Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-04-29
MEMORIAL ADDRESS.

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The following address was deliv-
cred before Pioneer Lodge, No. !, l.
o. o. f., at the services in the hall
last Saturday evening:
SISTERS AND BRorHKRs, LADIES AND
GEsTLxMEs:-Having had only few
days notice, find it impossible in
this short address to give anything
like complete history of Odd Eel
lowship, even in America. These
few remarks will DO addressed to the
uninitiated and ladies, to the latter
in regard to tho Robekah Degree.
Many well-meaning Odd Fellows,
possessing love Of mystery and
blind veneration for anything that
savors of antiquity, have underworld
to trace Odd Fellowship back to the
dark ages-~ages when hatred and
vengeance, instead of Friendship,
Love aud Truth, governed mankind.
OF course similaritiss of ceremonies
and emblems existed in all ages of
which We have history, but that, ac-
cording to the opinions of the authors
OF the best Odd Fellow literature,
does not necessarily proclaim that
they have anything whatever to do
with our Order. There are many ia
bles in regard to its origin. One
makes our distant forefather, Adam,
tho founder, and that prying mother
Eve was not initiated, which excluded
all her daughters forever from be-
coming members Of Subordinate
lodge. Grand Sire W,ldey, during
his visit to England in 1896, procured
from one OF the lodges there an en-
blem representing Adam laying the
foundation stone OF the Order, which
emblem he presented to the Grand
Lodge of the United States.
Another tradition declares that the
Order was founded by Moses and
Aaron, while others declare that i
originated among the Goths, Huns
Scandinavians and Moors. None o
these are now recognized as at al
authentic. The Gentlomen's Maya
zine, published IN London, dated il
l745, speaks of the Odd Fellow
Lodge as place whore very pleas
ant evenings may be spent. In l7S
James Montgomery, the poet, wrot
poem commencing
"When Friendship, Love and Truth aboun
Among band Of brothers,"
for a society in London, bearing tn
motto of our Order, and presumed
be a lodge of "Ancient and 10y,
Odd Fellows" All beyond the,
dates is more conjecture.
Members OF "The Union Ord,
OF Odd Fellows" were addicted ,
convivial practices in the lodge room
although recognizing the fatherhoo
OF God and the brotherhood of ma
This caused convention of frienC
of reform to be held, which assemble
at Manchester in 1913, when sever
lodges seeded from the Union o
der and instituted the Indspende
Order Of Odd Fellows" This ne
Order soon outstripped the ono fro
which it sprang.
Several attempts were early mat
10 establish Odd Fellowship on II
continent, but, from various caus,
all failed. The early mode was 1
together by self-institution. Al
number of Odd Fellows met, orga
lied and received their charter frc
the nearest lodge. Bro. John Du
can, according to Grosh's Manu-
stated at the institution of Washin
ton Lodge, No. l, at Baltimore,
April 20, 1919, that he had been il
tiated in that city in 1902. Shall
spears Lodge, No. /, was iustitut
in New York on December 30, 1S'
and Hourished until 1911; was hes
of again in 1913, and shortly af
dissolved. 1t was revived in IS
and continued in existence VI
l822-part of the tine as Frank
Lodge, No. 2, Is stated BY the 90
Fellows' Text Book" The organi