Daily inter mountain., 1900-07-02
BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE
CEREMONY IN HONOR OF
THEIR DEAD.
MUSIC AND ELOQUENT
ADDRESSES RENDERED
Supreme Representative John NJ
Evans Of Missoula Paid Tribute
to the Departed.

vices, in which the five local lodges Of |
the Knights of Pythias, Damon, Ivan
hoe Oswego, Calanthe and Silver Bow.
participated We're held at the opera
house yesterday afternoon, and there |
were few members or friends of the or
der IN the city who were not present. |
The building was beautifully decorated
In flags and bunting and flowers, the
center piece being the crossed American |
and Pythian flags under the Pythian |,
coat of arms
Chancellor J. e. Richards presided and
after a musical number by Misses Best, |
Healey and Veronneau. ritual services
We're read by the chairman. after which
the keeper of the records and seal, Sam
r. White, called the roll of Pythian
dead including the following names:
Harry Morgan. d. l.. Williams, Rich
ard ]. Trembath. Henry Jeffreys, Da- ,,
vid Mort. Thomas Reese, William
Kemp, j. K. Richard Edward Young.
Rev j. M. Settle then offered the in
vocation after which the Pythians sang
the ode of the order in concert, and Miss
Best rendered Millard's AVE Maria" in
very effective manner.
Governor Richards then introduced
Supreme Representative John M. Evans
of Missoula, who spoke in part as fol-
lows:
I'VE have assembled here on this mid
sumer day to pay our tribute of re-
spect to our departed dead: to listen to
with the broad mantle of charity the
faults of those who have gone before.
To them one day Of each year of our
life is devoted. We are here not to
praise them, because praise can do them
no good, but rather to find strength in
the memory of their lives, and go forth
from this annual meeting with a greater,
deeper and broader love for all human
ity in our hearts. To better prepare our
selves to solve the great mystery of the
lnr I,Aro I,o SH~.o
touch of nature makes the whole world
kim.
ITO every man who seeks to enter the
portals Of the Knights of Pythias lodge
this query is pronounced: DO you be-
lieve in the existence of a supreme be-
ing? That question must be answered
in the affirmative before he can count
himself worthy Of membership in our
order; and to bring ourselves into closer
accord with Him who doeth all things
welr these annual meetings are held.
"It has been said, Man sits In a gloom
and the purpose Of his existence is a
mystery It is our duty md our pleas
ure, so far as possible. to solve that
mystery: to learn to read in natures
volumes the handiwcrk of natures God;
accord with that heavenly anthem that
yearly, daily and hourly proceeds from
the great white throne.
EVERY layer Of mute stone is a last
ing page resplendent with vivid truth.
Every geologic age is a signal tower Of
time planted on the confines Of eternity.
begun by one generation was left to be
finished by another, and the Oblivion of
death swept away many species before
a. single leaf was turned. Destruction
filled the fresh, blank pages with her
chaotic eloquence. Countless cycles fill
ed their course, the myriads of ocean life
decayed, a giant luxury OF vegetation
drank the pearly dews of heaven and
murmured hoarsely to the kissing
breeze. Mammoth beasts and horrid
rified the air. Each has finally fallen;
and from those ruin heaps of ages has
grown our present world. To every
stratum of the earth's crust our races
| progress lends a parallel. The earth's
| volume is a prosy chronicle-the races
| history is a grand epic poem.
'Yet earth alike bears the impress of
| an all-wise being. In the life of every
man we trace marked epitome Of the
| races progress and of our worlds devel-
opment The ages of childhood and
| youth and young manhood are but the
accumulation of those principles and
truths on which the hereafter life de-
| pends-the harvest season through
whose golden days of opportunity are
garnered in the rich fruits of pure and
| InOuSHIlul tApcIISuCc, WHiSl die CICdS-
ured up in the soul and clothe the aged
man with sagelike dignity.
"You sit here today an attentive au-
dience to hear what I may say. You are
but a small fraction of Gods audience
To YOU and all mankind He speaks
every day and every hour
| "'It is not all of life to live,
| Nor all of death to die.
"Then there must be rewards, perhaps
punishments, beyond the power and
dominion of earth. Fortunately. God
has endowed us with an attribute we call
hope When we are weary and sad, cvli-
templating the ravages and mutation OF
time, we look toward the farther shore
we call eternity. This is hope, the pill
lar of fire by night and the cloud OF
smoke by day, that rests like an angel OF
peace over the sanctuary of many
| hearts
"For them who can felicitate them
selves with such thought, time and
death have no terrors. To those wait
| ing, trusting, hopeful mortals, whose
! faith enables them to look beyond the
confines of this perishable world to one
imperishable, radiant with light and