineaments of Bro. John W. Ford, to whose wonderful inspiration the building is mainly due.
After a few further words from Brother Ford, Father Laffey delivered the closing invocation and the feature event of the day was brought to a close. After an inspection of the
shine upon Thee and may the Lord lift up his countenance upon Thee and give you peace. Amen!
The entire time of Monday’s session was used by the Supreme officers in presenting their printed reports to the members present. A copy of these reports was handed each delegate.
Philadelphia Lodge Well Represented
(From The Daily Bulletin, printed Convention week).
With fifty members of Philadelphia, Pa., Chapter No. 4, Women of Mooseheart Legion, in uniform and one hundred and fifty members of Philadelphia Lodge No. 54 also in uniform, the “Quakers” arrived at Mooseheart for the convention Sunday at 1:30 p. m.
The delegation arrived on a special train of seven Pullman sleepers, two Pullman dining cars and one baggage car. The train was run from Philadelphia as a second-section of the Pennsylvania Limited.
A reception committee consisting of Director General Davis, Supreme Dictator Broening and members of the Supreme Council met the delegation upon its arrival at Mooseheart. Superintendent Adams and the Mooseheart Band were also on hand to give a welcome to the representatives of the “Big Lodge.”
P. S. D. John W. Ford, who is Dictator of Philadelphia Lodge and who as Chairman of the Executive Committee has been at Mooseheart for the past week, was probably the happiest man on the grounds when he greeted his home folks. Past Supreme Dictators Davis, Garland, Henning and Donges, who are all Honorary Life Members of Philadelphia Lodge, were busy giving the glad hand to their fellow-members.
Immediately after their arrival the delegation headed by the reception committee and the Mooseheart Band made a short parade thru the streets of Mooseheart. The parade was ended at the dining pavilion where a splendid dinner was enjoyed.
The men members of the delegation camped for the week on Moose Island, which had been transformed into a large tented city. At the end of the bridge to the island a large sign which read:
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*	PHILADELPHIA SANITARIUM! *
Rest Cure — Faith Cure * Water Cure	*
10 Physicians	*
*	Joseph McCann John W. Ford *
*	Steward	Manager	*
*	V. R. Manning, M. D.	*
Physician in Charge	*
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must learn, and often learn painfully to be modest, brave, honest gentle and humane. Through religion, and religion only, can man ever hope to subdue and control his baser instincts. Faith must illumine and direct reason. Properly understood and co-operated with religion gives to man a fixed purpose, and exalted, uplifting ideal. It alone entirely satisfies man’s highest aspirations as it alone has ever inspired his noblest works. It lifts him out of profound and lasting egotism and spares him the bitter experience of those embracing culture alone— that knowledge in itself is not moral power. The world abounds in examples of this fact. Those who here learn to know God, to love Him, and to serve Him, should never mistake excellence for virtue. Goodness ought to charm; not beauty. Culture itself can only point out the grossness of sin; it is the power and province of religion to show it an evil. Religion hails self-denial as a practical proof of one’s love of God. and man; culture sees in it merely a means to higher, safer pleasure.	.
Here in beautiful Mooseheart shall rise a temple to the living God, testifying that here He is not forgotten; a public supplication in itself that He may never forget Mooseheart.”
The Prayer of Bro. Provol
W. Lee Provol, representing the Jewish faith, offered the following-prayer in his native tongue and in English:
Eternal parent, in Thy name we come to Thee. Sechema jeeroel adonej aelehene adonej schod—Hear O Isreal, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
O, Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, we Praise Thee and thank Thee, for Thou hast given us this opportunity to assemble for the purpose of laying the corner-stone of this House of God.
O, Lord, we pray to Thee, that Thou may bless every individual assembled here today. Bless every member of our organization for the success of the great undertaking in accomplishing Thy will. O, Lord, pour down your loving kindness upon the children of Mooseheart. May their prayers be acceptable in Thy sight. May the House of God be Holy in Thy sight as the incarnation which is the holiest in our life. May the prayers offered in Thy name by all denominations be acceptible in Thy sight.
Jeforcheche adonej wjismerscho.
Joar adonej ponof aleche weehon-eeho.
Jiso adonej ponof aleche.
Wjesam !echo seholem.
May the Lord bless you and guide you.
May the Lord let his countenance
THE PHILADELPHIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT MOOSEHEART
Tuesday, June 22nd, was a great day at Mooseheart. This scene was snapped as the delegates and their families were assembled in front of this magnificent gift to hear Brother John W• t®rd> D«;tator of Philadelphia Lodge, present it to the Order and Mooseheart Children.
Ihe building is beautiful and will stand as an everlasting monument of some 28,000 big hearted men and women of Philadelphia who are interested in savijig children.
ords with the stream of offerings. Personally there came to me a strange sense of awe, an overwhelming feeling that found utterance in the thought of the language of an old Bible character, “Surely God was in this place, and I knew it not.”
We would transfer the deep spirituality of that hour to this moment, whirh that hour has made possible for us to dedicate this ground to the erection of an edifice that shall put into stone a monument to commemorate the deep religious sentiment of the Loyal Order of Moose. That hour last year and this hour of our assembling here are united by way of added inspiration to the Loyal Order of Moose. You, who have already contributed enough to warrant the beginning of this building, will see to it that funds sufficient will be provided for the glorious completion of this sacred edifice.
This House of God to be erected on the site of the ground where we are met is to be a unique building so far as its uses are concerned. Out in the world beyond Mooseheart there are varying shades of opinion and practice concerning the worship of God and the religious services of men. We have no knowledge of any one building in the world where there is provided under one roof a meeting place for all the varying religious sentiments of the civilized world. The noble structure that will rise upon this ground is designed for freedom in the education of •the childhood of Mooseheart in all the varying religious expressions of our time. Here there will be no countenance or room given for controversy or debate. There will be no attempt in any way to convene at any one time or in one room, the different representatives of the various religious expressions; no attempt to harmonize them or in any way unify them. This House of God will open its doors and assign its apartments to all the varying religious shades of opinion and belief which enter in our Order, that the young-people of Mooseheart shall have the privilege of education along the line of the choice of their parents. Mooseheart is consecrated to a practical remembrance of those members of the Loyal Order who have finished their mission and have entered into the rest that remaineth for the people of God. This practical remembrance features especially in providing a home and opportunity for education—moral spiritual, academic, vocational and physical, for the children of the deceased members of the Order. These children come to Mooseheart from various religious ancestral expressions. In this House of God they will find someone, and a place, and a time where they will be met with the religious language, thought and spirit of their fathers and their mothers. Sc this is an intensely solemn and important moment in the history oi Mooseheart when we ask the Father of All, The Supreme Being, who is worshipped and acknowledged throughout Mooseheart, to look with favor upon this great Family House of His.
For many years it will stand as a symbol of that “house not made with hands, eternal and in the heavens,” where shall be gathered all of various shades and grades of religious beliefs hopes, worships and practice.
The Father Laffey Address
Father Laffey, chaplain for the Catholic children at Mooseheart, said in part:
“It is a long-looked for and happy event in which we all take part this afternoon—the	setting apart of
ground for a house where one can worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. The Loyal Order of Moose testify in this way that religion goes hand in hand with other sciences here in the development of character. The religious sense is to have its chance here, along with the illative, the aesthetic and other senses in man. _ Our good qualities are not always inherent and vigorous. One