The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-05-01
able distinction. There Is too much
swimming with the current nowadays.

swimming with the current nowadays
The world needs men who can stand
alone when necessary. Your motto,
represented by the three links, Is
Friendship, Love, Truth.
Your order teaches that no one has
a right to live for himself; that no
one has the right to enjoy the bless.
ings of the Common Father alone or
to shut up his bowels of compassion
towards the needy and distressed of
the earth. Selashness, the great sin
Of humanity, should be avoided, and
benevolence, the great principle OF
your fraternity, should be practiced.'
There is no diversity of opinion as
to the beauty and many advantages
of friendship. 1t Is good to forget
self, with all Its little aches and pains,
with all It's little hates and grudges.
A celebrated man said: THE great
business of my life has been to get
away from myself Alexander con.
quered the world, but fell prey 10
melancholy and even envied Dioge.
mes in his tub. David and Jonathan
give to the world one Of the most
memorabl instances of friendship in
all history. What AN opportunity
there was for jealousy, but instead
we read their souls were knit to.
ge,her, each one striving for the
well-being of the other. Let US then
cultivate a true spirit of friendship.
DIR. Guthrie says: "A friend 10 one
whom I can trust; one who in sorrows
hour will mingle his tears with mine;
one on whose support can reckon
when my back IL at the wall" An.
other thing for which your order
stands is truth, /. e., reality.
Goethe says:
Truth in the howell 10 truth stu.
A lie on the throne 10 still a lie.
Truth In the howell is on Its way to victory;
A lie on the throne 10 on its way to defeat
"Seize upon truth wherever It's found,
Amongst your friends, amongst your foes,
On Christian or on heather grounds
The flowers divine wher er 1t grows"
The man who sacrifices truth from any motive
Is a traitor;
The man rho loves truth lie good man,
The man who loves 1t more than his life, Is a
Hero"
The third link stands for love,
Thou shall love thy neighbor as
thyself. AS we have opportun..
ties let US do good unto all men,
And the Lord made you to abound in
love to one another and toward all
men," ! suppose love here includes
practical philanthropy. Love is larger
in its scope than friendship. Friend
ship Is limited, but love takes in all.
take it that love is larger than your
order.
Christ taught US this In the parable
of the good Samaritan. Philanthropy
overleaps all DISTINGUISHING caste;
all national boundaries; all differ.
eeces of race; it acknowledges broth.
erhood wherever there Is need. This
Is graphically brought out in the beau.
tiful parable of the Good Samaritan.
The spirit Of it Is carried out in your
visiting the sick; In your providing
nurses; in your care for the wild.
ow and the orphan. How rich then
can be our life-your life; rich in
friendship, rich in love, rich in all the
varied relations Of life. Shall ] turn
aside? Shall not fulfill my mission
in life?
But man has also under the quick.
ening influence of the spirit, the ca.
pacity of loving and serving God. Re.
ligion should be part of mans life
as much as eating or drinking. What
were The eagle without its wings? The
irreligious man is one who lives In
disuse Of his highest and most Joy.
producing powers. What would you
think of a man who boarded up the
windows of his beautiful home, and
by preference lived in the cellar. 1t
is g. and thing to be a man. 1t is no
mean thing for mans heart to beat
In sympathy with Gods great heart;
to hold fellowship with the infinite
one, Shall ! leave my sweetness and
my good fruit for any consideration
of pleasure, gain or worldly applause!
No; by no means. Iwish to live in
the exercise of all my powers and to
fulfill Gods great purpose with me.
Meeting Of x'Confsderates.