Arizona republican., 1908-12-07

stand out like blazing stars lighting the horizon of our existence to guide our faltering footsteps through the night with its dark shadows, its forbidden deeds and its worldly wrongs, pointing us to the narrow pathway all must tread if the conscience within us is to be at rest and given no cause for that inner castigation, which comes to | all who fail to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them. Tn business, in their homelife, in the lpursuit of happiness and in their mo- iments of greatest pleasure We can point with pardonable pride to their fairness and justice, their respect for the rights of others, their desire to live clean, useful lives and their hatred of the dishonest and the mean. Well can We say of them that they lived and taught fidelity, charity, justice and | Ibrotherly love. They were all members
 of our order who believed in these noble virtues. and believing in them won the esteem and love of all. Fidelity kept them true, charity made them gener-
 ous, justice made them righteous and lbrotherly love kept them tender and kind.
 Bound to us by fraternal ties, worthy of our highest regard, and men in whom the sense of honor and in ltegrity was strong we valued their friendship as a priceless gem of purest
 ray, and now treasure their memory as
 one of our richest heritages In life we loved them, and in death we cherish
 the fond recollection of their noble
 manhood and their faithful perform lance of every duty. Behind each there
 remains the record of many touching
 incidents. many happy days of broth Ierly cOmpanionship. and far and above
 all this the realization that their pass ing from this life marked the breaking
 of a chain, every link of which was forged in the flames of truest friend ship.
 | Life to the average man may be fill led with much darkness and little light. or it may be made up of much light land little darkness. To every man there come obstacles to surmount, Ichasms to be bridged, and long dusty stretches to cover on foot. Each is lconcerned with his own destiny, and unless unselfish rises to greater heights by stepping first on the shoulders and
 then on the heads of his less fortunate icompetitors. In this wild scramble for fame and fortune when so much of the
 good is forced aside and forgotten how
 noble it is to gather on such occasions
 as this to pay reverence to those whose hands are now so still, and whose
 minds are no longer aching from the
 fierce struggle the world forces us to
 make to be one of the fittest and sur lviVe.
 These beautiful flowers, emblematic of the higher ideals that actuate ma ture in all it's moods and phases, are laid at the tomb of our departed broth
 CTS that they may know we can never forget. An Elk worthy of the name is , never forgotten, never forsaken;
 whether death has claimed him or an ocean and a continent remove him he still remains enshrined in the heart of
 every brother.
 Twice rewarded is the Elk who
 lives true to his obligation-esteem and
 respect here on earth and in that life
 to come peace and pleasant dreams.
 Worthy of the love and friendship of
 the most high is that man, who for
 gets no friends, punishes no enemy and
 leaves no suffering to mark the steps
 along his pathway. Life is sweet to