Weekly journal-miner., 1913-12-10
HONOR THE MEMORY OF
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IlS udI uSHipS dHA uihiNdlliSo VI AiAN in such light or obscurity as cir cumstances impose. But each of IS may in some measure help to keep the pathway to the stars clear and unclouded. 1 shall briefly mention, as one means of lifting our hearts to the stars, an obligation laid upon all Elks by a tenet of the fraternity. Ask any Elk what motto of the order supplies the keynote of these memorial observances, and he will at once tell you it is this:
 "' The faults of our brothers we write upon the sand; their virtues upon the tablets Of love and mem ory.
 Tt is easy to sec that those who wrote this fine sentiment into the fraternal creed had in mind the words of our Saviour, when he said, Judge not. that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured 10 you again Yet this imperative ad- monition Is most frequently disrc- garded by all of us. The failing $ not, however, new or modern. It was recognized by the Psalmist as he adjured: Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile After all the centuries that have elapsed from that day 10 this we must still sadly confess that the tongue Is an unruly member For that very reason men ought to be guarded in what they say, as men are judged by what they say as we'll as by what is said of them For by thy words thou shalt Dc justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned
 Let us here remember that the evil word once spoken cannot bt recalled It flies on and on to tho fartherest ends of its destructive mission. You recall the homel, couplet: rss-l -.--.--- Boys flying kites draw in their
 white-winged birds;
 You can't do that way when you'r>
 flying words
 Not that we may tell them tC friend and neighbor Not that W, may print them in the newspapers to be scattered broadcast. Not tha we may proclaim them from tht pulpit or platform. Merely tha we may write them upon the sands Of course, this means that wC should pass them in charitable si fence, for if no faults were evei advertised until some enterprisins tale-bearer should laboriously in scribe them upon some convenien sandhill, they would seldom b' heard of. And the world would b, the better for it.
 And it ought to be borne Il mind here that, as all men desir' to be well spoken of, they shoulc either speak well of others, or no speak of them at all. For as Henr, Ward Beecher said:
 "I do not know that there | one thing. outside of love, to God that is more important to be un derstood than that there is law 0 equity which runs through every de partment of human life, and tha you cannot get more than you pal for
 If any amount of criticism, kind ly or otherwise, tended to the elim ination of human failings, we woul' all have become perfect iong ago for of this doubtful remedy the-, has ever been an abundant supply with unexccllcd facilities for promp distribution. Furthermore, the poiu at which kindly criticism ends an, the other kind begins is so uncer tain and indefinite that few knoy where 1t is. What might seen kindly and temperate to me migh appear harsh and extreme to you. l we never start. however, we vii never have to figure out how ia we can safely go, and if we nevc go at all, we will always be safe Where no word k, there the fir goeth out; SO where there is Il tale bearer the strife ccaseth.'
 "In all mankind there is an ir herent dread of the cold breat of ccnsure and calumny. Need describe the suffering of a victir of these things? Need mentio the miserable days; the sleeples nights, the drawn face, the sinkin heart, the broken spirit. the eclips of life'S fairest aspects? Oh. m brothers. bury your brothers fault in oblivion, drown them in the va ters of Lethe. burn them i'll the sC cret fires of brotherly love-but q not publish them. And in tn place of carping criticism, fix immo,