Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-06-22
MEMORIAL SERVICES.

In last weeks Issue we announced that
King Arthur Lodge, K. of F., of this
place, would hold memorial services and
decorate the graves of their dead COM
r4des oil Saturday afternoon. AT their
meeting on Friday night these services
were changed to Monday evening at $50
o'clock. At that hour the members of the
Lodge assembled at their castle hall
bringing With them a large quantity OF
flowers arranged in many beautiful
boquets and designs. These were heaped
upon a nicely decorated litter aud when
the knights started it was carried by
four members at the head of the pro-
cessioD. A few hours before the time of
starting a shower had laid the dust and
most agreaLly cooled the air. The pro-
cesslon FIRST marched to the Reformed
cemetery where they formed around the
grave of Chas. Clinedinst, the first MEM
Der of the Lodge to pass from this life.
utter feeling and touching prayer hy
acting prelate, Col. j. C. Baker, and the
singing of an ode v C. Mark w. Magru
der delivered touching and beautiful
address which we give below. The
grave Of the dead knight was then rev.
erentlg covered with flowers, among
them being large and beautiful cross
formed Of exquisite flowers.
The Knights marched to the new
cemetery where they formed a circle
around the grave of their much loved
and reyered brother, the oldest member of
their lodge Mr. w. II. Bargelt, where Co.
Baker again offered up a feeling prayer
and after the singing Of an ode P. c. NJ.
l.. Walton, delivered aud address that ap-
pealed most powerfully to the hearts OF
every knight. He spoke III beautiful
terms of the love and affection that
bound them all so closely to their aged
brother whose wise counsel and words OF
wisdom had so often guided them. His
eloquent illusions to the jeathless ties
that so firmly united the brothers Of the
lodge touched each heart most deeply,
and caused them to silently renew their
VOWS and determine to be faithful to the
end.
After the address, with barred heads,
the Knights literally covered TIE grave
from sight beneath the masses of fragrant
flowers.
They then moved to the grave of Chrs.
Duncan, member of Brunswick, Nd,
lodge. Here IN the softly fading light
of the beautiful J1ne evening they laid
their floral tributes upon his grave, sad |
dened by memories of one who IN the
prime of his early IN anhood had laid down
to his eternal rest. Ol5e more the |
column was reformed and the Knights
marched back to their castle hall, where, !
after passing a resolution Of thanks to the
ladies who had so kindly assisted them
in procuring n)wers and arranging them
into forms of beauty, they adjourned.
ADDRESS OF VICE CHANCELLOR NJ. W
MAGRUDER.
M Brothers Of King 4rthW Lodge The
purpose for which we are assembled here |
This evening is known to all 1t is IN |
order that VIC may pay our humble tribute
to the memory of those knights whom
scycle of death has taken from our earthly |
Castle Hall and to show that though they |
have passed away, and those ties which |
bound them to us. and which death alone |
could sever have been broken, yet as with |
loving hands we pay this token Of respect,
so do we again silently register the VOW
that their memories will forever llnger 10
the hearts of their loving brothers.
This meeting near tie ashes OF our al
inspire US with conflicting emotions to
which we fain would give some utterance,
as we stand by the graves of our loved
and lost feeling of sadness fills our
hearts. tender memories of dearest friends
come back to us with the names of those
whose last earthly resting place we will
strew with the flowers ne bring ere we
reverently turn away and depart, and yet
in the mmost depths of our hearts is IN
termingled with this sadness feeling,
not Of Joy, but at least of gratlticltion
that we can yearly pay loving tribute
to the memory of those Knights who have
laid their earthly armor down and whose
immortal souls havN been summoned be-
tore the Supreme Chancellor who doeth all
things well.
And as we stand here realizing that 1t
is death with its solemn associations that
calls us to these gatherings over tho
couch Wherein some weary Knight has
laid him down to rest, the thought comes
to MS of another mound reared over the
remains of a beloved knight in yon Gene
terv and 1t does not seem so strange that
an aged one who had long struggled in
the battle of life should have fallen, but
as we stand here we realize the fact that
not only is the aged called but oftimes
one in the flower Of his manhood and that
perhaps some of US who today stand IN
these ranks erect may claim share OF
fond regret when next the Others gather
here. trust this may not be but let us
so 1--we that should that awful summons
come to pass over the river with the
Knights who have gone before it may be
said of us that we were true Knights OF
Pythias IN every sense of the word, true |
to ourselves, our order, and our God.
Let us honor our dead brothers by |
showing thai the ties that bind them to us
conduce to better living.
Let rs in our lives carry ont what IS
but a simple pledge Of honor to undying |
friendship. Let Us exercise that charity
which is ore of the corner stones of
Pythiansm, and which Is spoken of in |
Holy Writ as the gIratest of virtues. Let |
us practice that beneyolence that shall
ever he ready to assnage sorrow and con-
duce TO human happiness-those Drnci |
pies of our order thai shall boast a destiny |
beyond the bounds OF time.
In short let US be raady not only
"To speak the kinl word and do the !
good deed,
That shall lift up a downfallen friend in
need
And bid him take heart again,
But to cast the mantle over his fault
And suffer long and be kind"
About the most intricate and difficult
work that any class of men are called
upon to perform is that of distributing