Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-04-09
(Frem Thursdays Daily

The annual memorial services o
the Loyal Order of Moose were helo
Sunday night at the Baptist Church
the feature of the occasion being th'
Grafton by Brother DR.. J. B. Nc
Nally, a synopsis of which follows
Brother Director, Ladies and Gen
tlemen, we are gathered here thi:
evening, within the portals of thi:
sacred edifice, to pay loving tribute
to the memory of our departed
dead, and to make manifest the
great principles of Moosedom, ii
not alone extending the helping
hand of brotherly love to those oil
us who are living, but of tenderly
remembering, in Faith, Love and
Hope, those of us who have ceased
from their labors, and are now abid-
ing in the bosom of their benefi-
cent Creator.
And it is meet and full OF wis
dom that we should thus proceed
Not alone to express publicity our
grief and sorrow, for those who in
life shared our confidence and friend
ship, but that we may pause awhile
from the turbulent and vexing phases
of life, and mediate on that which
all must meet
From the very earliest history o:
mankind, from his primary ability
to think and conjecture, his mind
has ever fostered, and his faith has
ever cultured, an answering belief
in his souls Immortality, it has been
an instinct inherent in the human
heart, an comic virtue proceeding
from the Creator, an an attribute
of his very nature, long before
the acquisition of abstract reason
ing.
Nor may reason scott this faith
and hope, as d mere fitful and tran
STORY CLEAN of our emotional nat
ure, endeavor as he may to tear
from out his heart all emotion or
sentiment, resolve he ever so strong
to accept as truth nothing save what
the cold precepts of logic demon
strate, still shall not man quench
this primordial and inextinguishable
flame. Buttress his sceptical meta
physical deductions as he may, the
time will surely come when the
barriers of his artificial stoicism
will break asunder. and the irrepres-
sible instincts of his nature will re-
sumo their sway.
In the inevitable hour of bereave-
ment, when he shall stand amid the
shattered ruins of his earthly plea
sures, the Star of immortal hope
alone remains, and the angelic wings
of faith, divinely fans into life anew,
that latent spark of heavenly fire,
which will guide his souls uncer-
tain steps, from out the vale of
doubt and tears, into Lies Eter-
nal Day.
Even, the great agnostic, In
gersoll, when crushed in sorrow at
his brothers bier, declared, that,
IT. the night of death, Hope sees
a Star, and listening Love can hear
the rustic of a wing" Who has
not read the biography of the great
French historian stateman and Or
ator, Guizot, when at the close OF
a brilliant life, full of honors and
good deed, feeling the hand OF
death upon him, he took leave OF
his daughter, who was kneeling at
his side, saying, Goodbye, my
daughter, till we meet again, the
child replied. And the dying man
raising himself upon his pillow, an
swered, No one is more certain oil
our meeting than I. And he peace
fully passed away
o! Faith and hope, twin attri-
OuteS OF eternal bliss, what celeS-
tial heights may not Man attain
cen here on earth, by constant
and lively participation in your sub
lime virtues.
With what glad surprise did ever
He of Nazareth" behold the cen.
turion's faith, Zone who was sup.
posed to be, not of the chosen
people of god) 81 have not seer
so great a faith in Israeli and or
the contrary, for lack of faith die
Peter sink, and Moses died without
the Promised Land, tho the test
mony tells us that both were uni
quely favored by God.
What an agony of despair mus
death be without this hope of meet
ing beyond the grave. Recently
in the Senate Chamber of our owl
great nation over the reu,airip,