Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-04

I T with a programme full of impressive features in connection with this memo rial to the departed members of the lodge. At ? o'clock the Elks met at EIks' home on Main street, marching from there in a body to the hall where the exercises were held. These were attended by about 100 members of the lodge.
 presided, and after the opening exer- cises. according to the ritual. during which the roll of the dead was called, the musical programme and the ad- dresses were heard. There were four William F. Slattery, James Moore, George A. Allen and Joseph H. Pratt who had passed away in the last IF months. bringing the mortuary roll of the lodge up to 37, and as each name was called a white carnation was dropped in remembrance upon the Bible at the altar.
 The programme opened as follows. dered:
 March, Onward, Christian Soldiers.
 Sullivan Elks' Orchestra, H. T. Miller director. Invocation,
 Rev. Joseph F. Cobb. Solo. Peace Leave With You, Tinney Mrs. Grace Aldrich CrowelI. soprano;
 Mrs Camilla Eldred Shields,
 accompanist. Sextette from Lucia. ,Donzonetti
 EIks' Orchestra
 Violin solo. Ave Marie Schubert
 Raymond B. E1dred.
 Mrs. Camilla Eadred Shields,
 accompanist-
 EuIogy by Rev. J. F. Cobb.
 The eulogy was eIoquently given by Rev MT. Cobb, who spoke, in part, as follows:
 Exalted Ruler and Friends: You have met to pay a tribute of affection ito your honored dead I ask you to rather think of them as hving' though you may not see them
 Among the Moravians there is a beautiful custom, which is that upon the death of one of their congregatlon the event is announced not by the rnonotonous mournful tolling of the bell, but by the deep breathing, melo- dious music of trombones. played in the open belfry steeple of the church by the trombone choir, and as the deep, sweet notes of the familiar hymn are borne to the people below they reverently drop their work to listen
 Hartk, they whisper. the horns are blowing. Someone has gone home
 Your emblem is the forget me-not, the tender flower or rememprance speaks of your fidelity to each other, in life and death. When you place the body. of a brother in it's final rest ing place, you bid farewell to that brother with the greeting, Sleep. then, my brother in the assurance that thy name will ever be remembered, and that we shall meet again in the land of endless calm" Today you have called the roll of the departed. and as each name was called you no doubt recalled some virtue which has been indelbly stamped upon the tablets of love and memory.
 So today we may think of the infiu- ence, the love. the good will of your departed brothers as here with you.
 Charity
 . f,rR far- ever growing and unswerving con- stancy to your brothers and friends. Never doubting, never fearing, you should be always ready with a strong arm to lean upon, true heart to con- fde in, and with instant response to every call that is made upon your sympathy and devotion The four foundation principles of this order are strong and mighty ones upon which to build. Charity is a great word. for benevolence is an expression of love. Charity is needed everywhere; not necessarily aims giving, but that qual- ity of heart and mind that looks to the depths of the heart to find there the best that is in one, so that we may bare with some of the outward ex- pressions.
 That charity is most useful which removes obstructions to well doing and to evil from the may of those in need. and encourages them to strive for their own true good You exercise this charity toward the living, and you also manifest it in conmem- orating the virtues of your departed brothers.
 Justice is the second virtue upon which you build, and a virtue which you exercise. Justice tells of the rights of men as rational and moral beings, of the rights of all to exer- else and unfold all their powers, their right to the means of improvements; their right to search for truth and to utter their honest convictions: their right to consult first the monitor in their own breasts, and to follow wherever 1t leads; their right to be and honored according to their moral efforts; their right, when injured, to sympathy and succor quires all to render to every human being, friend or foe. whatever is his due; to abstain conscientiously, not only from injurious deeds. but from injurious thoughts, judgments. feel ings and words. Justice bids us to be true to all. not to make light of any service, for such services have their high use to the living.
 Brotherly Love.
 Your third principle is brotherly love. It is a truth that needs empha- sis that man is a brother to man;
 
 have love. brotherly love that comes from the heart
 He who looks upon man as little better than a brute will live with men as brutes- He will be wanting in rev erence for their fights and feelings. He will think only of making them his instruments. He will be anxious chief ly to raise himself aboS-e them by out ward distinctions. He will care little how they are tramped under foot He will scoff at the idea. or a [ the thought of lyiving and dying for their happi- ness. You who cherish the principle of brotherly love are desirous of doing all in Nour power to raise the stand ard of human life and treat your fel- low beings as equals. It is your aim and desire to live for the happiness of your fellows. Brotherly love calls forth the picture of the divine In the human. Brotherly love brings delight as we think of the excellence of the departed ones. It gives an assured conviction of the perpetuity and inn of such noble forms of good ness as were expressed in deed and life. So your fourth principle Fidel- ity, bids us remember them.
 Memorial Address.
 After a cornet solo. The Holy City, ny Brother John NJ. Swahn, the memo