The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-07
ELKS MOURN
THEIR DEE
Members and Families FIJI
Lodge Room at Annual
Memorial Service.
REV. DR.. URMY A SPEAKER

Morristown Elks. members of lodge
No. SIS, met in their rooms ia the
Schmidt building Sunday afternoon
and held their annual lodge of sorrow.
Exalted Ruler Carl e. Voigt presided
and parts in the service we're taken by
Past Exalted Ruler John j. A. Owens,
occupying the Leading Knights chair,
Loyal Knight DR.. Ray w. Welch,
Lecturing Knight Arthur T. Smith,
Secretary Fred G. Reeves and Treas
urer George L. Clarke. The eulogies
we're delivered by the Rev. Ralnh B
Urmy, pastor of the Methodist church,
and Esteemed Leading Knight Ed
ward A. Isaacs
DR.. Urmy spoke upon If manadie
shall he live again" Man gives evil
dences that he will in himself Though
not seen we believe in another life,
though mans sins fotbles, and sorrows
are plain, yet be is ever striving up
ward and onward. While clothed In
the rags of sin man is yet a king, heir
to Gods inheritance in Heaven. All
ages and every race of men have be-
lieved in Immortality and though it is
said this belief has its origin in super
stition this cannot be true for the fur
ther advanced in civilization men grip
the more firmly to the doctrine OF i'm
mortality. Mans moral nature, God
like, is equipped for larger field than
this earth provides. With the powers
of divine knowledge, Of imagination
and his dissatisfaction with this earth
has he been created simply to haYe
bis desires partly satisfied here and
| las God led him on to fall back in the
grave and have an end of it all Z Man
| Is part of God, a divine spark struck
off from his anvil to go on for infinite
time. Children playing in the fields,
men wrestling with problems of state
craft young men in the flush Of youth
are stricken down with their work I'M
I finished. Life is incomplete, we can
not satisfy our hearts there is not am
other world. Immortality is necessary
here to teach as to help the needy, it
brings peace to troubled souls, in
spires us, fills US with sense Of our
responsibility to Him who has created
us. We need it to assure us that
those who have gone before are safe
and happy in that other world. God
has written across the skies, across
our hearts, over the human race that
If man dies he shall live again.
Mr. Isaacs spoke upon the four
watchwords of the order of Elkdom.
Justice, power to hold unswayed by
passion the scales of justice to deter
mine right from wrong. to throw the
mantle over the faults OF a brother.
Brotherly love, that teaches Elks to
stand ready with the outstretched
hand to support him in trouble and
adverSity. Charity, which stands by
us at the cradle and lends it kindly
light until we sink into the grave,
knows no rich nor poor, but teaches us
to nurture and protect, to love, for
give and forget. Fidelity. that typi-
ties the welding together OF every
strand of the great brotherhood of
Elkdom SO strong that death itself
cannot sever them.
Soprano solo by Madame Ludovica
Irmscher, who sang Schubert's 9 AN
Souls Day" and Gounod's Ave
Maria, we we'll rendered to J. Fred
Runyon's piano accompaniment.
. Secretary Reeves read the list of de-
parted members as follows Oscar III.
Babbitt. DIR. Herman a. Newbold,
Henry d. Schenck, Thomas Malley,
William d. Won Deilen, Joseph Reeves,
Irving e. Salmon, William T. Lewis,
Arthur III. Lynch, Moses X. Everitt,
Joseph j. Larkins, James Dickson and
Charles M. Genung.