The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-07
ELKS ARRANGING
 CHRISTMAS TREE
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF EN. TERTAINMENT MET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND ELECTED OF TIGERS.

The committee of Elks having in charge the arrangements for Christmas tree for the children of Birmingham met yes terday afternoon and plans were perfect ed for making this bigger and better entertainment than that benevolent or der has yet given.
 Ell P. Smith is chairman of tf1e com mittee and after telling the members the object of the call and the necessity for definite plans to work on everybody decided to go to work and make 1t great success. w. A. Shropshire, secre- tary of the lodge was appointed secretary of the Christmas treo committee and J. B. Cobbs was made treasurer
 It was decided that the Christmas tree entertainment should be given or Christ mas afternoon which falls on Sunday. The Elks expect to have six or seven hundred poor children present. Every one of them will receive a Christmas present of some kind.
 The committee has some of the funds left over from last year as a basis to work on and the members apprehend no difficulty in raising the necessary money to make the affair a great success.
 -->~~~~~~~~~-~-~~~>~- ~-~~-~>-~~~~~~-~-~-~~~~ to believe that God cared for them. When in the presence of his disciples he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said Father 1 thank thee" men say that prayer meant more than the utterance of words; and that communion with God Is as much an experience of life as the communion of friend with friend His avowed pur- pose in coming was that we might have life and that we might have 1t abund- antly. The larger, purer. happier life that men have enjoyed where the gos- pei is taught, shows that his purpose has not failed.
 Immortality has been the subject of much speculation but the shadows that intervened between this and the future state, had well nigh cut off it's sources of strength and comfort. Jesus found the hope of immortality if hope it might be called. so obscure that of the average man it might have been said:
 His life is a watch of vision. Between a sleep and a sleep"
 In his own person Jesus brought im- mortality to light To the unspeakable surprise fo his disciples he came out of the grave and mingled with them through forty eventful days. and when in the presence of more thsl five hundred as- cended into heaven. Sixty years after ward he met John on the isle of Pat mos; and though the beloved disciple recognized his master, that the world might have from his own lips the assur- ance of his immortality, he said. T am he that liveth and was dead, and behold am alive forever more. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne. even as I also overcame and am set down with my father in his throne
 To the Christian, immortality Is not shadowy hope, for the spirit is given to us which Is a foretaste of the future life The early Christian took Joyfully the spelling of his goods, knowing in himself that in heaven he had a better and an
 enduring substance. He checked upon the
 treasures that he had laid up in heaven
 to meet the emergencies of this present . time. and his joy in tribulation, his pa
 tience in persecution, his triumph in death--these told how fully and readily 2 the check was honorec
 Jesus hath brought life and immortal , ity to light.
 Beyond this vale of tears. I There is q world above, IJnmeasured by the flight of years,
 And all that life is love"
 There we shall find field broad enough for the energies of our unsatisfed spirits; there the throbbing heart shall find the completion of the Hove that never found its earthly close"
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