Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-07
ELKS' MEMORIAL
DRAWS FINE CROWD
TO HIGH SCHOOL
JUDGE MccARRAN SUBSTITUTED
AS THE ORATOR OF
THE DAY.

Tonopah B. p. o. E. last evening
were attended by representative
audience that filled the high school
gymnasium and overflowed into the
corridors. The hall was tastefully
decorated with national emblems and
mourning insignia and the programme
was carried through in manner that
gave infinite pleasure to those pres
ent. Owing to unavoidable circum-
stances A. H. Tilden, OF Goldfeld
found he could not meet his engage
ment TO deliver the Grafton, but the
lodge found an excellent substitute in
the Hon. P. A. McCarran, formerly of
Tonopah who delivered a scholarly
and finished Grafton that was not a
bit too long for those who admired
the magnificent thoughts enunciated.
Judge McCarran dwelt on the de-
parted Brethren as those who had
gone before, but were constantly with
us in spirit and watching our every
effort.
He said in part Physical OBJ
jects, mute and inanimate, though
changed by the forces of nature into
multitude of forms, can never die.
Yet, shall we say of the soul of man,
the most precious jewel of all OF
Gods creations, shall alone go into
oblivion after it has, like "a royal
guest, paid q brief visit to this tene
ment of clay in this transitory exist.
ence. We gather here today, bring
ing with us fresh in our memory the
worthy attributes of those to whom
the dawn of eternity came in the
eve of their existence; and, like the
rose of summer bloom which gave
forth its fragrance, they gave forth
the object lesson of their lives; and
like the rose at autumn's time, with
drew their presence from us for
awhile.
For them we bear to this shrine
the jewel of memory, by that memory
we leave the shrine filled with the
belief that the same power which
gave them the power of thought, has
aiken them unto itself, stronger
nobler, grander, for the day spent
With us. AS the individual must ap
proach life's dissolution alone, as he
must render an account of his stew
ardship alone, so must he in this day
of life build his character alone; and
this golden hour "in memorium,
spent in sweet communion with the
memory of our departed ones, should
throw into our life radiance from
which we should take renewed en-
couragement and reinforced strength
and out of which we should gain ma
terial to so build our own lives as tc
gain a brighter comprehension oil
the limitless powers of the Creator
of which we are a part
THE individual may accept al
helps; but he must live his own life
He must rely on himself, meet and
conquer the battles of life for him
self, or he merely drifts through ex
istence, losing all that is best, all
that is greatest, all that is real in
life. All that others can do for us
is to give us an opportunity; We
must even prepare for the opportun
ity when IL comes, and go after and
find it when it does not come, or that
the opportunity is to us nothing. Life
Is but a succession of opportunities
they are for good or evil as we make
them. 1t is here, while we are alb.
sorbed in thought, dwelling upon the
memories of our departed brothers.
that we are brought face to face with
the stern realization, the simple truth
that one touch of the Omnipotent
makes the whole world akin. The
peasant is no less than he who wore
the coronet; and the shepherd S
crook Yields the power of the scep-
ter. Each, after dissolution. may be
weighed by the measure OF love that
he gave to his fellow man. and in
that measure of love each was breath
ing forth but the breath of that ON
nipotent Power personified as much
in the lowly as In the exalted"
The remainder of the programme
was excellently rendered and included
the following:
Prelude, "Berceuse," Joelyn, Ru.
dolph Parker, violinist; Henry Fife,
pianist; incline Thine Ear" bass
solo and full choir; tenor solo, "Then
shall the Righteous Shine" from Eli
jah, Mr.. Arthur Burrows; organist,
Mrs. c. NJ. Bilyeu eulogy, j. A.
Sanders; interlude: quartette, Cast
Thy Burden Upon the Lord from
Elijah; Miss Muriel Robb, Miss Blanche
Robb, Mat Nelson, Arthur Burrows;
trio, God Must Live" Verdi, Miss
Mural Robb, Mat Nelson, Arthur
Burrows; "Thanatopsis," p. J. Gal
lagher: benediction, Rev. Jerome