The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-03
PAY TRIBUTE TO
DEPARTED .ElkS
Members of Local Lodge Hold
impressive Service in Salt
Lake Theatre.
ADDRESS BY RABBI FREUND
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN is TAX.
ING ON REALITY.

With the solemn and impressive rit-
ualistic services of the order, the MEM
bers of Salt Lake lodge No. So. Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, paid
tribute to the memory of the dead
members of the local lodge at the Salt
Lake theatre last night.
The theater was crowded with the
friends of the members of the order,
and among them were many members
of the families of the departed. The
services were marked throughout by
simplicity and earnestness. and closest
attention was paid during the entire
service.
The stage was decorated with a back
ground of palms and cut flowers, and
in the center was placed the station of
the exalted ruler of the lodge. Occu-
plying this station, and conducting the
exercises, was Thomas Homer, and on
either side were ranged seats for the
other officers of the lodge participating
in the exercises. These were George +.
Strickley, esteemed leading knight;
c. s. Pulver, esteemed loyal knight; w.
2. Cooper esteemed lecturing knight;
A. W. Raybould, secretary; w. r. Sib-
ley. treasurer, and Ben ID. Luce, chap
lain.
Calls Roll of Dead.
During the ritualistic service the roll
of the dead was called by the secretary,
after which the members of the order
throughout the house arose at the
sound of the gavel and gave the sign
of sorrow.
Chaplain Luce offered an impressive
invocation.
A mixed quartet, consisting of Mrs.
Bessie Browning, Miss Agatha Berk-
hoel, c. F. Graham and W. G.. Squires,
sang Teach Ne o Lord" by Case Mrs.
Browning sang, 20 Divine Redeemer,"
by Gounod after which the eulogy was
delivered by James c. Leary, past ex-
allied ruler of the lodge.
The eulogy treated of the uncertainty
of life. and the duty that man owes
to man during life. and pleading for q
broader feeling of fraternalism and
brotheriy love among men.
G. Fred Graham sang THE Road to
Light" by Walpole. and the orchestra
rendered Sullivan's Lost Chord"
Brotherhood of Man.
Rabbi G ]. Freund delivered the an
nual memorial address, in which he
said that the world has ever had its
dreamers. its Missionaries. men who sing
the songs of an era of greater accom-
plishment and better feeling among
men.
Men are living at peace with one an
other" he said. and nations are laying
aside their armament, and the brother
hood Of man is more Of a reality now
than it has ever before been. 1t is no
longer the dream of the dreamer, the
hope of the visionary"
He said the attainments of the pres
ent state of civilization are not the re-
suits of a moment. but have been
gained by the gradual steps of men, and
the gradual advancement from lower
to a higher plane of thought and action.
Primarily man was SELFISH said the
speaker. 'tand the continuance of his
own existence was the first and fore
most thought in his mind. Then came
love for family; later love for tribe and
nation. until now the love of man for
man has extended from nation to ma
ton and includes all of mankind wher-
ever he may be found.
Message of Joseph.
with the passage of time definite
feeling is growing up in the world that
each man is in a. measure responsible
for the welfare and happiness of all
other men, and the brotherhood of man
is taking on a greater and broader real
ity than ever before. The man of to-
day has smoothed his former rough ma
ture. Men are being drawn closer and
closer together by bonds that unite all
human hearts. The word man is be-
ing more generally interpreted to mean
brother
1.-The message of Joseph. when he
went forth in the land of Egypt, was I
seek my brothers, This message is
being reiterated by the whole human
race. All of mankind is seeking his
brother. The brotherhood of man is
the oasis in the broad and parched des-
ert of life, in that long march between
the cradle and the grave. The golden
age of mythology and song should be
realized I'm the present, it should be
made a reality of today.
Coming Closer Together.
THE arguments Of the thinkers, the
preachers. the writer's of today, is that
the brotherhood of man should be an
entity. Fraternalism is a brotherhood
in which personal differences are for
gotten, in which men are coming closer
together. Employers and employees are
learning the limitations of each other
Mans animal nature is no longer per-
mitted to dominate his better being"
Rabbi Freund said hospitals, libraries
institutions for the care and education
of the unfortunate, fraternal organiza-
lions in which men band together fOi
mutual benefit, all these speak of the
growing spirit of the brotherhood OF
man. He continued:
when there is famine on the steppes
of Russia: when there is bubonic plague
| on the plains of India; when there is ar
earthquake in Italy, or in our owl
land. we do not pause to ask the color
of the sufferers; we are not actuateo
hy selfish motives, but are actuated BY
the noblest motives when we extend
our succor to the suffering.
Don't Wait for Death.
I'VE can attribute our condition e
that golden rule-that brotherhood il
co-extensiye with man. In life We
aha,,Id shnu feeling for the hroth her In