The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-10-14
Resolutions.

Resolved, That death having re-
moved from the ranks of Emblem
Lodge No. 1879, A. F. & A. M,
beloved member, Bro. John En-
mons; and further
Resolved, That this fraternal
body extend their most sincere SYM
pathy to the bereaved family and
relatives; and further
Resolved, That copy Of these
resolutions be spread on the minutes
OF this lodge, and copy delivered
to the bereaved relatives, and also
be published in The Leon Reporter.
The ways of providence fills the
human mind with awe. His pur-
poses are mysterious, indeed, but we
of the household of faith believe in
infinite mercy and truth, and love,
the span of life to those who have
gone away from US ended Just
little sooner than our own We who
are have become the earthly trustees
OF those who are not. There develops
upon US, therefore, the duty of caring
for the living, even though we share
their sorrows for the dead. Let us
give this duty our sweet service in
the spirit of love and mercy, and
with the JOY giving we will carry our
share of the burdens to the temple
of temples, and shall behold it's
stately walls arise in beauty and
symmetry, the we'll rounded soul H.
Illuminated by the light that CLOVIS
on the altar within the holy Of
holes.
Our brethren die and leave our
hearts and temples desolate for a
time. We can not prevent it, but we
may learn from it more of our whole
duty. Sorrow has it's useful lessons
and death is but the gate that opens
out of earth toward 1.-The house not
made with hands eternal in the
heavens. We still love those who
have departed-they are ours, we
are theirs. The tie that united
us here is not broken. The silver
cord may be loosed, and the golden
bowl broken, and earth may know
them no more forever, but the sacred
bond of brotherly love and affection
that existed here holds firmly there
Immortality! What a beautiful
word it is and what wealth of
thought and feeling it awakens in
our breast. How it echoes through
the deepest recesses of our memory
and brings before our vision the re-
memberance of those dear ones who
have vanished before our mortal
eyes and gone to the invisible be-
You'd.
What fond hopes and aspirations
stimulate us to live SO that we may
meet our loved ones, when the last
breath shall have left our parted lips
and our enfranchised spirit shall
be waited to that undiscovered coun-
try from whose bourne no traveller
ever returns.
We read the lesson through Gods
own hieroglyphics in ever rejuvinat-
ing nature While our bodies shall
crumble into dust, yet the soul, the
God-like attribute is unit to which
the law of decay does not apply
Temporarily it is incarcerated in it's
earthly prison, only to wing it's flight
to higher realms beyond the compass
of human thought and vision, when
the frail she'll shall have been
broken
So we believe we can say of each
dear one who has solved the Great
Mystery:
Brother, thou has gone to rest,
Thy tolls and cares are Ger
And sorrow, pain and sufferingnow
Shall never distress thee more.
| Brother, thou art gone to rest,
And this shall be our prayer,
| That when we reach our journeys
end,
Thy glory we shall share"
o. E. Macy,
| A. M. Haag,
| E. G. Hollister,
| Committee