El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-22

ternity extends their influence from
the family circle to its own broader
field
Let US who have smiled beneath that
influence while paying our tribute to
the known pay another to the un-
upon an unknown soldiers grave
FraternaIism Is Old.
There is q story that has come down
to us from the DAYS Of old, Of a traveller
who, falling III at a distant inn, would
have suffered from want and privatfon
but for the kindness Of the innkeeper.
who gave him the attention and care
that he would have received in his own
home.
As the days heightened into weary
weeks and the impOssi bility Of recovery
raced the sick man, he thought of the
kindnesses heaped upon him by his
host and the hOpeIessness Of his ever
repaying his benefactor
The shadows crept slowly upon him,
ana, turning his face TO the wall he
traced upon it with feeble fingers some
mystic symbols; then composed himself
10 await the end, which came speedily
Days and weeks passed and then
came TO the inn another traveller an
other disciple of PythagOras and was
shown TO the room that bore upon its
walls the mystic symbols. To him they
I spoke OF kindness and charity TO Il
brother in distress, Of benefactions ex-
possible hope Of repayment or reward
1t was a brothers, message spea king
of a debt unpaid
The Modern Fraternity.
We of the modern fraternities, like
these two travellers, are bound by fra
teTnaI ties. Today perhaps like the
second traveller il is for US to repay
the obligation Of some unfortunate
brother whose life journey has been
broken ere his debts and duties have
been satisfied. Perhaps behind him
may De left those dearer to him than
life itself Perhaps to them NAV be
due the care and obligations Of father
mood Out from the past there calls TO
US q brothers voice, bidding US extend
to those dear to him a fathers love
and care. Such is the message Of the
Elks who have passed away to those
Who remain behind
The Departed Brother.
ana as we listen to the voice from
the past, there rises before our ewes
a vision of the brother who has zone
before We see him in the councils
OF his lodge, giving and receiving the
joys Of fraternal cOmradeship. We 80.
MIN in the hour OF pleasure with
CHEEKY voice and smiling countenance
carrying TO other lives the sunshine of
MS own We see him in the days that
require unfaltering courage, doing the
duty OF man in defending a brothers.
right, and in the days when misfortune
enters a DFOLnerS nome, and sickness
stretches the strong man on his bed.
We see him again, ministering to his
brother with the tenderness OF a wo-
man, and that deeper. truer feeling
that links man unto his Maker
There has been one appeal that has
come ringing down the ages from faith
er to son, from brother to brother. from
man to man. 1t came from the first
human being, when he heard the sem
tence Of death pronounced upon his
race 1t comes from the humblest toll
er, whose only apparent desire Is to
wrap his child in comfort and provide
against material want 1t comes from
every monarch who has drenched his
country in its children's blood. and
when the last man stands upon this
globe, that appeal will come from his
hps-the appeal that he shall not have
lived in vain.
Living Right.
It is so ordered that no man shall
see his life work completed. Tt is for
us to see that the brothers, whose
voices have Joined with ours in frater-
nal council shall not have lived in
vain; that he, whose life has brought
the sunshine into the lives of others.
shall live again in ours. and as each
day we recall his CHEEKY presence and
his hearty voice, let u.s. if we can, i'm