The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-02

l Possibly more than any other order
our own embraces men of every-da7
life, everyday impulses, with every
day common humdrum life to be care,
for IN its social and other aspects, tina
sunshine may prevail Throughout it
membership. and radiate wherever it:
influence may reach.
Common everyday life may seem not
to offer opportunities for notable acts
and the milestones of good deeds seen
so insignificant the passing world takes
no notice.
Fearful of oblivion, potentates have
erected monuments intended to defy the
| ravages of time, and perpetuate the
| fame of their builders, but oblivion
| has overtaken them, yet little gift has
been recorded in the greatest of all
| books, and as long as intelligence shall
| prevail. the Widows mite shall encour-
| age the humblest sympathy and self
denial of those of great hearts and
| Strengthened means.
| If you 90 to the suffering the WORTH
! est may need material aid, but more
| than all, their starved and discouraged
hearts need sympathy, your own sincere,
| wise, sympathy, and, as you give, their
/ SplTlIS revive anu Lue We'll springs III
your own heart grow inexhaustible.
| Not alone is your loyalty and SYM
patty due the feeble, sick, suffering
and poor, for your order is family,
and no family yet existed where some
members have not needed the inhu-
ence, counsel and moral support and
| authority of its most forceful, wise and
fatherly members.
Wealth may establish a family, but
character only can perpetuate it.
Nations are an aggregation of fami
| lies. Power and wealth may establish
| nations, but character only can per-
petuate them.
Certain principles are the foundation
of all society, and these principles must
impregnate society or it will fall of its
own moral decay One of these is an
unimpeachable conscience, another is
self-control, and finally that infalli-
BILE precept embodied in the "Golden
Rule
May your great family, one of the
multitude that constitute our country
nation, be vigorous moral, as well
as charitable and social factor, within
it's circle and within its influence in
this community.
wealth, even that sought to the very
sight of prison doors, BY men whose fair
exterior has concealed whitened sepul-
chre OF lust for unlimited wealth and
it's irresistible, cruel power; misled by
many in authority, and by writers, who,
with salable and convenient conscienees,
have prostituted both intellect and prin-
ciple, the liberty of the powerful has
closely approached license, and selfish
combination in numbers threatens in
dividual freedom.
The moral foundations of the nation
have been shaken.
The conscience of the nation is the
summary of the consciences of the in
dividuals composing it.
The virtue and character of the ma
tion is the summary of the virtues and
character of it's individual citizens.
1t is to you and TO me, to look to
it that our individual character and
life be void of offense toward man and
God, and that the influence of example, !
as well as precept, work its benefcent
leaven in your order, and in the COM
munity for which we are responsible. |
May we join and be joined with other
human divisions, imbued with the same |
moral impulses, and do our share to /
revive rational conscience and the sim
pie, wholesome life.
The way of an unselfish life, you may, |
or will have found, IS not an easy ex-
perience; its rewards are from. within, |
and not from without You viii cross
the purposes of designing and self-seek- |
ing men.
If such revile you, heed it mott
If men cast truth away from them |
as an undesired and unaccustomed gar
ment, that they NAV riot in conceit and |
defile themselves, heed it not
There is but one Judgment seat in
this world before which you must |
aquit yourself, that of your own con-
science, and NAV divine aid keep your
conscience true.
If you seek to judge, be just and |
merciful judge, for it was said "let |
him that is. without sin, east the first
stone
Be your associates youth or man,
maid or woman, young or old, try to |
honor them, and build up the weak.
Fear on your verv soul to drag them
down in character or welfare.
Your order has laid down it's prin-
ciples and inspiration, without mys-
ticism, on the lines of everyday life.
Profession is not living, therefore |
may we embody in our lives, in our
character, and in our practise, all that
our order inculcates, and enshrined in
our hearts may live faith, hope, and |
charity, and of these, the greatest is
charity.
We have looked back upon the armies |
of the dead into the very night of ages. |
Placed in service without choice, we, |
too, are of a vast and irresistibly NOV
ing host, a host nature has forbidden |
one instant of hating.
Crowded are the ranks, strength |
presses on weakness, and the foot sore
and weary, the young innocent and |
feeble age, the sick and discouraged |
would fain rest moment on the march |
No earthly power can grant even this |
short respite. AS we are rushed to our |
inevitable destiny,we may support some |
weary, weary soul, moisten parched lips, |
cool some fevered brows, give cheer of |
countenance, and whisper some encour-
agement.
For some of us the steps are quick !
ening, and the end is not so distant |
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