Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1906-03-06
Impressive Funeral Services Over
Body Of Departed Brother
Knights of Pythias.
ELOQUENT TRIBUTES ARE PAID
Words of Fond AffeCtio and Esteem
Spoken by Men Who Knew
the Deceased.

Beautiful and impressive were the
funeral services held in memory Of
Harry Lemon, the manager of the
Billings Mutual Telephone
company, who died of pneumonia last
Tuesday morning. The services were
held Thursday afternoon in Fraternity
hall by the knights of Pythias lodge,
of which the deceased was a most
faithful member.
After the usual opening ceremonies,
Brother E. G. Worden delivered q
short but feeling address, in which he
eXtolled the manly and fraternal quail
tiles of the departed brother. The ora
Busenburg, whose intimate acquaint-
ance with Harry Lemon gave him the
right to speak those things for which
the deceased was esteemed by his
brother knights. Mr. Busenburgs ora
ton in full was as follows:
For the first time in many years,
death has come to our Castle hall and
taken one of our officers. The chair is
now vacant, and we meet today to do
honor to our departed brother. We
have met from time to time in this
our Fraternal hall, where mirth and
laughter was continuous, where all
was joy and peace; but today sadness
comes to our hearts as we are to bury
one of our true and tried knights. It
is a time when we must forget human
fraility, and exercise that charity
which is one of the principles of our
order, and think of the good that was
in our brother, a charity of the heart
not of the hands, one that draws down
a blessing on the charitable; that feel
ing brought about by peculiar dispo-
ston of mind, obtained by processes
of thought and mental decision, where
by we become by habit tollerent of
differences in men in their weakness
and thoughtless action-puts the best
possible construction on their demean
or and character, and exercises toward
them benignity, compassion and gener-
osity.
Our order teaches this, and we, to
a great extent, have acquired that dis
position of mind which takes account
Of all unlikes and dislikes in man as
ground for extended kind offices.
Knightly charity, therefore, is the
beautiful flower of the intellect, as love
is of the heart. 1t embraces all of the
"oughts" and "ought nots' that arise
in our associations with men that
make for peace and good will, and,
my brothers, as we speak of our de-
parted dead, let it be with kindness,
compassion and brotherly love, for we
know that our great Teacher has said
that of Faith, Hope and Charity, the
greatest of these is Charity. as the
poet has said:
:" True Charity, a plant divinely
nursed;
Fed by the love from which it rose at
first,
Thrives against hope: and in the rud-
est scene
Storms but enliven it's unfading green,
Exuberant is the shadow it supplies,
Its fruit on earth, it's growth above
the skies
for, When the hour of death comes,
that comes to high and low, then it
is not what we have done for our
selves, but what We have done for 9TH
ers that we think on most pleasantly.
In our relations with mankind we
md a constant warfare: men differ IN
the sense of duty-the ideas of truth
ana hence even a few men can not pe
long together without some measure
OF opposition rising among them, some
occasion for conflict. however manner
~ II may be waged. The same with