The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-21
ODD FELLOWS MEMORIAL
With the Rebekahs They Listened To
Rev. I. B. Reardon.

Rev. J. B. Reardon.
Odd Fellows memorial Sunday wa
accorded a worthy observance yesterday
when 40 members of Hiawatha lodge
No. 90, and a delegation OF 20 from
Bright Star Rebekah lodge gathered IN
the Universalist church for morning wor,
ship, the pastor, Rev. j. b. Reardon, de-
liverng an appropriate memorial sermon
in remembrance of the deceased mem
bers of the fraternity. II may be men.
toned here that death in the past year
has taken toll of six Odd Fellows and
five Rebekahs affiliated with local lodges
Marshaled by w. II. Beck, the two dele
cations marched from their hall on
North Main street to the church at 1890
o'clock. Special memorial music by the
Orpheus quartet and Professor w. A.
Wheaton, organist, added to the solem-
nifty of the services.
There was wealth of inspirational
passages in the pastors address, excerpts
Of which are given below. "Some Priv
ileges and Responsibilities OF Fraternal-
| ism was the subject of the sermon,
the text being taken from James ;27,
which reads as follows: "Pure religion
and undefled before God and the Father
is this, To visit the fatherless and the
widows in their affection, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world"
Rev. Mr.. Reardon said in part at
such time as this our thoughts turn
to the serious things of life. There is
that in the presence Of the dead, even in
the thought of death, which leads men
and women to forget trivial things and
to concern themselves with the deeper,
basic, elemental problems of life, to
give new heed to these unanswered, nm
answerable questions which go beyond
philosophy of the schools. We need to
meet once in a while. as we meet to-day,
to readjust our standards, to gauge
more clearly the relative size and weight
of things and to renew an allegiance to
the few, simple, cardinal principles which
must guide our lives if our lives are to
be worth living and to be S, lived that
those who meet to honor our memories
may have right to honor them.
'The order to which we belong asks
certain things of ms. If we grant the
asking. we need have no fear but that
we shall five Alright, and, living so, need
have no fear of DEATH And what our
order asks is not impossible or, seem
ingly, even difficult. " Asks no more
than every man can grant. Only few
men and women can become great paint
ers, musicians, orators or poets. Nature
creates but one great soldier in gem
at its close. some one soldier will tower
above all the others. But to all men il
given the power to be friendly. the pow
er to love. the ability to be generous, |
the strength to be Independent, intelh- |
gence sufficient to be truthful and sin. |
cere, to become good neighbors and |
staunch friends. To all men are given
conscience. honor, courage and kind.
Every mans, and every woman's life
counts for something good or bad one
pr the Other. No human being ever yet
lived who, when his life was ended, had
rot added something or subtraeted some d
hing from the happiness OF mankind. II
who had not FASTENED or retarded, in
light degree at least, the progress of
His part in the great plan OF
life may have been very humble one,
mt he had a part and played it well or
II. 1t counted for something. II
"If We live up to the high and exalted Il
eachmgs Of Odd Fellowship are
imply the fundamental teachings of Je.
us Christ-we need fear nothing that
nav come in that unknown world to \
which the brothers and sisters whom we
MOURN have journeyed. No
lan can chart the unknown seas that II
e beyond the coast line of this life;
o human mind design compass that
an guide us on those waters; no pilot
ELL US of their shoals and reefs. We
zach the coast and leaving all we know L
ehind, go forth upon the voyage alone.
ehind us We leave this life just as we
ave lived il. We cannot change il at Z
he last. We make our life Journey
nce--no more. IL is for us to make il.
% one makes il for MS. We are the
lasters OF cur fate, the captains of our
luls.' We must make it in our own
ay. And If, in making IT, we have
ere and there done something, even
life. so that when we go out on the
'ackless sea we leave things just a lit
e better and brighter than we found
ZEN, than they would have been had
. not gore through life, our brothers
nj sisters, coming TO the shore 10 saw
rewell. san safely bid ms be of GOOD
leer and We can leave the rest to the
ercy. justice and wisdom OF an all.
wing. sll-wise and all-powerful Creator
I'd Father of US all. in whom we live.
ID move and have our being"