Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-05-31

SsS h'W W oOGoupitOu SnAS WQlCn,
alone. ha cannot dn. In = word, b. 70
him = brother. We teach msh TO live
upon earth in harmony, 10 love and
in fraternity. We teach him not to
wait Tor that future life to reach the
idssl HEAVEN have pictured, but TO
DaaSi f5s earth y heaven, to realize
in. this life the grand result OF tree
friendshy, unseltish love and univers-
al fraternity.
"To accomplish these exalted ends
JIG tho object OF Odd-tellowship. For
S:ese purpose We meet ia our Lodge.
rooms, where all creeds are banished,
all politics, all personal strife exclud-
ed; where all meet upon the same
level, firmly bound to each other in
harmony and in love, by tho one great
object We are striving for, and which
crn DO obtained only by continual
practice OF benevolence and charity.
"HaYe you ever thought, my friends,
what stupendous charitable urgani-
zation Odd-fellowship isf Just think
of it'll Eight hundred Thousand men
banded together--come good, come
oad--with one object only in view, to
do good, TO practice charity, to nurse
the sick, to bury the dead, to educate
the orphan. Show me an Odd Eel
low, who faithfully follows the teach
| lngs OF his Order, and I will show you
il good man. instilled with noble
thoughts, imbued with love for his
fellow-manl necessarily our beloved
Order is advancing with gigantic
| strides. .....
| "a few yenrs more and over o million
will cone:ituSe our strength But q
sad thought comes. While tens of
thousands join us every year, thou
sands upon thousands fall by the
wayside, leave US never to return.
ARG while we love and render hearty
welcome TO the new, we atill remem.
Der the old who have left US and
long to reach out our hand over the
brink Of eternity, and with b loving
clasp assure them that the work they
have bequeathed to us we will con.
tinue and cherish until we too are
called TO the Great Beyond. 1t is tt
honor our dead, to pay tribute tc
their virtues that we are here 10 day
and as we strew sweet scented flowers
over their graves, let US remember
that we too have something IN live
for; let us strive TO make this worlC
our heaven not our hell, as some ara
pleased To call it; let us n'ulate the
examples OF those good men who
have gone before us by practice oil
broad charity, pure love and true hu
nanity. Life will then become .
| pheasant journey, and when called
away from this Wilderness, when tn,
dread angel beckons, imbued with un
! dying love for your fellowman, with
peace in your heart, you may breath,
the parting word. farwelll -.
$50 live, that when thy summon
comes TO join ...
The inn1mera5le caravan, which
moves -.
To that mysterious realm, where eacl
shall take
His chamber in the client halls o
death,
Thou go not, like the quatry-slsve q
night
] Scourged to his dungeon, but. sus
tanned and soothed -..f
BY an unfaltering trust, approach
thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery O
his couch r..
About him. and lies down 90 pleRsau
Dreams"
The address was listened 70 atten
lively and at ito conclusion the oilui
sang the "Bivouac OF the Dead,
after which Rev. r. 8. Witter recitet
an original poem dedicated TO th,
brave boys in blue who laid dow,
their lives that the Union might live
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