Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-05-21
MANS LOVE FOR
FELLOW MAN
Everett n. Phillips Of
Christian Church Delivers
Interesting Grafton Be
fore Pythians at Memoir
ial Services on Sunday.

AI"tli = l-ON e IOI Mall WAS lIlG SUD
ject of the grafton and eulogy deliv-
cred by Rev. Everett n Phillips, Of
the Christian church, at the annual
memorial services of the knights of
Pythias in Pythian hall on Sunday
afternoon. The address was classed
as a masterpiece BY those who heard
the speaker In part Mr.. Phillips
said:
knights and Ladies of Pythian tie.
friends and visitors, this assembly is
one of loves call. Loves sacred
remembrance has brought us togeth-
or. These flowers, this ritual, these
services, are prompted by love. This
j. loves occasion and love shall be
my theme.
l speak not of mere passion. Pyth-
ian love is more than a passion. 1t
IS the keenest OF passions governed
ny purpose and method. 1t is that
love OF self for selrs fellow. which
is meet to the happiness of the great
| round world. This that clear note
Of affection ringing through the en-
tire life and literature of Jesus apos-
tie John. of which 1 speak. In writ
| ing of il he says. "Brethren l write
no new commandment but an old
| commandment which ye have heard
| from the beginning, yet however it is
new because darkness is past. and
the true light now shineth.' That
| sacred veteran of the Christian cross
wishes his readers to know that true
and divine love is as old as the ach-
| ing heart of the human world; but
| that with Christs teaching and eX-
| ample the old commandment concern
| ing duty becomes Il new one. That
| old passion which under the Influence
| of pagan teaching sacrificed human
| life out of love and respect for law,
| has new meaning and calls for the
| sacrificing of law, if need be, out of
love and respect to that image made
| after the likeness of God. Indeed the
blind eyes of pagan darkness have
| been anointed and made To see with
the sight of a love and good will TO
help and save. the hearts of the brok-
en- and contrite.
Pythias, for whom our noble fra
| ternitv is named, is a well known
name to every knight who meets
within these modern castle walls.
The story of Damon ana Pythias is
too we'll known to my auditors to
| need tull repetition at this memorial.
1t is enough TO say, the love Of
| Pythias for Damon, as we'll as Da-
mons love for Pythias, was mere
fiction in the mind OF the Greek
King, Dionysius. He had won his
power and position by the rule Of
might The only obedience and ser
| vice known to him and his gov
| eminent was actuated by fear. Any
| eentlcr motive was to his thinking a
| fancied myth But the real divine
passion for friend was in the
breast of Pythias where Damon had
-Iafi. IA Of 8
Pythias reasoned that Damon, con-
demned to die by the AK, being hu3-
band and father was yearning for
last sight and farewell of his Wife
aud child He told the king so and
| offered his body chained in the dun
gcon as security for Damon's return
l Very WE'LL said the king, 'Pythias
/ we shall see what will come Of your
! folIv." Damon returned from the
a sad farewell to his loved ones almost
j too late to redeem his word. Seeing
Il Pythias at the block, and the execu-
/ TONERS ak raised. Damon cried, oh,
Pvthias, have | been false to tree:
They killed the horse I rode and |
secured another almost too late to
| save YOU" The friends falling into
each Others arms, requested to die
| each in the others stead. The sight
of the king. which sOftened, and he
said reaching his hand toward them,
Il freely pardon you both. Sucn
friendship and love as this is becom-
ing to the gods and now / ask in
turn to be admitted with YOU into the
| golden bonds of your friendship
The king was converted and won to
the Pythian idea of knighthood.
Nor has the passion of Pythias
| failed in its converting power today.
| Our systematic care and attention
! te. the sick and unfortunate, our
/ t,,nthodicaI plans for the Widow-and
!; orphan, the rapidly increasing mem
I be4shlp of our order, as well as these
i memorial services for those VINO have
i passed beyond our care furnish evil
4 dence of the enduring quality of
4 Pythian affection.
i Love is the greatest thing in the
| world 1t is the only safe key to
/ life's arch. James w. Foley sings:
| Living and loving and dying
Life is complete in the three;
Smiling and sobbing and signing
| Which is for you or for me?
| Hoping and struggling and striving
| Dreaming of success by and by;
But whether were driven or driving
| We live, and we love. and we die"
i But love is the key of his song.
/ Love steals away the sting of death.
Love SweetenS our smiling. sOOtheS
our sobbing and stills our signing; it
lightens our struggling and striving
it broadens life's horizon and en-
mobiles the castles of our dreaming.
II 'Tis loves remembrance that lives
over again the past happenings of
this castle hall. We lift our vizors
| again and look into each others I'M
protected faces. We see again faces
and familiar forms and by sainted
memory hear voices that only echo
in the castle hall on high.
But love brings absent ones back
again today. We see and hear them
again. Twas here in this hall, by
the peculiar tests of our initiation