Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-12-12
Beartooth Lodge Participates in An
nual Memorial Exercises and
Touching Ceremonial.
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
Attorneys John T. Smith and F. c.
Woodward Deliver Touch
ing EuIogies.

OTuGI I'll ELINS. dSoGl1UlCu Ill lllC4l
participated in the annual ceremonial
that is yearly custom universally
observed among the lodges of this
great benevolent and protective So
ciety. 1t was public affair and in
addition to members of the lodge
there were present quite number Of
ladies and a small male audience.
While the program was not as elabor-
ate in the way Of musical recitals as
it was intended it should be, owing to
the inability Of some Of the expected
participants to attend, yet the cere-
mony was pleasing and the eulogies
! touching.
| Following the ritualistic service,
Attorney r. @. Woodward, a member
of the lodge, rendered vocal solo
and also delivered short address,
while Dr. A. Butler spoke an invoca-
ton and Rev. w. II. Watson pro
nounced the benediction.
4 In addition to the remarks offered
by Bro. Woodward, an address was
delivered by Hon. John T. Smith, for
mer mayor Of Livingston and mem
i Der of the Elks lodge of that city.
Both addresses we're beautifully apro-
pos to the occasion, being grand and
sublime in sentiment, touching in ex-
preston and eloquent in delivery.
Mr.. Smiths remarks were as follows: ::
Mr.. Smith said he thanked the Elks
of Red Lodge for their kind partiality
in inviting him to address them on
the most important occasion that
could convene a lodge of Ells. He
congratulated the local lodge that it
had no occasion to chronicle the
| death OF a member during the pas
wear. He said he loved the Elk or
der for it's broad and cheerful benev
olence, for the pervading democracy
of it's social doctrines. That there
were no big Elks and little Elks ant
that the timid novitiate with the vel
vet yet clinging to his tiny spikes
was lust as much an Elk as the old
est ahtlered veteran of the order
Said he was glad the Elks have no SO
called higher degrees nor aristocrati
toggery; no maze OF mystical non
sense through which to drag tn
Weather members to invidious prom
inence.
But most of all he said he loved tn
Elks for their deep and lasting deve
ton to their brothers which was typ
fed by the occasion which convene
the lodge Sunday. He said the occf
sion was unique and characteristic
the Elks' order alone. That they ha
N met today to attest their devotion I
the sacred memory of the departe
brothers who have passed over "a
river.
Elks believe that God is good an
that He will not mock his chlldre
That having implanted in them ma
ural desire for continuous eXistenc
He youchsafed the Immortality OF II
soul We meet today to talk not alo1
or death and separation, but OF Il
resurrection and reunion. 1t is 900
for us, he said to think on death al
the hereafter. The nearer we
preached the King of Terrors and Z
terror of kings the less we have
dread. In life's young dream
paint the vista of the future in g
geous colors, we shrink from ever
thing which clouds the prospe
!, ambition holds to view. Love a
hope and buoyant health and TO
ambition chain US to this world
youth. In manhood, duty to our L
ed ones and often the affairs of stf
riyet us here but as our loved OF
and the friends of our youth ps
away, as father, mother and perha
a "dearer one yet than all others,
f. companion in wedlock or perhaps
sweet bud Of childhood, one by
= are taken away and transplanted
that brighter world, as fond amblt
fades away in the sanity of our ri
years, as eyesight dims, and hear
fails, as memory turns life into rel
spect, in short as we reach shaF
peare's seventh age we begin to r.
~ ize that the tiles that bind HI
heen transferred to another scene.
Nature herself cuts loose the
which bind US here, and our faith
immortality plants them beyond
grave. How beautiful the figure
the old Testament which likens il
- the eagle stirring up her nest to m