The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-27


direct claim upon our assistance, for mu-
tuai helpfuiness to its membership, anu u
is secret for the same reason that In ram
lies there are secrets that belong exciu-
sively to the family.
s'Now let us notice few reasons why
the church should endorse Odd Fellow
ship as a coworker in the cause OF good
will toward men, Ii relieves the dis
tressed; IL Is not often that an Odd fei-
low dies in the poorhouse. 1t visits the
sick, not simply with a formal call, but
with q nurse and medicine il need be. IL
buries its dead and sympathizes with tho
sorrowing in q practical manner. IL u
true that ii may be a little rough IN It's
manner, but when IL needs some delicate
task performed Ii calls at once upon the
ladies, tho Daughters of Rebekah. who
know Just how to do IL for them. IL cares
for the widow and the orphan, all these II
does not simply because IL has pledged IT.
self to do so, but because IL cannot pc
true to its own teachings III II neglects II.
The real reason why there Is opposition 10
Odd Fellowship from the church is be-
cause of misunderstanding between the
two. Some narrow minded. sour, croch-
ETY. church member that can see no good
outside of his own little circle may rail AT
the Odd Fellows and some injudicious
member Of the order may.retaliate by rail-
ing at the church, at the same time claim
/ ing that Odd Fellowship Is good enough
religion for home. Both are wrong. Each
has ITS own distinct work to do and both
should work side by side, each doing good
| i'm its own way. Let every Odd Fellow SO
live that no opposition to our order can De
| founded on reason" I.
Miss Floy Gamblers recited Liberty
and Independence" after which Miss
Ellie Miller delivered an address on the
Daughters of Rebekah." Miss Miller
said:
| THE Daughters of Rebckah-what is
there new that one can say about this de-
| gree and its work? What praises can be
| sounded that have not already been sung
| by those who love the work for its own
sake and have most eloquently told its
| history? When We have been blest with
| such able upholders as Schuyler Coifax
| and others whom we know, and when we
| can read of our wonderful progress and
| success. / ask what more can be said, and
| in what new raiment can we clothe the
| bare statistics whose figures reach Tar
| into the thousand column? But do we,
| as Rebekahs, realize the Importance OF
| our own personal influence? On us rests
| a great responsibility. There Is nothing
| that will let the light into the soul ike
| personal influence; nothing that will lit
| one up out of darkness and lead them
into light like the power of n good exam
pie. / believe that what the world needs
to reform 1t to-day is not so much q strong
theology or deep philosophy, as it needs
| nobler. purer lives.
Man is the glory of the Lord, and woman is
said he who spoke the heavenly word and told
the heavenly story; the glory OF his glory, then,
| most holy while most human.
The browning light of God and man; the fair
est life Is woman. f.U
Great indeed is the task assigned to
woman. Since the time of history woma n
has been the power that has shaped the
course of man, welding an all powerful
influence for his good or his undoing.
Hers has ever been the hand at the helm
1 \. al lie hnr Of IA
quicksands of selfishness into the broad
river of friendship, love and truth. IL is
through her influence that our order has
risen amid the wreck of empires and the
gloom of many centuries.
1--WE can trace the shadowy form OF our
fraternity in Egypt, the cline of my stery,
| magnificence and awe; through the land
where the Danube rolls it's dashing floods (;
within the walls of the doomed Jerusa-
4 lem, when her proud heights we're gleam-
ing with the tents of hostile Rome. But
where, now, is our order and its moving
influence? Everywhere. Its footprints
track the world and there is no civilized
corner of II where the plant OF Odd Fell
| lowship has not grown into stately tree,
under the shade of whose spreading
branches all humanity is welcomed to
rest. .
And one more there came, another
} true and gentle woman, gentle. loving
mother, known only through another's
history, and yet her firm guidance ano
shining unselfishness. evolved a man
, whose name will always be reverenced by
our order and especially remembered b,
those in the Rsbekah degree. Mrs. Col
fax builded better than she knew wher
she instilled into the life of her son prin
I ciples that made him reverence al
womaIi-kind for his mothers sake; ane
gave him a desire to place woman on al
I equal footing with her husband ant
brother, with equal opportunities to &C
} complish the great good to which on
order obligates her, to publicly recognz
her natural rights and to place the Ode
} Fellows lodge on a sure and eternal roat
to prosperity.
''Seventy-six years ago, when the ban
ner OF Odd Fellowship was raised in the
city of Baltimore by Thomas Wlldey ant
his associates, il never occurred to then
that the time would come when It woul'
, be necessary to establish branch OF In
order for women. But as the years roile'
| round and this grand and noble institu
ton began to increase all over the land
; some of the wise men OF the East oega'
T to wonder il il would not be advisable Z
have a side degree TO which the wome
could be admitted. The subject was Ia
l troduced in the Sovereign Grand lodge
J but was opposed in very strong Language
But the advocates OF the subject prevaiie
. on the grand sire to appoint a COMMITTEES
: fax. who was the only one of the commit
4 tee who favored the movement. ~
r .'In making this minority report to tn
Awarded q