The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-04-21

sight of the rights and needs Of 9th
ers. It's tendency is to a radical and
unreasonable selhshness, which would
cause us to regulate the other fellow
! and do as we please ourselves.
! The social -four hundred" would
| play an exclusive game of function"
and in their superlativ ignorance
| imagine that they are the directors
/ of, rather than mere parasites Upon,
the great social body. The political
| creedalist imagines that, unless his
party rules, and he is permitted to
enjoy the usufruct of office, the gov
ernment IS bound to go to pieces, for
/ getting that the government is TO be
maintained on principles and not
! merely upon the shifting views OF
! those who are welded to d theory
! in relation to the present only.
! The narrow religionist can sec I'd
/ beauty in the flowers Of faith which
| do not grow in his little ecclesiastical
! garden. forgetting that there arc Il GU
sands OF flowers of the forest, the
/ field and the meadow which shed d
perfume as sweet as any Of those
reared in dollhouse We know that
/ the world is growing better, because
! II Is growing broader and wiser, and
IN both though and life coming nearer
busy discussing the cleansing OF pots
and pans went about doing good,
healing the sick, curing the blind,
and lifting up the fallen, and III many
ways throwing sunshine on the great
| sorrow-shadOwed trial-roughed path,
along which the toiling generations
moved. Out of this growing ten
dency to appreciate practical minus
try, fraternal orders have conc, IN
the workings of which the material
| needs OF men may be Systematically
and more fully met.
Among the youngest of these or
. ders is the Benevolent and Protect
I've Order of Elks, under whose aus
pices this home has been erected and
these ceremonies are held
The order of Elks originated with
some actors, who felt the need of
closer social life among the people
of the stage, but it soon went beyond
them. and today is represented Ill
every part OF our land.
Only one lodge can be in any one
place, for social unity is the basis or
the order, and SO men of every class
and creed, are through it, brought
| into more or less social contact.
The purposes of the order are be-
nevolent and protective, through the
cultivation of friendship and love.
Abstractly speaking, this is cold
world; and even unsocialized religion
becomes but formal and sour thing,
and sitting in unsocial asceticism,
casts a gloom upon the present III
order to induce men to ia.l III love
with the future alone, with its light
OF intelligence shining upon frozen.
sea. The world of learning, self
thinking and administering seeks
the isolation of the. study, and the
labratory, lost to all tho corelative
forces of the mental and psychic
realms, and hence the most profound
/ capable of dealing with the practical
= issues OF life. as they relate to the
needs of men under social and gov
ornamental conditions. J.
Il have known men of 6riiliancy
! and genius, of profound learning.
! who. isolated and Irving II : purely
; selfish world, would Be vastly inn
proved by being thoroughly initiated
J into the order Of Elks. where they
: might plainly see how long they arc
, on learning and short. on common
sence, for it should be true that "a
J little folly now an then is reiished
! would be satisfied in an Elk initizfion
!. The order of Eikss is benevolent,
not only with so much week, ana
only to an Elk. but according to need
and wide as the sweep Of human sui
fering. No Elk can live IN want
, while his brothers posses nEeans, and
mo Elk can die and III In the hidden
corner for strangers IN the city of
/ the dead, while no widow Or orphan
! cries in vain to this order Few are
1.-THE orphans homes in this land which
, have not been aided BY. the order of
= Elks, and no calamity has fane unto
people but that checks of Eiks'
!, lodges have come pouring into their
relief (San Franciso).
Bencvolence is silent aEgcl, and
. hence the Eiks parade not. an even
|. publish not unto the left hand what
the right hand doeth
The order IS not religious ii any
IS creedal sense, and yet not only does
Lit strive 20 do ut into the least of
these" but It is the only order which
annually publicly announces faith in
srod and in the immortality of man.
Il We spurn gloomy gospel of dirt
:. aud cling to the tatheriiood of God,
, tic Erotf erhood IF Man, and to life
/ eternal beyond the mystic. sea: and
On the FIRST Sunday in December OF
|, each year every lodge IN the land
| makes public these tenets Of faith. aud
pays tribute to- the memory sof the
departed but living dead
We are not the Judges of our broth
-f ers, for there is but one Judge. and
i SO I'VE write the faults of our broth
ers in the sand and inscribe their
Il virtues upon the tablets Of memory :
Every true Elk IS an altrlsst, with
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