The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-06

interest in the affairs of each OF its mem
bers; affairs in practical every day me,
A member may be surrounded by fnanciai
difficulties: he feels as though all MS
friends had left him; he knows not where
10 turn for aid weighed down with grief
he walks along almost ready to give up
He meets brother workman WHO
takes him by the hand and gives HIM Il
cheerful look of sympathy and a word OF
cheer. The man Is filled with renewed
courage 20 fight the battle OF financial am
culties Thus the simple shake OF the
hand and look of sympathy restored him
10 his former position and circumstan
A Young mana member Of this order
leaves his home or Is cast out upon the
world, away from his relatives and friends,
Il may be in some large city where tempt.
alton Is on every hand and where il were
an easy matter 10 step from the path Of
rectltude No father or mother 20 deter
him from evil doings! But before he has
committed a deed of crime, when he Is
about 10 enter into some bad deed, the hand
of brother Workman touches him upon
The shoulder and voice bids him cease
The young man hc,itatcS; he stops his
evil project; he turns his course TO the
right, and with renewed mind steps into
the straight pathway of Righteousness and
i, saved. Applause. On all the earth
the record should DE kept to be remcm.
hered 10 the order of Workingmen
l'pon a bed of sickness amember of thi.
order lies po-tratc-itmay be- the sickness
that ends in death! The brothers gather
around him. minister 10 him in suffer
ings; attending and caring for his wife
and little ones, and his eyes are turned
for the last time upon the scenes of earth.
He secs standing around him the Blended
forms of his brother Workingmen, their
tears mingling with those of the wife and
little ones and ne knows the shield Of the
brotherhood Of protection will he cast upon
his wife and little ones, and he dies in
peace. Il goes to the home in the hours Of
grief and sadness-tO the iireside made
desolate bv the departed husband and
father, and gives words Of sympathy 10 the
widow and her orphan children.
In one Of our great cities the merchant
prince was going TO a scence Of feStiyity
and as he left the mansion he saw little
boy zone of the stray waits in those great
cities on the steps he asked the little
fellow what he was doing; he said he was
hungry and had no home; the merchant
prince said, come with me, ! will see that
YOU have a home and something 70 eat
So he took him into the house and staid
until he had procured the little fellow
something 10 eat. He then asked, little
fellow, have you any father" NO, sir
replied the little fellow, II have no father
" Have YOU any mOther?' No. sir, my
mother /, dead Have you ever been to
school, No; don't know what school
is Have YOU never been to Sunday
school," No. sir" Do you know the
Lords PRAYER" " No: | never heard of
il. II will teach it TO you; repeat after
me: our Father, which art in heaven. ~
The little fellow says: Your Father
which art in heaven NO not my father,
but, sour Father The little fellow asked
"My father NO; but Our Father,
which art in heaven Then the little fel
low said; Then if il is your father and
my father, then you and | are brothers!'
And the merchant prince took him to his
arms. At this moment the first step into
humanity was taken by showing that all
men, no matter how humble, are brothers
And so this Order attempts to aid in the
everyday affairs of life; its great aim is to
provide homes for the fatherless; il teach
es man love to the wife, to the mother and
protection to the home 1t is said that
when the angels of heaven heard that
there had been an earth created, peopled
with men and women, one more venture
some than the rest glded away to earth to
bring back some of the beautiful gems OF
that sphere, After strolling around among
the flowers Of the hillside and valley, she
took an orphan child--a mothers loved
One-hack with her to Paradise When
she reached heaven the angels gathered
around her, and She told them that there
was nothing in heaven or on earth to equal
in purity a mothers love Applause.
This institution is for the benefit of man
kind, 1t provides homes for the widow
and orphan, and when the father has
passed away it leaves them beyond want.
My friends, give this institution your
support And you, brother WOrkmen,
should tell your neighbor what ii is and
show him the benefits derived from it, and
show them the great work in which you
are engaged We cannot get too many
good men in our lodges, but we cannot be
too careful to keep bad men from entering
among us. 1t has record over which you
should all be proud; its banner is a shield
of protection, and on it float glorious
words of love, which proclaim, Hope,
Charity and Human Love. Applause.
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