The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-03-08

teen millions q dollars How little ia
jury We have received BY raising this
4 amount in triaing SUMS, and how great
an smouut oi good has been accom-
I plished is results arc registered in
high heavens own book
0ur Order has become a power for
good 10 alleviate human suffering and
elevate human character. It has kept up
With the growth in knowledge q the
present generation, and The develop
meat 81 civilization, its members filing
many 81 the highest positions in our
land carrying out its pure and holy
pria ciples into active life When man
lifts up his fellow man and calls him
Brother, when We comply with our sew
eral obligations, We can expect naught
but the smiles Of high heaven, upon
our feeble efforts
Why should We ever feel discouraged
or dishearted, when our work goes so
brayely on, and We have over ten mill
ions q dollars in our Lodges, with
which to carry forward our holy mis-
sion Think you the sixty thousand
Odd Fellows Of the State Of Ohio, are
discouraged, nay ! tell you, ! have seen
men there whose heads are frosted ore
With age, and whose crippled limbs and
tottering steps, tell of life Of toll, who
are 10 day bright and shining lights in
our beloved order, who seem to glory
in their knowledge Of its sublime prin-
ciples, and have in their minds firmly
planted the secret workings of our or
der? Think You the forty Thousand
that were initiated last year, could be
induced to let alone those principles of
charity and social harmony, which they
haze learned to love, nay | tell you,
they will yet grow up to be the pillars
Of Odd Fellowship, out from among
those forty thousand young members,
we may expect to see come forth such
men as Coltax, Ridgely, Ellison, Den
mis-, and others who have been eminent
ly qualified for the work Of human re-
demption
What is man without brother or a
brothers friendship? He is like SOL
itary tree upon barren rock, though
beautiful in form, gracefulness and
grandeur, but soon is shaken by winds,
its limbs contract as they die, its roots
decay, and soon becomes liieless
monument OF its former beauty, so
when the rebuHs Of adversely are rush
ing us earthward, when the clouds
look black above, and tho muttering
thunder Of misfortune, growls along
the sky, It's then the Office Of Friend
ship to shield us from portentious
storm. When our frame is palsied by
the skeleton hand of disease, or our
senses whirled in the malstrom chaos
OF insanity, It's then friendship comes
to our relief and quickens the fainting
pulses Of our sickly frame, or brings
back the wandring star Of mind, with
in the attraction Of sympathetic kind
ness. When our hearts are torn by
the recent separation Of some beloved
object, while our tears are yet flowing
upon the fresh turf Of departed limo.
cence, It's then friendship alone can
pour the oil OF peace into the yet Tester
ing wound, and deliver the aching
heart, from the object Of its bleeding
affection.
Brothers the firm conviction that
principles on which our Order is based,
are inmutablc and must triumph,
should give us strength and courage to
work with zeal, in the cause Of suffer
ing humanity. Our mission is being
more widely known throughout our
land, and many who have never looked
upon our Order with favor, but have
stood aloof from il, as though it were
something to be dreaded, are now seek
| ing admission within our councils, and
their influence has been felt through
out our entire jurisdiction, they
are men Of intelligence, who see
in our, order something more
than its mere pecuniaiy benef.
cial feature, and who can appreciate its
intrinsic excellences, they see that its
objects arc TO improve and elevate the
character Of man, to cnlighten his
mind, and enlarge the sphere Of his
affections they zee too by our daily
. ministrations to our suffering aud dy
ing brother, that our Order does not
consist Of professions merely, but that
I il ~ hYng reallty.
We cannot fathom the mysteries o.
the future, but sometimes imagination
leaps On through coming years, aud We
! behold this great Brotherhood Of ours
with its constant careful, ceaselesi
toll, carrying out the great principle.
oi its holy, glorious mission rejoicing
tha. the day has at last arrived when
al the members Of the human family
are bound together in one vast Broth.
crhood, the effects Of which IS beauti.