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members of the St. Louis Police Department and driven to the Temple. Met
dozens and dozens of Masons, signed cards, patents and just plain paper
until dinner was announced.
It was a very nice affair. The Club sponsoring the dinner handled
the program. Rabbi Sam Thurmond pronounced the invocation and the bene-
diction and did his usual solemn and reverenc job. I'm sure the Lord loves
him as he undoubtedly does Harold Reader, the Lutheran Bishop of Germany,
Sweden and Norway, the Patriarch of Istambul, the present Pope Pius XII,
the Archbishop of Canterbury and millions and millions of honest everyday
so called common men and women.
I've never thought that God gives a damn about pomp and circumstance,
gold crowns, jeweled breastplates and ancestral background. When the Gates
of Heaven are reached by the shades of the earthbound the rank and riches
enjoyed on this planet won't be of value. Some of our grandees will have
to do a lot of explaining on how they got that way. Wish I could hear
their alibis! I can't for the probabilities are I'll be thinking up some
for myself.
The Club gave Dr. Reader a scroll that was covered with a beautiful
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