The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-02


 Not only is the true Elk charitable in deed, but in thcught--in forgiveness
 in that divine feeling for humane CT
 TOT.
 "The faults of our brother we write in sand. This is day of meditation, of memory, of consAcraticn, and fin the name of the order and of this Lodge of Sorrow, ask your attention, yoA- sympathies. and your prayers. whilst wc speak of the absent ones. Were not all here! Some are away--the dead ones dear,
 Who thronged with us this ancient hearth,
 And gave the hour to guileiess mirtn. Fate, with a stern, relentless hand. Look'd in and thinn'd our little band Some like night-flash passed away, And some sank lingering day by day; The quiet graveysrd-some lie there
 The cruel ocean has his share. We're not all here" A quartette. Prayer" (Chadwick) was, rendered by Miss Millspaugh. Miss Majors. MT. King and MT. Vaupelt, who were accompanied by Miss Booth, | playing the plano. The singers were in 1 excellent voice. and the piece, with | another they later rendered. was one of the most delightful features of the program. Following them was Miss Nellie Wolf. one of the most talented ! violinists in Montgomery. With touch | strong, sure but delicate and sympa- | thetic. Miss Wolff rendered the Adagio /! of Spohr in masterly manner, and the long applause accorded her was an appropriate tribute to her art. Mir. Meyer Speaks. Mir. Mortiz. introducing k. J. Meyer, who delivered the memorial address | spoke for George W. Jones. Mir. Jones, l MT. Moritz explained. had so been | pressed by business that he had been l unable either to prepare or to deliver | an address, and so at the last the Me- | morial Committee had been forced tc | call upon a man that hadn't had much time. but a man that never fails | greeted with applause by the audience | responded quickly.
 He had indeed had but little time, | he confessed, but he felt that he would | be recreant if he did not say a few l words for his brothers that had pass. | ed into the Great Beyond; if he could not scatter few violets upon their graves.
 Mir. Meyer said that the Elks banded together for sociability. they were banded together for "a good time But they were banded together also to help humanity; 1t was their work not only to place a flower upon the grave Of a departed brother, but to help him
 and his people along the long road of life.
 1 Coming to his subject, the members 6f the Montgomery Lodge who had died in the past year. Mir. Meyer said
 that the two were widely separated In
 years. The one was a young man,
 without kith and kin in Montgomery;
 he had been friend to the Elks and the Elks had been his friends; the
 Elks Home had been his home. We
 loved him and he loved us." MT. Meyer
 said.
 Within but few weeks of MT. Strauss's death, MT. Meyer said the Elks of Montgomery were called to bury another of their brothers. Lean- der U. Bryan. MT. Bryan. a Confeder- ate soldier, man of courage and honor and courtesy. had not less been loved by his fellows fin the Order. His character was displayed in the poems-h best loved; and MT. Meyer
 aptly quoted that he warn't no saint but he never lied and he never flung down." In eloquent peroration. MT, Meyer paid tribute to the Order of Elks.
 Rabbi Ehrenreich, speaking the benediction, prayed God to teach all men to love each other, to help them | In doing good for all mankind. to off, | fer solace to those whom He had stricken. Following the benediction was the close of the meeting.