The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1912-02-29
Bannister Bros. & Silcox
Phone Jet SO Home Furnishers. 424-428 Main St.

be sure, | didn't see Brother Smith
every day of his life, but it was my
good fortune to see him a great
deal. 1t was regular rendezvous
that | had when | was here to go to
Brother Sampliner's almost every
day and it was there that | met
Brother Smith great deal. And |
say, brethren, it is with great deal
of feeling that | respond tonight, not
giving eulogy, but simply a little
expression of my love and sympathy
for you in the great loss that you
have just now sustained in the pass
ing of Brother Smith, because it is
not death; it cannot be death. You
know that God in his wisdom never
annihilated anything, and death
means humiliation. 1t is simply
the passing, and entering into
higher life of a noble man. A low
ing brother. kind friend-what can
we say more. Let us emulate the
virtues of this man who has gone
before. Think of the noble charac-
ter who left us here some months
ago, Brother Bunting; loss not
only to this lodge, but a loss to ev-
cry individual in this community.
Brother Bunting and Brother Smith
were both among the builders of
your magnificent city and of this
great county, which some day will
be pronounced one of the most won
derful parts of our country.
Now, let us emulate the virtues of
these dear men, let us carry with us
| in our every day life what we should
| take, the sympathy, the love, and
the smile that costs us little. Let us
FOL, ,e ~
| the hand as we go home, and say
that we will try, God being our help
! er. to lead lives that will make us
nobler men, and when our passing
| comes, it will make our loss one as
much to be regretted as the loss of
these great men. Because a man is
great as he is good. There are
names not emblazoned upon the
pages of history of great men. The
churches canonize hundreds of saints,
but there are hundreds and thousands
of saints uncanonized who have gone
to their graves, with nobody to ex-
tend any sympathy or affection, but
who have led lives worthy of the
| emulation of every man.
As we send forth our sympathy
| this night to the bereayed widow,
let it go with a silent prayer, be-
| cause, men, you must pray: the time
has come when you feel the neces-
sity of close and intimate concourse
with higher things. You are con-
| fronted dag by day with the fact that
you must sooner or later pass from
this scene of your activity; be pre-
pared for that day. Pray in the
silent watches of the night that God
will give you grace and strength to
be true Elks. and the man who is
a true Elk is certainly a good man.
| How | wish | could recall the many
! good things that this man has said
! to me, giving me inspiration, giving
me hope, giving me the assurance of
his love and his devotion. giving me
something to think about. And there
is another thing, brethren; we should
be careful to say something each
| day that will carry with 1t a weight
of things for good. In your several
professions. ii makes no difference
what vocation you may have in this
| life, it is charged with responsibility,
| and the greatest responsibility is that
you be true to your brother man in
all your dealings. Now, l say, as
we go from here tonight, and as we
send this letter of sympathy, that
we must send sooner or later, let it
go out with prayer from each heart
that God will give grace and strength
to this bereaved family that they
may be raised out of the depths of
their sorrow, and that they may see
in it the hand of Gods providence,
leading them into that purer and
stronger life, into which our brother
has now entered.