Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-08
ELKS' MEMORIAL SERVICE


Inc ElkS annual memorial services
were largely attended yesterday after
moo at Colombo hall. The tribute
which the organization payed to their
departed brethren was very impress
sive. The program was of unusual
merit. Exalted Ruler. DR.. John +.
Pearce, the presiding officer filed that
position in a commendable n
The opening hymn, Nearer My God
to Thee" sang by the entire audience
was followed by the rendering of
Remember Now Thy Creator" by the
Apollo male quartette, Messrs. Hunt,
Bell, Billiard and Burg.
An invocation was pronounced by
Rabbi Kaplan, which was appropriate
for the solemn occasion.
'"The Lord is My Light" was sang
exceedingly well by Prof. John Doug
las walker.
A pleasing number on the well Sc
lected musical program was the sing
ing of Miss Maud Summers. Her beau
tiful soprano voice always ~pleases. A
slight sore throat spoiled the richness
of her tones, yet nevertheless her sing
ing of Lead Kindly Light was highly
appreciated. Miss Summers appeared
again in a duet with Professor Walker.
r. w. ID. Bryan was introduced as
eulogist. The following address was
delivered with e~loquence and earnest
ness that was very impressing and ex-
pressed the noble sentiments of the
order:
Mr.. sryan's Address.
IAN earnest cry comes from the dim
past-Tf a mar die, shall he live
AGAIN.
Life and death-death and life.
Scarcely for our race had life be-
gun, when death forced the question of
another life. Beside the graves of
loved ones, the flowers of immortality
bloomed. Bridges of hope and longing
sprang outward to span the abyss that
seemed to have engulfed the departed.
Love went with the lost one and built
for them abodes of bliss. Memory
cherished them and impelled the ex-
pectation of reunion. With the ages
these feelings grew until belief in i'm
mortality became fixed and well nigh
universal.
"As with the race so should it be
with the individual; as life's shadows
meet eternity's day, with parents,
brothers, sisters, dear ones, waiting
greeting, thoughts, hopes and aspira-
tons turn from %sublunary things to fix
themselves upon the supernal glories
of the life eternal.
while belief in immortality springs
naturally from the human mind, the
Exalted Ruler, of the Universe, in the
Bible, the Book of Law. has revealed
the wondrous truth for the guidance,
inspiration and comfort of his children.
The Eternal Father dwells in us and
partakers of His nature, cannot
but rejoice in the hope of an immortal
ity with Him.
1T must be so-Plato thou reasonest
well,
Else whence this pleasing hope, this
fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and in
VAIN nv
OF falling into nought? Why shrinks
the soul
Back on herself, and startles at de-
%struction?
IT'S the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an
hereafter
And intimates eternity to man.
1--WE see about us, constantly, the
planting of seeds whose fruitage can
only be in eternity. Our souls are
stirred by wrongs which cannot be
righted this side of the grave. We bow
before virtue and worth that must go
unrewarded IL death ends all. AS we
watch the ~ceaseless procession of hu-
man beings, who are born, reproduce
their kind, live a brief period and hen
are resolved to earth, confusion and
dismay confront us, if we deny the life
beyond.
THE love of fame-5o general and
SO strong-a striking feature of the
modest minds-bespeaks the desire for
immortality.
"The physical forces of nan exhaust
themselves. They reach their limit.
There comes a time when the machin-
cry is worn out. But how often a
man. weak and decrepit in body, from
years of toll and struggle. has his men
tai faculties u%nimpaired and his soul
fairly rioting in vigorous life.
THE mind of man. in its keen ques-
tionings, in its love of truth, in its
struggles for greater freedom, in its
Unsuitable thirst for knowledge, is
hampered by the weakness and weari-
ness of its clay tenement-it can reach
its maturity only during the c~easeless
ages of eternity.
"The wondrous capacities of the soul
its immaterial life, its passions and
sentiments, its constant progress in de-
yelopment. its keen insight, its unfath-