The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

women who really are living-dead- peo-
pie. The following little stanza tells "a
whole lot of TRUTH:
Life is a certainty,
Death is a doubt;
For men may be dead
When they're walking about.
However, those who belong to the
tribe OF ''Abou Ben Adhem" must not
lose hope, but, like Columbus in his.
dark hours just previous to his diScoV-
cry of the new world-when all was.
dark and drear, when naught but
''shoreless seas spread out before him,
when his life was threatened by mad
waves and a mutinous crew-when
asked by the disheartened mate what to
do. answered by saying: Sail on; sail
on and on"
The only star which has Illuminated
the pathway of all the ages has been
fraternity. We owe debt of gratitude
to the brave toilerS of the past who
builded so well, without reward or APP
probation, that we might enjoy the
rich blessings of today-mental liberty
and fraternal love. AS we today enjoy
the fr'1'tG Of our labors, if they be ever
so humble.
tie u..1ul conditions of the world to-
day are deplorable, low selfshness and
dishonesty stalk throughout the land,
poverty and degradation surround us
on every hand, wealth and silly pomp
on one side, wretchedness and squalof
on the other. These conditions are the
direct results of ignorance or lack of
civilization, and can only be rfghted
by intellectual development. | hope to
see the day when teachers of the glo-
rious truths combined III that beauti-
full word fraternity will journey to and
fro, teaching the people how to live,
how to be happy, how to act in their
every day lives, for now they do not
know.
'Tis ignorance that makes men sin;
wisdom would not allow it.
Sin is like unto a snake. It coils and
coils until it envelopes ones very being,
and like a thief in the night, steals the
jewels of the soul, leaving, the shell,
the empty casket; it extinguishes the
divine light and when this is gone man
may sit in the glare and glitter of the
worlds brightest light and yet be in.
darkness. The people must be taught
that each individual is a factor either
for good or evil; nothing is lost; there
is no standing still; man either ad-
vances or retrogrades. The higher fac
ultieS and SenSibilitieS must be devel
oped.
Under the banner of fraternity. with
the path lighted by the torch of reason,
we march ''out of darkness into light"
onward and upward
!. / may not reach the heights I seek.
My untried strength may fail me;
Or. half way up the mountain peak,
Fierce tempests may aSsail me.
But though that place l never gain,
Herein lies pleasure for my. pain
L VIII be worthy OF it.
A life of purity and strict integrity
carries with il its own reward and
casts it's influence for the uplifting of
hrlrr ifxy OH aifafa oh
forth through the eye, and its goodness
is disseminated BIZ every word and
action. The influence of low man or
woman does an injury to all he or she
meets upon this stage of action.
Fraternity says come out of the
swamps of vice and animal life into the
broad and sun-lit fields of i1tellectu-
alitv.
The glory of God is intelligence
= ne soul that gives
Is the soul that lives;
And he who beareth another's load
Doth tighten his own and shorten the
way,
And brightens the homeward road.
Fraternity recognizes the fact that
we are all children of the one great
source, God, the unknowable, the in
finite, one family; and though some ex-
coed others in mental faculties as much
as the elephant does the mouse in
physical strength, yet this does not give
| the man with ten talents the right to
crush or impose upon his weaker
brother, but on the other hand il is
! the strong mans duty to lift up and
assist in the development of his less
fortunate brother, and so do we climb
: higher and higher up the ladder of in
4 telleet and pure civilization, and
eventually, some day sometime hu-
mainly may reach the shining goal
! fraternity.-"The fatherhood OF God
and the brotherhood of man"
J IT'S not so much what now we are,
! AS what we may become;
i God TeckGnS an the @rOwth of man,
! Eternity gives room.
Women OF There is al
! ways a large attendance at Silver
\ Maple Circle No. los, the first and third
| Friday in each month, and it continues
/ to increase, applications being received
| at each meeting. Two candidates Will
be. initiated on the next regular meet
/ ing, Sept. 16. The ladies are making
/ the social features of the circle very
). pronounced and. their idea seems to be
: good and is certainly very popular. A
I very fine programme was rendered by
/ the committee on social entertainment
I consisting of Neighbors NJ. G.. Allen,
I Fanny Don and Mary E. Sudheimer
I The following committee was appoint
! ed to arrange for a social on Sept. 80:
! NeiglborS Ora NJ. Allen, Mary Ker-
! foot, F. A. Don, j. b. Carter and
1 Annie Saunders. The outlook for the
! Women of Woodcraft is very bright.
i The hardest portion of the road has
! been traversed and the society has
taken its place as one of the permanent
and safe fraternal benefit orders of the
country. The women's branch has
been Ieeailv adopted bv the head camp
of the Pacific jurisdiction, Woodmen of
The world, at the session just closed in
San Francisco.
The next grand circle session viii be
held in Salt Lake City, so the neighbors
will have something to work for in
the next two years.
Bents the hlondike.