Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-06

swoop nom IL lofty path; no rife Of
infidelity can bring ii, wounded,
down; no hunger can stay It to feed
on times dainties; no thirst tempt it
to drink at the worlds fountains. The
immortal spirit may disappear from
our armament, but 1t brightens an
other hemisphere, and burrows an
other ether with its golden fight.
1t is an old. old fashion, death, said
Charles Dickens, but let us thank God
for that older fashion yet, of immor-
tally.
No man liveth to himself alone.
And so, this afternoon, in many a hall
and church and lodge room, in little
country hamlets and crowded cities,
words are being said OF loving kind
ness for those who are gone, and of
tender sympathy for those who are
left, and everywhere the loving kind
ness includes in some degree those
whose names we heard called here to-
day, but who ANSWERED. not, and who
will answer in this life no more for
ever; and sympathy comes to you, my
brothers, from all Elks, as your love
and sympathy goes out to all other
Elks. There is nothing that can be
said to the loving ones that mourn and
to all who are left behind that is new,
yet it is always good to remember that
morning follows the night; that
rainbow turks behind the shadows OF
every cloud that weeps its rain away
to the flowers on land and pearls on
sea. Life rises out of the grave; the
darkest hour is just before the dawn
ing, and no dawning is hopeless.
There is a grandeur in graves-there is
a glory in gloom,
For out of the gloom future brightness
is born,
AS after the night comes the sunshine
of morn.
And the graves of our dead with the
MAY vet form the footstool of liberty's
throne,
And each single week in the warfare of
Shall yet be temple in the warfare Of
might"
My brothers, in our circles of mem
bership, each year finds familiar face
gone, another brother called from life
on earth into life eternal, and as they
rest in that land beyond the river of
the chilling waters, where power has
no purple, the church no heretics,
wealth no palaces and penury no pain,
l feel that they can look back and see
their old associates paying loving
tribute to them in these memorial SER
vices.
" If the spirits of the dead revisit earth
for veal or woe.
We might fancy they would join us,
those friends of long ago.
Hush! Who knows what ghostly COM
rades may have come with noiseless
In the old familiar friendliness to make
eur band complete!"
In conclusion, my brothers of
Wheeling Lodge, I thank you for the
privilege of being with you on this
occasion, and for the opportunity
afforded me of mingling my tears with
yours; but, seeing through the rain
Of grief the iridescence of a splendid
hope, I lay this immortelle on the
throbless breasts of your dear dead.
+" 'Heimgang," so the German people
Whisper when they hear the bell
Tolling from some gray old steeple,
Deaths familiar tale to tell.
When they hear the organ surges
Swelling out from chapel dome.
And the singers chanting dirges,
'Heimgang, always going home.
'Heimgang.' Quaint and tender saying,
In the quaint old German tongue
That hath shaped Melancthon's praying
And the hymns that Luther sung.
Blessed is our loving Maker.
That where e'er our feet may roam.
Still we journey toward Gods Acres
'Heimgang,' always going home.
Heimgang.' We are all so weary,
And the willows as they wave,
Softly signing, sweetly dreary.
Woo us TO the tranquil grave
When the golden pitchers broken
With its dregs and with its foam,
And the tender words are spoken.
'Heimgang, We are going home"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Galvin's
address, Mr.. Charles Zulauf sang my
God and Father while | stray" by
Marston. Then the Rev. c. e. Clarke,
pastor of the Thomson NJ E. church,
delivered an excellent address upon
Brotherhood"
REV. Mr.. CLARK'S ADDRESS.
The speaker said that the idea of
brotherhood had become deeply i'm
pressed upon his mind, but not because
of any original method OF study. He
mentioned several great men who have
died in comparatively recent years, in
whom it was the thought which domin-
ated their lives. He warmly com
mended the men and organizations
which gave the thought prominence.
The idea Of brotherhood was one of
the great forces in the world for the
elevation OF mankind. There is kind
of communion between brothers that
can be between no other mortals. God
has given us brothers, not only in
families, but in other relations. Every
truly great man has caught and de-
veloped that idea The speaker gave
as an example John Ruskin; told of
his wealth, his culture and his genius;
Of how he walked out into the streets
of London and found misery, and
squalor and crime: of how he began
by tithing himself, and increased
his contributions until he was himself
reduced to poverty.
The genius of the idea of brother
hood will repair any difficulty with
which we, as a race and as a nation,
have to contend Ours is the greatest
generation in history. Wherein does
this greatness consist? In education,
in art, in literature, in oratory? No;
we are still studying the old matters.
The generation is greatest in the fact
that we are approaching the age when
it will be recognized that humanity is
a brotherhood, and it is our duty to
helm the whole as much as tn helm the