The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-14
BIG EVENT
CELEBRATED
1rrom rhursday,s AdvertIser. !,

last evening, the celebration commence
ing with literary and musical pro-
gram and concluding with festivities
which included whist. dancing and re-
freshments. Despite the inclement
weather the hall where the literary
exercises were held was filled with Odd
Fellows and their families and Rebe-
kahs, while Canton Oahu, the uniform
rank of the Odd Fellows. attended in
full dress with swords, baldrics, plum
ed chapeaux and glittering gold lace.
(, The officers serving at the stations
last evening were all past grands of
the order, Brother Robert Levers occu-
plying the seat of honor as the presiding
officer, as one of the Oldest of the MEM
bers of Excelsior Lodge. With him on
the platform were Brothers Ed. Hing
directly in front of the platform were
Warden w. o. Smith and Conductor B.
F. Dillingham;. At the opposite end of
the hall were Vice Grand Locker, j.
NJ. Dat, David Dayton, John Ouderkirk
and ]. ]. Garden. On the sides were
Chaplain DR.. Rodgers. Messrs. Char
lock and Lawrence, and opposite them,
Past Grand E. C. Rowe, F. Mcintyre
and ]. Lando. The four secretaries,
Messrs. l. L. La Pierre, E. r. Hendry,
Mrs. E. A. Jacobsen and Miss Thora
Oss. were seated near the presiding Of
| ficers.
The program comprised musical Sc
lections by Mr.. Casceres, Ernest Kaai
and others.
Following some Introductory remarks
of Mr.. Levers, w. o. Smith made an
address on Excelsior Lodge and some
of the principles upon which Odd Fell
lowship is founded. He said he did
not wish to confine himself altogether
to Excelsior Lodge, although his assoc
Citations had been with that lodge for
about thirty years. Thoughts natural
| ly went back to those who were prom
inent in the lodge at the beginning
of that period. There were present OF
those whom he remembered then
Brothers Robert Levers, E. c. Rowe,
j. o. Carter and David Dayton. Com
paratively few are living. Those who,
among others, had passed away were
Marshal Parke, Hughes, Savidge. Bart
hold. They had gone and younger men
had taken their places. Mr.. Smith
( spoke of the value of celebrating ami
versaries. What pleasure there was in
celebrating birthdays. Anniversaries
in our own lives were of value. We
are so occupied with the present and
the future that we are apt to forget
the past and it's pleasant memories. The
past has its great value in our lives
and in the life of an organization.
There is a suggestion OF immortality
in anniversaries. 1t is pleasure to
know of the good work which an or
ganization is doing Goodfellowship Is
a great influence. 1t Is a profitable
thing to meet on an anniversary like
this. wish that the order in Homo
lulu will grow even stronger than 1t Is
and be more useful than 1t has been
in the past.
DIR. RODGERS ADDRESS.
DR.. Rodgers, D. D. G. S., chaplain,
made an address on the Rebekahs, as
follows:
Brothers, Sisters and Friends:
have been asked by those who have
charge of arranging tonight's pro-
gram to speak to you on behalf of
the Rebekah Degree of our Order, an
invitation that, however imperfectly |
may meet it's obligations, l certainly
regard as privilege and an honor.
If at the outset l seem to go very
far back towards the beginnings of
things I pray you will not assume that
my discourse is to be correspondingly
long; such is not my intention.
"And God saw that it was not good
for man to be alone" so he created
woman to be his companion and help
mate. In other words, taking the mar.
rative as it appears on it's face, the
Creator is represented as seeing the
imperfection of his own work, and
straightway the Divine Wisdom and
the Divine Foresight, acting by and
through the Divine Power, found and
applied the remedy. Burns, as many
of you know, gives the story a whim-
ing that in creating man the Creator
was experimenting or trying his hand
as it were, and that woman was the
final and perfected work of creative
power. Speaking of nature in per-
oouiHcu Iprm the poct says
"Her prentice hand she tried on man,
And then she made the lassies or
We may not attain to the Divine !
measure of either power or wisdom, but
we may follow that power and wisdom
so far as they are revealed to us, and
make our daily practice conform there
to, and the more our minds are en-
lightened and our souls lifted up, the
more fully shall we appreciate and the
more closely shall we follow the Divine
leading, recognizing and honoring the
female element in our common human
ity, not in it's material and physio-
logical aspects alone, but in all things !
moral frd spiritual as well.
You may take whatever views con- |
corning the Bible narrative may COM |
mend themselves to your judgment. |
You may regard the story contained
in Genesis as legend, as myth, as al.
legory or as a plain transcript of literal
fact, but whatever speculative view |
you may take there is back of the |
story great truth; the permanent fact
of the duality of our humanity and
the abiding necessity for the presence
and recognition of the female element
to secure the highest and finest develop