The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-28
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Anniversary Celebration l.. O. o. f.


On Thursday evening, April 18th, the
sixty-fourth anniversary of the organization
of the Independent Order of Oddfellows,
was celebrated in the Lodges rooms in this
city in a most happy manner. A large
number of the member of the order met at
An early hour, accompanied by many ladies,
and in the absence of the regular chairman
Brother w. G. Parke, PIG, called the
assembly to order and acted as Master of
Ceremonies for the occasion. H stated
briefly the special object of the celebration,
giving a short outline of the history of Odd
fellowship. In Baltimore, on the 18th day
of April, 1919, the first lodge was organized
by five persons. Brother Wilde was the first
officer Of the first organization. called
Washington Lodge. He was afterwards
elected Grand Sire of the order, but little
did they hin at the time the first lodge
was established that they would multiply as
they have, until at the present day an
L. D. o. f. Lodge may be found in all the
cities and almost every considerable town
throughout the length and breadth of the
United States and Canada. Nor is the order
confined to those countries alone, but
lodges have been established in Australia,
New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland,
and the time is not far distant when a lodge
of OddfelIows can be found in every part of
the world. After reading the Anniversary
Proclamation issued by the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, Brother Parke requested the
entire audience to join in singing the Open
ing Ode, which was followed in the order
of exercises by "A piano solo rendered finely
by Brother e.. II. Scarborough. Then an
address was delivered by Brother Cruzan
who said that on this occasion he
was somewhat like a young man from
Chicago who went to visit San Francisco
and fell i'm love with his hosts daughter
ga sight, At the end OF the third day he
hesitatingIy said, What would you say if
1 should propose marriage to yOu"' q
should say was the reply, never put off
till tomorrow what you should have done
yesterday :" (Laughter.) The speaker had
put off till tomorrow the preparation for
this occasion which he should have made
yesterday. After giving Il %laughable
description of how a boy-cOmrade and him
self Investigated OddfelIowship, and max
ing their way into the pro~perty-room, saw
things which /" it were not lawful to utter"
and which made their "knotted and COM
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the fretful p~orcupine, - and caused them to
beat such a hasty retreat that they did not
get q the secret work" the speaker said
1 like the order of Oddfellowship-aud
never quite so well as tonight, with that
banquet at my left, and the ladies i'll front
of me. But this suggests an objection
frequently made to the order, viz: That
ladies cannot become members OF it. Well,
T. lou cDUnIH n IN "A m
be an Odd-feuov? (Laughter.) The only
one L ever heard of that would be at ali
eligible, was advertised for in the columns
of a newspaper after this manner: "To
rent-A hall bedroom, suitable for a single
woman eight by twelve tL~aughter-)
Such a woman would be sufficiently odd
for membership in this or any other order.
Seriously, i love this order because ii
stands for such a high, broad noble type oil
morality. 1t teaches all the cardinal virtues.
Its ritual, from beginning to end, Is built
upon, and Is an Out-growth OF that book oil
books, the Bible. The true Odd Fellow,
like the young man who came running to
Christ, and as he knelt before the SearcheI
of hearts so pure was he that the Christ
loved him, "lacks but one thing" to make
him a perfect man, viz a personal faith in
Christ. Oou reHo"shiP aEo sIauuS PiS
eminent among all secret orders for is
generous, practical benevolence- 1t care;
for its brotherhood 1t watches by the bed
side of its sick with brOtherly faithfulness
1t stands between its poor and beggary and
want. 1t buries its dead with tear-dimmed
eve, and turns from the grave side to be q
father to the orphaned, and a protector to
the widowed. Such an order is worthy Of
our love and enthusiastic support. Gap
piause-)
And now, what shall L say more? Moth,
ing, if 1 am wise, for the speakers who are
to come after me, already begin to look