The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-14
SAVANNAH's DEPARTED ODD FELLOWS
Euloey by W. B. Stubs at Odd Fellows Memo.
rial Services at Church of the Ascension.
Oh. We'd love each other better,
If we only understood

oh! We'd love each other better,
II we only understood
! My Brother: "The last offices paid
to the dear are only useful as they
may be helpful to the living" l like
| the expression I'm memoriam," and If
| you will allow me, l will suggest that
we dismiss the thought of death and
think of those departed brothers as
now in the land of realities. Standing
| in memory by their cold clay let us try
to feel with the poet.
| This is a world of seeming,
| The changing moon seems changing
ever
/ The suns sets daily but sets never
How near the stars and yet how far
| How small they seem, how large
| they arei
| Ours is a world of seeming.
And so il seems that they are dead,
| But seems so only, for instead
! Their life is just begun and this
/ Is but an empty chrysolis.
| while they unseen by mortal eyes,
| Now make their way meath fairer
skies
Beyond this world of seeming.
And from out this world of realities
/ let us hear and keep in memory the
words that they will speak to us.
Let US keep still and hear if we may
! the lessons they would impress, could
| they return tonight and speak to US
of the real things of life. l think 7
! hear them say "A mans life consists
j not in the abundance of that which
he possesses" THE life is more than
| meat and the body than raiment."
! Warmth of heart is more than wealth
| of purse. Friendship supplies what
| money can not buy, and brotherhood
| is a bond that reaches beyond the
| grave.
| Methinks they would have us keep in
memory the truths our order tries to
| impress and learn TO- SO illustrate them
in our lives that for this very reason
we would be Odd Fellows in deed and
not in name alone.
i Methinks l can hear them warn US
| that this is an age when men are in
danger of seeking the bonds of broth
erhood to advance their material in
| terest and to keep our motives and our
lives pure from the greed or gain.
L hear one say, Learn ere it be too
late the true meaning of life," because
If friendship whispers not to three so
fondly,
But that thou vast a brother to thy
D friend;
Uplifting and enshielding him in
So far thy power and fortune might
Thou hast not lived"
And another. whispers; Brother.
Here's sentiment worthy to keen in
| your mind
AS you travel through life, for it's
true you will find
That you're not so much valued by
what you may say
Il AS by what you may do in a practi-
cal way:
For unless you perform what you say
you can do
4 Grave doubts will arise that you're
honest and true.
Though your voice be as sweet as the
song of the birds,
Remember that actions speak louder
than words.
Nor would / discourage the message
that cheers,
Or the prayers or the blessing of SYM
pathy's tears,
They are always in order they help
in their way
To hasten the dawn of millennial day.
| But little more gold sandwiched in
with your prayers
Would Danish more tears and tighten
more cares,
Though your voice be as sweet as the
Remember that actions speak louder
! than words"
And another Brother: It makes no
difference what your station or calling
in life be, your condition in the world
of realities depends not on what men
call you, but whether you found the
way of life and walked therein. From
out the silence of the tomb l charge
you.
Think nobly. Do you know
That thoughts are t1aings7
And that for veal or woe
To other souls they go
On noiseless wings?
Speak nobly. In a word
The power may rest
BY which the world is stirred,
BY which some soul is spurred
i Unto Its best.
Act nobly. Men give heed
To Him whose works proclains
His faith. A helpful deed
In others sows a seed
That grows to higher aims.
Live nobly. He who dies
For truth all men adore,
But he who ever tries
BY daily sacrifice
To live for it, is more"
catch the faint tones Of another
and from out his silent resting place
/ hear him say; Listen TO the voice
of experience. Hear mine:
What rs the real good?
/ asked In musing mood;
Order said the law court.
knowledge said the school.
Truth said the wise man,
Pleasure said the fool.
Love said the maiden.
Beauty said the page,
Freedom said the dreamer,
Home said the sage;
Fame said the soldier,
Equity said the seer
fpake my heart full sadly,
The answer o. not here"
Then within my bosom
Softly this J heard,
Zach heart holds the secret.
Kindness d the word
And then "a low sweet chorus
Nethinks ! hear them sing q lesson "a