The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-06

mutual confidence and helpfulness be-
tween man and man. Far. far indeed
have We wandered.
Roll back thy universe, God, ana
give me yesterday" is the cry that has
resounded through the ages, but the
yesterday comes not again, and only
the morrow lies before us. Yet the
shining orb of day traverses the blue
dome of heaven to sink to rest each
night beyond the purple TANKS Of yon-
der mountains, to rise but with great
er splendor on the morrow, so then
may envy and malice and wrong be
extinguished, obliterated and buried
deep out of sight. and forever disap-
pear before the glorious and luminous
beacons of Charity, Justice, Brotherly
Love and Fidelity.
These are the principles to the fur
therance of which we have dedicated
our lives, that men may be better and
nobler. in every way and by every
means seeking to apply those tenets
not alone to our own guidance, to the
furtherance and maintenance of the
highest type of manliness and char
acter in our own fraternal relations,
but to the betterment and ennoblement
of all mankind.
Not ours the teachings of dogma or
the promptings of ritual, the empty
husk of pomp or form, the rhythmic
| peal of organ or the gifted tongue of
eloquence, "In hoe signo vinces." By
| the love we bear our fellowmen, by
virtue of our faith in the Universal
Brotherhood of Man, by the exercise of
that silent charity that will not recog-
nize but forgets it's own doings by the
mercy which is twin sister to justice,
by fidelity to truth and honor, and
as the needle is attracted unerringly
to its pole so will mans recognition of
those cardinal virtues fit him in time
to that high estate which formed the
purpose of his Creator.
Then is ours the all conquering faith,
ours the heritage bequeathed to us by
a noble ancestry, by the poets, the he
roes, the martyrs of every age and
every cline, whose songs, whose blood
| and whose tears pleaded for the univ
ersal brotherhood of man, that love
/ of God is love of fellowman, and that
Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and
Fidelity are but to do unto others as
We would that others should do unto
| US.
| Then come to us all we weary and
heavy laden, we care not who you are
or whence you came, what you We're
or whittier you GO whether yours the
station of the richest, proudest or most
powerful, or that of the poorest hum
blest or lowiest be with us and of
| -.
those principles for which your faith
ers struggled and for which they gave
their lives, those fundamental princi-
! pies of liberty and justice. that helped
build up step by step and cement to-
| gether, pillar by pillar that vast bull
wark of mans protest to unreasoning
tyranny and injustice, and inhuman-
lty, the constitution of the United
| States, that imperishable monument to
the ultimate Universal Brotherhood of
| Man, before which all men must in
reverence bow.
| And this is the goal to the attain
ment of which we have pledged and
dedicated ourselves.
Perchance We may stumble by the
wayside or it may be that forgotten
should cherish, yet no mechanism of
mere mortal is perfect as 1t leaves the
makers hands and those finer adjust
ments that eventually help constitute
the perfect machine can only be effect
ed after careful trials and tests. but
by our faith will we conquer, by the
power of numbers, by the force of
! noble example by courage of vonvic-
ton and devotion to duty. So need
we not lose hope but confidently look
forward to that glorious day when ac-
complished shall be the task of mems
regeneration, when with us, among US
and about us shall be exemplified in
the highest degree, the principles of
Charity Justice, Brotherly Love and
Fidelity.
And as We once more gaze upon the
lonely way forever stumbling along so
weakly along life's dreary pathway,
yet sustained and soothed by an I'M
faltering trust" until his form is hid
den within the mists of an unknown
beyond, what is our today but the yes
terday of the morrow, and time the
measure of all eternity, and coeternal
the four great shining lights of Char
ity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidel-
ity.
Mrs. ]. Hartnhgle sang 80. Divine
Redeemer," the band played the pray
err selection from "Tannhauser," and
Rev. Mr., Macintosh delivered the
benediction, the Elks all arising at
the conclusion of the service to sing
the closing ode. as follows:
We have finished our Labors the
Parting has come,
And each of our Brothers now goes to
his home:
And our voices blending, we now will
depart,
In perfect love. giving each note from |
the Heart.
Each duty ACCOMPLISHED each Brother