Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-12
Addresses by J. R. Townsend
And Rev. G. 6 Mosher.
Tributes to Horace B. cony, S. W.
Lane and n. S. Turner.

Music was furnished by a quartet o.
the Winthrop Street. Universalis
| church. i-9": eliJs:. -
| The services beganrats 230 P. NJ, an(
| were attended by good representation
of chevaliers and Odd Fellows and theil
ladies and friends. The exercises open
ed with singing by the quartet, con.
sisting of J. w. Beck, bass; j. Franz
| Dyer tenor; Mrs. Sara Miller McNa
m&rd, soprano; Mrs. c. S. York, tenor
with Miss Elida E: Higgins as accom-
PIANIST. Prayer was offered by Rev. c
| G. Mosher, pastor of the Penney Me
moiai Free Baptist church and after
another selection by the quartet the
opening address was delivered by
Grand Representative James r. Town
send of Augusta.
Mr.. Townsend began by alludng tC
| the nature Of the service, which he saio
was not a funeral service, bewailing
| of the loss of the departed members
| but one which should serve to recall
| in some degree the gain of their pres
ence in the lodge room as members and
the record which they have left as
faithful members.
The speaker then called by name tho
three charter members who had passed
| away and in whose memory the service
was held, Horace B. Cony, Samuel w
Lane and Henry S. Turner. Continu-
ing he said:
1T is happy figure which presents
our lives as a process of building and
each one contributing something tow
ards the general organization. Each
one of these three men made a con-
tribution of q characteristic nature tC
the organization with which he was
identified. Horace COny stood prima-
ri!y for the buoyancy, hopeful spirit
Samuel w. Lane for faithfuIness in
pubic service and Henry S. Turne,
for the fricndliness of manner anG
kindness of spirit, which endeared him
to all his fellow members" In cOnClu-
sion Mr.. Townsend urged his hearers t.
emulate the example of those in whose
memory the service was held.
Another selection was rendered by
the quartet and the principal address
of the afternoon was delivered by Rev
c. G. Mosher. Mr. Mosher said il
part
I'VE meet today to pay the tribute OF
love to those who have gone on before
We say they are dead, those whom w.
have known and with whom we have
had fellowship in the past. Do not be
lievc that. What we call death is no,
the cessation of being; not the haltine
of consciousness even, but the opening
unfolding of larger life.
'"Those who have gone on before ar,
the living, they are more alive today
than ever in the past; never were they
in such perfect command of their ran
somed powers: never had they such
actual control of their splendid erer.
gies as they do today. Dust thou art
to dust returnest' was not Spoken
of the soul. The grave is not the goa
of life. the tomb is not the prison hous,
of being. In my Fathers house arc
many mansions said one who knew
whereof He spoke. The Fathers house
of light and life has many spacious
rooms and he has prepared there {
ling place for every loyal heart
and trusting soul.
IN every lodge room there is at
least two rooms. the ante-room and thu
main room of the lodge where the dc
gree work is eXemplified and where
brethren met ill ties of fellowship true
Life has two rooms-the ante or recep
ton room of earth, where we are pre-
pared by the experiences that come up
on us, where we are fitted by the ques
tons put TO- us or the preparations
made for the larger room Of life thai
lies beyond the portal we call death
In going from one room of life to the
other we are not changed, but we re
main theE same, our eyes to be opened
to new tamths, we 46i enter into new re.
lationshhss.i 81 Weo'fbave earth TO,
Heaven. The Universe is Gods house
We IRE here in one room today, we may
he there. in Another tomorrow, but
whether here or there we are alive I'M
to him and beneath his love and care
What that other room may contain
we may. not know. Eye hath not seen
ear hath not heard, neither hath it en-
tered the heart of man the things
which God hath prepared for them that
love Him. But 1 hardly think it will
be the great change we are apt to
think it. 1t will not be the great con-
trast we are wont to suppose. You
will enter the hereafter about the sam,
| h.C'i % Soo iVil tillS Woilu, Will tlte
same spirit, the same temperament, the
same main desires. Death is only en-
| tering another room in the Fathers
many mansioned house of the universe
| We push aside the draperies that hide
this world from that. the Angel OF
| Death opens the door and we enter in
What we call death is as natural as
what we call birth.
"These brethren whose names have
been read and who have gone out from
our friendship found among us tire,
| fundamental truths Illustrated in life
| and character: the principles of friend
ship, love and truth. Here inaslnucf
as they by their lives illustrated these
principals they will find them bearing
| fruit t..ere. Did the Master not say
| 1nasmueh as We have done it unto
| one of the least of these we have done
it unto me:'
| $50 intimately is this life connected
with the life hereafter that the deeds
of tie one have influence in the other
all on lite. Friendship there will asser
its mild dominion: we shall meet anG
k,ow and love those whom we knew
here and the bonds Of fellowship that