Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-08-01

10 which communication, the Lodge
ordered the following response to be pre-.
scented to the ladies above named.
LADIES'
In behalf of the Officers and members
Of Powhan Lodge, we return you our
grateful acknowledgements for the val.
liable offering you have so kindly tender
ed us, and for those expressions of con-
fidence and regard contained in the com.
munication which accompanied it. We
receive, in the same spirit in which il
was bestowed, the elegant copy ofthe
Holy Scriptures which you have present.
ed. And while we may depart, as all
mere mortals do, far from the ways of
pleasaD;ness and peace marked out for us
by the Divine Author, we yet trust that
the constant presence of your gift in our
midst and the grateful remembrance OF
its donors, will exert strorg influence
in sOftening the prejudices and in res
training those appetiIes and passions
which, uncontrolled, are the bane of the
world. We should learn from that Book.
Our happiness and our usefulness require
us to do so. And coming from you,
Ladies, the volume is presented to us in
the most welcome manner, and in terms
calculated to impress strongly on our
minds the importance of its study.
There are but few sources of Happiness
In this life. On every hand there are
distresses to be assuaged and Affections to
be comioIted. Whilst engaged in the
active scenes of life, man too far torgets
the relations he bears to his maker and 10
his race. Selfish pursuits too much alb.
sorb his attention, and he loses sight Of
the truth. that mans great duty is, to be
useful to himself and to his kind. This
is the end of his being. And in the pur.
suit OF no other object, can he derive
substantial happiness.
Associated together as members Of a
''quiet and unpretending Order" we
would seek to divest ourselves in some
small degree from that exclusiveness and
sel6shness which so much prevail in the
world. We would learn Charity towards
our fellow man. And we cheerfully as
sumo it as one of our first duties, to watct
over the afflicted, to smooth the dying
pillow, and to protect the widow in hel
bereavement. IN the performance of suci
Offices we would learn to derive happiness
and draw lessons of instruction. While
thus engaged, we remember that We
are frail, fleeting mortals--creatures of al
hour--rapidly passing away to be known
no more forever! Then we remembe
that all the ties which bind us to eacI
other-to the world and the things ofthi
life--lnust soon be rent asunder. 1t il
then that man would desire to do good t
his fellow--to prepare the way for
change in himself--that he might at tht
moment of that change look back OF
= well spent life, and indulge lingerin.
hope as to the future.
But in the midst of the frailties oftht
world, how little is there in practice tina
merits commentator! We all fall ia
short Of duty. But in your sympathie
we find encOuragement-in your favo
an additional inducement to observ
strictly our duty to protect the widow an
the orphan. And you are safe in beliey
Jog that five reflect truly the principle
of our Order, the widow and the fatherles
have nothing TO dread. Your hope
well grounded, so far as the imperfectio
of our nature will allow US to be true {
our profession.
Sincerely grateful for your kind con
munication and your inestimable gift, "
again return you our thanks, hoping
may be long before either of you will
called on to mourn over ties broken, ar
wishing each ofyou long and pleasant lif
To Mrs: Hannah Cagwin, Mrs. c. ]
Hopkins and others. oI