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Show Tcinptei Welcome to Sdt Ltie.- Salt Lake City is glad and proud to welcome the r visitors who are within her gates. The Knignta Templars are guests we are bound to honor. They are members of what1 is undoubtedly the oldest and greatest secret order in the world. They, t have high principles and they live up to them, setting set-ting to each other and to ail men an example of true .manhood. " ' I' . " v I The knighthood of today is different from the old ideal. It is no longer suggestive of battle, except ex-cept for the right. It stands for all that is true and courtly and pare. The real knight of the twentieth A century is a Sir Galahad rather than a Sir Launce- ' lot - j - ' It is not armor nor uniform that makes knighthood, knight-hood, although one may not wear the outward and visible sign without having the inward and spir-- spir-- itual grace and be a true knight. The real emblem is the daily attitude toward others. The knight of today is helpful to the weak and the suffering, just y and merciful to the erring and uncompromisingly opposed to wrong. He places men higher than things; he fears Qod and be does his duty to all as best. he can. . " No secret order can have principles higher than those of the Christian religion, but the members of secret orders may more truly live up to those principles prin-ciples by reason of the faet that they are supported by their brother members. The thought that others are -fighting the good fight strengthens and enables ' 7': many a man to do what he could not as an individ- - uaL. . r Salt Lake City welcomes the Templars and honors hon-ors them for what they have done and what they are doing. They are knightly, American gentlemen. May their influence increaaeJ , |