The Newtown bee., 1894-09-14
brother, Joel Bishop. With our late

- brother, Joel Bishop. With our late brother Daniel Burnham it was my plea sant experience for two years after be- ing made a Mason, to meet him several times, as only Masons do, and it was such an encouragement to find one who many years before occupied the same of flee in the lodge l did then, still so young in heart and feeling. The book 1 now hold, treasured among my limited Ma sonic works, was our late brothers Monitor from 1924. Of our new Cor re- instated) lodge, four past masters are now numbered among 'Our fraternal dead" seven wardens and twenty other brothers, all sleeping on hillside and in dale, but their good works 8 ill live op.
 What should we be as lodge, to-day if those of whom we number as tour fra ternnl dead'' had not lived and toiled and finally left the result of their labors and their example to us? Can we think enough? 1 ask you as Masons to-day, Can we think enough of tour fraternal dead? Too much cannot be said of them
 but if I should enumerate their names
 and endeavor to separately describe their virtues to you, the truth would be no | l more manifest that their virtues are | | treasured in our hearts. As I remember l | my late brother just mentioned and Wea- l yer, Warehouse, Barton, Wyant, Titus, |
 
 cence pleasant and beneficial comes up
 before me plainly concerning every one. held Brother A. c. Lemmon's hand as l he breathed his last. 1 remember the
 last word of others to me and what shall | say of our latest, our last lamented one, | he who thought up to within so short a
 time of his death that he might possibly
 be with us to enjoy the festivities of to day? What can 1 say more than has cniA of ,cf all knew him but to love him. To me
 his death seemed untimely and his breth
 ren truly mourn. 1 saw him within
 three weeks of his death, and the poor fellow seemed buoyed up with hope and tears almost came in my eyes as looked
 at his emaciated and almost useless form l and heard him tell of feeling better since } he had got home, and the wrong diag-
 nosis physicians had made. Vain hope. } The frost had come to him while his hopes were still aspiring and one sunny July afternoon in the present year we . were called as Masons to accompany his remains to their last resting place. There was he taken by fraternal hands. The casket lowered in the-grave on that t hillside opposite in a most beautiful To- !, cation, dotted with graves.
 5 THERE THE GREEN sPRIG t was dropped by every brother present. e The dirge, 1 never heard it sung SO beau t tful as that day, led by Brother Ensign. j. There the solemn service was read and
 there we left all that was left of Brother r. O'Hara, to await the general resurrection J of the dead.
 t Thus wastes man. How many times
 in the last 10 years, especially during r the present month, have 1 been forcibl J e reminded of this beautiful hour glass . nf Free hat s havoc has the Scythe of Time made IS among the human race. In time, WI e know not how soon, (and how well it is IS we do not) you and 1 know we shall bs u enrolled among "Our fraternal dead. 7. For this alone 1 suppose it has beer Is thought best to include this with th' it other toasts to be responded to to-day n Several times have heard good old Re- 1 Mir 1>ham of the neighboring town o l. RoXbury, relate the custom of the an e cients at certain of their feasts when tn ;i- festivities were at their height and tn G. mrth and song and wine perhaps f1Owet e freely, a funeral car would be draw le into the midst of the assenblage ant re slowly with bier and coffin pass by nea Ve to all the guests, to remind all, even il ir the midst of greatest mirth, of the un le certainty of human life, so l conclud ys has this toast been chosen for to- day
 
 of time to-day to listen, while 1 mentit n t. you have the remainder of life to extrae IS. as many as you please Let us, brt thu CT nd so far as we have seen and know of thei m virtues, initiate the examples of those ot now tour fraternal dead,' who, whil q. living, exhibited those most eXceller
 traits of unfeigned piety to their Go
 and such unflinching fidelity to the
 trust, that we too, if spared to age ma
 a,o,o ha ho, st on a we'll spent life and that we to . may welcome the grim tyrant, Deatf ha sent as known messenger from our Ss at | preme Grand Master, to translate U ,s S from this imperfect to that all perfec "s glorious and Celestial lodge above whel a 70 the Supreme Architect of the Univers IS presides. Amen. So mote it be. V. At the conclusion of his remarks tt ri- dirge,
 y; ''sOLEMN STRIKES THE FUNERAL CHIME, ed was sung by the assembled compan, he led by Brother Ensign of East MorIi lis "Our sister fraternal relations" WA he ably responded to by District Deput or John Drowne of New Hartford. H he spoke of the Odd Fellows, Red Mel ,s Knights of Pythias, and other organiZ oh tions. He said they were all laboring nd one line, to make men better and happ lis CT. MT browne IS SupeTlnGenOeHG OI u re- Greenwood company's mills at Ne
 Hartford, and is most estimable gel
 tleman. Judge Guy c. Ford was calle
 on to respond to the Ancient Mason A' toast,
 To Him who all things understood, ter To Him who furnished stone and wood, tOi To Him who shed His precious blood, en Fulfilling every duty;
 To each birth. ght and each birth morn, iCo When these great architects were born, he Wisdom, Strength and Beauty" inl The music was an enjoyable feature riI the occasion. The band which accon see panied the Clinton commandery gay C. some fine selections and Rowe's batter re- drum corps of Litchfield covered then gl selves with glory. The New Milfol laI male quartet and the Washington glt gs club were generously applauded. Ia The press was represented by Edit' aV Peters of the Brooklyn Times, Edit, l, Bolles of the New Milford Gazette, ol Shumway of the Litchfield Enquirer, l 'eh c. Kilborn of the Waterbury America ny and Hartford Courant and Editor Shit de of THE BEE.
 THE OLDEST PERSON PRESENT , on this occasion was Sturges Morehou. oi- Judd of Waterbury, who was born Eel w. ruary 6, 1909, and is now S5 years of az see His eyesight and hearing are perfect ar good, and judging from his appearant