Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-05
ELkS IN MEMORIAM
PAY TRIBUTE To
DEPARTED BROTHER
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Impressed upon us by these cere-
monies: That death does not break
the fraternal chain which unites us.
That although some have been gath
cred by the reaper whose name is
Death, yet they are brothers of the
fraternity still. That they are not
forgotten; that their faults have
long ago been written upon the
sands of the sea, where the tide
GIBBS and flows, but their virtues
have been indelibly inscribed upon
tablets of love and memory, and all
that was good and noble in their
lives preserved to influence and ele-
vate the living to higher thoughts,
to better deeds, to nobler aspira-
tions.
We loved our absent brothers,
and love is immortal.
Those we love truly never die,
though year by year the sad MEM
orial wreath,
A ring and flowers, types of life and
DEATH
Is laid upon their graves
The uncertainty of the span OF
earthly life, and the certainty OF
that transition we call death, has
with shocking frequency, been i'm.
pressed upon the members of oul
lodges during the brief period Of
their existence. Some have beer
called in the ripeness of age, some
in the strength of mataure man
hood, while others have responded
to the call of the Exalted Ruler o
the Universe with the bloom o
youth still upon their cheek, eXem
plifying the words from Lincoln
favorite poem:
g tbs the wink of an eye, tbs tn
draught of breath
From the blossom Of health to tn
paleness of DEATH
These instances of mortality ar
impressive reminders of our own in
definite but inevitable end. ''Ther
is o Divinity that shapes our end
rough hew them as we may" an
today or upon some tomorrow, on
names will be placed upon the 70
of absent brothers, and thriC
will they be called. but the answt
will not be heard by mortal ear
When the summons comes, and "
toilsome journey, may the record
our faithfulness to the obligation
and teachings of our order be sue
that there will be more virtues
inscribe upon the tablets of lo'
and memory than faults to be wri
ten upon the sands of the sea-
Standing today in the presence
this record of the uncertainty
earthly existence, what is the lessC
it impresses upon us. 1t is, tn
in our journey through life v
should ever remember the virtu
of charity. of fidelity, of benevolen
and OF brotherly love, and to inco
porate them in the acts of o.
every day lives. The memory of
man is cherished for his humani
to man. not for the wealth of m
terial things he has left benin
Material things become at once pc
sessed of others, and in time 10
their identity, but the virtues tn
go to make up a good character,
noble life, cannot be willed or
herited. They are the immedia
jewels of the soul and death b
enhances their radience They a
therefore, the real things of Ii
Tis a great thing to be trust
of wealth to have within ones pc
er the superior means to make Il
old earth a brighter and happ
spot for man to dwell in. But
who -@las that superior means a
fails to account for his trusteesh
may find, if he can look back ur
his record, but blank space wht
the words well DONE should
pear Then will be the sad res
cation of the words spoken by
Savior of man, "a mans life c,
sisteth not in the abundance of /
things which he possesseth.''
AS we hear the names of our
sent brothers today, what do we
call OF them? Do we recall tn
wealth, or their poverty? Do
think of their business failures
successes? No We think of til
manhood. We remember their
nevolence. their charity. We
member their observance of til
teachings of our noble order.
remember them as Elks, in all t
Elkdom signifies. Mindful of tn
things, may we increase our zeal