The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-28
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.

Odd Fellows.-If you want a stall
wart fraternal character, plant it in
the broad hunting grounds of the
world, in the great field of fraternal
usefulness. Those who have never sat
at the shrine of fraternity, and have
not contemplated it's noble purposes,
can never appreciate the great benefits
gathered in the social field, nor expert
ence the social charm found in the sa-
cred home of the frater
Peoples idea of fraternity is so often
incomplete; it is but the dim reflection
of a grand reality, unless we include
in it our duty to the world, our brother,
our neighbor and ourselves. We fail
to strive for union between
each other, for mutual enjoyment, for
mutual help and strength founded
not upon necessity alone, but upon the
broad foundation of fraternal duty and
human sympathy.
Montana has sixty-two subordinate
lodges, with a total membership of g.
229; past grands, 694; number Rebekah
lodges, q; membership, 1,165 Robert
w. Neill of Helena, grand master: A.
j. White of Butte, grand secretary.
On Thursday, Oct 81, the Odd Eel
lows of Ohio dedicated the Odd Eel
lows home, at Springfield with elab-
crate ceremonies.
The Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows is a fraternal and truly beneyo-
llent organization, composed of good
men and good women. 1t owes it's
existence to the brain and heart of
Thomas Wildey, a blacksmith by occu-
patton, an Englishman by birth, a
philanthropist by nature; a man in that
broader sense, of liberal mind, from
whose fraternal genius was begotten a
practical system for the relief of the
distressed. Odd Fellowship is a fra
ternity which acknowledges no SUI
perior in the discharge of those duties
enjoined upon the sons of men; a fra
ternity which should be universal
among the family of men; fraternity
which should be Independent in it's
methods of relief. 1t recognizes man s
dependence, and offers him independent
union as the source of fraternal power;
it appeals to his weakness that it may
strengthen his faith it alarms his
fears that it may encourage his hopes;
and it makes plain his duty that it
may develop his charity.
Odd Fellowship is firmly planted.
stout in the hearts of the people, as
an agency for the betterment of mems
condition; unsurpassed in the annals
of the world. 1t has checked the tears
Of many thousands, gladdened the
hearthStone of the humble satisfied
want, made hearts to rejoice, men and
women have been called back to hope
and honor with prayers.
In the fulfllment of our principles,
we have constructed and are maintain
ing homes for the legacies of our dead
and the INDECENT of our brethren
homes in which the gladdened heart of
the widow, the merry voice of the or
phan, and the amens of helpless
brothers proclaim the good deeds and
fidelity of our fellowship, in language
that angels hear and Approval. G.
Gable, D. G. Sire.
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Loca1-The several subordinate lodges
in this city remembered the widows of
deceased members by sending each one
a fine turkey for Thanksgiving, the
past week. 1t is a good custom, which
being observed each year, tells the re-
cipients that the lodge never forgets
a member, though he may have lain
for years in the cemetery.
On next Friday night Salt Lake