The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-04
IN MEMORY
OF DEPARTED
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lively by Mrs. n. AIapai, supported by
the band chorus. Both the opening
! prayer and benediction were offered BY
| the chaplain, Rev. Alexander Mackin.
| tosh. Miss Alice Rice and Mr.. c. M
| CacereS were the accompanies.
| The address of Bro. Robinson was a.
follows:
! The laws of the Grand Lodge of the
| Benevolent and Protective Order OF
Elks provide that the first Sunday ir
December of each year shall be dedi-
Gated as a day on which shall be com
memorated by every Lodge of Elks. in
sacred sessions, the memories of de-
parted brothers, and shall be known
! as 'Elks' Memorial Day. and it shall
be incumbent upon the Exalted Ruler
Of each subordinate Lodge to require
that said memorial service shall be
held upon the first Sunday in Deem
Der of each year and upon no other
day and it is in obedience to this
mandate that we are assembled Here
today.
Although originating in social club,
pure and simple, our Order, since its
permanent organization in 1868, while
preserving intact the basic idea of the
development of social intercourse
among it's members. has evolved into
a fraternal organization having for its
motto Charity, Justice, Brotherly
Love and Fidelity and in furtherance
of these cardinal principles, it has eX-
tended it's assistance to the sick and
destitute brothers of our Order, not
only at home and among friends, but
in stranger lands and in foreign
clfmeS and far from kind and kindred
The CHEEKY voice has been raised, in
encouragement, the open hand has
been extended to the sick and destitute
and oftentimes respondent brother, his
necessities have been supplied and he
has been restored to health and in
spired with hope in the future and his
trust and confidence re-establiShed not
only in the Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Universe, but in mankind and in
humanity as well. And all this in that
form Of charity which permits not the
right hand to know what the left hand
giveth.
When to a brother, at home Or in
alien lands, the even tide of life has
fallen and follows it the night, we have
laid him to rest with tender care and.
where possible, with appropriate and
solemn ceremony. Further than this,
we have comforted and consoled the
widow and the orphan in their afflic-
ton, supplied their necessities and min
istered to their wants.
But above and beyond all these
things and realizing that outside of
our fraternal circle, with mankind in
general the "evil that men do lives
after them, the good is often inferred
with their bones," with that charity
that believeth all things, hopeth all
things and endureth all things, our
order teaches, as no other association
ever has, that our absent brothers,
sojourning in distant lands,
Frustrated on beds of sickness or call
ed hence to that undiscovered coun-
try from whose bourne no traveller re-
turns are still our brothers, always
present in our thoughts and never for
gotten. Strong in US is the remem-
brance of our fallen brothers and we
retain with softened hearts and in
kindly memory the recollection of the
touch of a vanished hand and the
sound of a voice that is still"
We cherish their memories and recall
with loving hearts and kindly recollec-
ton their cheerful presence during the
social hour, their noble thoughts, their
graceful and kindly words, and feel
that though absent they are, neverthe-
less, our brothers now and forever,
never absent from our thoughts and
always present in our memories. The
record of their faults we write upon
the sand, the record of their virtues
we ineradicably engrave upon the
tablets of love and memory.
The precepts and teachings of our
order are of good and can lead but to
higher and better thoughts and aspira-
tons and to the upraising and better
ment of those who heed and follow
them Needing and following them in
our daily avocations as we'll as in our
fraternal lives. we confidently believe
that some day, in the fullness of the
time to each of us allotted, we shall
hear, as we hope and trust and pray
those brothers whose memories we
today have heard, a
welcome voice exclaim. well done,
thou good and faithful servant, enter
in my name
The grafton delivered by Bro. Hutch
ms was as follows:
Once more we have arrived at
milestone in our lodges history ana
meet in loving memory of those who
have been taken from our midst. one
year ago we mourned the breaking of
several links in our fraternal chain and
welding it together again, closed our
ranks, after paying a sad tribute to
their memory. Today we meet to lay
again upon their graves wreaths of
forget-me-nOts and lifting
our eyes toward the stars breathe a
prayer of Thanksgiving to the Grand
Exalted Ruler of the Universe that our
odge has no vacant chair. May we be
granted a continuance of this blessing
during the coming year.
It is a privilege and pleasant duty
we enjoy to meet thus once year in |
owing memory of our dead, and as we
ook back upon these occasions and re-
member our brothers who have gone |
before. with our hearts filled with sad |
ness. we honor the Benevolent and !
Order of EIks. We remem- |
Der our obligation; We do not forget |
that to us the yoke is easy and the
burden light. We remember that the |