The San Francisco call., 1898-06-27
DEATH IS SIMPLY
 AS ONE VIEWS IT
THE TEACHINGS OF TRUE ODD
 FELLOWSHIP.
Friday Night Lodges Eu!ogize the eparted-Veteran Association
 at the Ceremonies.

Under the auspices of the San Fran cisco, Apollo and Sargent Lodges, known as the Friday Night Lodges and the Veteran Odd Fellows Association, a me- morial service was held in the main hall of the Odd Fellows building yesterday afternoon. There was a fair attendance, but two unlocked for events diminished the attendance-the funeral of member of the Patriarchs Militant, Canton No. 5, and the absence of more than one hun dred soldier Odd Fellows who were or dered to embark on transport ships yes terday
 After an organ prelude, James Linforth, P. G., of San Francisco Lodge, opened the exercises with a brief address in which he said that the services to be held were not in the nature of funeral event over those who had passed away in the preceding year, but rather a ser vice of praise.
 After a prayer by Rev. J. N. Beard, D. D., Come Ye Disconsolate' was rem dered by a quartet. after which Past Grand Master George H. Morrison ad- dressed the assemblage.
 He said that for seventy-nine years the order of Odd Fellowship has been en- gagged in a great work which included not only the offering of relief, the minis tration to the sick and the burial of the dead, but that it had engaged in the building up of character not only in this country, but over the entire civilized world for wherever there Is civilization Odd Fellowship is known. Shakespeare he said had declared that whatever there is of good or of i'll, Is that which you make 1t. and so it is with Death it is how you view it. The order said the speaker teaches that there is no death but that it is a sleep, a rest and all shall rise again, and under that teaching Odd Fellowship does not look upon death in a somber light. He then asked why there should be sadness because one in this world, after long struggle in which he accomplished good, had. in the fullness that instead there should be rejoicing in the thought that that one had gone to sleep, and, as the order teaches, to awak- en and live again in a better world.
 This was followed by the singing of Angels Ever Bright and Fair" after which F. A. Jennings, noble grand of No. 3. delivered the eulogies on Robert G. Oakley and James Rogers; George Wal com. P. G. of the lodge, delivered those on John Haman and J. w. Dodge; James and John Ed Cline, F. C.; A. P. Black, P G.. on A. F. Knorp, F. G., and Will fam Davis on Shelah c. Walker, P. G. dered "Oh. Where Shall Rest Be Found H. w. Patrick of No. 123 being the musical director.
 eulogies on the following named deceased members of Apollo Lodge; Joseph Getz, P. G.; William Elliott Miller Frederick W. Myer. P. G.; Henry Lewis King, P. G.; William George Gaskins. Fred H. Stanle, P. C.; Raymond Ashley Diver, Thomas B. Holt, Edward Tanning Clark, Peter Eric
 The quartet sang Rock of Ages" after which George w Dixon P. G., delivered the eulogy on J. w. Smith of Sargent Lodge, which was followed by the sing ing of Shall We Meet Beyond the River by the four voices. George H. Morrison, vice-president of the Veteran Odd Eel lows, spoke of the deceased members of that organization. who were T. J. Robi- son. W. H. Gardner. Joseph Peirce. John s. Souther, Max Wolfen. J. Henry Apple gate, Fred K. Krauth; Frank Perkins; of "Good Night, I Am Going Home by the quartet, the chanting of the hymn Abide With Me- by the audience and the nronouncing of the benediction by Rev. N Reard D. D.