The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-26
Anaconda Nel0s.

d0y iuliiS Ior the 0edI anu oumD dno
homes for the fatherless and widow
and the outcast of the land.
Hypocrisy and heartlessness are the
foes OF truth and love. Then throw
on the great search light, the glow OF
the three links throughout the world,
and the pure stream of our principles
viii flow on into the tideless sea of
Gods infinite love-"
Tonight while stars of heaven are
singing their songs to the families of
earth, Odd Fellowship, the star of
sweet charity and anchor of hope, is
outlining the future and laying the
foundation for beacon lights upon the
sunken rocks of life's ocean, that man
kind may be warned of danger and
stear clear Of every rock and shoal
not wrecking their barks of life, but,
be permitted to anchor in the harbor
OF safety, when the storms Of life are
DER.
There exists in the minds of many
the idea that a secret organization Is
detrimental TO home and society. am
frank to confess to this audience that
1 believe there are such institutions.
but Odd Fellowship lie not one of them.
The obligation taken by an Odd Fell
low in no wise conflicts with his duty
to home or the government under
which he lives.
demonstrate the truth of this asser-
ton tonight, and in the past, by their
loyalty to home and country. Thank
God for this land of civil and religious
liberty, made thus by courage of men
and women, true to their principles of
right who, when internal and external
strife (by force of arms) would seek
the nations destruction left home,
bright prospects, the ties Of nature,
yea Everything by them held dear in
order to preserve home and native
land. Men and women who thus mani
fest this loyalty are largely those who
compose the ranks of our order. They
are still fighting, not on battle fields,
where mans blood is shed by man,
but against want. against evil in every
form fighting for the rights of widows
and orphans and for the betterment of
humanity.
Man is a social being and therefore
seeks society. 1t has been wisely said,
He who cultivates an acquaintance
with the world in which he lives can
never be alone. What is solitude but
the emptiness OF an ignorant mind?"
He who ponders on the varied mystic
rfes of life, fills his heart with desires
to benefit humanity; no rhyming love- !
sick dreaming enthusiast. but shrewd
observer of facts, principles and laws. |
Mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn" "Give me |
where to stand" cried the ancient phil 1
osopher, and 1 will move the world"
Find where to stand" shouts the |
modern reformer. Stand for right is |
the voice of reason and religion, and /
when the passions of men are subdued.
when selfishness is purged from the |
human heart, where the lust of the eye
and the lust of the flesh cease to burn.
when anger Is restrained, jealousy.
hatred and revenge are things I'M
known, then, and not until then, will
the victory be won.
In this great work of Friendship,
Love and Truth" the wife, the wild
owed mother, the sister, the daughter,
are coworkers with us. God said when
he made man that Ii was not best flor /
nan to live alone" and the Degree of
Rebekah in 1851 was added. The
weapons OF our order may as we'll be
Yielded by the hand of woman as by
nan. She is equally competent to re-
dice in the triumphs of the order, as
her natural protector and chevalier.
low beautiful the scene. man the re-
Llity and woman the poetry of this
world, hand in hand decorating the
ecords of good deeds, with the bios
oms of truth. the emblems of immor-
ality.
Therefore let us write our names,
Tot upon marble shafts hewn from the
uarries Of earth and polished by the
and of man, but on the tablets of en-
Turing memory. and when the monu-
nents of eternal truth shall be un-
'eiled in the paradise of God, may we
nd our names engraven thereon.
Nnally Odd Fellowship Is known and
from the rock bound Allan
10 to the West, where the calm, peace
ul water of the Pacific kiss the grass
rown shores. Yea, wherever civiliza-
ION has carried her enlightening in
uence. From the CULTS tropical bor-
ers to the distant northland, each
the same air, looking upward
,werd the same blue sky. arching
bove them, looking for the happy
me when, past the walls of Jasper,
sapphire. Of chalcedony, of emerald
nd amethyst" Past the gates of pearl
1ey shall walk together hand in hand
own the golden streets of the eternal
ty.
At the close of this talk the German
)ciety sang another song, Miss Hors-
I'll and Professor Dupea played
sautiful piano and mandolin duet,
essrs. Fargher and Harris sang
ing and the meeting was closed by
nging the closing ode.
At the conclusion of the meeting the
id Fellows and their wives and
veethearts marched TO the Standard .
Ill. where tho Degree of Rebelah had
,read an elegant banquet. d. Cohen,
:, OBLIGATED in his happiest vein as
astmaster and the occasion will long
remembered by the members of the I
der and its auxiliary in this city.