The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-12-05
ELkS MEMORIAL IS
PARTICIPATED IN BY
MEMBERS AND OTHERS
SERVICES IN TEMPLE SUNDAY
ATTENDED BY LARGE, AP-
PREciATivE AUDIENCE.
Franklin Pfirman Delivered EuIosy,
Praisine Virtues Of Deceased Mem.
bers of the Order--Address Given
by Charles W.. BeaIe.

That Elks Memorial day has come
to be held in reverence by the people
of Wallace outside the order as well
as in it was evidenced last Sunday by
the large crowd that attended the
impressive services held in memory
of the dead and particularly for the
20 who have been affiliated with the
local lodge, and have answered the
last summons. The services this year
We're even more beautiful and solemn
than those of any formcr year, ant
, that is saying much. The music wa
a feature enjoyable even in it's sad.
ness and in spite Of the occasion.
The officers of the lodge conducted
rtualistic ceremonies. which are de-
signed to impress the lessons taugh
| by the order. The eulogy was deliv-
cred by Frank Pfrman and while his
remarks were in way general they
were more especially fitted TO She
memory of the three deceased MEM
bers of Wallace lodge No. 331 who
have died within the past year
mo matter how long since his
DEATH" said Mr.. Pfrman "an Elk is
never forgotten. Year by year his
memory is kept alive in these memoir
ial services and in these services we
who are Elks and who have been
spared. by the omnipotent God endeav-
or to forget the faults of the deceased.
we leave them out, for they were writ
ten on the sands; but we do remem-
these have been inscribed on tablets
of marble and can not be forgotten"
Hon. c. w. BeaIe delivered the ad-
dress. which follows in full:
You do not know, | do not know,
that the soul is immortal, but each of
us clings to the inborn, undying be-
lief that it is. The mind in primi-
tive man, as well as in the highest de-
refuses to accept the suggestion that
death ends all and that there is but
nothingness and oblivion beyond the.
grave. In barbarism and civilization,
in dense ignorance and illuminated In
teIIect there is the same abiding faith
in supreme being and higher and
better life.
'Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in
the wind;
His soul, proud science never taught
to stray
Far as the solar walk or milkyway;
Yet simple nature to his hope has
given,
Behind the cloud -topt hill. an humber
heaven"
While not processing any particular
creed, yet by nature Abraham Lincoln
was intensely religious. In the dark
, est hour Of the rebellion, when our
armies were being repused and the
fathers and the sons of the north were
falling like autumn leaves on a score
Of southern battleields and the bray
most faltered. he never for q moment
lost his faith in or his hold upon the
Divine Providence, and daily by the
golden chain of prayer he joined the
70 nf hum mil nd fv,n IN
; the very throne of God. Take from
this great man, this good man. his
childlike waith In God and his belief
: in the Divinity that shapes our ends,
and ideal manhood that have en-
-shrned his memory in the hearts Of
succeeding millions.
Among the earliest human traditions
and institutions will be found various
forms of religious manifestation and
belief. The Indians idea of the here
after was the happy hunting ground,
where he would be accompanied by
his favorte pony and faithful dog,
while the primitive Scandinavian look
ed forward to Valhalla as the future
abode where his time would be spent
in fighting and feasting in tho service
of his God Odin.
The ancient religious systems, as
distinguished from the Christian wor-
ship of single divine power were
pnlytheistc. or beliefs In the plurality
of Gods. The pagons bowed down to
animals and the powers and objects If
nature-sun, moon, planets heat and
fire, and while the belief of future re-
ward and punishment permeated these
early religions, one of their marked
characteristics was sacrifices to the
Gods. and II remained for the advent
IF Christianity and the crucifixtion Of
that Lowly Man Of Galilee to abolish