New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-23

snip, Love ana truth, tnat tne great association
which you are honored members, has called into Q;
tence and still exists IN increasing influence aud pose
Deeply and faithfully arc It's foundations laid in IL
members tcarts. Their iotto rs eter Impressed upc
their minds; It's practical applications meyer appeal
their sympathies in vain. Founded upon such phi
s sad ss rS for nd sas 81 "
1 beneficial in many q form Of unseen assistance an
relief Through the agency of Friendship, Love an
for good-ndeed the great net work that wraps IN ali Il
relations moral and Religious social and political und,
which the higher destiny Ct iIan may be brought. rh
stations and denominations into sodality Of virtues
strengthen the moral Bond of society and to combat tn
evil passions that erccy in the hearts of men Th
nstitution-one to which look back with pride for
connection Of than twenty years of silent Joys an
exaltng practices has fbeeI appeal the monr
ence and to prescribe tie most ennohng Offices Ami
SANDERS and prosecutions the foul jest and the stupi
eer i has gone on eralizng Its own members enlare
their hearts that sympathy might have freer
lis better shrines distributing its charities among til
needy and rendering its consultations the afflicted s,,s
tanning the widow and educating the orphan and In
things keeping nva in the heart the purest sentiments
| love and truth.
Yet Odd. Fellowship does not merely feed the hunrr,
cothe the destitnte coprt the SICK protect the widow
and educates the orphan but it cherishes also broade
and better and more liberal feeling among MEN One
waved their balefn glare around the affairs Of their e
yoton and care Noinqustorai course has ever becl
pursued no means save those of suasve appeals hav
ever been used to sway to the embrace o our opin
ions OF the practice of principles II it ever has
am yet tolearn IT. after association of now twent,
years with the practices Of odd Fellowship. But you
and know that the sacredness private judy
men and individual feeling In matters Of religion NM
politics. Is left as free and untrnmeled as the right to
We waive the testimony of associate and friend
and defyBhs evi-minded to produce single proof tha
any of its members have ever been hampered ia the
oyment OF freedom of opinion freedom of inquiry AMI
freedom Of speech 1t is idle boast therefore, thai
warrants us in saying thatt has sgnay crried oft tbt
answered the purposes aud realized the homes
q me founders that laid its basis and of the worer
vrrt
practical blessings found in the visitation of The
sickin supplies to them withstand In suffering by tbe
maintenance Of chdren-n the foundation Of asyipms
ana the of schools wherever the properties
.! the order have warranted the performance The
features Of want have smiled under the cheernrs
Of its voice, while the -hued face on which dsso
ton had begun to trace its chilling inroas has kndled
up y iest Of tho loving offices of sym
patty Even in this thriving city how many occasions
occur to the exercise Of the practical Of our
to support the widow and educate the or
Wereoice to know that every brother here is ready to
mnge the drop of solace with the cup of sorrowNto
carry ths warm gushings ofsympathy in the dark cham
uers q acath such things we have witnessed many n
tme-the brethren have thus and often seen in fhe
thronged and crowded city where misery and death in
Thousand ors love most to hold their sad reYerie
nave seen the brethren thus often in novels ana
garTets busy in the work ooye and The Offices of SYM
pa.ny carry yourselves in imagination to of those
view the chary solitude which supplies the ex
hausted attentions of the home circle and helms to ease
inc bed OF suffering Note the brothefy dole regularly
70 exc out tho scanty meals Of the family pros
trated in the PROSTATE energies Of its head Join nhe
soothing converse the whispered hopes Of brothers and
friends and after LIES ful fever watch the LAST solemn
rses which the Living day to the deadthe sleep that
Knows no waklng in the resting place provided by the
sympathies Of brotherhood But
father has died perohanco 80 straight
tnat hopeless despair the only inheritance which
he has left his widow and orphans For the latter life has
scarcely commenced but that poverty comes and with
y ts haggard look freezes the young heart and with
nesnless Gnger warps the youthful form Tender flowers
without the fragrance Of flowers destined to pine and
ither away Bereavcd beings whose life knows no in
aney-the geesome illusions of childhood the elastic
oys OF early years have meaning for them None of
me genier emotions that visit the young heart and
IN themselves are worth all the oyances Of earth
lie who watched their sorrows and their iosshe
9sband be who vas the bond Of lore To TIE house
a, has gone and in the many and press
W cans. which daily hourly, assail the mateless
elpess, widow, there may be none to bour in |
ne balm and bind the broken spirits none to tell
he atheriess of the ioys,in the world abroad-none
direct one sunbeam on the now cheerless hemsnone
speak to Its young inmates Of right and wrong she
no mas borne the loss irreparabe vay struggles in bro
'aeh them the lessonof love- by the exhibition of Infinite
erfecton as the object worthy of that love Who
an tnem TO kindness through the knowledge that all
tne eye OF God are members of his great family who
rive to root out the lower instincts and stir nm
apuses Of the stricken brood. Wbol With the father
we gone their best their dearest hopes No to arm
ZEN Tor the coming warfare of life No onel This
eLhren Is generous fear! The Odd Fellow comes IN
the call OF Friendship Love and Truth and with him
shattered |
earth-yhope where doubt distracted and uncertainty
cked the afflicted minds Thanks to his Commentaries
, .me nooe institution which sends him his mission
iose the orphan meets at every step of life exposed
every assault hand that supports him in his moral and
hepiessness and which fosters the development
MS powers to useful and honorable per-
apps from which the early stroke Of msfortune w,n,hl
ave otherwise debarred him During the time of his pro-
ehat would have been the bitter probation of pa
htess NE the ODD Fellow provides for bis wants en-
MS ehors follows him in his onward course and
atchcs over him In the study the workshop or the field
Is powers and his foresight up by the memo
OF Friendship directed by the suggestions of Love and
ded by the law of Truth exerted to fill up the i'm
VOID which the loss of his natural protector has left
mind Hc teaches him the salutary bondage of duty
pires him with obedience to the aws-trins him to the
OF his and of others rights and for these cares
oil these watchngs; no expects but one rewardthat
lessons nstled in the youthful mnd-the habits of
iustry cherished in their early days shall be made SUBJ
vent to the common good by the morazing influences
MS example. Such are the claims of our Order to re
'ct and confidence and there are even now grateful
ana gad voices at every point of the world of civil
on waiting In strains of grateful praise their offer
and this Is the society which in times passive are
q 70 think that better f,eling rules the hourwas
lers. the subject of rbbald jess The socetv This
ich has been so bitterly denounced by portions Of
. desk anu the press as though instead of being one
non especially organized for cunningy digrsted fl
schief From others, again, less harsh though no h
.,er informed how often have heard hostility "
'ared because, forsooth. secret societyg il
would join you others say, but we have objections
secret societies dangerous to the public welfare
society Intended to enlarge the sum of happiness b
lgerous to the public weare Iu the name of instcn
OF sense IT the practice of virtue be dangerous 10
pubic welfare, what are the guarantees of vice
ware, gentlemen opponents, how lightly YOU frame Ell
now snoughtiessy you utter the charge that we are
dangerous, because a secret association There is OF
a ana solemn authority for such associations The In
ces 81 history Will rise up in your idst-he echoes
many bloody edict, recorded in imperial Rome IL
fortunes Of the dermonm, will fail murmuringly p1
N your ear to tell you that the prayest accnsatin
inst the followers of the Saviour was that they
cfet ASSOCIATION together for infamous pur in
Is ana guilty designs They will tell you that the
nerings Of the earliest soldiers of the christian fh 81
he crypts of forsaken temples and the dephs of tb I'll
rries of the eternal city like the meeting Of tho Ola
ows IN their consecrated halls We're perverted NV al
Tongue OF sandsr or the dreams of ignorance into tt
ods OF iniquy and conventcles of crime They would IN
warn you that as the prosecuted aud the hunted &c
emerged from their cayerns and lurking places to tie
Throw the Businesses Of sensual pagan and achieve cl
w rehgions world so the principles of Odd Fellow hi
. IN their practical bearing may result in new cnn
s's IN the moral world This earth our is no blasted ed
i-s land sanctied by theimpress of the makers, br
ION and handcrafta land yet to be won over in be- gu
Vi human Improvement and human morality There nj
any boodless crusade yet to be organized og.nt di
lnroads OF yice-many holy to be wapcd aanst
spread OF selhshnessand in such crusade ana snb br
~ " uao felloWshp, in company with the pa
rs are dealt fastest and thckest for the on
IN us noble efforts to open avenues for the nc
genia workings OF the heart it may meet as it has
the malice that distorts and the injustice which Al
hgns its motives and aims but its strong hnninr III
hand with heart in too which our or
ever be sufficient to turn aside the shaft which malice
pointed, and which justice has sped alb
It, aside from these considerations which grow ont st
results and tendencies Of order there are be
OF philosophical character to show that our prpc wi
are in harmony with the laws of the moral world ap
composition of the social body and not TO sneak n S
erently, with the views of Providence itself n has tn
led that man. through the pilgrimage of life shoud