The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-27
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ANNIVERSARY
Local Lodges Of Odd Fellows
Attend Services at Peo-
pies Church.

Yesterday was the eighty-fourth an
hiTersary Of the inception of the indie
pendent Order of odd Fellows in Amer
lea, and the occasion was fittingly OBJ
served by the attendance of all the ST
Paul lodges at the morning service at
the Peoples church. Heretofore for
this occasion the order had ALWAYS
used the St. Paul Auditorium, but with
with the passing Of that building the
Peoples church is the largest auditor
ium in the city.
The assembling took place at the
corner OF Fifth and Wabasha streets
and the gathering was an immense one.
Carriages We're in waiting for the Re-
bekahs, and the Cantons and Patri.
archs Militant, Who were reinforced by
The CantOns from Minneapolis, acted
as an armed guard and marched along
side the carriages. The Canton Apollos
headed the uniformed procession, fol-
lowed by Lodge No. 229 from South
St Paul. Then came Triple Link
lodge, followed by Columbia and Home
lodges, and after them Norden and
Smelling lodges. Hamline came next
and then Merriam Park, after which
treJa followed. Then in given order
Were West Side, Dayton's Bluff, Cap
IDOL City, Wildey and st. Paul.
An appropriate sermon by the pastor
of the Peoples church, Rev. S. G.
hoil44t4ly ~ is ICSiO, ana lnen the
.Paul Cantons left in carriages for Min
neapolis, where dinner awaited them.
in the afternoon they filed the role of
armed escort for a similar procession
In the Flour City and attended divine
service at Wesley NJ. e. church.
W. G.. Nye made an address at Wes-
ley church on the aims and objects of
the fraternity of Odd Fellows. He
spoke of the homes which the organiza-
ton had established throughout the
country for the old and infirm mem
berS of the order
After the address an Offering was
taken for the benefit of the Odd Eel
lows home at Mortified.
Rev. James s. Montgomery delivered
the sermon. He took for his theme the
story of the Good Samaritan. He said
That the Good Samaritan was the ideal
Odd Fellow, whom they endeavored
to emulate. Ore of the TEACHINGS of
the order, said DR.. Montgomery, was
that the strong should help the weak,
the rich the poor, and the wise the
ignorant. The audience was deeply
impressed with the eloquent sermon
and the preacher was applauded q
number Of times.
The Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows had its inception among mechan-
les and laborers in London. England. in
the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
and Honorable Loyal Odd Fellows, y
and who held cornwall meetings. From
them Sprang the Union Order of Odd
Fellows which rapidly spread to other
cities and gradually to other countries.
1t was from an attempt to abolish its
conVivial character that the schismatic
portion now known as the independent
Order of odd Fellows sprang.
IN Baltimore, Md, on April 26, 1919,
Thomas Wildey and four others orga
nized Washington lodge, No. l, to work
according to the usages of the London
or union order Now the order exists
in every state and territory of the
United States. Every candidate must
be a white male of good moral char
acter, tWenty-one years of age, and
must believe in a Supreme Being. FL
deity, charity, truth, order and benevo-
lence are the virtues and aims of the
society.
In 1851 the degree of the Rebekah
was adopted by the grand lodge of the
United States for the use of women
legally connected with subordinate
lodges by means of male membership.