The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-27

Fellows in Honolulu. celebrated the
eighty-ffth anniversary of the order by
literary exercises and dance in Prog
ress hall. Decorations of the hall con-
sisted of United States flags and lodge
banners effectively draped or hung Two
large flags, each caught up with tas-
seled cord and the floats of both gath
cred with a Hawaiian ensign shield |
having /. o. o. F. emblems on the
face, stretched across the arch of the
platform
The local organizations consist OF
Polynesian encampment, Excelsior ana
Harmony primary lodges, and PACING
and Olive Branch lodges of the Re
bekah degree for ladies.
Bro. E. A Jacobsen, shortly after
o'clock. called the assembly to order
and asked DR.. C. T. Rodgers, Past
Grand. to invoke the divine blessing
Bro. Ed Hingley, District Deputy
Grand Sire, after the opening prayer
read the proclamation of observance OF
the anniversary.
MR.. MAGOON'S ADDRESS.
Bro. ]. Alfred Magoon, Past Grand,
now delivered the anniversary address,
headed on the program, Remarks on
Oddfellowship" He said in part:
The motto of our order is Friend
! ship. Love and Truth" | am at loss.
TO understand why the word Friend
shin was made a part of this motto,
unless for euphony; for certainly love
| includes friendship. If for euphony, |
| freely admit that the words love and
trpfh do not sound SO pleasing to the
ear as friendship, love and truth. But
what words express more than love
and truth? They are the sum and
substance of everything under the starry
canopy of heaven. The passion OF love
controlled by the mind dltferentiates,
man from the beast IN his physical
| characteristics. The power OF reason
| by which we are enabled to investigate
| the relation between cause and enects
and thereby arrive at ultimate truth,
| tIifferentiates man from the beast III
his intellectual characteristics.
Superstition, whose irreconcIlable enc
my is knowledge and every phase OF
which is soon to pass away under the
! dissolving rays of reason, assisted by
scientific investigation, held full sway
in Hawaii nei until the year 1890
| BIT though the chiefs have renour1c-
| ed their ancient idolatry. and the priests
no longer perform their mystic and
| bloody rites of the heiau, and though on
| the ruins of their temples affairs are now
being erected for worship of the living
God, yet the deep impressions made IN
| childhood by the songs, Legends ana
| horrid rites connected with their long
established superstitions, and the feel
| ings and habits cherished by them IN
subsequent life are not, by the SIMPLE
proclamation of King or the resigna-
| ton of a priest, to be removed at once
| from the mind of the unenlightened Ha-
! waiian. who in the signing OF the
breeze. the gloom of the night, the bod
! inc e-linse. the meteor's glance, the
lipht.it,cs fash, the tllunder's roar, the
earthquakes shock. is accustomed to
/ recognize the dreaded presence OF the
Deity.
| On the first day of January, 1868, the
/ sun rose in all its splendor upon mil
| lions of human beings in Our own land,
! in bondage and in chains; but before IT
/ sank beneath the Western horizon OF
/ that Winter dav. they were free-a
work made possible by intellectual giants
| such as Garrison and Lovejoy, Phil
/ lips. Beecher and Whittier, with the CO.
/ operation of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
| lula Ward Howe, Lydia Maria Child,
| Lucretia Mott, and a host of others
| whose names are too numerous to men
ton here. as noble band OF women as
| ever lived, whose courage through TWEEN
| ty years and more, IN one OF the most
| bitter struggles that was ever known,
never failed. and whose zeal, even mob
/ violence could not cool. And this brings
me to that part of my subject where 1t
| is proper to make mention of our De-
loved sisters, the Daughters OF Rebecca.
y
The independent Order of Odd Eel
| lows is a benevolent institution having
a special care for the widow and the
orphan. An Odd Fellow who sees the
darkness of death overshadowing HIM
| knows that his widow and child will be
the objects of the loving care OF ms
brothers What greater comfort can a
man receive at the memorable approach
of death than to feel that the loved ones
he is leaving will be protected: ms
feature alone is enough to make the
organization immortal. A part OF us
work IS to visit the sick and TO oury
the dead. but when we have followed our
| DTOIleT 10 Ills iifldi iSSltiAS FAo~N "
called together once year to memo
rialize his virtues. We not only WISH
our brothers when they are sick, but we
give them material aid while they are
disabled. Whether they desire 1t OF
not they are to receive regular weekly
allowance for support and sustenailceI
We therefore ernbody the principles q
life insurance with much more benencla
results than is TO be obtained under any
other form OF insurance In looh ,!e-
over the report of one OF the iarge ny ny
insurance companies in the Unltee
Safes for last wear. saw that II hae
paid to its policy holders almost l.
millions of dollars (S2,423I S56.33, wnii'
during our last fiscal year our O.ael
paid in sick and funeral benefits, ana {
widows and orphans over IL nlli 1soa,