Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-05

commandment, that We love one an
other as l have loved you. Greater
love hath no man than this, that |
man lay down his life for his
friends.
Fraternal organizations are potent
factors in the higher christian sew
ilization of the age. Their basic
| principle is the fatherhood of God
and brotherhood of man. They
teach and practice charity and
brotherly love upon broad grounds
which appeal to humanity in gen.
eral. Their work for the good of
the world cannot be estimated.
The great order of which we are
members is prominent in its prac-
tice of transformations charity. IT
impresses upon its members and the
! world at large, that charity is the
! greatest of all virtues! Charity in
its broadcast sense. Charity for the
! faults and frailties of human nature
! as we'll as charity for the weak, the
helpless and the unfortunate.
The order which we delight to
: honor came into being to exemplify
true brotherly love. Its origin was
: in simplicity. Its founders carried
their wealth of material things upon
, their persons, yet they possessed a
wealth which cannot be measured
by gold. They appreciated that the
highest and best things in this
world were possessed of the hum
i blest, as well as of the greatest.
That friendship and brotherly love,
the germ of true happiness, was a
t bounteous gift of God to man,
4 which the gold of Ophir could not
), buy. 1t is more than forty years
/ since New York Lodge No l was
T founded with its fifteen charter
If members. The order has passed
n through all the trials and vicissi
e tudes that come to test the strength
L of any institution. 1t. has beer
d tried by fire and withstood the test
If It's foundation stone was love i'm
Of Mutabe and blest of God. Toda.
J. more than quarter of a million
S men, gathered from the best o
American citizenship, in more thai
lie a thousand lodges, stands as one o
the great peaceful armies in tn
lie fight against mans inhumanity t,
man. There has been more of jo
re and less of mourning in the worl
n since the order of Elks was insti
DIS great world was intended by tn
ld Greater and Ruler of the Univers
ur as place of enjoyment for mar
,ll and that when mankind is no. Ii,
ce ing happily, it is not living in tn
er way of the Lord. The order {
rs. Elks stands as an enemy to thos
we conditions which selfish man his
a's created and which are destructiN
OF of human happiness. The man WI
oh for his brother as well as himse
TO has no place in the order of Elks
We The altar of the lodge is drapf
It in the Stars and Stripes and is SUI
mounted by the Holy Scripture
OF that inestimable gift of God to ma
OF as the rule and guide of his fat
on and practice.
lat The flag signifies that it is {
we American order, and stands for To-
ice truths to be self-evident that g
or men are created equal, and tn
'ur they are endowed with the inalie
able rights of life. liberty and tt
1ty pursuit of happiness. The Ho
ia Bible signifies that it stands for t
nd betterment and elevation of huma
os- ity as whole.
JOG The Rev. Father Reaney chapla
na' of New York Lodge No. 1, t
: mother lodge of Elkdom, in del
ering a memorial address for S
a'e ter lodge a. few years ago, us
ous these appropriate words: 'tIf the
~ were another name by which o
~ order would be known, it mig
''ee fittingly, be called, Gods demo
:" racy.' All creeds, all profession
.ii' all trades fuse into one expressi
~. of human helpfulness. We mi
upon the level, man to man. Eve
INV one of us, however lowly, who he;
up a clear word of God and sends
~" on without a lisp. is proph
- Yea, every mute inglorious solits
-. in the long drifts of duty, W
hopes safety-lamp on his G.
- swinging an honest pick and shoy
stands radiant in the eternal scar
light, "a man sent from God
man sent from God who cries,
- the wilderness of today's selfishn