The record-union., 1898-12-05

| who live and share the beauty and
the joys Of this glad world to those
who no more suggest the thought that
our own lives should be SO shaped that
we De worthy the memory and CRATE
1ul praise of our living brothers.
That our lives be rounded out by
charity, justice, brotherly love and
ndelity, TO the end that on each re-
curing day Of sorrow some eye will be
molstened, some heart bowed down,
some tongue give out its need Of
praise, some virtue remembered, some
kindly word or deed recalled.
Life without friendship would be
indeed a pilgrimage of sorrow, jour-
ney over the desert unrelieved by
/ grateful shade or cooling spring: q
/ waste whose flowers hold no perfume
and whose birds know no song, and
snaH the tenderest ties of life be sun
defed at the gateway of the tomb ?
Sha1l sweet remembrance be denied the
living for the absent dead?
| And yet we would ascribe to none
a virtue that he had not: we scorn to
laud with undeserved praise those
manly human men who lived and died
not as divinities, but as men. With all
the faults, the frailties. the tender
loves, the burning hatred, the passions
and the prejudice of mortals. weak
oIt-tlmes and tempted beyond their
moral strength. and vet so brave. so
just, SO wholly human, that had they
been less so, we might have loved them
| less.
We ask not of the great warship
now she rode her anchor in the quiet
OF the land-locked harbor. but how she
rode the crested wave of battle: how
when the storm king raved and. tossed
her as feather in his mighty hand
when against her sides of steel the
hurtling messengers of destruction and
death screamed and thundered-how
was it with her then?
So in life we ask not how our friend
glided into the quiet waters of eternal
rest, but how he lived in the rush and
| turmoil of life, amidst the storm of
existence-how did he carry himself
Was it for him to clothe the naked
and feed them that hungered? Was it
for him to deal with even-handed ius-
tlee between his fellow-men? Was it
for him to forgive the hasty word to
silence the moan of pain, to relieve the
cry of distress? If So then it were
|
the fragrant recollection of a grand
existence 1t We're well that he has
gone from US in order that the venera-
ton of his memory may inspire us to
higher and better things
Miss Irma Fitch sang Prayer
lMascagnD in manner that touched
the hearts of her auditors, and Exalted
Ruler Frank L. Gray read "Thanatop-
isis with much feeling The Elks' Dou-
bic Quartet sang ''Miserere' (Gerrish)
land G. N.~Post pronounced the follow
ing eulogy:
Exalted Ruler, Brother Elks, Invited
Guests: Another year has waxed and
Waned since last we met in solemn,
sorrowful session to commemorate the
virtues and garland the memories of
our departed brothers.
The roll of Sacramento Lodge No. 32S
has been called, and thank God no
brother has been marked permanently
abSent. But while our hearts are over
flowing with thankfulness that our own
beloved lodge has not been stricken,
the knowledge that death has invaded
the ranks of many of our sister lodges
and claimed for his own some of the
very best and brightest of their mem
bers, awakens our deepest sympathy
and burdens us with sorrow.
While sad is the thought that through
all the years that may remain to US.
in vain will we
| Long for touch of the vanished hands.
For the sound of the voices that are still.
the consolation still remains to us that
they We're loyal to the sublime princi-
pies of charity, Justice, brotherly love
and fidelity. I will not say that they
We're perfect, for who among us is per-
i feet?
Human nature is prone to err but the
faults of our brothers we should write
upon the sands, their virtues on the
tablets Of love and memory. Such is
the motto of the Elks, and such is the
dictate of every manly, charitable in
stinct
Those departed ones, in becoming
Elks, identified themselves with an
order whose foundation and ground
work is ITO do unto others as we would
they should do unto u.s. an order whose
chief end and aim is to practice char
ity as broad as the universe, question
ing neither country nor creed doctrine
or belief; an order that teaches the hu-
name doctrine that for justice every
pldcG Is d temple ana all seasons sum-
mer; an order that would bless univer-
sal American manhood by binding their
hearts together with the golden chain
Iof brotherly love; an order whose ritual
inculcates and develops in it's members
fidelity to every duty and obligation,
human or divine, thus by precept and
lexample they bequeathed to posterity a
LEGACY of priceless value.
Their lifework here on earth insures
them immortal life hereafter. If we,
my brothers, but keep the obligation
that we all have taken at our lodge
altar, we too when finally called hence
will be admitted to the lodge on high,
presided over by the Grand Exalted
Ruler of All, and there we will again
meet our brothers gone before, ready
to salute each junior member Sweet
lpeace and celestial happiness, be yours,
dear departed brothers, forever and
lforevermore.
The Lyric Quartet sang Perfect
Peace and Rest HavegaD, and after
the usual closing exercises by the
members, the audience filed out to the
postlude, 'Triumphal March QIeintze),
by Mrs. Pinkham, and the services We're
over.