Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-05
ELKS HONOR
THEIR DEAD
Impressive Memorial Ser
vices Held Yesterday at
the EIks Theater
TWO ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
With Prayer and Song an Inspir-
ing Program Was Also
Carried Out.

I Simple, digniied, impressive, were
the Elks Memorial services at the
Elks Theater yesterday afternoon.
All over the world, where a loyal Elk
happened to be yesterday, he thought
lovingly OF the absent and the depart
ed brethern in accordance with the
established and touching precepts of
that order. The services in this city
yesterday afternoon were in keeping
with the solemnty of the occasion
and the audience entered into their
spirit with devotion. Morrison's or
chestra rendered fitting selections
and a volunteer choir sang songs
suited 10 the occasion. Miss Virgi-
MIA Bean gave a violin solo with in
spired feeling,
The services were opened with the
beautiful ritual of the order; which
also closed the devotional hour. Rev.
]. G. Mythen Of the church of the
Holy Faith fronouuc:ng a beautiful
invocation as well as a significant
benediction. The officers of the lodge
occupied their stations, each one of
which was marked with bouquets of
carnations. The eulogies wre pro
nounced by Attorney f. P. Davies and
DR.. F. Palmer, and each was eloquent
and breathed the spirit of loyalty to
the departed brethern the roster of
whom in the local lodge is growing
longer each year They also dWelt on
the aims, the principle Of the great
order and on the meaning of the Elk
Memorial Day. 1t was a MOTTO be-for-
gotten occasion and no doubt, moved
many man in the audience, who is
not as yet a member of the order, to
a desire to become an Elk so that
his name might be inscribed on the
tablets of memory of so noble an or
ganization.
Mr.. Davies Address.
Attorney E. P. Davies, lecturing
knight of the B. P. o. F., spoke as
follows:
I'VE shall meet, but we shall miss
him,
There will be vacant chair.
But though we no more possess him,
Still our hearts his mem'ry bear.
But awhile ago We gathered,
Friendship beaming in each eye;
Now the golden cord is severed,
He has passed beyond the sky"
Somewhere from the depths of al
most forgotten memories, comes those
lines of an old song, and they serve
as fitting prelude to my remarks
this evening, for this is the day of all
days in the yearly calendar of Elkdom
p:opriate exercises in memory of our
dear departed.
The memorial exercises that are
this. day held by each and every lodge
Of Elks from the turbulent waters
of the Atlantic on the east to the
quiet waters Of the Pacific on the
west, and from the ice bound waters
of the lakes on the north to the sun
hist waters of the gulf on the SOUTH
stand as an eloquent and forceful re-
futation of the idea that prevails in
the minds of many that the Elks'
lodge is too much engrossed in the
vain and frivolous side of life, and
that we are too much bent on pleas
ure for the proper development of the
more serious and consequently more
important side of our natures.
1t is true, and we enter a plea of
guilty 10 the offense, if offense it Is
considered, that we do give a great
deal of our time to the consideration
Of the amusement and entertainment
of our members, believing as we do
that our members are assisted to bear
the hardships, the rebuffs and the
trials of our earthly existence ON this
long journey from the cradle to the
grave by the refreshment and invigo-
ration that we find in the occasional
oasis of pleasure provided by our So
cial meetings, our entertainments and
our intermingling in healthful social
intercourse. And it is our aim and
purpose to occasionally divert our
members from the strenuous and
nerve racking pace that is today
threatening our American people.
But in entertaining and amusing
our members, we have not lost sight
Of the fact that in order for a man
to be able to fully enjoy healthful
amusement, his mind and heart must
he attuned to the note of human SYM
pGthy and kindness; that in order that
lis sense of humor and desire for
pleasure may not be developed at the
expense and to the injury of his sense
of sympathy and fitting regard for the
graver affairs of this life, and his
proper consideration of the mysteri.
Gus future beyond the grave, we year
ly provide such exercises as these
which tend to lead men to think and
contemplate upon the greatest of all
humanizing and softening Influences
that unknown, but awe inspiring
mystery of life; that since the birth
of man has served as check or dam
per upon mans inclination to evil
that unseen hand that opens the eye
to the beauties of life and closes it
to open upon the beauties of eternity.
Thus it is that today in every town