The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-29
GEMS OF MOOSE THOUGHT

In the present is wrapt the future. therefore out of the everyday evolve the everlasting. Do things that will last There is no better way to pre- pare for eternity
 Progress is often hindered by those who only eat the fruit their fathers gathered. The heart of Moosedom is not afraid to try new things and take the initiative with the untried.
 No one can remain neutral between good and evil. Choice determines ser vice, service determines character, character determines destiny, and des- tiny is eternity. The Loyal Order of Moose is ? constant incentive to a man to choose the right, the true and the good; to serve the world with the best of himself; to build a char acter of worth and value to society and thereby perpetuate his life ill time and in eternity.
 If we are not optimists by heredity and birth. let us become so by educa- ton, culture and discipline. The Loy- al Order of Moose has cast out of it's ritual and it's environment all de- pressing forms and expressions, and by every word and attitude seeks to inspire the man to reach up and out for the best and highest. If you are pessimist, come to the Moose and it will educate, control and discipline yon into an optimist.
 Hope is not a substitute for effort. Hope is that reasonable expects tio1 that keeps you from giving up effort The Loyal Order of Moose is true hope-builder. It keeps the man in a hopeful state of thought, and heart, expecting and believing that what he progress and Moose mean the same thing.
 Be resourceful Know how in a wreck to rig up 6 temporary mast out of a floating stick Of timber. The true Moose never goes down. never gives up. His Moose hope and optim- !sm teach him how to snatch victory from defeat.
 self, and no ones evil corrupts only himself Tke true Moose believes that his best aid can be given by Hyins for the highest and the best, and ever Brother will be helped by that. Your own character is the first aid of Value that you can give as Moose Out of every heroic suffering there comes a larger life to someone. Do not be a Moose for what you can get out of it, but for the aid you can be through it. You aid nightly by heroic and cheerful suffering of your your own trials Don't be a leanins Moose, be an aiding Moose.
 Things that are cheap do not Last long. There is no gospel of eternity on the bargain counter" Your Pro- gress. Aid and Purity in Moosedom will cost you effort, the strongest you
  determination. the sternest you can command. But all these things will make an eternal man of you.
 Truth and duty are always wed- ded. There is no truth which has not it's corresponding duty. We are ai- ways separating them. We are al- ways trying to learn truths as if there were no duties belonging to them. as if the knowing them would make no difference in the way we lived. That is the reason why our hold on the truths we learn is so weak. And we are always trying to do duties as if there were no truths behind them: as if. that is. they were mere arbitrary things which rested on no principles and had no intelIigibIe reasons. That is the reason why we do our duties so superfcia1'y and unretiably. When every truth is rounded into it's duty, and every duty is deepened into its truth, then shall we have q cIearness and consistency and prominence of moral life which we can hardly dream of now.'-Philips Brooks.
 Among the last things President Mckinley said was this: That citizen is the best, who does his best; who has the best heart, the best character, the largest charity and sympathy. and who withhoIds from none of his fel- low men the respect. privileges and protection which he claims for him.