The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-14

to succeed his father as king, but
ousy over David's growing popularity
/ and plotted to take his life, it was
Jonathan who warned him of the plot
and enabled him to make good his
escape.
True friendship is every ready to
lend helping hand. Adversely is the
real test OF friendship. AS it is so
often said friend in need is friend
indeed 1t sometimes happens that
those whom We supposed to be our
friends fail us in our times of need
1t is then that true friendship stands
revealed. Here the friendship Of Odd
Fellowship is manifested. One of the
cardinal principles OF this order is
the relief of those in sickness or dis
tress, and the care of the widow and
the orphan. Odd Fellowship does not
lay claim to remote antiquity as do
some other of our fraternal orders.
but so far as we can learn the first
Odd Fellows lodge was orga nized in
! England about 1745. The order was
introduced into this country by Thom-
as Wildey in 1919. At first the growth
of the order was slow, but as its prin-
ciples and purposes came to be better
understood it has grown with great
rapidity. As concrete illustration of
what friendship means to Odd Fellow
ship we may point to the fact since
1880 the Odd Fellows lodge of this
country have expended nearly one
hundred and fifty million dollars for
the relief of those in sickness and
distress and the care of the widow
and orphan. If friend in need is a
friend indeed. then the friendship of
Odd Fellowship as measured by its
deeds must ever remain unquestioned.
Love, Second Link.
! The second link in the mystic
chain of Odd Fellowship is love- Pro-
fessor Henry Drummond said that
Glove is the greatest thing in the
world" Love is not only the greatest
thing in the world, but it is the great
est thing in heaven, for the Scriptures
assert that God is love-" Love"
says the Apostle Paul, "is the fulfilling
of the law" and that is true for if we
love God. we will not profane his holy
name, we will not desecrate his Sab
bath day, we will not worship gods of
wood and stone. the work of mems
| hands, but we will worship Him. who
in holy love creates, sustains and or
ders all. If we love our fellow men
we will not be guilty of the sins and
crimes of murder, adultery, theft,
falsehood, and covetousness, but in
every way we shall strive to help and
uplift them. In the law of Moses we
find ten commandments, but the Mas
ter Teacher summarizes them in only
two, saying: "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
! with all thy soul. and with all thy
mind" This is the first and great
! commandment And the second is like
unto it (that is of the same nature and
character), Thou shalt love thy neigh
Dor as myself On these two COM
mandments land on these two COM
mandments euually) hang all the law
and the prophets.
On one occasion, you will remember,
| that a certain lawyer went to the
| teacher of Nazareth with the question,
Master, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life ?" His answer was. what
| Is written in the law? How readest
| thou?" The lawyer replied, "Tnou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all
| thy mind; and thy neighbor as thy
! self" Thou hast answered right,
said Jesus, this do and thou shalt
| live But wishing to justify himself
he asked, "And who is my neighbor -
| The Master teacher replied in the
| words of that matchless parable, "A
certain man went down from Jerusa-
| lem to Jericho, and fell among thieves
who stripped him of his raiment, and
wounded him, and departed, leaving
| him half dead.' BY chance there came
down that way certain priest, but
he was so occupied with his ecclesias-
teal duties that he could not minister