The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-05
HONOL ULU ELKS
HOLD MEMORIAL
CEREMONIES
CONTINUED from page ID

1 Continued from page l.
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, Brotheriy
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
virtue of our faith in the Universal
Brotherhood of Man, by the exercise of
that silent charity that will not recog-
nize but forgets its 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 it's pole so viii 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 were
or whittier you go, whether yours the |
station of the richest, proudest or most |
powerful, or that of the poorest hum |
blest or lowliest be with Us and of |
is, help us to sustain and to perpetuate |
those principles for which your faith /
ers struggled and for which they gave
heir lives, those fundamental princi-
o1es of liberty and justice. that helped
build up step by step and cement to-
yether, pillar by pillar, that vast bull
vark of mans protest to unreasoning
granny and injustice, and inhuman-
ty, the constitution of the United
tates, that imperishable monument to
he ultimate Universal Brotherhood of
Ian before which all men must in
everence bow.
And this is the goal to the attain ]
lent of which we have pledged and
edicated ourselves.
Perchance We may stumble by the
-ayside or it may be that forgotten
1r a While are the principles we
Mould cherish, yet no mechanism of :
ere mortal is perfect as it leaves the =
aker's hands and those finer. adjust :
ents that eventually help constitute 3
lie perfect machine can only be effect
| after careful trials and tests. but
Y our faith will we conquer, by the q
,wer of numbers, by the force of Il
Ia
on and devotion to duty. So need "a
e not lose hope but confidently look C
rward to that glorious day when ac- m
mplished shall be the task of mems e'
generation, when with US, among US .;
Id about US shall be exemplified in kr
e highest degree, the principles of re
rarity, Justice, Brotherly Love and bb1z
deity. ad
And as we once more gaze upon the | To
1ely way forever stumbling along so w,
eakly along Iife's dreary pathway. di'
t sustained and soothed by an I'M IN
tering trust" until his form is hid po
n within the mists of an unknown err
yond, what is our today but the yes as
'day of the morrow. and time the ca
.asure of all eternity, and coeternal ~ ~
= four great shining lights of Char pr,
:, Justice. Brotherly Love and Fidel- n qII
Yrs. ]. Hartnagle sang 80. Divine ost
deemer," the band played the pray ba,
selection from "Tannhauser," and du
V Mr.. Macintosh delivered the die
addiction, the Eiks all arising at Der