Arizona republican., 1913-12-08

our troubles and worries about us. and act toward our fellow man like ships that pass in the night speak in passing, and then pass on as If we were never to meet again,
 You have all heard the legend of the sirens who sat on the cliffs near the sea and when a ship was going by during a storm they would sing i in voices whose tones were so sweet and entrancing that the mariner 1 would be led to believe d port was near. and lureG by the voices he | would guide his ship toward the i shore and onto the hidden shoals and rocks to destruction and to death. And if one listens to the siren song Of seIfishness, he will be wrecked and l destroyed on the shoals of unhappi- ness and discomfort.
 The charity that tells Us to avoid ] evil words and malicious gossip eff another. for no good ever comes from /! gossip and you always have to pay i the penalty ofttimes by making en- 1 cmies that last for life: if not. your i own conscience acts as the whip. Make a call, put in the afternoon 1 with evil gossip about someone else, 1 then go home. Soon you will com mcnce to feel that you did not have a pleasant visit. That's conscience 1 It is like when you read filthy l book. see an immoral play or hear a vile story: for the moment one may feel himself entertained. but l when you reach the word .finis' and 1 the covers of a Three Weeks are ] closed. when the curtain has been l rung down on the last act of The 1 Girl From Rector's.' when the last 1 laugh is had at the vile story. and l you go out alone on your way home i yGur feelings are those of disgust. At the book, the play. the story2 1 No, no. at yourself.-for reading. sec ! ing, listening, for you feel that you l have made yourself Just a little un- clean.
 | Charity that when trouble and 1 misfortune comes to another. without l ostentation or display gives it's aid and relief first and makes it's in ] quiries afterward.
 l We would have it as a sweet voiced angel going down life's path way guided by it's sister mercy. and l ever stopping to gather the flowers l that grow by the waysfde for the weary traveller who finds the same road rough and has no time to gather l the blossoms that grow there
 1 The charity that takes the mantle i from mercy's shoulders and spreads | il over the mistakes of others. and which. caring nothing for a worlds
 sneers and a worlds scorn. when man or woman has fallen, dares to l step down. aye. even into the mud
 and mile and assist the fallen one 1 back to the estate that God intended | man OF woman to stand on.
 1 The charity that comes to kiss 1 away the sorrows and tears of life ] and like sentinel on an embattled | fortress. is ever ealing upon us to | keep watch and ward that we by no 1 tIoughtless word, uced pr action | cause the slightest "ain to a fellow l heinz.
 And these are the principles upon 1 H hich is founded the Benevolent and Protective order of the EIks. Some l say. surely the Elks don't teach l those things: why l saw an Elk do ! this or that True, but you don't l condemn womankind because of a
 Lucretia Borgia. nor mankind be- | cause of a Cain. nor religion because
 d minister of some church is wolf
 in sheep's clothing.
 Others say that our order is only | good ellowship. But there is no 1 sweeter word in the English language | than good-feIloWship. I don't mean
 the good fellowship that thinks it is necessary to do those things which gre low and that's bad 1 fellowship. but the good-feIloWship 1 that gets up in the morning and says, l We'll perhaps this world of mine is d desert but today l am going to | try by kindly words, pleasant smiles. and a helping hand to make grow 1 therein a green oasis of peace. con l tcntment and happiness. and the 1 good that one can do. if he makes i this effort. will never be measured l ty the size of the world he moves in
 Life is just a lot of lights and 1 shadows. One finds his road smooth aud pleasant with brook gladdened meadows ahead while others find it rough with mountains of wcarisome hdght to climb. but the wheel of | existence is always revolving. and the l one in the light today may lest in | the shadow tomorrow: but if you are
 iE the light don't forget the brother ! ir the shadow, don't say he is q 1 stranger and that you owe him nOth- 1 ing, for if you do you arc Only re- l reating the cry of the first murder 1 CT when in answer to an outraged | God he screamed, Am I my brothers | keeper" Yes. you are: we all are.
 | and if We go home and try to carry | cut that which the Elk order seeks to l teach. then this memorial service in | honor of our departed dead will not have been held in vain.
 And you will be repaid even in | this life. for just as surely as misery l loves company, so surely does peace.