Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-04-27
ODD FELLOWS AND REBEKAHs
Celebrate the 55tb Anniverser, nj,
American odd FelIowship---sunda,,.
Services at the Baptist Church--.r,.
R,beERh's Entertainment.

American odd EellONVshtp---h ttudHt..
Services at the Baptist Church--.rt.
R.beERh's Entertainments
Despite the storm of Sunday th. B.
tist church was filled for the moru. Sd.
vice. a very large number of Odd Fellow.
i'm the regalia of their order, and Um.
tcrs of Rebekah, attending in a bu.. .
listen TO special sermon in Obserlf....
the 10Th anniversary of odd FeIlOU. ...
America. The special musical nm....
were the anniversary hymn, the mu, ia.
which was written by j. +. Hall. -nU. D..
Mr. Markham. and q hymn, 'Fr.nI..,
love and TRUTH" written by Pa, .a.
Master Henry Clark of Rutland, ADJ. sun.
bv the CONGREGATION MI Parry -.r.5
was recognition of the NOBLE work ....
fine order aims to do and the grow. ..
complshments and envable hisu. 4.
this country of Odd Fellowship
The text was from James ! Z-..p..
religion and undehed before God and ..
father is this: to visit the fatheru-. AL.
widows in their ahliction and TO ke.. ....
self unspotted from the world.
After expressing his pleasure d. H
coming the organizations, DEE a...I
briefly to the birth of the order Dino.
lLIII -INI NidIN ti'f ANU hAi' llA"
the first lodge i'm America al Bal ...-.
Md. on the 10Th of April, 1873, w.. Dive
members. from which the order has -,...
to its present great proportions. ow.r..
ping the mother country in this .
many other things. II is peculiar r-
prouriate, he continued that Odd I..ua.
whose work has exhibited sucI ..
type OF morality and accomplished ,.u..
toward tightening the burdens I'll.
world: has illustrated the fathet... u
God and developed the great thOu- .
the brotherhood of man. should m... IL
the house of God for a service like t..
The moral principles expressed u The
motto of the order. Friendship. love al
truth" found their sublimest eXprp,.0-
in him whose name We. as Christian bean
In the life of Christ that trinity of mora
virtues met and blended as in DO oa..
life ever known. odd Fellowship q,
read its teachings. seeks to secur. those
great results which illustrate the rruu-t
of beneovolence and charity; ID does Do.
array itself against the church. no, a-- i.
lodges council rooms of enmity o. r..-
ious. civil or social organizations h.
principle, and working orders. taken .
connection with what ha, been accom-.
plishcd in these - years, show mu.. tia.
may be justly termed, according TO ..,
text. pure and undehled religion
There is a vast moral force in t.a >u.
600 or more In this country pleI-.. .
beneyoence. charity and brotherhou. All
the -. 600. 600 or II. ZOO, 600 given ANNUALLY
with the heart following the help mean,
more than the relief represented uv these
vast sums There is a great dea. .- .-.
ligon in the act by which anyone place.
himself in helpful contact with tuo-. v.
are pressed down by life's burdens. Ill.
other of the expressed priciple, Of d..
Fellowship. the elevation OF huma. e.-.
acter. is also along the line of true r-..-..
lsuppose there is no one here TODAY v.
does not acknowledge that the m.,... +
the church of Christ is vastly greater a-.
beyond any that of this order or u. air
mere human organization, enc0mla,s.-.
in its sphere all these narrower sphere.
But the church today may offer Dr.. e...
Cratulations TO an organization win. r-
- years has been doing so well portion
of the work ID which the church >a,
engaged. Each of Us needs a nature ,..
riied by taking Christ into it am mas.-
him king over il, and while You. gr--
does good in the world it does no. a.a.4
this. So every thoughtful man ami won.
an will recognize the need of the cuu-.. q.
Christ and its claim on every one WI.
would carry to their ultimate cour.us.-
the great principles of Odd Feliow,Lr
May you have that love which j, tie u-1t
OF friendship and the basis OF truth remen.
bering that ne who gave TO US "A pure and
indebted religion was himself frieudslr
Tor he said. Il have called you friends,
he was himself love- and said 81 have
loved you with an everlasting love" be
was truth, for OF him it was written --
was ''full OF grace and truth"