The State guard., 1848-05-23
WETUMPKA. ALA, MAY g, ls4s.


 ss hsear of the gentle epassor he says A" meame come thou hhsrand eat of the bread and dip thy morse the vinegar And she sat beside aper and eached her parched she did eat and sued ande And when she gan Boaz commanded his saying let her gean the sheaes and and let fall also of the hands of purpose for her. So she aned the fields until and beat out that she had ganed aad was about ephah of bar In the heart of Baz mpd those feelings that indicate Odd Fellow. He felt tor and with ready hand aevaed the dstresses his kindred marked contrast of wealth ime
 In the character of Abraham aso readily the d cations heart that acknowledged the obligatory force of and acted upon the fundamental principles of real Odd Fellowship He benev oe charitable and from his love God and his fellows the friend of When the strife waxed between his and the wants of Lot he saih "Let there be strife ee between and hee and between my and thy o I are o M Is not the whole land before thee Separate thyse pray tee from If thou wilt take the Jeff hand then will the right thou depart the right hand then will the left Such ceve snd concatoy spirit h we'll elicit most ardent commndaton And find too later tmes isolated instances of te active bneyoence towards that eevas the mortal height so lofy that almost ncnedto worship Let point to whose will be orgoten while virtue claim friend u ready and willing sacafc upon the altar of philanthropy who went from dungeon dungeon like angel of with healing on hope and oy who visited the sick and afflicted where gaun famine and boaed peence held their hod rule, exngiing every of love plotting out trace of natural affection orar the noble and a mene voary temple Man his brother and received from his mighty heart brothers love- from his strong brothers aid His inscribed characters deaess the high upon the list of me will burn in living beauty long after the heroes bloody fields and the cathe ado ration have roted in the charnel house of oblivion.
 To cherish virtues such characterised the have mentioned our institution founded We together and ha each other as platform. We acknowledge recognize distinctions such due virtue The king from his throneh statesman
 
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 faithful observance of the laws of God shall appear realms of light where and the wiped by seaphs hands from the bcatied vsionw look up with approving smes Friendship is the tie that binds heart hcar in its pnre secrcng unsefh the votary of vuous and eevned moral y and springs natural weakness and dependence.
 of high and delight Whose heart does thrill with pleasure the hand end long tried generous and casped m guardian of and the repoyer of ves Its else mpas the highest charms M the sunlight of existence Without this would be dreary eaa sunless dyA staress night know that there those who speak us but o knd who rejoice prosperity and acons-whose gentle admonion teach h the ways who abberatons from honor pa divine consolation This end ship which should assuouy chh different from that Gf which the when scened at the eache and disgued with the hoowheated professions of unstable world T far than