The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-24
HONOR MEMORY
OF THEIR DEAD
Odd Fellows Hold Services in
Testimony of Love and At
lection.
GRAVES ARE DE RATED

GRAVES ARE De RATED
WEALTH OF FLOWERS TAKEN
TO CEMETERIES.
Memorial services were held yesterday
by the Independent Order of Odd Fell
lows. The principal address was delivers
ed by the Rev. p. A SimPIin, pastor ot
Phillips Congregational church. After
the services a wealth of flowers was taken
to the Odd Fellows plot in Mt Olivet
cemetery, and a committee also visited
the City cemetery, where the graves If
members of the order were decorated.
Stewart, grand warden, presided.
lie was assisted by b. d. Blackmar. The
Rev ID. NJ. Helmick was the chaplain.
Inc Sanford QuaTtette sang Come, Ie
Dlsconsolate,' Lead, Kindly Light anu
when the Swallows HomeWard Fly"
The rituaEstic services were conducted by
the chaplain. A brief address was made
by Mr. Stewart. Parson Simpkin spoke
as follows:
Feast of Sorrow.
We gather today on this Sabbath of
God, to keep alive the fires OF love and
memory Tor those who have passed for
ever from human ken The sovereign
grand lodge has wisely set d day when
we snail keep feast of sorrow, and the
value, OF the day is realized by all those
who have earnestly participated in such
service as We keep il this hour. This
observance has a social and religious val
ue. 1t Is of value to US socially because
II serves to emphasize the bond of broth
SrhOOd, and too keep burning on the
heart altar the sacred fire We realize
thdt we may sing the song:
one brotherhood we dwell in him,
In heaven or earth beneath
1nO now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death
But beyond the fact of our oneness
OF the common thread and nerve of life
that flows through the universe, is the
common joy, the common SORROW the
common end TO which We come at last
IN this busy life We share together, with
the pressing material demands of COM
pick civilization with the constant apeDaIs
OF sel1lShness, 1t is well that once in a
while We should come to the place where
the eye Is dimmed with the tear of SYM
pdthy and the heart sOftened nv thu
touch OF love and pity. That is a poor
ana barren life that passes through long
months without knowing the rendering
lOucn OF sympathetic tears, which does
not put itself in the place where it NAV
feel something OF the pain and burden of
the world. fearless eyes grow hard, and
unsympatneUc hearts become stagnant
breeding places Of selfishness. And il is
well that for and with those whom we
have smiled and laughed, we should
grieve and weep.
Men of All Creeds.
Then, too, there is a religious value in
such service. Our order holds no fell
lowship with the creeds and churches, for
Wlthln It's circle the men of all the faiths
may come, and while in its charges il
speaks to us of the eternal, its message
and mission are chiefly TO time and IFS
sorrows and burdens. But its summarizes
With all religion hot
uphfts, and on this one day of the wear
II turns Its activities into the channel of
true religion that our hearts may be
chaStened with the fire of memory and
directs our thought to the cOnsolations
ropes ana promises of that book which IS
the weIl-spring of our noble teachings
and the foundation of those living prir-
clpIes on which We are building And
so today, we shall not only seek to ex-
press our grief for the loved and lost
cur appreciation of all they were to us
IN the days of earth, but likewise take a
new view of life, catching a truer visi 1u
OF the relative values of time and eter-
nifty, and find in greater measure that
which VIII send us out in the world TO
i've more nearly as we shall want To
have lived when we are through with the
burden and lie down in the gray shadow
Of life S evening.
This service cannot but be n1eIalcboI,-
Tor US. YOnder in PARKWAY Zion the jew
mas his Wailing place and against the
gray stones there has been breathcd
The heart cry of a people desolate and
disorganized. weeping for the glory ana
greatness that was. All, but in the great
world. wherever man and his heart and
MS memory are, there is a Waiiing Mace
OF grief. and on all the winds that swing
about the earth there is heard the lam
entation of the heart, the wall of the
dedth-Smltten and the bereft who gnaW
their hearts in the melowed half lights
of memory, and grieve for those removed
And so into the crystal chamber of the
palace OF tears we come to where hearts
are barred in their sorrows and drink a
tender toast of love and affection, speak
ing 10 the grteving the words of love.
and pledging anew before the affairs of
sorrow our service to the living for the
dead.
In a long list of those whose names
appear on the memorial rooI of this wear
are many of those who We're great and
lllustrious members of the great frater-
nlty- Men like Cox of Maine. Parker of
New Jersey, Shaw of California St1Ineu-
berg of Idaho, Morris of Kentucky. Deane
OF pennsylvania, and Blair of Connecticut
Some or them We knew and loved. and
remember their service in the sovereign
body, but we are not here to gIOrffv them
alone, They are no more today than tho
humble. quiet brothers who helped make
the rank and file, who helped bear the
burdens and do the service of Odd Eel
lows in their lives. This service is inst
for Odd Fellows, and for the
prec1ousnesS OF the memories their names
Iecail. If you would call the roll today.
Mcfarland of II. Butler of Is PendIeton
or 8, Mcdonald of 2, Brown of 3 Lewis
of g. there would be only an EMMY echo
IN reply. for the lives we loved bo,ro -