Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-26
LODGE, NO. 70
!. 0. 0 F. OBSERVES
95TH ANNIVERSARY
Of Institution of Order by At
tending Divine Worship at
Universalist Church - Inter-
esting Sermon by Rev. H. w.
Haynes

Asylum Lodge, No. 70, observed Sun
day forenoon the 95th anniversary of
the establishment of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in America by
attending Divine worship at the Win
throp Street Universalist church,
where they listened to a most excel
lent sermon by Rev. H. w. Haynes
The lodge was accompanied by a del
egation from Jephtha Encampment
and with Canton Augusta, P. NJ, act
ing as escort and Dennis Cadet Band
for music made short parade up Wa
ter street and Winthrop street to the
church. where they were joined by the
members of r. B. Capen Rebekah
Lodge. At the conclusion Of the exer-
cises the column reformed and pro-
ceeded by way Of Winthrop, State and
Green streets to Water street, where
the parade was dismissed.
The sermon was based upon the
parable Of the Good Samaritan, and
Mr.. Haynes said in part: Among the
many parallels spoken by Jesus, there
are two which stand out distinctly
from the rest. One is the parable of
the Prodigal Son and the other is the
parable Of the Good Samaritan. The
parable Of the Prodigal Son is a dis
course about God, showing the open
heart of the Eternal Father toward
human life. But the parable of the
Good Samaritan shows the love and
the mind of God transplanted into the
human heart. 1t is a story Of the work
OF God and you and me in the world.
We have all admired Achilles and
Ooyssus; but great as these are it re-
CURED an epic to give them full ex-
preston. In Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear,
lmogen. Shakespeare speaks to us of
the hearts Of living men. Dickens.
Thackery, Scott, reproduce before
our eyes the personalities Of those with
whom we are acquainted, but they
have required volumes in which to do
1t. In this. parable Of Jesus, spoken
within the brief space Of three min
utes. ore line draws picture in which
every man finds himself delineated. II
is the words Of the text: "A certain
man went down from Jerusalem to
jericho In this one line Jesus paint
ed picture of human life which por-
trayed its condition for that time and
all times since.
Day after day men start out from
the Jerusalem of their homes. their
hopes, their ambitions, their health.
their work, their youth, their love, to
go down to the Jericho of the great
world. And along the way thieves
pounce upon them. The Jericho road is
much Travelled. Every one of us has
plodded along amid it's dust and stones
and every one of us has felt the weight
OF the thieves black jack. Disappoint-
ments gather in companies and over
take US; care pounces upon us de-
spelling us of peace; trouble robs us
CT courage and cheerfulness: sorrow
takes our dearest treasures. shifting
US to the ground. Then they fee leav-
ing US wounded and weak. Forever
there is a robber waiting on the way.
mere is water in the milk; the genius
OF the denizen Of the Jericho road gives
US provisions in which adulteration has
become a fine art; the landlord pro-
vides us with unsanitary conditions:
tne CRATER takes our taxes and uses
them with the greatest Of inefficiency
LOT US, but with marvellous efficiency
1or himself; love Of money at any cost
organizes the saloon, the gambling
mouse, the house CT ill-fame in a hun
ored different forms. Human life is
oear' put 1t is girt about the robbers.
Along this way we find the victims
some have met with physical misfortune,
some are the victims of passion and ay-
arlce' some Of their own appetites and
passions. Sickness. death, accident, fail
ure, Hood, famine. tornado, earthquake.
battle, have left them wounded and
bleeding. This wild road has little to
say about the God and Father of men,
me robber who beats the wayfarer.
strips him and leaves him for dead.
seems a representative of the wild and
pltiless nature of men and circumstances.
The priest and Levite come. They eo
their way unmindful. Many will smile
and say that they are hypocrites and
that the church is full of them. They are
not hypocrites. at least there are few
that are. The ignominy that attaches
to them is not hypocrisy-but indifference