The Anaconda standard., 1899-06-05
BUTTE NEWS.
ON NEWLY MADE GRAVES
Memorial Exercises by Wood
men of the World.
n
AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
The Address of the Day D slivered by
Rev. j. l.. Albrtton - 1t
Was a Mastery
Effort.

Memorial exercises, were held yester-
day by the Butte camp, Woodmen of
the World, al the cemetery, and the
monuments of J. Bruce Simpson and
Mrs. Anna Mcfarland We're unveiled.
About It's members in regalia. bearing
their axes, symbolical of the order,
marched to the cemetery, where the
impressively beautiful exercises were
conducted. Editor Keith of the Inter
Mountain delivered short addresses at
the newly made graves. The deaths of
Mr.. Simpson and Mrs. Mcfarland oc-
Cured since last Memorial day. Hon
ors and respects were paid at the
graves of the other departed members
of the order.
In the evening the members of
ditorium, where Rev. j. l.. AL
britton of the Mountain View
church delivered the memorial address
in the presence of an audience that
filled the vast auditorium from dome to
pit. The sermon was one of the best
the pastor ever delivered in this city.
1t was a master effort, replete with
logic and delivered with great force and
pungency. The text was drawn from
the 39th verse of the 22nd chapter of st.
Matthew, Thou should love thy neigh
Dor as thyself.'
The sermon was illustrative of the di
vine institution of the fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man, the
thought as the speaker suggested that
has brought together the representa-
tives of the nations at The Hague. He
spoke at length of the recurring condi-
tions that have and are still bringing
men closer together; the churches, it
was explained, are coming closer to-
gether and pleasanter relations are be
ing enjoyed. In a great measure much
of this is due to the fraternal organiza-
tions of the world. Yet to the church
belongs the credit of the great reforma-
tion which the world has undergone
from the beginning of time. The idea,
though, of the brotherhood of man and
the fatherhood of God is met on all
sides in the councils of the fraternal
organizations. This binds men together
in a spirit of everlasting friendship and
tends to enhance the desire to do unto
others as you would others should do
unto you. 1t is true philanthropy, the
fruit of the love Of God.
The speaker grew eloquent and emo
tional when he referred to man who
pretends to love God and at the same
time employs the full force of his ener-
gies and business tact to grind under
his heel his oppressed fellow-man; to
the man, who, while assuming to be a
Christian, would disregard the tears of
the widows, the orphans and other
needy ones.
II say it is false, false as hell, when
that man says that he loves his God
when he thus ignores the cries and ap-
peals of his fellow creatures. Another
form of hypocrite is the man who is SO
thoroughly satisfied with himself as to
think that being go he is at peace with
his God.
Some men die from this aiment
This is suicide, yet there are such cases,
maybe right here in this city. The
newspapers, however, do not report
them as suicides but it is a fact that
some persons are so overcome with self
admiration that they die in a delirium
of egotisln. These are persons who look
at themselves in the placid water of
the fountain of wealth and resolve in
their own minds that they are perfect"
He continued to show that The men
who are doing the best work nowadays
are those who are working to uplift hui
manity. These men in the sight of God
are richer than all the millionaires of
the world combined. Taking issue with
the preachers who consider it no part
of their duty to stoop to pick up a fall
len fellow creature, Mr.. Albritton ex-
claimed with much force:
who made the preacher too good to
go to Galena street or Mercury street
and pick up the fallen humanity there
to be found? There is no work, God
never imposed duty upon man, that is
higher than lifting our fallen fellow
creatures. There are ministers who de-
cline to descend from their exalted. self
constructed ideas of self to the slums of
the city and seek there to save souls.