The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-06-28
THE KNIGHTS MEMORIAL.
Hon, II. A. Cook, of Fort DODGE.
Offers Fee6ag Tribute to the
Dead.
Continued from last week.

Continued from last weekly
o friendship, equal-poised. control,
o heart with kndliest motion warm:
o sacred essence other form,
q solemn ghost, o crowned soul!
But, With friendship there comes an
other S ster to comfort and bless charity.
II charity that b nds Hp the broken.
hearted. charity that lifts the fallen,
charity that spreads the mantle of for
giveness and forgetfulness like cloth of
gold over the weakness and the WEAKNESS
of men. Mr. Beecher once said that
some men move through life as tn,
band of music moves down the streee
fl nging pleasure on every side" So
charity bearing in her hands the chal &c
OF love. stoops to pour the Balm of Gil
cad into the wounds of the heart and thu,
saves Tor Immortality human soul. We
oft times forget. but c..arity's memory
bath no bounds. The weakest among us
carried over every bog and morass that
b 81 is our path to The secret refuge of the
Nest High in charity loving arms, and
she there gives each of US the laurel
crown we have earned. No matter how
much we may be convulsed by passions
nched by poverty, Swallowed by sorrow
or braided by remorse. charity comes to
US in our direst extremity and takes Ms,
hoy the hand and leads u, in rose. strewn
a'hs, sci oss Towering meads, beside
still waters, until the radiance of nee
courage and new hope once more shiqs,
10 our features Every human soul has
ih- germ Of fair flower within, which
charity always finds and nurses in her
suns hine until it expands into full bloom
and fragrance.
Charity Is christianity stripped of dog
matte religion; ii is christianity with
Christ in it, and priest craftlef out of il,
the God-!ike attribute of the human soul.
All crushed and stone-cast in behavior.
She STOOD as q marble would stand
Then the savior bent down and the Savior
Ia silence wrote on the sand.
No far her seek his merits to disclose
or draw his frailties from their dread abode
They there alike in trembling hope repose
The bosom of his Father and his God
With these two there come one more
hanlma n-Benevolence For this are
we brethren, that we care for the orphan.
that we help the helpless that we wipe
away the tea1 of sorrow, and comfort the
despoudent and despairng. Our friend
snip we're without heart. our charity but
a name and by-word, if our benevo ence
Stun oers cold like dad embars upon the
hearthstone ''Those who do not give do
not live. - The Joy of living is in giving,
spending and being spent, in the service
"f the needy. A benevolence as real as
it IS ne dful counts no sacrifice too great.
no task too difficult, no demand too ex-
acting. 1t relieves the beggars needs
with cheerfulne:s. it assists the poor and
suffering with prodigality. and it soo,hes
the dying with hope.
Man is the sublimest creation of God
70 the whispering winds He gave voice;
to the radiant sun He gave light; to the
earth He gave the power of reproduction;
but to man He gave soul. added to soul
He gave intelligence. and to intelligence
H gave purpose. and to purpose He gave
viii and to will He gave power And
thus man stands sun-crowned, his head
among the stars, his feet on solid earth
The perfection of creative power. Before
him spreads out such landscape as no
| painter ever tried to paint; above him
him there is temple not made with
hands, eternal in the HEAVENS.
How we'll these brothers whose swee t
spirits mingle with ours to-day wrought
| upon their earthly tempe We who met
them as bro hers alone know 1t is not
where man starts but where he comes
| out, that counts for his greatness in life
and makes for his eternal hope in death
| Many among us made very humble
| S May not a'l of US make noble
end? Napnleon's fathers name unknown.
but Napoleon's fame is secure in the
| hearts of his countrymen; Our own Lin
coin began life in beggarly cabin, but
| e ded it as martyr for human liberty
oa mt Paul began fisherman but ended
preacher whose sermons are the create st
revelations of the CHI istian religion. For
these, our humble brothers. the brother
hood of man exceeded in value the
fl endship of kings To them character
shine above the dadem of the brow roy
aity-a cup of cold water mixed with love
far surpasses the riches of the world
These are the things our brethren stood
for in life. and the King in His beauty
| welcomed them home in death. These
re the things our great fraternity looks
to, and in honoring the men or OF our
dead this day we dohnnor to our fratern-
| ity and to our manhood.
| But this day has been protitless to u-
| unless it has served 10 more strongly i'm
press upon the great truth of the princi-
pies upon which Pythianism is founded.
r solidil VIC uot NOW illl Jul souls 10 the
| lofty vision of noble lives; shall we not
t,( ay be3in to with these brethren
through elysian fields? am sure these
mbs are not voiceless, and that they
will speak to US if we blu. listen. Tn ~
tell us of brighter land and more
heavenly home and hab tation. They
come to US with the eternal song of gla5-
ness. they fill our sous with the divine
melody that touches all the hearts when
the morning stars sang of ''peace on
earth good will to mem These grave
Or, not empty, albeit the bodies we laid
in them have flown; they yet teach us
how to live that we may know how to die.
| They point unerringly to ihepathway our
| feet must tread ere we win the golden
spurs of real Knighthood.