The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-07
JUDGE HOWELL'S
ELOQUENT WORDS
Annual Memorial Services of
Weber Camp, WOOdmen of
the World.

The annual memorial service Of the
Weber Camp No. "A, Woodmen Of the
World, was observed I'm ogden yester-
day. Services were held IN the morn
ing and afternoon at the Mountain
View and city cemeteries ana mOnu-
ments 10 NeighDors Z. S. Luty. L. All
ard, S. Nelson and Z. r. Speak were
unveiled. Together with the regular
ritual special music was furnished by
the quartet Of the lodge and the ogden
band
Judge J. A. Howell, the orator of the
day, spoke at the services at the City
cemetery. In part he spoke as follows;
again year in the cycle Of time has
rolled by and again We WOOdmen meet
together as we have met, year by year
for the solemn purpose Of bedecking the
graves Of all Of our deceased neighbors.
now numbering thirty-siX, with sweet
flowers Of remembrance. and 10 perform
the sacred duty Of defeating these sub
stantial monuments Of stone to the latest
of our honOred dead-memOTIals symbolic
of the Tock-ribbed honesty and integrity,
OF the enduring faithfulness to home, 70
employer, to fellow workmen, and TO
friends and neighbOrs. of these men who
q little while before the rest of US have
passed into the valley of the shadow OF
death. They are no longer In the camp
Of the living. yet we can say or eacn OF
Falkenburg, has said Of every Woodman.
But he is not forgotten: for some day
With solemn ceremonies. grand, sublime
They place a marble token of esteem
And plant sweet flowers from sunny
cline
Upon his grave, and with an ancient oil
They 'consecrate' It and themselves
anew,
And with pure water pledge him once
again
To those he loved, to be forever true"
Following an Ancient Custom.
To-day. with a ceremonial whose form
Is peculiar to our order we fOndly TeCol-
lect our dear departed dead. but the pur-
pose which actuates us in so doing is as
ole as the worl1s history. it is an &C
acknowledgement Of our Indebtedness TO the
past, for this custom Of remembering the
deal with proper ceremony goes back into
the very dawn of civilization. The mag
nificent pyramids of old Egypt the most
ancient country in the world. those cOlOs-
sal structures which are mysteries to the
historian. whose purpose the arChaeOlO-
gist has sought I'm vain to unravel what
ever else they may be, are certainly me-
MORALS to EEypts dead. for upon them
by pictures and signs are emblazoned the
lives of the men of her mOmentOus past.
Just as In the times that are gone,
as far back as the transactions Of the
human family are recorded. men have
comm I'm stone and in bronze
the lives of their predecessors. so do we
now. so viii our successors. as long as
mankind recognizes its obligations TO
those who have gone before, which means
for all time. for each age Of mankind
must realize that 10 IS the inherltOr OF
all the ages which preceded it.
There is just one difference in our
manner of rearing monuments to the dead
and the manner Of those OF bySone ages
Formerly they were erected only to the
the nation, the rich and the mighty. for
IL was then considered that the few out
of the many controlled the destiny OF
the nation-thOse were the days Of oil
on the graves OF all those who have lived
useful lives and we cherish their mem
cries. for we realize that the progress
of the nation depends not only upon the
works and lives of a few chosen to fame,
but upon the works and lives of all its
citizens, even though unknown to fame
this is the day of democracy
After raciting some membranes OF
the departed neighbors who were r3mem-
bered yesterday and giving some idea Of
the purposes OF the order, Judge Howell
concluded:
The Brotherhood of Man.
Above and higher than ali else we
stand for the universal brotherhood OF
man. we look forward to that sunlit day
when each man mere upon the earth shall
y
as a neighbOr, 20 that day when wars
shall be no more. but the sons OF men
shall assemble peacefully together as In
common family. each soliCitOus OF the
welfare Of the other, protecting him and
his in a bond Of unity so strong that
nauEht can disturb it. We are pledged
about the stump by a holy oath to do our
share toward concentrating this ideal of
the ages and by the kindly ministrations
on the part OF our camps to their mem
hcrs, by mutual helpfulness one neighbOr
To another, by little acts OF charity-by
letting the sunshine of love enter the
darSened reccsses of the distressed and
needy home, not only of those who are
united by the obligations Of WOOdcraft.
but who are vet fraternally ours In the
broader humanitarian sense. we are doing
what we can towards this end. God speed
the day when not partially but wholly
this high ideal of this great organization
and other kindred societies, this ideal
which is the cornerstone Of our govern
mental system itself, shall have been full
filled. when I'm very truth there shall be
peace on earth and good viii towards all
men