Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-07-13


IHE FoURTH AT WooDBERRY.-Th 4th Of
July was celebrated at Woodberry by the Ia.
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, under the
auspices Of Cove Lodge, No. S5s. LARGE
delegations Of the fraternity from Martinsburg,
Blair county and from Bedford, uniting with
them.
The entire affair in al its detail was com
plete success. A falling shower of rain com
PEELED the Order to adjourn from grove
where the exercises were intended TO have
been held to Church in the t,wn, but did
not IN the least MR. the enthusiasm of the
occasion,
Addresses were delivered by DR.. G. N.
Hickok, Prof Schatfer, Rev. DR.. Clark, Rev.
John II. Wilkinson, Rev. Cooper, and Rev,
A. W. Decker. The regular oration was de-
lyered by Dir. Hickok, which was one Of the
finest pieces Of oratory and logic that it has
been our privilege to listen to for many years.
We viii give single extract, and we feel sor-
ry that space compels US to eonfne our selec-
ton to only one of the many fine points in
this production:
Man, the child Of circumstance, was a
wanderer from his home influences lie was
a stranger among strangers. He was lonely,
heart-sick end weary He wf.s tempted and
fallen by the way He vas destitute and dy-
ing. He saw around him on every side, those
whose forms and faces bore the impress of
the same creative power-the marks Of the
same handiwork. They were his brothers
Did they recognize the fraternal claim? Did
their common humanity impel them topause,
that they might cheer the lonely one that
they might make glad the heert of the desc
late; that they might nourish the destitute
that they might raise the fallen that they
might comfort the dying Alas MOI "Tbe
Priest and the LeVite passed by on the other
side and lett the stranger one to go on in his
lone pilgrimage tho dying one to die in his
desolation. What then could he expected of
the multitude ?
Then the spirit of Odd Fellowship, ike
a beautiful angel vision appeared, and
and all was changed. Brothers met the
lonely one IN the streets of the strange
city, and he was lonely no longer. Brothers
warned the tempted one, and he fed from
danger Brothers mnistered to the suffering
one, and his sickness was not unto DEATH
Brothers cheered the weary one, and he was
comforted. Brothers fed the hungry one,
and he perished not. Brothers clothed the
naked one, and he shipered meath the cold
blasts no longer. Brothers folded their arms
around the dying one, and with his latest
breath he blessed them"
With regard to the entertainment. furnished
by Core Lodge for their visiting brethren,
and the ladies accompanying them, and 9th
ar invited guests, it is impossible by descrip-
tion TO do it justice. Ii was splendid, and
was fully appreciated and enjoyed by several
hundred individuals who all expressed their
unqualified approval OF their reception. Af
er leaving the Church the procession reform
ID and returned TO the Lodge room where
.hree tables the entire length of the Hall
we're loaded with the munifcent repast with
'egard to which good judges remarked they
had never seen a better.
ga ''B" sends US the following item un-
Ter date of Bloody Run, Juue 80, 1866
Our town received a rare treat yesterday
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