The Falls City tribune., 1908-05-22

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fathers were held. M
Great monuments are erected at
the graves Of our presidents as
witness the Garfield monument in
Lakeview cemetery at Cleveland,
Ohio, the Lincoln at Springfield,
ILL.,, and the Grant monument in
New York. The Leland Stanford
University in California as trib
ute of honor to a loving son. Here
in your own cemetery are erected
many monuments each bearing a
testimony of love and reverence to
the ones who have gone before.
Our government builds monu-
ments to their soldier dead. The
great battle fields of the south
have been made into National
parks and are kept in the very
best condition because they con-
tain graves of our brave soldiers
who died to uphold and maintain
the liberties Cf the Stars and Stripes
as witness today, Chickamauga,
Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Every
grave is marked by a monument,
if not great in its proportions yet
it bears the mark of love.
The w. O.W. erects a humble,
but lasting monument of Ameri-
can granite at the grave of every
one of their deceased Sovereigns.
Love remembers and cherishes
and spreads flowers over the graves
of the departed ones; thinks of the
good deeds and emulates them.
The good of the departed lives
enter into our lives and become
part of ours. Our associations
have made us better and our aspl-
rations have become higher. Love
forgets the faults and spreads the
veil of charity and remembers the
beautiful and the good. Love
provides for the dependent ones.
Provision can be made for one s
family through the W. O. w. bet
ter than through any other organi-
zation now in existence.
More is to be gained through
the W, o. w. than in any other
organization. Only 3per cent
have competency at 70 years.
a person who joins the W. O. w.
and stays with the organization
will never die pauper and his
grave will never go unmarked.
The principles of the w. O.W. are
to take care of the dependent ones,
if Sovereign dies young to take
care of the Sovereign himself if
he lives until he is old and to erect
a monument at the grave when he
dies. Love teaches the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of
man. God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten
son, that whoever believeth on
him should not perish but should
have everlasting life" ;" The man
who takes hold of God with one
hand and holds out the other to
his fellow man teaches and exem-
plifies the fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man. If the
true relationship of man was known
and practiced by mankind, strikes,
poverty, want and wretchedness
would be things of the past, this
world would be heaven to go to
heaven in, Then this world be
thlng OF beauty ana a Joy forever.
Love in the w. o. w. spreads the
principles of Christianity and frater-
nalism. These are the principles that
humanity depends on, for its future
welfare and happiness, They must
permeate and dominate every life and
then every life would be brought in
touch with the divine which will bring
us to that ideal to which we all aspire.
a life initiating that of the Divine
Masters Life in its beauty and gran
dcur is sublime, and to attain it, is the
desire of every true Woodman,
May the lives of these departed ones
and the exercises here today and the
blessed influence of the Holy Spirit
influence us all to make every endeavor
to live for Fod, for nome and for home