Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-01

flowers, and weave them all into gar
land, so that its beauty and fragrance
will make our natures better as We
strive to initiate its purity.
Creeds and sects may stay at war
over spiritual peace, may Wrangle up
on the entrance and boundary lines of
the land sof eternal life, but all the
sects Of all the earth can and a haven
in the Golden Rule, which is the law
of Kindness do unto Others whatso-
ever You would that others should do
unto YOU" DID we act thus to our
brothers who have gone? Do we act
thus to our bp6thers who are with us?
It We can meet that test, then there
comes a peace of soul that passes I'M
Outstanding. Do we cheat and lie and
rob and call the profits of our piracy
Success IN Life? When we see
stricken fellow do we pass by on the
other side las did the Pharisee of old
Do We jostle and push and pull and
trample down our weaker fellows, the
women and the little children in order
to lay field to field, house to house.
fill our places with iniquity and make
broad our phylacteries" Heap to-
gether all that you gain in selfishness
and though it be mountain high it
shall be leveled into dust again. the
weight of it will crush out all the Joy
| of your life, the very hugeness of it
will shut out the bright sun from you
and you shall live in darkness all your
days.
Or do we strengthen the weak, lift
up the fallen, cheer them with sorrow
laden, smooth the pillow of pain, act as
guides to the children and STATS fol
the aged? Do we let sunshine into
darkened rooms and try to fill up,
from our own cask of kindness, what
empty hearts we see about us?'
There is but one holy war-the war
against selfshness. The Loyal Order
of Moose has enlisted an army OF
three hundred thousand men in Wheel
ing and half million in the United
States to fight against selfshness. Soon
Y million will be battling beneath the
banner of Purity, Aid and
and selfshnessi dies whenever the
I breezes kiss that banner.
The sin Of selfishness hobbies hu-
mainly. It dwarfs and stunts us. For
selfishness the rich man puts an iron
lfence about his flowers. For selfish
/, ness the man wrecks the life of a
trusting maiden. For selfshness the
husband leaves his wife to the lone
some husk Of a house For selfishness
the wife plunges her husband = into
moral and financial bankruptcy For
selhshness some parents live upon. the
meagre earnings of children who
should be at school or play For sell
f1shness some let their aged parents
want. For selfishness manufacturers
squeeze hope and life from men, rob
woman of her home, and tie little chill
dren to the wheels of industry. For
Iselfishness merchants pay girl clerks
less than the cost Of living, and for
Iseldshness other men are always of
fering to make up the difference.
o, if selfishness were to reign always
| 1t would be dark and hopeless world
the sky of the future would be brazen.
For it is the law of life that nothing
lean be sti1. The great policeman, Ma
Jture, is always bidding us "Move on!
We must move toward something,
whether it be better or worse. And
were We moving toward more selfish
ness there would come future where
the springs Of life would be poisoned
utterly, where the bread of life would
be stone, where the virtue of women
would vanish, where the merry prattle
| Of little children could never be heard
and where man would degenerate into
la monster. 3 $3.50
But happily it has been written that
We shah struggle upward, working
out the beast and tiger, out of the
might of Ignorance, into the broad light
|Of understanding, out of the bog OF
lSelf1shness onto the solid ground lof
cooperation 1t is written that we shall
cease warning one with another. that
we shall no longer make the brutal de-
mand of IAN eye for an eye, tooth
for a tooth. for even as the law was
in itself vast step toward .unselfish-
ness from the older one of numbering
a mans whole family and taking his
oxen and sheep, for a misdeed u his
own, SO is the new law which will soD!.
rule US now vast step forward-"Ver-
lily ! say unto you that you shall love
one another" =
THE man who says he lives God
WdSu 10 uoI0Cu us DfOtHS1, is .ldr,
and the truth is not in him, fer how
can a man love God whom he hath
not seen, when he hateth his brotner,
whom he hath SEEN" !.
!, Yes, there is hope for race in
which an order like the Loyal Order of
Moose can grow to be its greatest frat
ternal society. Based as it is upon
self sacrifice and mutual protection,
flied with men who work for their iiv-
lin, caring, as 1t does, for its widows,
its sick and injured and aged members,
educating its orphans to work WITH
hands and brain. so that they can be.
came1 useful members OF society and
add to the sum of human happiness it'll
contents us with the thought mat thes
future is sure. Il @,s 4a1s ~ 4
Il il not that the Moose have plur k.
ed those lofty sentiments from noths agI
am built an iron creed within whose
narrow confines we must conform our;
selves, Purity. Aid and Progress have
been invented and patented by no \
man. These sentiments are born with
intelligence in the human heart and
that principle that imepls the flower