The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-08

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and plea SAINT places. watering the arid
land and making fruitful the husband
mans endeavor and concentrating his
hopes, swelling as they go until they
become noble rivers; parting, after a
time each to pour, in it's own course.
the contribution of its waters into the
sea. So with friends, for a while their
paths lie together, singing both the
music of life, sharing pleasures and
sufferings, doing good and encountering
difficulties, until at last they separate
to reach by different ways the sea of
eternity. Yet there is this difference
that one heart never forgets the other,
but always continue to yearn and long
for the days of Aud Lang Syne.'
Principles of EIkdOm.
1T has been said by the thoughtless
that organizations like these do ne
good, and yet what higher or noblef
can be taught than the cardinal prin-
ciples of this order, Brotherly Love
Charity Justice Fidelity. Brotherly
love that makes of the hand, clasp a
symbol of the hearts feelings. Charity
the greatest of all, that covers, as
with a cloak, the manifold weakness of
man and distributes with an open palm
the relief that binds the widows hurt
and still the orphans cry; charity that
bushing for it's deeds of benevolence
goes unostentatiously in the even tenor
of its way asking naught save that
it may bring comfort and aid and stir
again the pulses of hope; charity, that
questions not nor doubts, but only
seeks to throw about the object of
its love the enfolding and protecting
mantle IL it's love: charity, that seeks
Gods lowly and humble with the sin
gle purpose of ministering to the needs
of his creatures.
when want first raised it's awful
head in the world and brought in its
wake suffering and hunger and cold,
It would seem that the Maker of all
things with that wisdom which is
unquestioned and undoubted sent forth
to fight it a spirit in the form of a
woman. beautiful in the divinity that
shone from her features; in her left
hand she clasped the shield behind
which the weak might find refuge; in
her right the horn of plenty from
which she poured forth alleviations
soothing balm; to her was given the
care of the weak and helpless, the
women and the children, to fight and
struggle for in eternal warfare with
the spectre of want; and God named
this spirit Charity. And from then un-
til now, in all times and under all suns
the strife has never ceased. and as
long as hunger pinches and cold
freezes and pain racks, just so long
will charity with her implement of
peace traverse the earth and with gen.
tie touch caress and sooth and aIlay.
When the lowly Nazarene said, The
poor, We have with We always then
was written the length of time the
image of charity must dwell in the
hearts of men. that His poor might
not be unprotected.
ooh, Charity: If from the records of
the human race every other virtue were
effected, yet would man show his
divine origin as long as ne let his
heart glow with the warmth impaired
by your kiss. and his pulses throb and
beat and stir beneath the gentle
touch Of your soft palm.
Justice Second to Charity.
And, second only to charity is JUS
tice-that justice which seeks as it's end
the ascertainment of truth and the ad-
ministration of that system of Impair
TALLY which renders to each that
which should be due and takes from
none that which is his; justice that
knows no distinction, but, even hand
ed, holds the scales and endeavors
only to find where lies the right(Njus-
llCe III lHOuSHls JUSTICE III dClt justice
in speech; justice that curbs the rash
opinion and stills the hasty word OF
condemnation-justic that holds before
1t at all times and in all circum-
stances the single word, truth
And last, fidelity, which cleaves as
a mother holds to her child, bearing all
things, standing all strain, cleaving
closer when the storm RACES and the
craft of friendship bends and leans
and tits and the waters seem about
to sweep over and swallow and en-
gulf; closer still, while the waves beat
and tear and lash until the sails sweep
away and the timbers creak, and hope
has almost ceased to inspire a strug-
gle seemingly useless; closer though
the seams open and despair settles;
closer, aye even to the brink of the
grave and beyond-that Is the fidelity
of the Elk to a brother.
What a comforting thought 1t is
that somewhere out in the great illim-
liable beyond, where rest your depart
ed brothers, there wait for you the
friends of former days, happy in the
restful tranquility that lives forever
about the spirits of the blessed, where
trouble ceases to worry and anxieties
to gnaw and care and grief are I'M
known: where the waters sing endless
thanksgiving and the flowers wither
not; where sunshine reigns eternal,
and storms and stress are forbidden;
where that peace that passeth all I'M
Outstanding forever dwells. and
Where loyal hearts and truth
Stand ever in Gods eternal sight d"