The Anaconda standard., 1897-12-06

In all that is generous and high-mind-
ed and noble in our human nature. But
let no one think that life is To them
mere unrefiecting holiday. To them
Life is real. life il earnest. and the
grave is not its goal Those who laugh
loudes. often think dpepess aud feel
most keenly. The appearance Of gloom
has no monopoly OF he sincerity anu
earnestness Of life.
1T has been said that the ways Of
Providence are inserutable; but
through the break in the clouds we
may see something IL the divine pur-
pose. Sorrow for the dead hallews and
chastens the hearts Of the living.
Through sacrifice comes 4 higher type
Of manhood and Womanhood. 4 more
perfect union of the living comes from
sincere mourning for he dead. 1t
breaks mp the deeps OF charity; 1t In
spires the better things 1T quickens
and eleyates all that is best and parest
in our human nature. Amid the COM
monplaces and the material demands
of daily life. we are apr 10 forget tnat
there il anything better i'm living than
the narrow and selfish contest for place
and power. There is an element OF saw
agery in this money-seeking clNillza-
tion of ours. In the daily strife we
march beside brother when a shell Of
business misfortune takes off his head.
and III affects us not at all. We are
apt TO forget that il is infinitely nobler
| to do an act Of kindness, of considera-
| tion. of charity. than TO oppress an nn-
| fortunate nefghbor merely because We
| have Tho. f,eeting power, He who makes
| life brighter for his neighbor Is a PM
| anthropist He who pushes from the
| road the stones that threaten the prog
1 ress of the weak and lowly is a hero.
4 The good Samaritan humble though
| his position in life has a prouder place
in history than any prince or king of
! the oiden time The perfume of the
| rose the love of youth, the glory of the
| morning at it's breaking. are all things
! of beauty. but there is in all the uni-
verse nothing 50 beautiful as a noble
I deed No other thing So giaddens the
eve and warns the heart of man. M
1 other thing eompels like that the
4 plaudts of the world And 50 it Is that
/ The Elks practice benevolence. They
teach charity: they do justice. Their
I watchWord is bratherly love. In every
storn Of life their unfafting anchor il
/ fidelity.
/ The lessons of the day are manifold.
| None are nobler: none are truer-love
/. and reverence for the dead. love and
| charity and helpfulness for the living.
| nv brothers. il il to-day that We drink
deem from that spring Wide as the uni
! verse and sweet as the infinite love
/ from which our obligation has been
/ drawn Ii il to- day that we realize how
/ great is humanity with its longings
/ and suiferingS and hopes, anu now
1 dear IL the love and the goodness Of the
! grand. Exalted Ruler of all2 Il is to-
| day that we learn the great lesson Of
/ sorrow which. as Thomas Carlyle says,
/ has not been given to us for sorrow =
/ sake. but as a lesson which we are 10
I learn somewhat, which once learned II
/ ceases to be sorrow
INV friends suffering comes to us
I all because We sne human. None es-
] cane 1.-THE great and lowiy, the weak
| and powerful the fortunate. and those
upon Wholh tie sailaHl'. 80. l., 80