Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-06-09
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from home and fireside to yonde
! graveyard, land as the last clod o
!, earth is heaped upon our earth it re
|, turns with a grim emile Of victory L
the haunts Of man for another victim
Of its ~rapacity.
/, We may be rich or we may be poor
we may be learned or ignorant, W,
. may be happy or wretched, yet it haI
been decreed that all must become
the victims Of death.
Without trial without the right o.
defense, without right OF appeal OF
time to review, We are summond t.
the bar Of life to receive the decree o.
death.
Even nations die and the human
race will expire. Science tells u,
that sooner or later this beautiful
world, exhausted Of its life giving en-,
ergy and incapable of longer support.
ing man, will become an idle useless
cinder in the universe OF space, ard
looking forward into the coming ages
/ think / see the last remnant OF OIL
race, crouching feeble and pallid, be,
meath the shelter Of the mountains as
they behold for the last time the SIM
sink below the horizon in the victory
OF death.
No! notdeath's victory, but through
death the victory of Immortality.
Immortality! tho sweetest bene.
diction that falls upon the troubled,
struggling soul Of man. the flower
that blooms supernal in the heart
watered by the tears of Hope and fed
dy Loves eternal light, alike the
Pagan's faith.
All philosophy has sought to de.
monstrate its truth and skepticism OF
all ages has tried to rob the mind of
the consolation it has given.
Vain fools! Science can resolve the
rose into simple elements and weigh
each part. Take those elements into
the laboratory and call upon science
to recreate the rose. then come
n tell me how and why, under
the softening influence Of the
sunlight, the rose bush grew and
blossomed. Shall we live for
ever? Ask me why man so limit
ed in power and by environment that
he can not penetrate the darkness OF
a single night and fortell the morrow
has builded a home in the hereafter,
a paradise in the beyond and PEG.
pied it with Immortality?
Truth and Love, the fairest daugh.
ters OF the sky, have confirmed our
creed by planting in our hearts that
celestial hope of immortality.
Tho flowers and trees, the mani
mate rocks and mountains, the uni
verse Of worlds. confirm it.
All nature and natures law confirm
it. Man himself, in the last agonizing
struggle confirms it, and has robbed
the grave Of its prey and death Of its
victory. Then permit not the thought
OF death to disturb the mind; let not
its cold and clammy touch freeze the
soul with horror, or burn the cheek
with scalding tears; for in the chalice
pressed upon our unwilling lips there
is not the wine OF oblivion or eternal
silence, but the golden nectar OF peace
and Immortality
Drink deep to death, drink to the
dregs, for in that draught is life here
after-life through long, bright cons
OF endless glory! Our Brothers, who
sleep upon yonder hill, have solved
the problem Of existence, and impelled
by the ties Of our Order, we come to
honor their memory and to receive
an inspiration that will make OF each
u better citizen.
Some have slopt in tho grave SO
long that the world has forgotten
their names and some have 30 recent.
ly been laid to rest that the gentle
touch OF time has not healed the
wounded hearts, still grieving for
the loss.
They walked this earth as we walk |
1T suffered as We suffer; were made
glad as we are gladdened; loved as we
love; hated as We hate, and were con
trolled by the same sentiments that
control VI Born to the same herit.
age OF death to which we were born.
their footsteps were gnided by the
same star Of Hope that sheds it's
light along our pathway.
Affected by the same passions that
Affect or master us, they sought the
strength to resist and the power to
overcome those passions in tho grasp
OF Friendship. protected by the man.
tie OF Love, kneeling at the high and
sacred alter OF Truth.
subject to death MS we are, they
etood by tho couch ~ .l.oso they
loved. and with broken, whispered
words OF endcarment, sought to soft
on thel pangs Of death; consigned the
forms OF their loved dead with bur.
dened hearts to the grave; have list.
ened to the same broken, whispered
words OF endearment, and when too
woak to speak have assured us TINT
all was well by the responsive pres
sure OF the hand.
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As Odd Fellows. they subscribed
to the same articles OF faith beneath
which onr names arc written. They
believed not that death put n period