The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-12

which must impress him, If mere
words can ever impress one, with the
beauty and power of these four virtues
OF life, when he has made them part
of his nature so that he acts upon
them as from impulse, then he cannot
be far from the Path of Life which,
followed to its end, leads to the peace
full green pastures of Eternity.
No man need be afraid to die who
in life has been unafraid to live right.
No man who is fit to live need fear to
die
When man dies, does his intelli-
gence and his soul perish, or is there
a future existence where man in an
other form resumes his life? The hui
man mind is not content to believe
that death brings humiliation. 1t
clings tenaciously to the opposite
view. Belief in future existence, in
future life of some kind, is inherent
in the human mind. The history of
no people records widespread be-
| lief in death as the end There are
here and there men who believe or who
profess to believe in neither God nor
Hereafter, but those men are conspi-
cuous by their isolation in this belief.
any man, sincerely and with a sense
of positive conviction, truly believes
that doctrine.
Ingersoll in his lifetime was the
leader of atheistic thought and con-
tention, yet we cannot be certain that
his professions were less theatrical
than real. That he doubted his own
doctrine when he was brought to a
narcnna1
for, standing by the tomb of his bro
Their, he said.
Life Is narrow vale between the
cold and silent peaks of two eterni-
ties. We strive in vain to look beyond
the heights. We cry aloud and the
only answer is the echo of our wailing
cry. From the voiceless lips of the
unreplying dead there comes no word,
but in the night of death, Hope sees
star and listening Love can hear the
restle of an angels wing"
How feeble and little do the best
reasoned objections of the most bril-
liant agnostic minds appear when COM
pared with the mysteries of Creation!
have stood on the sands of the
oceans shore and gazed at the sea
sursing forward with force irresisti-
pie, and, when the tide had reached
It's height, have watched the foaming
waters recede just as surely as they
advanced. Day after day as | have
seen this wonder, some glimmer of
the immensely of the intellect that
governs the ebb and flow of the
oceans tide has come to me, and I
have bowed in humble awe. NY finite
mind cannot grasp nor comprehend
the Infinite, but in the face of such
marvellous power it knows that there
is a God.
have climbed the mountain heights
and resting gazed upon the hills be-
low and the mountains beyond, range
shading into range until the farthest
fades into the sky. Forests of pine
and fir stretch away in beautiful, I'M
ending greenery, and the mountain
stream fall sparkling into the valleys
below. have contemplated this sub
lime panorama until into my soul has
stolen peaceful satisfying surety,
s--s works Of <iod lay y1Jfead De De-
fore me-
My Brothers and my Friends, our
order has done most wisely to lay it's |
foundations upon belief in the Su-
preme Being for thus it has built upon
the very bed rock Of mans soul. There
can be no deeper nor more solid basis |
ior human undertaking. On it rests
noble structure, with it's four walls |
OF Brotherly Love, Justice, Charity and |
Fidelity rising beautiful and shining
as ivory and gold, strong as steel, en-
during as the granite mountains. AS
the sunlight of the rising day strikes
It's FURNISHED roofs and turrets with
shafts OF quivering light, the Traveller,
distant on the Plain of Life, lifts up
MS eyes and sees from afar in all its
beauty and splendor the Temple of |
Elkdom Fastening on he reaches its
lofty portals, and, pausing at the en-
trance, reads above him, carved in !
shining letters: ''The faults of our
brothers we write upon the sand; their
virtues upon the tablets of love and
memory"
Within its welcome shelter he finds
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