The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
/ THE FRATERNAL SOCIETIES

lows is one OF the grandest institu
items of this country and comes nearer
combining all the social. fraternal and
financial benefits than any other order
in existence. While it is not strictly
social order. yet that is one of its
strongest features. More especially in
the Rebekah degree. While fraternity
is leading feature, there is much
mere than fraternity in the order, yet
go where you may, in all the world
where the foot of civilized man has
trod and you may always find the three
links, the open hand, the all-seeing eye,
and If you are a member, you viii
always find a brother ready to aid
you if need be. While the financial
benefits are scarcely taken into con-
sideratiDn. yet when you remember
how far-reaching they are, they are
great beyond comparison. The regular
weekly benefits are small of necessity
as the dues are small, yet a certain
sure income each week, even though
small, is a graf stay to the mind and
body when you are afflicted and in dis
tress; then when death comes to you
as it surely does to all, there is a fund
ready to pay your funeral expenses,
and a band of brothers ready to per-
form the last sad duties, and see that
Does il end here? No. Death does
not end ALL The great seal of the
sovereign grand lodge says: I'VE COM
mand you to bury the dead, relieve the
distressed, and educate the orphan"
Are these mere form? Ask the thou
sands of orphans who are carefully
nurtured and educated in the homes
OF the order throughout this broad
land Ask the aged Odd Fellows and
their wives who are cared for so kindly
in the old folks home in operation in
many of the states. The order protects
its aged members, the widow and the
orphan. When we consider what Odd
Fellowship is doing, it is hard to I'M
de-stand why some still oppose US. 1t
aids your family in sickness, provides
a home and cares for you in your de-
Ginning years.
City Lodges-Mystic lodge No. % held
its regular session on Monday. There
vas a moderately small attendance as
no special matters were to come be-
fore the lodge. One hour was spent in
drilling the degree staff, who have now
reached a state of perfection hard to
equal Each member, by his individual
effort. makes the whole like a perfect
mechanical machine. We shall soon
hear from No. %, as they will have a
new attraction before long for their
friends.
Ridgley lodge No. on Wednesday
had a good social meeting, with a good
attendance Of brothers, and couple of
visitors. They gave the visitors a
warm and cordial welcome, they
gTasped them by the hand, asked after
their welfare and urged them to come |
again; thus leaving on the minds of !
their visitors an impression that No. |
8 was the lodge to visit whenever OPP |
portunity offered. This is the usual |
method of No. 8 to make visiting !
brethren feel at home. Whenever op- /
offers to do a brother g. IA
vor they remember the divine promise:
For whosoever shall give a, cup of
water to drink, verify 1 say unto you,
he shall not lose his reward" It is
the little things that count Q in this
world.
Enterprise lodge No. 10 met Wednes-
day and had an excellent audience,
and all the officers present. They con-
duct their business expeditiously, and
have time for social converse and
discussions and arguments on
various topics. Brothers past grands,
Breeze, Blackmar and Elliott would
not be content if they did not have the
chance to say something, and they
say it.
Utah lodge No. 1 was instituted July
9, 1865, nearly 80 years ago. Her ca
Ger mas D6CI1 dn HOLOIdDie one, anu
very Odd Fellow in Utah who ever
lad his name enrolled on her books is
proud of the fact. She has at the
present time SO members, 3S of whom
ire past grands. During last term only
hree weeks benefits were paid, and
My one suspended for n. P. D. She
las nearly S11,0 900 assets, all of which
S safely invested and drawing inter
st. Thursdays meeting was of in !
crest to the members and some drill ,
ng was done by the staff.
Jordan lodge No. assembled the / ,
anne night in their regular meeting ;
lace with many present. Several mat :
erS were under diScussion-the ami .
ersary' exercises for the 26th, the Ii
rary fund and local business. Her
representatives. to the grand lodge ;
ave the good of the order at heart and :
ill work and vote for such meas :
res as will add to the strength of Odd =
fellowship in Utah and Salt Lake in a
articular. 3
Salt Lake lodge No. on Friday had f
o degree work, but much interest was
lanifeSted in the coming session of Y
ne grand lodge and anniversary of .
10. on the 23rd. The programme as .
repaired for the 23rd will prove a
rawing card for all friends Of No. 2, 6
no congratulate her on her arriving y
t her quarter century mile post. The
Iembers never lose their interest or =
ag in their duty. "
Fidelity No. II always has a good II
me on Friday night. Either degrees =
confer or drilling of the staff occupy -
uch of the time Sixty-eight mem .
ers, II past grands, with over $4,000 ~
ssets is a good state of affairs for this =
young lodge. Her pres II
1t efficient officers are: Thomas -
,nes, n. G.; A. E. Phillips, V. G.; ]. +,
Smith, secretary; DR.. J. c. Hanchet, II
easurer.
Rebekah Odd Observation-Disclosures e.
CHER eulogy on Odd Fellowship, its a,
'inciples and mission, is not in spoken ~
written words of praise, but in acts "
devotion and love. In the early days o,
the order she looked with suspicion a,
secret organizations and believed, 80
ost religfously, that little or no good ~
uld come out of the Nazareth of Odd ~
ellowShip. She knew nothing of the -,
and work of the fraternity. nor I'M -
rstood its methods for human relief p
id personal development. She viewed 10
e order from the outside, and formeil n
T opinions from superficial knowl- n
ge Great changes have, however, d,
en- brought about and today she sees ~
at the order is one of her best friends -
d benefactors. She knows from ex- -.
rience something Of the purity and te
sdom Of its principles, and the ~,
eadth and beneficence of its work. -,
e finds it in the handmade of Chris %.
nifty in practical schemes for human c.
ief and elevation, and she is ad- -
tied to participation in dts pleas -
as and duties. She feels the deepest ,
crest in the organization of Re w.
lah lodges. and when once identified 80