Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-20

assuredly deserves cOnslderate study
by all those who are interested in the
welfare of the human race as a means
to an end, it has become one Of the
most powerful weapons in the warfare
upon ignorance, vice and the host OF
evils that beset man at every step in
his earthly career.
In the enemy of the nineteenth CEN
fury, an age of marvellous progress
and wonderful development, we call
your attention to the principles upon
which our grand order is founded.
Amid what surroundings has Odd
Fellowship been nurtured? Within
what sphere has it grown great?
Glance at the advance made in the arts
and sciences, and in every department
of knowledge Survey the century's
progress. Man has literally chained
the power of nature and attached them
to his conquering chariot wheels Nay,
more; he has made the very lightning
man the wheels and light his pathway.
Electricity carries the voice long dis
tances; the telegraph, bridging oceans
and seas, as well az threading the land
with its network, conveys intelligence
from the one extreme to the other,
fairly outlying swift winged time;
untiring research has brought TO light
the buried remains and monuments OF
remote antiquity, and by means of
the inscriptions thereon the history of
civilization and people long ago per-
ished and forgotten has been restored;
ho e tIo
the story of their lives, their hopes and
fears, their motives of action, their
death, their expectation Of future eX-
istence, from thirty to forty centuries
subsequent to the deposit of their en-
balmed bodies in what was supposed
by them to be an eternal sleep. In
ventive genius has we'll nigh belted the
earth with bands of iron, superseding
the spreading said and in this manner
utilizing the power Of steam; dictates
the movements of the people and their
DIVERSIFIED commerce; fraught with
achievements like these, our own
proud country, leading the van IN this
mighty conquest of peace, towers aloft
as the greatest republic, the most be-
neficent government on which the sun
has ever smiled. Among her co-labor-
ers reserving of mention are the faith
erland," and that other great empire
upon whose domain the sun does not
20 down. In this land of the free and
home of the brave" and amid such
surroundings, fostered by the enlight-
ened civilization which produced them,
the republic of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows arose. Odd-Fellowship
as known by the American Order,
therefore. is not a descent from an
tiquity. Its methods, its growth, its
inspiration are of the century that gave
it birth. The elevation OF man to
state of freedom and equality becoming
more and more the actuating motive Of
all civilized nations, crystallized as
universal brotherhood in our ritual Is
not a creation of the fraternities of an
tiquity; they taught not the doctrine
which wa dare to believe "he has made
of one blood all nations of men TO dwell
on the face of the earth, that is. men
are indeed of one heart and one mind,
and might enjoy all things if would, in
common. This is the promise, and the
growth of our order is the assured dis
covery that this good news is true. 1t
is an acknowledgment of how joyful
and pleasant a thing II is for brethren
to dwell together in unity. Let us con-
tinue to work for the common veal Of
all mankind. Let our record of burnt
Chicago, the great floods Of Cincinnati
and JohnstOWn, and scores Of other
calamites with their millions Of dol
lars expended for suffering humanity,
aided by the potential influence Of the
Daughters Of Rebekah throughout our
land who have done a noble work for
the relief of the sick and the distressed.
continue to shine. Oh, how thankful
we should be for their wonderful work.
What comfort and solace they have
been to Odd-Fellowship. Once, far
back in the centuries, woman was OPP
pressed and degraded, when paganism,
that barbarous and ungenerous custom,
made her the slave and not the cOmpa-
ion Of man. But thank heaven the
days of darkness are past, and the va
ried relations they sustain in society
give them power to charm him away
from vice: il should serve as a stimulus
for us to be more intrepid in the fu-
ture than we have been in the past.
Dear brethren, the noble deeds Of our
fraternity for the amelioratlon or SUI
fering humanity. are rolling on and up
ward in mighty surges that billow
against the heavens; its thrilling mu-
sic is accompanied by thousands and
tens of thousands of voices over land
and sea, in towns, villages and cities,
as if one great choir bursting in sweet
songs OF gratitude and praise We hear
an inspiring anthem rolling heaven
ward for the benign influence of Odd
fellowship beaming forth from its car
dinal Enthusiastically love and
truth. then let our hearts blend to-
gether in one united chorus, proclaim
ing in genuine praise, GLORY 10 God in
the Highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men,
The Odd Fellows memorial services
will be held to-day az the First Baptist
church. corner Twelfth and Bryan
Streets. Rev. DR.. w. c. D. Bond, of
Martins Ferry, will preach the SER
mon. He will select for his text, Matt.
G. 4: "Thy Father, which seeth in Sc
cret Himself shall reward thee openly
All Odd Fellows in the upper part Of the
city. Martins Ferry, Bridgeport, and
Triadephla, are requested to meet at
Odd Fellows Hall. cor. Twelfth and
Chapine streets, at $50 a. m. Those
on the South Side and Bellaire. will
meet at the Eighth Ward |. o. o. F. at
9 a. m, sharp where they will be met
by the committee and Meister's Band,
then will march to the Odd Fellows
Hall. corner Twelfth d Chapline
Streets. to Eleventh, on Eleventh to