The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-04

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striking statements.
consldes Death and the FLAG.
sand when we think OF death and
Of the fag-and here today we must
consider both. for otherwise what Is
the brotherhood Of Elks for?-canno,
we all learn lesson from the great
European war;" asked the memorial
service speaker.
Whatever we may think Of the
causes, whoever we may blame fol
bringing the war about, none Of US
can fail to admire the heroism and the
self.sacrifice that there is displayed
he. added. Zone side is fighting for a
fatherland, the other for an ideal OF
individual right. In the trenches. in
the hospitals, in the workshops and
ine the bereaveds homes there is the
same devotion, no matter whether it
be in England or. in Germany, in Aus
tria or in France ....
Death Not Looked Upon With Terror.
Judge Andrew A. Bruce declared
that among the warning powers the
thought of. death, which was before
dismissed from the mind. is now ever
present. There death is not looked
upon with terror. but as "a splendidly
honorable means zto,a glorious end"
There fathers and mothers would
not keep their sons from the front if
they could" he said. "Selflessness has
taken the place Of selfshness. Meas
ured in the scale with justice, patriot
ism, humanity and right as the war
ring nations see it, it is but little
thing one man more, even ones son
or ones own self must die. Patriot
ism is not a mere abstraction. 1t is a
living thing, made living by death.
And SO with us,death should make our
patriotism living thing"
The Great Lesson Of Death.
Judge Bruce then asked that
Should not we as a patriotic order
learn the great lesson OF death ?" He
state that that lesson is the supremacy
and the Immortality Of truth.
In the conflict Of politics sand OF
business we besmirch the characters
of honest men and women. We know
ingly run campaigns on platform of
lies. We cowardly lie because we
know that We live in a land where the
criminal law against assault and bat
terry is enforced and the day OF the
pistol and Of the duel is over; and we
can jail our victims II they resent our
abuse in the ancient, manly way, and
that ,juries are SO averse to libel suits
and that they are so expensive that
we have nothing Ito fear from them.
But We Forget God and DEATH
But we forget God. We forget
death. We forget the fact that we
can live them and through the ages
is truth. We forget that 1t is the pure
in heart alone that can see God. We
forget that on the other shores are
our fathers and mothers and the great
army OF those whom we have loved.
We forget that We cannot fool them
and we cannot, fool God" go.
/, Sees Danger in These Services.
!. The speaker ,Rtated that there, is in.
deed, . danger III these memorial cere.
He said there is, 2. danger
even in the beautiful motto OF the
lodge, "theiE faults we write upon the
sand; their virtues upon the tablets OF
love and memory,
MANY Iof us give to these words q
post mortem Interpretation. We COS.
sip about and villify men and women
when they arr living and when they
are dead We say, that we have written
their faults upon the sand and their
virtues upon the; tablets Of love. and and
!" -.Ts.ir. i. Majesty 7 81 os.sh.' 7 ~
"What, do they care about all this
latter day repentance, about this N.Y.
pocrisy? Theirs, is the majesty Of;
death, the truth, Of death, tie vision
Of the infinite. Lies I'm, NO longer;
hurt them, and crocodile, tears can
give them SO aid or relief. "
What they wanted when living
was not charity, nat forgiveness, not
the covering over Of anything by the
sand, but to be known, to be judged
really as they were. and to have the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
teh truth. told about them and known
about them" -,
Hundreds Attend Services.
Hundreds attended the Elks memor.
ial services The order OF services
opened with patriotic selection by
the Elks' band, which was followed by
the opening ceremony. OF the lodge.
Three. names failed to answer at the
roll call. They were Marshall H. Jew.
ell, William F. Cochrane and A. W.
Eppinger They were the absent
brothers. A hymn was given by the
Bismarck male quartet entitled Sleep
Thy Last Sleep" DR.. W. J. Hutche-
son, pastor Of the McCabe Methodist
church Of this city, offered the prayer.
Mrs. n. n. Steele ID, Heard.
Mrs. H. H. Steele scored success.
fully. giving a beautiful rendition OF
Somewhere a Voice is Calling" Miss
Helen Fisk played the accompani-
ment. also favoring with = piano selec.
ton, Charity" Another hymn was
given by the Bismarck male quartet.
followed by the singing OF two stan
zas OF America by the audience with
band accompaniment and the benedic-
ton by Rev. Father Hiltner.