The Portland daily press., 1869-04-27

| and hold with the tenacious grin of its thou
sand tough fingers to the rocks. IL grow
slowly, but it grows for the unborn ages.
Having thus GOT its foundations we'll laid
the Order, from that time snread with steady
advancement. until TODAY II numbers 2fQ5
Lodges and 795 Eneamnmenfs with n member
ship OF nearly 10000 in forty-two Grand
Lodges and thirtv Grand Encamnments com.
prising every State and Tarr;torv; IN tha TTn;a,,
| the Britisb dor;n;ons ~; -. 'Ao y 'va, ~ !,
Sandwich Islands II has ra1;au,sa "1o zoe sos sos
sick members and 6e an rdaw. oS dac"csSJ
Odd Fellows and for tbes. nrnos !. 49, 90: =
$1O597 6O2 1t has bnr;ed 40 57S OdJ Ee,ins.s pa.u
at an expense of Al 676 zoe r. bos as'anS"S nJ
for tho sunnort and edncs,;on y, nas s ,a
ceased odd Fellows. S25i 462 Mab;no . y toto,
of money thus expeuded Tor rel;ef nnrnoses f
S12,525.77O. the largest part Of which he;no
within the last 20 years; and the present relief
/ amounting nearly to a million Of dollars an
| ally.
The stereotyped. imperative, ever present
| command of the Head of the Order is: We
/ command Won to visit the sick. to relieve the
/ distressed to burv the dead and 10 educate the
| orphan" This Command meats tbe eve of the
| Odd Fellow evervwhere. m Is slammed upon
| eysry Official OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and every card
| Of tisitation and Ia anehiaya,nad n iettars Of
gold in the I.dse.roo,., Az H. n;r;t ns th;s
| Injunction does NOT allow the work to he hnt
| hslfperformsd. If the hrotbar he s;c[ tha
brother-watcher stands bv his had s;ds 10 w;ne
| the dsath-sweat from his brow IF his eartbIv
career terminates, the Order leaves him not
| then, but sees that his remains have honoro'
BILE burial Neither does the Obligation ston
| even there. The widow Il taken bS fine hand
and her pressing wants supplied. while the or,
| phan becomes the care of the institution.
| Thus does the Order make the circle ~ ;ts
benefcence complete Let the statistics voucb
| for the fidelity with which this command has
been obeyed. But even these do NOT ;nc,nde
all. No mere figures can compute the watch
| ings over the bed of suffering Of these 100000
ak hVfntE Al.
sum total of the gentle cffices Of more than
| $4,000 women of the Degree of Rebecca wives
of Odd Fellows, whose kindly ministratiops fall
like the dews of heaven.
Is this all of Odd Felowsbip? When IL has
relieved the temporal necessities of its benefi-
Charles. is its work done? And even If these
statistics were all sprelv II would he enongh
to found claim for public Confederation In
this werk-a-day world. where novertv snffer-
ing and sorrow are the rmIe and wsaIth and
happiness the excention whatever tends 70
lessen the one and exait the other ia hans,
faction to the race And the Order yn;aht
we'll point to these sick brethren. these wild
ows and these orphans, as its yindication.
fore us, they are but the fore-runner of greater
things in the future But this is not ali. It
it moral mower far transcendino ito necnn;arv
results As % upon the altar Of Godp % apeapt
church fire burned psrpstnalIv dav and might
the symbol of his undyipe love- 10 on the altar
of odd Fellowshin in each Of its more than
1000 lodce-rooms stands the baavan i;ohted
paees of His Word as tba has;s and a,,tbor;tu
Of the order: and from il ia drawn the oraat
lesson. taught at every stan of our nrogress
from the signal for ad.,iss;nn at tbs entrancs
tbrough all gradations inward tbat GoJ - ~
Father Of ali and an ,nen ore bresSren = Tha I.s
candidate ia told at the vsrv thre.hoId of ths
Institution that tbe f;rst graat nr;nc;nla of
our Fellowship is Fraternitysa universal fra
ternity In the family Of man. and that this ia
the cornerstone of Odd Fello wship." that from
tL;s ,s-;no;,sia g nc - -. o 81 .5' C.
Author Of our existence as % oar FatSer" All 'ens IN
| whom we live. and move Y and have our ha;no.
to recognize each other as alira tbs offsnrp1
| of the same narent as the uastev-n;aca ~ hs h;s
| handiwork's And he Is warned that DC he
has become initiated into ths ;nst;t,,t t;or fro-e
the influence of the too common error that il is
= mere beneficial society shaving for ;ts s;nois
purpose the relief Of ito memhars in the strng-
cles incident te human 1;fa ba rraatiw rndarr-
estimates its nnrnose stV1b;Is = ;s +.ra tra.
mutual relief il : leading Office in onr ofssI;as
tion. and imnsrat;ve dnfy which Odd EsIIo--
hin enioins tbs cand;dsts IL .bat
we also seek 10 ;n,nrove a,,d sjaxate tha char
actar of mon 10 ;,,,Ir a ~, s,;.I - ~ ~
centions of bis eanabiI;tcs for God ta sn,;.ht-
ed his mind: and to sniarre ~ snbere ~ e 81 his
effact;ons, sS 'As 'pAsAo "a NO
TTHo E5ib ..boo,y ~ fro<y 49,, an. ho.n.-1o,
NJ, - ~, s";y, So% ~" w oIv1se,noo" 1
t,;.s, IA1 b, auSal uo1:llno =, Ouu etoM-
ali IT'S taacbngs nd who. 90 ,a NJ o. n,o ,oI- .sJ
;OiS % Dna Anu wlas cah p9 more rau
~ so.stvS M sslns az aowa WI 70 .ns oeIy rocs
II treter. ~ ,s-aS W ~ NV aim " oul Jaw
1avaI hn+ q 1919 eSo es. .nou uo"n w a Ieau
ssharo - hm,.s. ~ saJG I;e 'nsn ~ ~ " e Aisnese
Enovs No sanct;nn of srs sme b,'t masses
sonl hy ;,s nnaI;tu 90 p;,, NJa ~ T1s.s gacn
II th;s ,,,;dSt re, % VIII LII; ouu
ars w;th h;y, aJ as AZ cfa, ~ " D4 III 49,
e.1 c;. IL anu as sno noru eelIiD.e pa..lo
bs ones r;nas unps tb c,aar u rs az ~ ~
we claim in onr fsobe wav to resnond % 70 ne
cal, s' -- = e1- -s'-e ""'' " As'poAu " ''0
But thousb TINS radical ua ar. o,so .o,.arr-
ative While we have M ofsact;o, Co. AZ ,,ast
merely becanse II Is vanaraSia tha.a - .ao paJs
that the ernar;anca and h;sto,.r -. az Ja.I
centuries have left ms that Is invaluahIa W.
weave the golden threads Of tba nast into the
web of the futnre. We have nn svmnathv III
with the fablsd renius Of nrimevai chaos whcy
when order was he7no evolved ont of a. vas,
Confusion of The elements Is said to have .on,'
| planned of the radical movement as dsstrne-
| tive to what he Considered to be the normal
| order of nature. We balieve in nothino be-
| cause it is old-we accent roth;no becanse n ;s
| ae,o But the law of human brotherhood
runs back to the creation. True IL is that II was
| for many long ages buried beneath the as
| sumption of wealth and power. But when
| Christ came he breatbed Iife into the drv honas
of this great truth: proelaimed the Joctrna thst
mo man liveth to himself;' that the father
tao,';,, ~ III snI.t;, anu ne smpnaslzed bis
as ,o y w;a;.S as .I is u;sIipIes tne iowly
S;s..pi uS su9 s,oA, .eheving tne
sha nr,ssso,, ~ . sns ueau, ana eaucaung
fanea +, hs .,re - Z: s an lnnnee ols,
tha r,,r,o5 ~ ~ ~ ,e az ia wno sraversed
i.~ hisss;,rs am .f,,. .AI ~ Lanu scatter
aUa So - ~, 90 49, -. slo;aogs pasu"ay
not Of ~ ;ndgs ne ,,o4 ~, tae ta,enus VINO are
von mn,ssn;,e No. 1 oS " wLa' may SEEM 70
Isnners omd saS5,sa,ass yassSS anu un,nleslnis
o11; ~ n 49, 80 III o, auu many coioreu
soa;rx 'ne .,u;:ns Uuu Eeio" .hese are not un-
u uiiISeshsipie, ~, Sss or senseless. ne
;n ~ ths occnis s9.ns shongn writ
ven lh the occult Language OF symbolism He
gives no sign, ne utters no pass word, he gazes
upon no coiors tnat 40 not teacn 1im lesson
OF ne ana outy, ana mas not GOD himself
Written over al nature tne same symbolic law?
10 we not read MS eternal power and g0d-head
IN tne Diaalng sun, IN the mild moon, In the
cam can staIs. Un tne matcnless nower does he
I noe inscrlDe DIS innnlte iove OF tne peautlful?
tha nao nc nos ses tne winds 20 music ana made
we xne OSean Al organ upon wnicn tney play the
oriu gLanaest antnems to MS glory? Ma
lure ~ ner Penectness OF attire Is bis first
W seiasioa, iMnuiIaeeo M anu gioTious 10 tnose
'.,oro.,s WY wSa,u open ler pages. Day unto DAY
Na S.S.JsI oPsoou, anu n.snS pnto nlgnt sDoWetn
eno "ioS9sS. 1lase tns Loru from the earth,
..te,1: n.3 anu Ian sn.w anu vaPor, stormy WIND
t;.sl ulnI.lng ms w9rd; mountains and all hills,
'ln''lui 'ieeS anu al seuars.
OUR SECRETS.
We ask YOU still farther not to ;udoe ps
harshly because we have secrets which we do
not choose to Communicates to the world at
large. You have already learned that the Or
der of Odd Fellowship counts its fnnds hv mil.
lions and that these funds are stedf3ilv swollen
by a thousand streams. Our secrets are tbe
locks and KEYS to our money chest. These
locks are our patent right Were IL otbarw;se