The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-06

thing but an 1ngersoI to gaze upon.
Miss Helen Wood Lathrop followed
with soprano solo Dudley Buck s
s.Mv Redeemer and Ny Lord She
was accompanied by Mrs. L. Tenney
Peck. The singer possesses a beauti-
full voice Of high register, sweet, Vi
brant and mellifuous, and the rendl-
ton added much to the impressive oc-
easion The eulogy was given by
Bro. J. L. Coke, as follows:
The Eulogy.
Again we are brought together TO
bow cur heads and bare our hearts in
fraternal recollection of our absent
brothers who have gone hence from US
to be known on earth no more for
ever.
Since last we assembled upon a ike
occasion. another year has passed by
another wave in the limitless ocean of
duration, intangible and unseen, vet
known to ali men, has rolled away,
onward toward the ever receding
shores of an ineomprehensible and in
conceivable eternity. During that pc
Rod the Angel of Death has appeared
among rs and has beckoned forth into
the unknown world three members of
our lodge In the ceremonies Of to-
day you have heard their names call
ed but Won have heard no response.
Their hands are cold, their lips are
sealed, they have fallen into everlast-
ing sleep--but they are not forgotten.
The ceremonies of today are held in
cOrnmemorati0n of every Elk who has
/ ~ l. -
ception of the order; without regard
to what lodge he may have belonged,
whore he may have lived. or where his
, final resting place may be.
Sympathy and grief for the dead is
one of the immutable laws of nature;
it is an instinct which the finger of
our Creator has inscribed across the
breast of every human being, whether
it be his lot to live in the icy hut
that the Eskimo builds in the frozen
solitudes of the northern seas, or in
the open air, under the palm tree, be-
meath the rays of the torrid sun, or in
the stately mansion which art and civ
ilization have erected upon the shores
of the temperate zones.
And so it will be until the end of
time, in resp0nce to this natural in
stinct, and to the statutes of the Order
of Elks, these same sad ceremonies will
be performed annually until finally all
Of US here today will have followed in
the footsteps of those we now mourn.
The names of those of us who are
Flks viii be called in this lodge of
sorrow, and our names will be written
upon the memorial tablets.
We ara fbprnfora rapoiuInj
| only a step from the cradle to the
grave, and that while this is essential
ly a day of mourning, it should, at
| ton. In a day we will be called to
account before the Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Universal Brotherhood of
Men. Some may be found wanting.
| but it is consoling thought that every
Elk who has accepted the teachings
and principles. of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks as his code
of conduct, and lived up to it, will
! find, when he appears before his Gre
| ator to final judgment, that the re-
cording angel which records the sin of
men has nothing written against his
name.
| Henry N. Clark, accompanied by
Mrs. Hugo Herzer, sang a baritone solo
from Tosti, contributing musical trib-
| ute to the sad memories The bene-
diction was pronounced by Rev. Mr..
Knoll.
The officers and committees taking
part in the exercises were as follows:
E. A. Douthitt, exalted ruler; J. d.
Dougherty, esteemed leading knight;
George t. Kluegel, esteemed loyal
knight; W. J. Cooper, esteemed lectur-
ing knight; FL. C. Easton, secretary;
| NJ. H. Drummond, treasurer; George ].
| o Neil, tyler; T. B. Angus, esquire A.
). Prescott, inner guard; W. L. Emory.
chaplain; d. L. Conkiing, organist; H.
E. Murray, E. H. Paris, William H. Nc
1nerny, trustees.
Memorial Committee-C B. Cooper.
chairman; j. S. McCandless. D. P. R.
Isenberg, L. NJ. Whitehouse, w. J.
Cooper, A. R. Cunha.
Ushers- Charles R. Frazier, chirman;
S. A. Walker, William Thompson, r. G.
Lydecker, Nelson B. Lansing, W. H.
Stroud, c. B. Hall, C. F. Waterman.
r. 7. Carson, C. d. Wright, C. f.
Murray.
The list of departed brothers. in
memory of whom the exercises were
held is as follows: Chas. A. S. Vivian,
founder of the order, died March 90,
| 1880; James NJ. Sims, July rs, 1902;
James Love, October 6, 1902: George
Hons, February IA, 1908; Gilbert Fl.
Brokaw, April, 1908; George A. Cooke,
July z, 1903; Jacob Bearwald, March.
1904; Chas. FL. Ramsey, December Is,
| 1905; William Dunbar, March 20. 1906;
| William E. Taylor, July 80, 1906; Chas.
Fl. Bishop, August 10 1906: Albert J.