The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-01-31
"Doest though good deed?
In the deep let 1t go:
The fishes may not see,
Yet the Lord will know"

Yet the Lord viii know"
In conclusion few words for our sis
ters:
"Disguise the fact howe'er we will.
Ills woman, woman, rules us STILL"
OF their grace, their sympathy, their
loving kindness, their tender helpfulness,
poets have sung along all the years Of
the past. They have ever been Gods
most gracious gift to men. Phidias as
he stood before his last best work wept
because from the block of marble he had
chiseled his best ideal. So l imagine
the Great Creator may have wept, when
after He had made the heavens and the
earth, after He had fashioned man in
His own image, there stood before Him,
His last and best production-wornan
Woman was made for mans companion
ship, to be his guide in youth, his in
spiration in manhood, his solace in life's
decline. She is the cream OF creation,
for life, skinned of her sweet presence,
would be tasteless and uninvigorating.
Wonderful indeed has been the advance
of woman under the benign influence OF
Christianity. From her Pagan position
OF slave she has risen to her present ex-
allied station as sweetheart, wife and
friend to man, his equal in intellect and
his superior in the virtues of soul and
heart. Today those nations are strong
est and best where the women are most
esteemed and their influence is greatest.
No wonder that a society founded up
on American soil, partaking of the An
glo-Saxon regard for womanhood, should
have given to woman share in its work.
All Odd Fellows rejoice today that Col
fax brought to the fraternity its Rebek-
ali. Helpful and faithful has she been.
But how could she have been otherwise?
Odd Fellowship is Il work OF love. 1t Is
striving not alone to mitigate the sorrows
Of life but develop the good, the true,
the beautiful in human nature. In such
work woman's influence is all powerful.
In all the history OF the world women
have been leaders and promoters OF ev-
cry phlanthropic, benevolent work.
Even before the Carpenter OF Nazareth
gave to the world the new command
ment and the Golden Rule, Princess
Machia founded home where knights
hung their swords and spears and nursed
their wounded Fabiola turned from Il
life of pleasure to minister to the sick
and infrm. Dorothy Dix led a success
ful crusade against the cruel and inhu-
man treatment of those whose reason
was dethroned. And during our recent
brief but glorious struggle with an enc
my OF freedom and humanity, Clara
Barton directed host OF white-robed
ministering angels in their labor among
our brave boys in field and hospital.
Women like these may be forgotten, but
their deeds are immortal and their intiu-
ence Joins
THAT choir invisible
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We have such women laboring in les
sened sphere in the work of our fellow
ship. With their position in the frater-
nifty they are mostly content. Occasion
ally one may be found who cannot I'M
derstand why we should have seven de-
grees and they but one To such let me
say that our degrees are chapters in our
course OF moral instruction and it takes
seven times as much to perfect a man as
It does a woman.
And finally-crowned with splendid
record, oddfellowship stands at the
summit of the century in which it was
born and looks out into future full of
promise. Let us labor to so perfect it
that in the new century it will be a more
powerful influence than ever before, in
ennobing the mind. upbuilding the
character and purifying the heart OF
man. And let us remember that no
cause in all the history OF the world has
ever prospered without the support of
woman's influence, woman's prayers
and woman's work.
"A health to our sweethearts our wives and our
friends,
Upon whose assistance our future depends,
May they never find aught in our principles,
grand,
For which they may not with propriety stand.
May they give us their smiles and helping
hand.
Till oddfellowshp blooms in every land.