The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-17
N HONOR OF
DEAD KNIGHTS.
Appropriate Memorial Services Were
Held Yesterday Morning at the
NJ. ?. Church by Rev.
Mccain.
GRAVES ARE DECORATED
aThe Open Bible on Your Altar is Your
safe.Guard,' Said Rev. Nc
Gain, and "You Should
Protect IT,,

/
Fitting memorial exercises were
held yesterday morning by Morning
Star lodge In honor OF dead Knights
Of Pythias. The exercises were held
1T the M. P. church, at Twelfth and
Exchange, where Rev. Mccain, pastor
Of the church, delivered a strong ser.
mon to large assemblage of knights
who had gathered to honor their de-
parted dead
Before the sermon committee,
early in the morning, went to the
cemetery, where the graves of de-
parted knights were decorated, and
shortly before II o'clock the knights
assembled in their hall and after
John E. Craig had called the roll of
the departed knights, the march was
started for the church.
The remarks by Rev. Mccain we're
filed with beautiful logic and timely
suggesticns. Rev. Mccain spoke at
length and drew many valuable les
sons from the conditions which
brought the order into existence. He
referred to the story of Damon and
Pythias. calling attention to the I'M
dyins devotion and true friendship of
enc man for another. While Pythias,' .
said Rev ldcCain. had protested that
ii was sweet to die fer those we love,
he found it was still sweeter to live
fer those we love-
Rev. Mccain took his text from
Corinthians !, the thirteenth verse of
the thirteenth chapter, which reads:
eBut now abideth Faith, Hope. Char
ity, these three. but the greatest of
these is charity
Some Appropriate Remarks.
Referring to the dead Pythians, Rev.
Mccain said:
you called today on long row
of the honored dead. They were
r,cn like we--they were not perfect,
you are not perfect. They had their
failings and faults, so have we. We
forget their. faults and remember their
virtues. It would be we'll in life if we
would forget the faults of our fellows
and remember their virtues. It Ia
bard to find man to speak we'll of
the living. 1t Is equally hard to find
enc to speak i'll of the dead. We re-
member with love the life Of the de-
parted brother. He and his life arc
swallowed up in that eternity of which
we know not, that unexplored region
which is bevord this veil. We cannot
pierce the future; we would not While
we remember the dead, our duty is to
the living. Today is our only day.
We cannot live in the past neither can
We i've In the future. We can only
live today SO that our future will be
well with u.s.
Continuing. Rev Mccain added:
IN today we should think of the
Things that endure. The foundation
q Inc trinity of your order is charity.
ihis Is one Of the trinities Of the
treat Apostle which He said abideth.
Fverything faileth but love or charity.
The beautiful teachings of your or
Ger are founded on the story OF
Dlonysius who reigned in Syracuse
-FOUR centuries before Christ. The
chief mark of his reign was selfish
ness selfishness is the condemning
sla Of the human race. Selfshness
demands the head of every man that
GOES not bow to its will. Damon, a
senator Of Syracuse, refuses to bow to
inc wicked king and must die. It has
alWays been SO with selfishness. Self
hhness demands the head of John
me Baptist and it is delivered to the
kins on platter Selfishness under
res all wtckedness; is the cause of
al crime. If ii We're not for selfish
ness there would he no saloons or any
otner evil that causes the overthrow
OF the welfare of the human family
The story Of Damon,
Damon had Q wife and family