Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-12-08
LANDAU is THE SPEAKER
HIS REMARKS ON IMMORTALITY
AND RRoTHERLY LOVE ARE
ELOQUENT
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC PROGRAM
MRS. CHARLES KoHN COMES
FROM ALBUQUERQUE TO
LEND HER ASSISTANCE

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Beautiful music, an eloquent address
by DR.. Jacob H. Landau and impress
sive ritualistic services characterized
the observance of Memorial Sunday
by Las Vegas lodge No. 4OS, B. P. o.
Elks, yesterday afternoon. In accord
ance with the usages of the order
and in company with every other lodge
Of the great fraternity in the United
States, the Elks paid loving tribute
to the memories Of their brothers
who have departed to join the grand
lodge above.
The services were held at 2:30 o.
clock, and the handsome lodge room
was filled with friends of the Elks,
who had come to join them in the sol
emn ceremonies Of the day.
DR.. Landau, in his address, declared
that the custom Of eulogizIng the
dead is one reaching back into the
dim ages Of the past. He touched
briefly upon the practice Of prayer for
the dead, and stated that the Elks-
borrowing from the ancient churches
were the first great fraternal orde
to set apart a special day upon whie
the memories OF departed brother
should be- recalled with love, thou
stripping from the Observance any
the supernatural elements connect Il
with similar services under ecclesias-
tical guidance. Dr. Landau said this
custom Of revering the dead is salu-
tary one, enabling the living, by copy
ing the good qualities Of those gone
before, to become better ands make
the world a happier place. He said
the dead undoubtedly live in a better
sphere are exemplifying in a higher
and nobler way the precepts to which
they adhered here
This statement naturally led up to
the subject Of immortality. DR.. Lam
dau proved conclusively that man
must live again; that death does not
end all He declared that every race
OF. people on the face Of the earth,
in all ages, has entertahids a belief
in the future life, although daily con-
fronted by the presence. of death. He
this belief is not a fond, hui
man delusion. but is rather the im-
print Of God upon the soul Of man;
a promise Of eternal lifeaotDr LAM
dau said services such casewere held
were not literally services
for the dead, but for the 'emigrated,'
the departed having merely gone on
before into a higher plane Of life,
which shall be eternal
The speaker said he could see the
trend of Scientific thinkers and ex-
is sweeping toward belief
IN immortality instead Of in the op-
posite direction, as was the condition
several years ago, but asserted that
immortality never would be proved
BY science.
Drawing a lesson for The living
from the teachings Of immortality
and the suddennesa with which man
may be summoned away to the future
life, Dr. Landau said:
let this show you the fallacy of
ambition, envy, pride, malice. evil
speaking and sense Of superiority
over your fellows because Of greater
or greater wealth When
you are gone your ashes and those Of
the poor the rich, the intelligent and
the ignorant win be placed upon
common level: Of equal value or lack
Of value Practice, while you are
here and have the opportunity, broth-
erhood, love, amity, good fellowship
harmony and charity.
Your motto is The faults Of Our
brothers We write upon the sandas
their virtuse On the tablets Of love
and memory. When we do write our
brothers faults upon tho sandsg When