Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-28
NORWICH BULLETIN, MONDAY, APRIL 2s, 1913
ANNIVERSARY SERMON F0RI. Q. Q F.
Preached Local Members of the Order by Rev F. Cobb at Church of The Good Shepherd - Celebrates 94th Birthday of the Order.

l In resignation of the s4th anniver- l sary of the order. local Odd Fellows : and Rebekahs- attended the morning service at the Church of .he Good Shepherd Sunday by special invitation of the pastor, Rev. T. F. Coba, who is; nlneself an Odd E-esles Tn. member; of the or,!ers numbering nearly one hundred, gathered at Odd Fellows hall and proceeded from there to the churcn in 2 body.
 , Ecr;.7 cf Brotherhood. taking his text frora first book Of John, 4 T. He spoke a. fe:1I1w.:
 Brothers and sister of the I o. O.. F.,
 bid y.+u welcome to this service to-
 e'ay as we eestar into the s:4irit of the
 '1oraisse cf God, the Father of ail. The
 2sta1 day of American Odd Fellowship
 .ats .hn seth of Arru, tsIa. 30 today we join with you in celebrating the 94tn
 clrlilGaH Of the order
 n the early years of the order an address wat made In England to the Io:.ic1sr aGd father of the order in AiS.ertca, Thomas Wi!day. in which these words were used in speaking of charity, one of the first virtues of tie or:aer: T do not mean to corADe my self to that cs,or;ty which giveth only,
 but to that principle of universal be- nevoience which embraces all the wants of all mankind. I do not mean alone their physical necessities mean to include their moral inaoiIities. A really charita ble man will feel a great e desire to remove the latter than to remove the former. becauae he knows if a man is not morally right he can not fe T:hysi caiiy happy. I know of no delight eG:iai to the luxury of doing good: but the first delight is to find out. succor. and relieve the uncom- plainina, the heart broken yet proud spirit that cannot dig and will not beg.
 '' Full many a stoic eye and aspect Hide hearts where grief has little left
 to learn
 Bound Toeetehr by Love.
 What more appropriate theme can we consider today, then, than love, the Bond of Brothehood? The meir.- CT in the bonds of love, if we may So speak of the church a brotherhuof1 or rather as a family in which the members are sons and daughters Of tt.c Eternal and Heavenly Parent. Va rious fraternal organizations are founded on the platform of love.
 This great order-the I. o. O. F. surely is founded and has grown t.n multitude of members, labors faithful ly for the amelioration of the human race whose field Is coextensive wish the globe. The bond which binds ali together in the bond or DrotherhOod Is love. The church and the fraternity are founded on the principles of Chris tian love. Throughout the instruction received in the fraternity and in the church service there is an exposition oe the teachings of the Bible
 1. Why. then. do we speak of love? Because love is the bond of brother hood, and the very idea of brotherhood comes from the acknowledgment of one family. How long, think you, would any fraternity exist, should the bond of love or fellowship cease to be :? Remove the single bond of spiritual l. J.,. and society neltS into a social ] chaos" The love of which we speake is 1 not the love of the pagan god. but Is that which appeals to the better and 1 higher nature. as that wficn forgets 1 Itself and finds it's higher relationship | with all loving hearts It comes as q 1 Divine power which enters the hel:t | 1f the individual and transforms it, il 1 creates a brother in every man and 8 l sister i'll every woman.
 2. Let us now look at a few of the