The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-05-05

fraternalisln is fraternalism, whether
you get it through Paul or Dante,
whether you get it through the church
or the fraternal society. To put this
thought more pertinently-truth is
! truth and fraternalism is fraternallsm
as much in saloon as in prayer
meeting; what is wrong in saloon is
wrong in prayer meeting, just as two
and two are four wherever you find
| it. There is not one code of morals
for the church and another for the
world. Man is not department be-
ing, with one section for science, an
other for business and another for re-
ligion. His religious element enters
into all forms of his experience. What
I contend for. is what I believe to be
the truth, namely, for broad inter-
probation of the religious quality and
the Fathers presence. I want to see
the religious quality in every kind of
good word and work. We have lost
sight of the religious element. and the
Divine presence in every institution
that makes for the betterment of hu
man society. want to see my Father
manifesting himself, not simply in
the church upon the Sabbath day, but
1 want to see Him in the great brick
block, to behold him in the electric
spark as it sends its message across
the continent, and to feel His nearness
in the rumbling cars as they speed on
their way. Brethren, believe it!
We have failed to see God in every
humanitarian movement of the world.
We have chained Him UP to the mar
row confines of the church and temple
and we have said with one poet s'God
is in His heaven, all is we'll, when
we should have said with Tennyson
God is closer to us than breathing
and nearer than hands and feet, in
the great business and fraternal CEN
ters of the world as we'll as in the
cloister and sanctuary.
"Bear with me one moment that I
might tell you of the magnitude of
this orders silent, charitable work. In
the past rs years we have spent eighty
four millions for charitable purposes
and brotherly relief. over one million
and one hundred twenty thousand dol
lars year. Can we question the
fraternal spirit of such a brotherhood
Dare we challenge it's right to live :?
Can we define it's future bounds? To-
day its holds one million souls within
its fond embrace, IT'S streams of silent
charity have flowed to every corner Of
the land. Its white banner has led
the march in fraternal life. Its faith
has overleaped the bounds of state. nor
has it been retarded by the distinc-
tions of society. Its principles have
taught it lessons, and by their works
ye shall know them.
"Whar are it's works If we cast
our eyes across the broad and beauti-
full expanse of our happy country, we
are greeted on every hand with a re-
sponse to this inquiry, which comes
ringing from afar with electric power.
Wherever our people have gone, what
ever distant and perilous quarters,
even to the remotest frontier, do our
temples lift their spires and our wo-k-
men toll. As civilization advances
and the wilderness blossoms rs the
rose, so our organization contribute
it's quota to the transformation. Wide
as the world is our scope. free as the
air is our welcome to the sons of men.
By its authority virtue survives, and
vice falls; before its practical aims
philosophic systems, theories, doc
trines, dogmas of every kind are shad-
owed into obscurity. In its practical
spheres we have Struggled and valiant
ly toiled as band Of brothers i'm
PEELED only by the intuitive law of
love.
81 pray you keep unspotted and un-
sullied the fair name bequeathed you
by this organization. That you will
doubtless measure up to the full
standard and duty required of you
there is no question, so that there be
no halt in it's onward march. It is
your province to extend the sentiment
and practice of brotherhood until its
influence shall descdend
6 AS the gentle rain from heaven
upon the place beneath; twice blessed,
blessing him that gives and him that
takes
1T is my earnest prayer that your
conduct will rebound to the good of
this great order, whose destiny is in
your hands, that widespread as it has
become. it may still further extend,
encircling the world, until its beauti.
full banner shall float in every part of
the habitable globe; and its anthems
and loudswelling chorus shall be
heard from the rising to the setting,
and from the setting to the rising of
the sun. until it can truthfully be said.
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