The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-04


| its refusal would have done. Too often
the giver gets all the happiness and
the receiver the pain of modification.
One of our Elk poets has humorously
described The case in the following
| stanzas:
THREE MEN AND THEIR FINISH.
(Hang this on your Antlers.)
| johnson was a man of wealth,
Who gave with lavish hand
| To colleges and churches, too,
And tn Foreign Mission Band.
And every time he gave, the news
Was spread both far and wide.
Till one day, in his heyday,
johnson up and died.
He trod tn Contemplated Path
Up to tn Shining Gate.
And summoned old st. Peter
To ascertain his fate.
l"You we obeyed the laws,' said Peter,
You've no record, here of sin
1 suspect you bought your way in here
But III have to let you in"
And Simpkins, he was also one
Fair off in things of gold
tightwad of the tghtest sort,
| At least so I've been told.
| | know that when he went to church,
| each Sunday he was there)-
He dropped his contribution in ~
| With the greatest noise and blare.
And Simpkins, too, he had to die
And trod the Golden Path;
ST. Peter saw him coming and
Suppressed his righteous wrath;
81 II have to let him in, - he said,
cor he'll raise an awful din
It's true he obeyed the laws, but then,
| It's shame to let him inn
Then there was Tompkins-a fellow
rare
An Elk he was and true,
| Who lived hv this: HDo for Others
AS you would have them do for you.'
And when he fed hungry man
| No tract went with tn meal;
His grasp was warm-a handshake
Somehow a man could feel.
| Tompkins died, and when old Peter
Saw him coming up tn hill,
He shouted through his megaphone:
Welcome Hello Bill
You re tn best thing on the Turnpike
| The greatest in tn land
Stay out there just minute, Bill,
TIL | go and get tn band.''
Kipling saw this beauty of Elk
| pioS. Nhth ht NiOlts
/ have done one Drawer thing
Than all the worthless did;
| And yet Drawer thence doth spring,
| Which is to keep that hid.
The obligation of our order binds us
to this "hraver' than "hraver thing
Memorial Day unites the sorrowful
memories for the dear departed and
the joyful memories of their benevolent
doings, and elevates our hearts and
| minds in the sweet sorrow of compla-
cency as we think of the departed and
feel their brotherly love.
As stood the Prophet on Mount Ho-
reb, so stand we upon the monument
of benevolent acts raised by our
brother Elks who have gone before,
and, hiding our faces in the mantle
| Memorial, listen to the still small voice,
saying: "And now abideth Faith,
Hope. Charity, these three, but the
greatest of these is Charity,' and the
Infinite Exalted Ruler is in that voice:
Our Counselor for the days of mirth
and merriment, our consider on this
dav of mourning, and memorial.
| The Symphony Society played tho
Pilgrim march from the Italian Sym
phony by Mendelssohn, an impressive
feature OF the program
MINERNY's EuLoGY.
In the delivery of the eulogy, Mr..
| w. H. McInerny disclosed the fact that
| he is an orator of ability. His address
throughout teemed with fervent ex-
pressions of the work for fellowmen
| carried on by the B. p. o. e. The ad-
dress was scholarly effort. He said in
| part: "One year ago we assembled
| in this same hall to publicly proclaim
our love for our departed brothers, and
| to perpetuate their memories. To the
Elk this is one of the dearest and most
Impressive duties of the order. We are
assembled here again today to eulogize
our dead and to deliver the lesson of
our love. Since the origin of our local
lodge eleven brothers have passed from
us. Eleven vacant chairs of brothers
! mark the places of our deceased COM
often echoed in sorrow and sympathy
rades. Eleven kindly voices that so
for others have gone never to be heard
again.
Anthony in his Grafton overfhe body
of Caesar proclaimed that the evil that
men do lives after them, the good is
oft inferred with their bones. How
different in the brotherhood of Elks
The good deeds Of our brothers we
chisel into slabs of granite and their
faults We bury deeper than the grave,
than the unfathomable depths OF ocean,
into everlasting oblivion.
THE hope of Immortality finds deep
response in every soul when about to
yield its existence as a sacrifice to
fate"
Mrs. Bruce Nov. Mackall sang most
beautifully, Liddle's abide With Me-"
with piano accompaniment by Mrs. L.
Tenney Peck. This exquisite selection
was rendered with unusual effective
ness by the singer.
There was more ritual. followed by
the benediction pronounced by Rev.
Alexander Macintosh, the services
concluding with the symphony Or
chestra's rendition OF Handel's Largo.
The memorial services committee
comprised the following:
DR.. Chas. B. Cooper chairman; A. L.
~ Ill. ID