Arizona republican., 1913-12-08
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elveness warmed again into life did il not make you kinder to, and more Considerate of. every one you met?
 And ever afterWard you speak only in praise of the one that is gone why? If asked, perhaps N0ur answer VII be that old saying speak no evil of the dead but is it because he is dead that you should speak no evil? Your words cant harm him. ,(o, no, it is not because lie is dead. Iut because the solemnity of death ma kes you remember that evil words should remain unspoken at all times rol q person should not wait until Geath comes to bestoW his forgive ne&s nor to commence rememberine the good one may have done in life
 And it was with this in view that cur order adopted as it's motto, The i%u %ults of our brother We write upon the sands. their virtues on the tablets of love and memory not the faults If the brothers of this order alone. but of all mankind
 If one repeats this motto rapidly, ii IS just pleasing mass of words. It is when We paHse and consider what it means that We can appre- ciate the lesson that may be learned tEerefrom. The faults of our broth CTS We write upon the sands Not t0 countenance violations of the law or to demand that the transgr essor be not punished but to forgive the faults, and overlook the errors which We commit. for we are II at last poor weak. erring member. If the human family. believing in oul. own strength until temptation comes. and then finding oIr boasted resist tnce is brittle as the glass. and thar lack of strength is known uherev CT Christian civilization is. for the most litiful cry in the grandest prayer eyer written is. Lead Us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
 Tt means forgetting and forgiv- ing. not after death but in life when t will help: it means charity. justice: brotherly love; and fidelity toward ali mankind. It means being j f'iend to man. not usurping the uoWers of the Maker by becoming d judge. fully exprcsse1 by the lines: Let me live in my house by the
 side of the road.
 Where the race of men go by.
 They're good, they're bad. weak and
 strong.
 
 Then why should I sit in the
 scorner's seat2
 or hurl the Cynics bano Let me live in my house by the
 side of the road.
 And be friend to man
 And We will write their virtues on the tablets of love. not after death comes. but while he is vet of this earth. And if the virtues of a fellow man are recorded on tablets of love. then love which is always with us will take care in seeing those virtues recognized, and will help and aid. And knowing how cold and un feeling monuments and shafts of stone are. We record their virtues on the tablets of memory so that when eternity calls they will not be for ! gotten but memorial services will be held for them to the end of time. While this is the motto of the F1lks the order is builded upon the four principles: charity. justice. brotherly love and fidelity. We say that each represents different sen timent, but to me either one speaks 1 for all. for if man is just, then he must be charitable. He must be i guided by love for his fellOw-man | and faithful to every duty he owes in | life and if he practices brotherly love l he is charitable to the faults as well 1 as the necessities of others, as well as always faithful.
 But if I would choose one of ] .nese principles to seek therefrom 1 the most beautiful lesson. I would 1 name charity, for it is the brightest | jewel in the crown the EIlls' order ! euage l don't mean the charity that stops at the giving of aims alone. for | if that is all then when we cannot afford more we will be ashamed to give the widows mite. and thereby destroy the virtue of giving. for it's rever the gift alone that does the | good but the spirit of the giver. the remembrance.
 II lead a story of a little old sweet faced and srey-haired lady Trouble had come to her, and in the evening of life she found herself hereft of all the members of her family and very poor in this worlds 1 goods. and at Christmas time she was unable to make gifts that in voIved the outlay of money, but hay l ing charity and kindness in her heart | when Christmas came she would se- l cue the name of all women who | W ere i'll. men in the hospital and | some crippled children, and to eacl 1 she would write a long. bright, happy letter to tighten their hours of suf- fering And do you know that the receivers seemed to appreciate those letters even more than the expensive gifts they received. It was all she could give. but the remembrance of the giver was there
 Charity is always struggling witt cur greatest enemy, selfishness, fol
 We are all inclined as we go dowT life's valley to drape the mantle O.