The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-12-12
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we accept the Pagan belief that the
grave is the ultimate goal, or comfort
ourselves with the teachings of Chris
tianity, all processes of belief are
but founded on faith, and faith divides
itself into myriad of forms which
offer many solutions to the problem of
Immortality. But for each of US the
answer is unknown till the curtain
falls on the play of life, ard the lights
! are out and the actors gone; then IN
the silent hall will be made known, if
ever it is to be, the wonderful my stery
of human life: till then let rs cherish
faith in the organizer of the world and
faith one in another.
Sombre as is the theme allotted for
the day, its lessons are not written
IL the same darkened colors. Life,
not death, is the first thought of the
world; growth, not decay, is natures
| delight: upward and onward are the
watchwords for man. From the lives
OF those whose memory we are honor
ing many can be the lessons learned.
The priceless gems of honor, of truth,
patience and benevolence, Of faith,
| hope, and the greatest of all, of charity,
| we can garner from their treasures,
and we can learn to so order our lives,
that when in the lodge of SORROWS, the
roll is called AMI among the names un-
answered ours appear, it may be said
| when we are gone, "he has fought the
| fight well and leaves behind the great
est OF ali inheritances, an untarnished
name"
The Brotherhood of Elks aims to
foster every good and noble ser timent.
Deeds, not creeds, are the desired OBJ
jects of its existence. Humanities
needs press upon the heart of every
close observer and compel him to give
attention. The world has passed
through the age of stone, the age of
iron, the age of bronze: this is now
the age of man, and as man is bl the
reflection of God, it is too the age of
the fatherhood of God, and the brother
hood of man. The query w ich the
murderer Cain, with his hands freshly
tinted with his brothers blood, put,
when he said "Am 1 my brothers
keeper" has been answered and the
answer is ''you are." The whole his
tory of the worlds progress has proven
that the reverse of this would be false;
humanity is SO knit together that we
are each a part, one of another and
our actions are so influenced by the
deeds of those around us that re-
sponsibility greater than we know
rests upon US. Such selfishness as an
other answer to Cain g question should
be. would wreck dozen worlds and
plunge them into chaos without end,
for man when the neutrality-suspicious.
OF love and duty are gone sinks lower
than the brutes! "Man's inhumanity
to man has made countless thousands
mourn" but mans magnanimity and
charity to man has made the sunbeams
enter countless hearts and caused
stricken lips to murmer blessed. Man
is the chief actor in the drama of this
age; he is the worlds chief concern.
Such feeling as this was it that
caused an audience numbering thous-
ands in London hall to rise and
cheer to the echo, when a noted
s2raker in passionate tones declared
81 ;in man and nothing affecting
man is Indifferent to me-"
The dead are gone but the living are
here. Let US cherish them while we
may for the shadows fall and the lights
go out and the hand which we would
long to grasp is cold and white in
death before we realize what has
happened. Then it is we think of
their virtues and kindly traits keenly
and wish we had regarded them more
while they were with us This is the
lesson which we can learn from these
memorial services. the lesson we often
learn but fain forget. bnt it is the
lesson which the world needs and
which we as Elks can aid in impressing
and making more dear. Let it be our
aim.
Death has its teaching for us. 1t
can teach us how to die and how to
live, as the poet Bryant so truthfully
sums up in the lines so feelingly read.
$50 live that when the dread summons
comes thou shalt go. not like the quarry
slave scourged to his dungeon but like
one who wraps the drapery of his
couch about him and lies down to
pleasant Dreams Death must needs
come: then let US shake hands with
him gracefully; he is kindly old fellow
after all; he soothes as much as he
hurts and heals when other
cures fail. Greet him with smile
and he is kind; but if you turn from
him with cry he is harsh. Treat him
when he comes, then, as friend who
opens the prison gates and points to
the sunlight beyond and perhaps 1t
may be given to you to say as the poet
has said:
With faces the dearest in sight,
With kiss on the lips love best,
To whisper a tender goodnight"
And pass 10 my pillow OF rest. |
TO kneel all my service complete,
All duties accomplished, and then
To finish my orisons sweet
With a truthful and joyous amen.
And softly when slumber was sweet,
unwarned by a shadow before,
On halcyon billow OF sleep
To float to the thitherward shore.
Without farewell or tear.
A sob or hutter of breath,
Unharmed by the phantom Of fear,
To glide through the darkness OF death.
Just so would choose to depart,
Just so let tie summons be given,
quiver a pause of the heart,
vision of angels then heaven.
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