Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-21
FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, TRUTH"
Interesting Paper on Motto of the Odd
Fellows.

Interesting Paper on Motto of the Odd
Fellows.
Last Sunday at Wesley Grove Chris
tian church the colored Odd Fellows
lodge held thanksgiving Day" excr-
ciSes. The following paper on the
motto of The order. was prepared and
read by b. V. TaliafcrTo, daughter OF
j. II. Taliafcrro:
The earth, sea and heavens with
all their v%astncss, glory ana grandeur
arc no broader than friendship, love
and truth. For on those words hang
all the dcstinics of men.
The arrangement of these words
friendship, love and truth-could not
be more perfect, more fortunate, more
suggestive or inspiring. Love placed
in the center, bringing to us the truth
that friendship not prompted by and
the offspring of love is false to the
core, and that truth without love is a
base error. Hence love in the center
bringing to us the thought that God
the Father, God the Son and the Holy
Ghost, are beings OF a great love Of
which we have no conception.
Friendship. love and truth shall be
world into n great brotherhood and
that the brotherhood of Christ Jesus.
We believe that this brotherhood shall
work out all the problems which IN
Germ us rs a race. Then, until we unite
in n great brotherhood, with friend
ship, love AMI truth on our banner
we will struggle on and vainly attempt
TO settle the great problem which men
for ages struggled over.
Every race and nation on the globe
must be united into II strong bond
through friendship Kept alive and kept
pure and wholesome by truth.
Ancient nations have played their
parts, but like the suns of their own
horizons, they have shonc brilliantly
but for n short time, and as quickly as
they came have they vanished from
sight, leaving only n faint record that
they evcr existed, each lifting the
cause of humanity II step higher. The
Hebrew is the first who comes to our
notice. a scclusive and exclusive pco-
ME believing only in themselves and
working for their good, receiving the
orccic of God and vanishing from our
sight, leaving a religion behind.
Then m the Greek with the same
idea that n Greek only was recognize
able, and, leaving us with a language,
he quietly W. aside for the bold
Roman, who declares unto us a law.
Later the Britain and the Anglo
Saxon, each playing their part, each
adding another step. thus lifting human
ity 10 Il "purcr air and IL clearer view"
Now ii these people have dom some
thing, does this teach us that there is
something for MS To do?
a recent writer says perhaps the
African has had his day. In far away
ages, long before the Hebrew. the
Greek and the Roman comes to our
notice, way down in Egypt there lived
a people who left pyramids and obc-
lisks md Africa with her earliest civil
iZation has played her distinct part.
But we are another people, mixed with
every race and nation on the globe,
with manner and habits of the same,
and as a race. we have n distinct part
to perform.
Let us prepare ourselves, therefore,
through friendship, love and truth. to
help bring about a universal brother
hood and we may join hands in one
comon cause regardless of race, color
or previous conditions of servitude.
But see to 1t that we are qualified and
In the Language of N great writer,
say to the cheering crowd, applaud
lis when we run, console us when we
fall, cheer lis when we recover; but let
rs pass on; for Gods sake, let us pass
ont