La Junta tribune., 1911-12-09

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listen to the memorial day program
hs one sat amidst the great throng
It was Interesting and beautiful To
remember that upon that day-per
haps at that very hour-Elks lodg
over our entire country were. IN
this same manner doing honor to
departed brothers
The program was given exactly as
ii appeared IN last weeks Tribune
aud was interesting and very appro-
PIRATE
G., VI Damcr0H gave the eulogy.
Our Departed Br5thers" briefly. but
Ia earnest and Ia fitting languag"
The general eulory delivered by the
Rev Conrad Bluhm. OF Spokane
Wash. vas brilliant combination
OF humor and eloquenco touched to
tenderness by constant reference to
principles upon which the great or
ganization known As the Elks Is
builded. The address. In part. fol
lows:
Exalted Ruler. Brother Elks and
Friends The invitation that finds
me your guest today Is an honor for
which am thrice grateful There is
the Joy Of loving remembrance Then.
there is the Joy of again seeing a
community Of friends among whom |
have lived. In my humble way. some
five of the best years OF my life
True happiness consists not of mere
residence In great center where
the hurry and bury and social Gus
tom of society necessarily bar the in
timacy expected In a community bro
therhood Rather does II lie In
smaller town with its good schools,
its comfortable churches. Its unseusa-
tional progres. where life u more
than labor. whore friendship super
cedes the pace for gold and where
IN" interests OF the community have
work.touoh IA tn" heart of all It's
people" Where there is time 20 eat
and toll. to read aud think, 20 pray
and To sleep. Then thirdly. there
Is the Joy OF honor. nndcscrycd. to
b. sure. but that is Just like Elks
Well do remember a mans bearing
may be such that when he leaves a
place there is JOY In that city. The
reinsurance of this occasion becomes
-, a
clinchcs my Joy beyond peradyenture.
In the gladsome hour one must be
guarded lest the iutorication OF JOY
impose upon the audience with too
great utterance | must remember
speaker is much like the wheel OF
a bicyclc-thc longer the spoke. the
bigger the tire. So AT the outset
take my queue from the lips OF
poet
~ wise old owl sa, up In tree.
The less he spoke the more he
could see:
The more he saw the more he
heard.
Would there were more like that
wise old bird"
on this solemn day. let US forget
the singer and simply hear the song
Two great thoughts rans'n the
mcditations OF all grades and coudi-
lions of human life.
First-The thought OF the great
hereafter
Second The thought Of the great
hcreandnow
This concentration Il ideas sum
mons Elkdom to solemn couclave
once each year. in the twelfth month
thereof by stately discourse to honor
the mcmory OF departed brothers aud
console the mourncrs they leave by
the lonely hearth Never home
from which has not gone beloved
10 be followed by the last process.
sional When the reflective hour
seems endless. the long night star.
less, strong mon cry out: III man
do. shall he live again"
Man will yet discover spiritual
r'''h'' bN Nhi'n 10 u'Hpnhfai' 'h'
problem OF Immortality Meanwhile
the foundation OF that science is al
ready In hand. and conclusions We
canno, reach by the sylloglsms are
none the less tenabl.. II Tor no other
reasons. then for these. namely. thai,
the contrary OF Immortality has
never been proven. while the alyo
Gates for the immortal belief have
argued farther toward their goal
than have they who stoutly predicate
the converse.
Faith Is III. substance OF things
hoped for. the evidence OF things not
seen" Such sentences glide Elibly
from the lips. much as some philo.
A..