The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-12-12
ELK MEMORIAL SERVICES
Continued from Page Ona.)

it is true, tearfully we recall them
 who sat and counselled with us, giv-
 ing freely of their courage, their
 cheer and their substance, and vain
 regrets that they are gone from us find lodgment in our breasts, but the
 while our thoughts in sadness finger
 there our hands are busy smoothing
 furrOwS of care from the foreheadS of the living. We shrine the absent in our memories and cherish them in
 our hearts, but they who are with us the widowed and orphaned, the un- fortunate, the stricken, the helpless claim our chiefest activities.
 q fain would digress long enough
 to tell you in detail of the objects and purposes of our Order, but while may not do that it will be permitted me to say that in our obligations, our laws and our teachings there is naught to which we would not point with pride; naught to which the most doting mother, the most prudent father, the fondest wife, the wisest statesman, would not subscribe. Acknowledging and revering the Deity our members are free to wor- ship God in their own way and ac- cording to the dictates of their own conscience. Teaching loyalty to con- try and encouraging an interest in governmental affairs, we know neither party nor political creed, nor suffer division in our ranks by their intro duction. We meet on plane where all right-minded, honorable men may mingle with their equals, and with fixed purposes, certain aims, definite ideals and a carefully defined sphere of activity, we are erecting an Order which, with the highest respect and the sincerest esteem and good fellow ship for other fraternal organizations, has no counterpart among secret so- cieties.
 Tt may therefore be inferred from what I have said that the ceremony we are today observing was designed not alone to honor the dead, to extol their virtues and to celebrate their achievements within our ranks, nor yet solely to give expressions to the love we bore them. All of these things we wish to do, and they figure large in the aims which gave exist ence to this annual memorial service. But the tears we shed and the flowers we spread teach a lesson of greater value to the living than the dead. If in the respect this service shows there is aught of comfort for those nearest and dearest to the ones whose names we call in vain, how much greater should it's assurance be to the loved ones of the ElkS still ii7- ing. If it keeps warm in our hearts the recollection of our brothers gone before, how much more indelibly should it impress upon our inner con- sciousness the importance of profit ing by their good examples and emul- ating their virtues, or of ordering our lives by what we know to have been commendable in theirs; how much more should it teach us to "So live | that when our summons comes to join the innumerable caravan which moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent | halls of death, we go not, like the | quarry slave at night, scourged to his | dungeon, but sustained and soothed | by an unfaltering trust, approach our grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams"