The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-04-20
EASTERN STAR Held IMPRESSIVE
MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNDAY

Reading Mrs. Jane Nimmo.
Solo-Mrs. H. G. Romig.
Official Message from the National
Supreme Chapter requesting Memoir
ial services in honor of Mrs. Rata A.
Mills, most worthy Grand Matron of
the General Grand Chapter;-read by
the Secretary.
Memorial address-Mr. Albert M.
Powell.
Ritual Memorial service by the Off
GERS of Lorraine Chapter No. 5, being
a tribute to:-
Mrs. Rata A. Mills, Grand Matron
of the General Grand Chapter, and to
the following members Of the local
Chapter who have died since the last
memorial service was held:
Judge David E Morgan
Mrs. Celia Duell Larson,
Mrs. Mary Collinson Hoskins,
Mrs. Peter Timboe,
Mr.. Stephen G. Jones,
Mrs. Anna Elmslie Graham,
Mr.. Augustus Fursteneau,
Mrs. Marion Pecholt.
The attendance of the Eastern Star
members and Masons was large and
the services very beautiful and impress
sive. Mrs. Mary Rodenbach officiated
as the Worthy Matron and ]. A. Shan
non as Worthy Patron.
Bro. Albert NJ. Powell delivered the
following memorial address,
Worthy Matron, Worthy Patron
Sisters and Brothers.
By an officisl sedict of the National
Grand Chapter, we are assembled this
peaceful Sabbath afternoon to pay our
humble tribute to the memory of Rata
A. Mills, Most Worthy Grand Matron
Of the Supreme Chapter, end to those
of our own Chapter whom in the past
years, since our last memorial, Goods
finger has touched, and they Sleep:
Judge David E. Morgan.
Mrs. Celia Duell Larson.
Mrs. Mary Collinson Hoskins.
Mrs. Peter G. Timboe.
Mr.. Stephen c. Jones,
Mrs. Anna Elmslie Graham.
Mr.. Augustus Fursteneau,
Mrs. Marion Pecholt.
For these the dawn has broken-it
is day! They have been called to the
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" '"They
have walked the still road that leads
from the sepulchre to the seraphim.
They dwell now under the shadows Of
great mountains whose heights shall
never put off the crimson glories Of
eternity"
Today we bring tribute Of res
pect and esteem in memory Of these
who have passed the great divide.
But really what we call death does not
in very truth divide or separate US
from them-they have merely gone be-
fore. We are further down in the
endless procession from time to eter-
nity-from earth to heaven.
It is said that all lives are beautiful
in which the sovereign thought has
been for others, and this is eminently
true of those whose virtues we are
called to commemorate and whose self
sacrificing example we should try to
emulate. -. i"
In a few words would we sum up
the achievements Of these useful, loyal
and brave lives. Each in her or his
sphere gave the years Of service u,
grudgingly and cheerfully. Or the
man Of the street, in every day verna-
cular would say, each bravely played
the game of life till death call out
Check: the die was cast, the record
closed" But is their record closed?
With the passing of these few fast
fleeting years that God loans us, is
the record ended? Yes, if death ends
all.
But if we take that larger, that san
er, that more comforting view given
us by divine revelation, that in our
brief earthly pilgrimage we are only
treading the vestibule leading to an
eternity Of bliss and Joy, that in dying
we just begin to live, then the record
Of our lives has only begun. The few
pages here written may not be free
from spot or blemish-but what the
Scriptures so significantly titles "the
Lambs Book of Life" will take up and
continue the record of each life in all
the future cycles of eternity.
The memories Of their lives will
long abide with us as sweet benedic-