The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1903-12-17
ELK'S MEMORIAL.
An Excellent Program and a Masterful
Address by rlr. Galloway.

day week, because of our rush of
advertising. The program on that
day at the Opera House, was GER
tainly of high order and we are
grateful to the speaker, Hon. Tod
b. Galloway and to Brother John
F. White for permitting us to re-
produce their excellent remarks.
MR.. WHITE PRESENTED THE SPEAKER.
Brother Exalted Ruler, Brothers
of the order, ladies and gentle
men:
appreciate fully the compli-
ment implied in your invitations
to preside at this memorial meet
ing.
Such occasions are the cases in
the journey of life where We stop
to rest awhile in the shade and
look back over the road we have
travelled, over the record we have
made, and inquire for the friends
who started on the journey with
US; and look forward as we may
into the future, into our hopes
and possibilities and our purpose
and intentions.
At such time the mind naturally
turns to the past and the future.
We take but little note OF the
present, and 1t is in the past and
the future that our departed
brothers live. They live in the
past in the memory of the pleas
ant social intercourse, the happy
incidents, the many courtesies
and kindnesses received, the love
of family, home, country and
friend, and their usefulness to the
community in which they lived.
They live in tho future in the
hope firmly implanted in every
christian heart that at some time
in some place we should meet
again and renew the pleasant as
sociations of this life.
Their faults are forgotten, they
were written on the sands and
the waters Of time have already
destroyed that record.
But their virtues written upon
the tablet Of love and memory are
to be remembered and published
go long as the order of Elks ex-
list. This is our duty to our de-
parted brothers, and we believe it
to b. also duty to our living
brothers, that the knowledge that
their virtues will be recorded and
publicly acknowledged after thelr
departure will act as an inspira.
tion to them to live up to the very
highest teachings Of our order,
love of man, protection Of woman,
love of God, home, country, friend
and the practice of the virtues OF
charity, justice, brotherly love
and fidelity.
To properly interpret the teach
ings OF our order in these mat
ters requires a mind broad enough
and knowledge Of human nature
deep enough to fully appreciate
the virtues of our brothers and a
charity wide enough to cover our
faults and frailties.
Such a character We have in
our distinguishable friend and
brother Judge Tod B. Galloway
who will now address you.
ADDRESS OF MR.. GALLOWAY.
Exalted Ruler, Brother Elks,
Friends:
To-day is Gods Day. Sacred
to Him and TO us because "He
blessed the Seventh Day and hal
lowed it," Nothing could be
more fitting than that we should
come on this sacred day of rest
to perform duty-a sweet duty
sanctioned by love and esteem; an
impulse OF the heart striving to
show with what tenderness we
cherish the memories of the
dear brothers who have pass
ed away. The trials and
troubles of life, the turmoil
and vexations of the work-a-day
world are for the time forgotten.
We are here TO pay tribute Of re-
spect and affection to those of our
band who have gone to the bourne
whence no traveller returns, the
land Of peace where there is no
more sea Of trouble, the land
where the sun knows no rising or
setting.