The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-05

tuous, indeed, for me to attempt more
than tentatively at most TO answer
this question | apprehend, too, that
even with time for consideration and
reflection no two individuals would
come to the same conclusion concern
ing It To one IL may mean power;
TO another. fame to still another, II
may mean an abundance OF this
worlds goods, and so On al inhnitum-
Perhaps 10 all 1t means happiness,
Many 'devout Christians VIII tell us
that the summum bonum Of life Isl
faith and much can be said In sup
port of the assertion; | am rather in"
c,incd, however, TO believe that the
greatest thing in the world is love.
Said the Apostle Paul Now abideth
faith, hope. hove. the greatest OF these
is love- And 1t needs no scrIptural
announcement to convince us that the
| power to love our fellow-man Is the
| greatest gilt OF God, In the power TO
! love are encompassed patience. kind
ncss, generosity, humility, unseltlsh'
ness, sincerity. Browning saws that
| love is the energy of life Look about
you and. forgetting the passing incl
dentals and tri0es OF your existence,
| and even leaving out OF the account
the boundless love OF God for man,
what really enduring good thing can
| you find in your experience that does
Lot emanate from your love Tor others
or their love for you? What real hap
piness have You ever experienced
| yourselves or conferred upon another
| that has not been derived from this
puissant passion? Said Henry Drum
mond in one OF his sermons: There
fore love Without calculating, with
| out procrastination, love, Lavish II
| upon the poor, where 1t is very easy:
especially upon the rich, who need 1t
| most; most of all upon our equals,
where it is very difficult, and for
whom, perhaps, we do least OF all.
[ have said that love includes gener-
] osity Is not generosity one OF the
| most valuable OF human sentiments
| do not speak merely OF that Gener-
osity which consists in the giving OF
tangible things TO those in need, but
of that larger generosity which i'm.
pels us to attach full faith and credit
| 10 the acts and motives OF our fellow
nen. Were we but generous as we
should be, how many OF the asperitieS
oi life would vanish; how many OF
| the barriers which separate us would
orumble away, and what larger
fund of true happiness there would
be in the world. Generosity is the
inseparable characteristic cf all great
personalities. Without it man is but
pitiable counterfeit of one of God g
children.
Sincerity is also one of the Gle
mentS OF love. And by sincerity |
moan freedom from dissimulation,
freedom from every form of hy-
pocrlsy. In other words, IT Is being
| precisely what we appear to be. is
there enough OF this virtue amongst
us? Is it.possible for you or me TO
be too sincere? Is not life much too
short to justify any OF us In being
otherwise In our dealings one with
arothor? Surely the world is not so
bad as to preclude us from the eXer-
cIse OF this virtue And so / might
speak categorically of this family
group of virtues which constitute the
sentiment OF passion Of love. but what
have said must suffice for this
occasion.
The thought | desire to leave with
you In this connection Is that our re
lGtionS hero In life are mutually inter
dependent We must both give and
receive No man should say, am
not my brothers. keeper We are all
in daily need OF the help OF our fellow
men. The happiness of the individual
is inSepaTably connected with that OF
bis neighborS and friends, Nor can
enc be truly happy without doing good
To others, for 1T is more blessed to
give than TO receive
I'm conclusion allow me to leave
with You these words of truly loving
spirit
CT shall pass through this world
but once Any good thing ! can do or
any kindness | can show 10 any hui
man being let me do It now. Let me
rot defer 1t OF mcgee; it, for | shall
not pass this way again.
Address OF Rev. 5rainard.
Rev Frank G. Brainerd In his ad.
dress spoke as follows:
MIR. Exalted Ruler, Members of the
Elks Lodge, Ladies and Gentlemen: /:
We have become so accustomed in
this generation 10 continental express.
telephone, wireless telegraphy and
now to the flying machines that we
almost are losing the conception OF
biEneSS in life because we sec great
],
we are almost led into the mistake
of thinking that life is COMMONPLACE
and ordinary But It is very certain
that among all the great things of life,
whose greatness we do not often
enough recognize. there is the great.
ness OF human brotherhood. We can.
not comprehend the advance from the
days OF sayagery. when every man s
hand was against his neIghbor's hand,
to this day and TO this location, when
every mans hand is in his neighbor' 8
hand, when every wish for his neigh
Dor on the part of man is a wish for
good, if he indeed has in him the
heart of a man. 1t Is not strange that
as time came TO the human race men
felt the longing Of one heart toward
another and the needing OF another's
hand in their hand. There were times
when the battle was too much for one
man, when the struggle was too Sc
we're for few men, and men in the
instinct OF sclf-prescrvation sought
assistance which they later returned
in kind, and the seeking Of such as.
sistdnce and It's return in kind brought
abort an acquaintance. Il mutual un.
deTstandinG and fellowship and the
dawn Of brotherly love. 1t Is not
strange that as time passed men
banded themselves together in fra.
ternal organizations. pledging to mu,
tt4n hnl Inf al