Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-12-08
LODGE OF SORROW WAS FITTING
LY OBSERVED BY MEMBERS \
OF LOCAL B. p. o. e.


M1NOT PAST EXALTED RULER
PAID AN EXCELLENT TRIBUTE
TO THE DEAD.
Program Was Carried Out in an Excel
lent Manner and Exercises Were Wei
Attended-Elks Turned Out in Large
Numbers and Marched From Hall t
the Grand Opera House Opera
House Appropriately Decorated.
Pathetic indeed were the exercise,
of the Lodge of Sorrow Of the local
3fder of Elks in this city Sunday
afternoon. The opera house was ap
propriately decorated and ne"er pre-.
sented more handsome appearance
than on this occasion. White ,.hrysan
themums adorned the stage AMI pro
fusion of carnations added to the cello.
scheme.
The orchestra, after playing scvera!
especially appropriate selections. sound,
ed the note of dirge to which the
Elks marched into the opera house in
a body, taking seats that had been re.
served. There was good attendance
and everything passed off smoothly
honor and tribute being paid the de-
parted members of the Order in Amer
lea, there being no deceased in the To-
cal order.
Exalted Ruler Chas. Doyon opened
hte ceremonies, assisted by the officers
of the lodge, and made few approp.
rate remarks. Rev. ClattenburG Of
fered the invocation. Several appro.
pirate vocal selections were rendered
by Mesdames Freeman and Milham
and Miss Hardy. all of which were in
keeping with the solemn occasion.
Judge Palda, Past Exalted Ruler of
the Minot lodge, No. 1859. was the
memorial orator, and paid a lasting
tribute to the ElkS of the nation. say
ing in part:
Wherever in America there is found
temple dedicated to the uses, rights
and ceremonies Of our Order, there to-
day, and at this hour. are assembled
the brotherhood, joining with us, and
with all other Lodges i'll the solemn
ritual ordained by this service. In
every such temple, if any member of
that particular lodge shall have passed
on to the great Lodge of Eternal Rest,
there will be found table of stone OF
brass bearing at its top the inscription
"In Memoriam Beneath will be
found the names Of the departed broth
ers, and below those will be fonud in
scribcd that most beautiful motto of
our Order: "The faults of our broth
ers we write upon the sand; their vir-
tues upon the tablets Of love and mem
ory'
This solemn service has for its pri-
mary purpose the commemoration Of
the good deeds and virtues of our de.
parted brothers. The waters of life
and Of death have washed away what
ever We wrote of them upon the sand,
and here today We meet to burnish
again those ;ftablets of love and mem
ory," wherein are indelibly inscribed
the virtues which, in life, held them
to us in the bonds of brotherly love,
and which in death bind them to us
by the mystic cords Of memory. That
this precept of our Order is not a
meaningless thing, witness the fact
that today four hundred thousand Elks
are devoting this hour to thoughts in
which they hear and see again the
kindly words and deeds of the brothers
with whom, in years gone by, they
trod the rugged forest paths of life
And SO this precept calls us together
not as the crash of sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal'' calls the multi.
tude to feasting or to revelry, but as
solemn thoughts of life and death sum.
mon up the consciences of men and
bid them review the virtues of the
dead, and thereby shape their own
life paths to better and safer ends. II
we recall the good exemplifed in the
lives of other men, we cannot fail to
profit thereby. There is self -propa
eating power in good. The smallest
act of charity cannot fail to bear
fruits of charity though it be at some
far distant day. And so today, as
you and / recall the kindly deed of
some departed brother, it may we'll be
true that, though while he lived We
needed not the example. we shall now
profit by, and hereafter emulate it.
The histories of the nations are but
the records Of those things which con.
trolled and directed the lives Of the
men and women who made up those ia
tons; those controlling forces were
generated in the individual beliefs of
the same men and women, and those
beilefs were generally the fruits Of
widely disseminated precepts of the
supposedly wise men Of the times. And
so We come to judge of the mortal life
OF a nation or race, at given Der
1od, by the precepts or 1ogmas that
prevailed at such period among its peo
pie. If we were to search for an i]lus
tratlon OF the marvellous moral progress.
OF the civilized peoples Of the earth
we could find no better one than come,
from a comparison Of this motto of GU,