The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-07

Where mother love, that hottest of
graces,
Keeps the domestic circle ever bright.
Where glad-eyed children laugh in play,
full riot,
Their pure hearts free from ever
trace of care,
Or snuggle 'gainst an antlered breast
in quiet
When tired of play. You'll find the
answer there.
Brothers, let this day mark an epoch
in your lives. "To thine own self be
true. and it must follow as the night
the day, thou canst not then be false
TO any man. Search they conscience,
and if in thought or deed the obliga-
ton taken at the Altar has been violat-
ed, AWAKE, and let the four great
principles of Elkdom be ever before
thine eyes to guide thy sight. Let thy
life be as an open book, with charity
and brotherly love as thy daily prayers.
$50 live, that when thy summons
comes to join the innumerable caravan
which moves to that mysterious realm
where each shall take his chamber in
the silent halls of death, thou 60 not
like the quarry-slave at night, seourged
to his dungeon. But sustained and
soothed by an unfaltering trust, ap-
proach thy grave like one that wraps
the drapery of his couch about him,
and lies down to pleasant Dreams"
i But, Brother Elks and friends, we are
gathered here in memory of those who
/ have passed before us. And, from their
| lives and virtues we may always learn
| They helped us once when here. Now
| awakened to a realization of such bliss
as we who live can never comprehend,
| they nave still more to teach that we
NAV learn.
In thinking of them with that love
| that faith, that honest kindness OF
feeling which we have, forget not those
who still remain ''To thine own self
| be true - Think not of evil toward
dead or living. When harsh and thought
| less tongues say this of dead or that
| of living man or woman, remember still
that greatest thought that Elkdom
brings, the kindly beauty founded on
that most sublime of all gifts bestowed
| by the Creator upon man, CHARITY
which binds each Elk to Elk, each hon
est soul to all mankind.
Bro. D. P. R. Isenberg sang with
much of his oldtime dramatic style 9
| portion of the Ave Maria, accompa
MED by Rudland Bode The orchestra
followed with an admirable rendition
of Mendelssohn s italian Symphony.
Rev. Brother Leopold Knoll, life
member of Hoosick Falls, n. Y. Lodge
No. zoos, eulogized the order and the
| ideals learned from the virtues of the
| departed memories. To pass upon the
memories of departed brothers, Elk:
did not gather in the lodgerooms
| where debates are held, or in the so
\ cial rooms, where relaxation is had
but this being a most solemn occasion
| it was fitting that it be held where
| others might learn of the true inward
ness of ElkdOm. 1t was an occasion
| when the brothers could pause an(
think of their absent brothers. L
was not an empty ceremony. It mean
something to all Elks, something tina
was deep and touched their hearts.
What is an Elk? asked the speaker
Two things come into the mind-on'
is of the Elk who wears the antle
button, and the other is of the noble
amman AFTER WHICH. lHe OIdtI 10 h"IiAN"
''Look at the elk as he stands upol
a ridge in the rockiest regions Of thu
mountains, said Brother Knoll, gaz
ing out upon the valley. He stand
there glorious. graceful, his head hell
high. The contour of his body speak
of strength. Does he stand there be
cause he is proud, and conscious onl.
of the beauty of himself2 No; h
stands in that attitude because behin'
him are his brothers who are grains
in quiet fields. He knows they are t.
be protected and watched over, an'
with stately figure he remains there
unselfsh and watchful. He stand
there with head erect watching for an(
seeming whatever of danger may ap
proaeh. that he may warn his brothers
His eyes2 Hunters speak Of then
often as full of gentleness, not of et
feminacy. but of power. He gaze
into the future to see what is beyond
that he may be of use to his brothers
/ That is the elk Of the wilds. Inc