Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-05-10

and go away from that lodge room
unless he carries with him some divi
dend of brotherhood; unless he goes
abroad to scatter that good seed to
spring up elsewhere. We cannot al
ways say the sentence spoken to a
particular brother is bearing imme-
diate fruit in his life, but it is the con-
slant dripping of the water that wears
away the stone. Longfellow sings
somewhere:
Il shot an arrow into the air,
1t fell to earth, l know not where;
For, SO swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in it's flight.
[ breathed a song into the air,
1t fell to earth, l know not where;
For who has sight SO keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward in an oak
l found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
l found again in the heart of a friend
And so we do not know, my friends,
how far the words spoken go, but we
do know that we are sowing the seed
of brotherhood and fraternity, and we
know that that seed has never yet
failed to bring forth abundant fruit.
Until about twelve years ago you had
but about two thousand Odd Fellows
in this Jurisdiction; now you have
about twelve thousand. When my
Brother Busbee laid the cornerstone
OF our Home, we had but thirty thou
sand, and to-day we have about fifty
thousand, and nothing has done as
much to build up this Order to be
great object lesson for good as the
erection of this temple, except the
work done silently in the lodge rooms
of our Order, and in the homes OF
such Carolina brotherhood. Is it moth
ing that this Order has won the con-
fdence of more than a million Amerl
can citizens, who are not apt to fo4
low dreams? Is it nothing that mof>
than ten millions of dollars have l.
less than eight years flowed from Oh,
lodge rooms to the homes of the SIC
Is it nothing that when every CITY i
this land has temple in which III
bonds of fellowship shall strengthen
Was it nothing that in the grea
storm that almost wrecked a govern
ment this Order never broke a lini
of it's fraternal chain? (Appiause-
Was it nothing that raised and blaze.
across the waters of the Pacific tina
won more than twelve thousand q
the volunteer army, culled from th
secret armies of the Northwest, wner,
the members of each order were Ell
titled to sit in the lodge rooms a
home. There is no broader lesson
loyalty to flag and country. l wa
speaking Of the influence OF the Order
1t is said that in one of the corners OF |
lower London, that portion of the city 4
Inhabited by the slums of the city, ii |
may be permitted to use that ex
preston, there hung in the back room l
Of a shop most beautiful picture OF |
the Savior, which was concealed from
the customers by a curtain. There |
came into that store one day a woman
Of the streets, who wandered around |
and finally went behind the curtain |
and gazed in rapture upon that pic
-ure; she stood there without a word |
and went away in silence, and she re-
turned in a few days afterWard, and /
went back again to look at the pic /
Lure. She did that again and again,
never speaking, but always came 81 |
lently, drew aside the curtain and /
gazed upon the picture of the crucified
Christ. But there was a difference in |
the woman, a ribbon less Haunting,
BETTER and different in her
apparel and demeanor, noted from
time to time, indicating perhaps, and
let us believe, the impression made |
upon her by that silent face, until |
finally she forsooll her life and lived
a life for Him who had wrought her
(Applause.)
And so in bringing to you that pic
ture, 1 want to bring copy of the
work done by this brotherhood. j
say this because men to-day all ovel
this land, and we have them by the
and men who do nothing
but spend their entire time in CRITICS
ing others and in predicting the down
fall of the community and the down
fall of this world.
Now, my friends, don't you believe
that for a moment. l believe this
world is better to-day than it has ever
been before. l do not think that or
binary people are as selfish as theil
grandfathers, and l believe the coun-
try was never better and purer than
it is to-day. My friend said, ''That
can not be-" Look at the Revolution,
If you had not had a pure community
you would not have had the revolt
against the moral and legal offense.
l want to preach to you, that there is
not room in the Odd Fellows lodge
for the man who believes not in vir
tue, but there is plenty of room in the
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