White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-17
ELKs' MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS
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the making of our own desting, and
how unerringly does it point the
way to secure our own happiness and
to avoid affliction and ~disappoint-
love, we have but to give it. If we
seek the tender judgment of men ON
our W lives. we must so judge their
lives. II We would that there should
come unto us the full measure of the
richness and sweetness OF life, We
have but to give to others the full
measure hat is due to them. The
surest and safest way to avoid in
justice is never to practice it, and to
escape from evil to ourselves, we
must be careful lest We wrong 9TH
ers. Before we convict another Of
a sin, let us be sure We, too. have
not committed it. See to 1t that our
souls are clean and then our hands
will need no guardians care.
II malice or hatred. III will or envy.
shall ever poison the arrow tip we
speed through the heart of another,
even the lowliest of Gods creatures.
the course of the arrow will bring
It back again through our own hearts
and no armor of wealth or i'll used
power, station or selfish condition,
will ward ii off from its homeward
flight, for, what we will to others
comes back to us. The aim of every
teacher is that We should do good in
order hat we may accept good, and
our invocation must be that the heart
shall reform itself, not that we may
be rich and strong and powerful to-
wards others dependent upon our
whims, but that by regard, consider
alton and love for them we may be-
come and remain rich and strong and
powerful to ourselves.
There Is no such thing as an in
definite or an indecisive future. To-
morrow is the future, and we are
preparing for II today, and every
day. It's character is in our W
hands and 1t is given 20 us to deter
mine whether or not 1t shall be bright
with hope or clouded with misgiv-
ing. Each day is another gift. an
other chance, another beginning, an
other step, If W. but take it, toward
better and higher purposes And
Ia,o .rx, ~x-n 4hnaohf nf tho Gnlar re
that may be found in the knowledge
that the great reunion which we hope
to have with all those who have gone
before us is drawing closer with the
passing of each minute, that the grie1
which separates us is ever narrow
ing, and hat time is imperceptibly
but steadily. building the bridge Owe
which We are to ross to them2
But let us not think thai in join
ing them we are passing from one
journey to another in the same king
dom, which is His kingdom. 1t has
been written the Kingdom of Heaven
is within you. If this be true. IL
must be be mans spiritual nature
in that soul which God has planted
in each n of us. for the soul is not
a thing of ills or ailments and it can
never die. Ii has not died in them
nor will it die in US. 1t is the inn
iperishable which is with us in our
tourney through the valley of the
shadow of death;---the tie which
binds together the living and those
whom we call the dead.
| have not been able to bring my
self in harmony with the belief that
this life is but a preparation for a
Heaven or He'll that is to be a part
of another life separate and distinct
from this existence. Such an idea
seems to my mind to run counter To
the be~neficence of the Almighty, nor
can ! believe hat eternity is to be
opened or denied to us by what we
may do or omit TO do in the infinites-
imam span of time which we know
as life. Such a conception does not
comport with an all %pervading love
and mercy which any father has fol
his children, for those dependent up
on what he may provide. And how
much more difficult is it to believe
that the Deity who is love itself
would place upon men an appalling
ordeal which men would never place
upon each other. Such a doctrine
is a relic of the past when men were
governed through their fears. and