Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-19
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Getting the Worth of Ones Money out Of
the Order-How to Get 1t,

Getting the Worth of Ones Money out Of
the Order-HOw to Get 1t.
1t has been the favorite cant OF some
persons, both within and without the or
der, to say that in the fraternsl beneficiary
organizations one must die to win. hear
10 all say with bass notes and tenor voice,
why certainly, but this msy be manifestly
untrue, insomuch as the member secures
the full worth of his expenditure year by
year precisely the same ss the man who
insures his real or personal property, that
is to say, he pays for protection and he gets
it right along, and dare anyone say other
wise.
But there is another aud more endur-
ing form in which the member of society
like ours gets he worth of his money, to-
wit: the satisfaction of aid rendered to 9TH
er, when a member of your lodge, brother,
has suddenly been removed, leaving
family in straitened condition, perhaps en-
tirely without resources, has it not made
you happy to think that you have been
instrumental in providing for that family
comfortable sum in the hour OF their
need? Have you not on such an occasion
got full and adequate return for
all the money you have paid into
the order? Ii you are a true knight,
or possessed of the spirit of altruism even
in small measure, you have felt your
breast heave in conscious pride of a good
action rewarded whenever one of your de-
parted brethren's family has been thus
succored You have said, like thousands
of others, whether the order is ever any
benefit to me or mine, in pecu1iary sense,
even though it should collapse tomorrow,
feel that have got my moneys worth
in the good which have been permitted
TO do do within the ranks of Alpha Lodge,
No. "a, of this city, to the brethren and
families of Wheeling, and also of this great
land of ours"
Now, brother of Alpha, you are justi
fed in your self -coDgrstulation; but it is
only when one of your own lodge dies or
one of your acquaintance who dies that
the bene6cence of the order, and the priv
ilege of well doing which it gives to its
members, comes to mind. You are apt to
forget that your bsnefactions are perennial
ard embrace deserving ones all over the
county, up to March 18th of the present
year $26, 1863 001.04 have been paid in
benefits to the heirs OF departed brethren.
This vast sum was distributed among, say
Is, 600 families, or allowing a widow and
three children in fair sveJsge-42, 600
rarao1a The hrOthar then WIN ioin cd
the order at the start, sixteen years sgo,
has contributed to the comforts and neces-
sites of 42, 900 widows and orphans He
has shielded thousands from absolute want
and saved-who shall how msDy?-from
death by the timely aid his money has
given.
No brother of Alpha Lodge No 424, we
are, who has heart under his jacket can,
when he thinks of the aid he has rendered
to others and OF the aid he is rendering
continually, ever again complain that he
does not get his moneys worth. There
are, in fact few Investments which pay so
literally as the money investments in the
Knights of Honor. The brethren of
Alpha Lodge gets protection for bis family
in case of death, and at the lowest posi-
bic rates; he gets a position in society
by the acquaintance which the lodge
vouchssfes, and more and better than all,
he gets continual dividends in the con-
seriousness of being of real service in this
city and in the world to Others. If there
is anywhere a chance for profitable invest
ment we should like to know it, so Gays
all. that so fellows.