The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-04
Grand Principles Of the Order in
Honor Of It's Departed
Brothers.
CHARITY WITHOUT DISPLAY
The First Sunday OF December Of Each
Year Set Apart in commoration
OF the Departed Brothers
Gone Before.

on the first Sunday OF December OF
each year. the Benevolent and Pro-
tcetlye order OF Elks. hold memorial
services In honor of the departed
brothers This service win be common
ated this afternoon al odd Fellows hall.
The committee In charge have spared
no pains to make the exercises this
year better than ever before. and the
committe under the supervision Of r.
ID. Kuetner have arranged program
that will be appreciated by all who at
tend.
These services are beautiful and i'm
pressive. The order OF Elks In any Of
It's splendid mlnistrations is an oasis
In the desert Of life. It spreads out its
beauty and inspiration before the tired,
thirsty famished traveller and invites
him 10 the enjoyment and rest and Of
the benefits and possibilities of life
The story OF what the lodge has done
and is doing for sweet charity and
humanity will never be told by the pen
or by human lips. for II dispenses char
ity without ostentation; and its min
istrations are so modest that 1t touches
the world like a summer zypher, which
cometh and goeth as II 1t were the kiss
of an angel II mission is that Of love.
II is trained to detect the finest tear
that gllstens on the cheek and to hear
even the half smothered moan that
comes from the broken heart. II Is
In constant. delicate touch with the
world. feels its heart throbs, under
stands Its trial and weaknesses and cul
tivates exhaustless resources Of heart
and treasure to make life brighter and
the world lovlier.
THE faults of our brothers we write
upon the sands, and their virtues on
the tablets OF love and memory" Is
the underlying principle of the order;
is the lovliest jewel in Its crown Of
glory. sparkling though II does like
the evening sky spangled with the
burning touch of God. Every object,
every principle glows with sweetness
of love and Is aflame with mans in
terest In his fellow man. All the gold
and Jewels that ever sparkled in the
earth, all the art that has ever flashed
from the mind and hand Of genius and
all the wealth of the ages are not as
precious or beautiful ms the obligations
assumed by all Elks, with minds glow
Ing in the full strength Of their inher-
ent divinity, and with character like
the oak, may bend before the fury of
the storm, but will stralghten in mag
nihcent defiance when the storm has
passed.
The Elks ever realize that there is
a journey which all must take; and
when II is begun we turn from home
and loved ones forever. The grave,
the picture OF unending gloom, is made
bright by these memorial services, and
the thought that mingling with the
tears of bereavement which falls like
showers upon their caskets, there shall
he no shadow of despair as wife and
babies think OF the morrow, when hus-
band and father viii be sleeping be-
meath the flowers that loving hands
will scatter upon the new-made grave
in the cemetery.
Justice impartial Charity unlimited,
Brotherly Love unrestrained, Fidelity
unwavering, are the grand principles
upon which is erected the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks-that
holy sentiment lnborn In animated ma
ture, the patriotic sentiment as bound
ing as earths domain. and as enduring
as time; that divine eminatien flowing