Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-02-01
Correspondence.
G. F. Knapp, Esq, Secretary of Van
Camp No. l40, l. o. of o. +.

Camp No. l40, L. q. of o. +.
Ssr: According to resolution passed
at Van Camp Lodge, No. lao, |. o. of o.
F., January Ia, 1862; would say that
l have, with great reluctance, concluded
to comply with the request of the brethren
assembled on that day.
In doing this, | am guided more by
their wishes than confidence, on the merits
of the remarks. Still, if in their judgment
its publication will promote the objects of
the Order, 1 submit it to your disposal
Most respectfully, yours in +. L and 7.
Z. OPPENHEIM.
BROTHERS
According to your wish Iappear before
you on this occasion to contribute my fee
bic talent to your entcrprize. l very
much regret that the Offering is SO unwor-
thy the occasion, as the time did not per-
init me to do more, therefore the most
can promise, is an inadequate expression
of my interest in the prosperity of Odd
Fellowship, and the high regard have
for the honor Of being associated with you
in the bonds of a fraternal brotherhood -
In becoming an Odd Fellow there is an
intrinsic charm which lures and eDchants
its votaries. Odd Fellowship is loved for
the principles it possesses, and the unqual-
flied possession of these principles is a suffi-
cient reward of toll.
Odd Fellowship opens additional sour
ces OF enjoyment, fills the soul with new
beauties and the most ecstatic delights
1t enables the possessor of its true princi'
Piles to travel through fields of amaran-
thine flowers and constantly inhalc celes-
tial fragrance. 1t draws the curtain from
the past and spreads before its members
the grant panorama of six thousand years.
1t throws wide open the gates of natures
vast temple the gigantic proportions of
which, the true Odd Fellow alone can
survey with proud satisfaction that he is
.reading familiar grounds and
with propriety which none can feel,
lie calls the beauteous scenery all his ownl
His are the mountains and the valleys his,
And the rospendant rivers his to enjoy;
And with 6lial confidence inspired,
| He lifts TO Heaven his unpresumptous eye
And smiling says, my Father made them all
If in this iron age of cold blooded utili-
tariansm he meets with q man whose only
divinity is Mammon, and who deems moth
ing important unless it cater for his appe~
tte or pander for his passion, who can ap-
preciate neither his labor nor his motives,
he can retire and wrap himself around
with the mantle of his own thoughts at
say, "ProlM D! ProcW este pryIIHi. =
He has within himself the elements OF sub
stantial happiness which time cannot cor.
rode nor adversely destroy. This is a
rich remuneration for all time and labor
expended in the attainment of the prinei-
pies of Odd Fellowship which we donom-
nate Fraternity. There are certain objects
upon which the eye of the true Odd Fellow
is ever fixed. Considering it a false hui
mility that seeks never to be seen and
wishes never to be mentioned he places his
mark high upon the pinnacle of human in.
Huence and usefulness and seeks to form
for himself character in which shall con-
ter the converged rays and blend the va
ried hues of every human excellence. He
wishes to stand among the great benefac
tors of his race that when his brilliant ca
reer shall terminate, he may leave behind
an example worthy of imitation, and
name that shall be associated by succeed
ing generations with most epdearing recol
leetions of the past And what better mo
bier object can man propose for himself
Others there are. He may live for yealt