Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-02
FLKS LODGE HOLDS IMPRESSIVE
SERVICES IN PAYING TRIBUTE TO
MEMORY OF ABSENT BROTHERS

That paints out an hereafter. and
lntimates eternity to man."
Or else in the gloomy thought of
Hamlet, as pictured by the immortal
bard of Avon:
ITO die, to sleep;
To sleep; perchance to dream: Ay.
there's the rub
For in that sleep of death what
dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this
mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the re-
spect
That makes calamity of so long
life;
For man who would bear the whips
and scorns of time.
The oppressors wrong. the proud
mans contumely.
The pangs of despised love. the laws
delay,
The insolence of office, and the
That patient merit of the unworthy
When he himself might his quietus
make
With a bare bodkin? Who would
fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary
. life,
But that the dread of something
after death,
The undiscovered country. from
whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the win.
And makes us rather bear those ills
we have
Than to fly to others that we know
not of?
Thus conscience does make COW
ards of us all;
And thus the native hue OF resolu-
tion
! Is sicklied DER with the pale cast
of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and
moment,
With this regard. their currents turn
awry,
And lose the name Of action"
Thus we stand. looking backward.
over the path of time, seeking to
/ find in the pages of Earth's years,
the key that will unlock the temple
door of the coming eternity. which
all of us must enter. But philosophy,
nor history, nor geology, nor the vast
/ CApdHoC vi liC ucdfClicp lOi lbC
table spaces of stars and suns, and
worlds upon worlds, brings back no
echoing answer Yet, down in the
soul of man. there fingers in innate
being, a chord of music, which vi
brates in harmony with an oversoul.
which speaks eternity of being to all,
and thus affection, and tenderness
and love. felt but not seen. speaks
sa In aAf uxfII In lad In VUn
but rythmic in spiritual grace and
beauty. and plants a hope in man
that nothing can destroy. Upon this
hope. religion finds birth. and God
speaks to man, and in the inspired
laguage of st. Paul
1.-THE Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit, that we are the child
ren of God"
\ 1t is this hope. this belief. this
:. knowledge, that lays Nesting In the
o custom Of the Benevolent Order OF
o E,lks, whereby we set aside me-
4 mortal day. and urn in the ashes OF
memory, the good deeds OF our de-
!. parted brothers and catch in the
embrace of spirit the foretaste Of the
/. music of heart-beats and praise that
n the coming eternity shall bring when
4 death to us shall span the abyss be
4. tween the now. and the then, because
e buried in our very nature, Is the love
70 OF our departed friends who have
passed with Charon the Stygian floos
ID between this terrestrial life and thu
,e life to come What love and affec
i tion may be language cannot syllable
n. But we know that in our being
d there is a principle, deep. strong an
p fervent. which springs from us, an
10 surrounds relatives and friends a
al the odor Of flower permeates N
le air. and when these relatives q
ne friends pass into the shadows whic
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I'M more Intense Then sorrow lingeT
m. near us. aud We find for the audibl
n utterances Of life 10 life. speech
ef speech. and eye-glance TO eyeglanc
a pleasure In bedecklng the mound
re where our people sleep In the siiei
al city. with the speech OF God folds
NJ In the petals of flowers or restin
nd In the calyx OF the rose.
'er We then meet to-day. also. that Y
ith may picture IN memory the mar
Kind deeds. gentle words and splend
achievements of those near and de
hla 10 us. whose lips paused IA npese
and whose eyes closed 20 our vlsio
pf AZ they passed silently amid &
rythmic music nf angels to The ~
Iof which opens upon a new world
being
.af MOI Is ihai our only irsscn Son
hoN. and ~ some way, Ord \
the planted IN us all. the thought of
mortality. and as We reach neal