Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-12-07
GAVE A FINE EULOGY SUNDAY

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and so on until the first man Adam
shall be resurrected.
We are not concerned i'm dis
cussion of this or any other theory
hut it is back ground for beauti-
full and fitting picture. In this pict-
ure ! see the time in the reverse
order of events when those here meet
| again, ! see the vacant chairs,
hear the roll call that we have heard
today, but instead of silence, when
each name is called I hear footsteps
upon the Threshold. They enter our
| portals and resume their seats
among US, answer TO the roll call and
| again mingle with us in world
where there shall be no more part
ing, no more sorrow, but where
justice, brotherly love, charity and
fidelity, the cardinal principals of
our Order shall be practiced in their
fulness for ever more.
Oh, what a life of service we
should livel To be fit to take part
in such an event, or TO pass through
the door to meet those who are
awaiting to welcome us.
Into the past we look and our vi
sion beholds the trials and progress
of human life; we see men struggling
on LIES battle ground; we see them
fall. and rise and fall again At one
time condemnation is freely heaped
upon the most devoted action: and
.4t
tion is bestowed unstinted praise.
But in all human affairs there is
steady growth toward betterment,
cumuatively since the stone age
mankind has been going forward in
march of civilization. Often the go
ing has been slow, and sometimes
seems TO recede, but every century
finds some ground gained.
The broad marks are apparent.
Monogamy has made constant
Roadway As an institution it is out |
living all rivals. The belief is sure
ly winning that the union of one /
man and one woman in marriage is /
the only normal way to provide for
the natural expression of sex in
stinct, and due care of offspring and
the conservation of ideals.
Duelling has disappeared.
Private wars have been swallowed
up in nationalism.
War is going
The last great war has brought
about the idea of some form of a
world-pact of nations, which i'm
course of time will stop international
wars.
Slavery is dead
The cruelties of witchcraft and
judicial torture have gone.
Plaques are disappearing.
Democracy is establishing itself,
not only as a principal of politics,
Dut as the principal of industry.
Midst the thunder Of wars, the
roar of revolutions and rebellions,
and the violence of unrest, which
are merely like the foam and spray
IF surface waves, the hand of des-
.iny has raised humanity to its high
.r and still higher levels, silently as
he dawn and the growth of the oak.
The laws of growth evolution are
ust as accurate, just as sure footed,
rs the laws of gravitation and
chemical reaction. Any institution
IT government that is maintained in
of plain human rights, any
system, any propaganda, that de-
lends upon cheating, lying, or injus-
ice, is certain at length to fail.
The certainty of the defeat of
'russian militarism was not based
IN its inferiority in numbers, wealth
md resources, but upon the moral
ottenness Of its ideals. 1t came to
,rief, not because of its lack of
orce, but because it was based on
principles which to humanity are in
oerabe
In the little affairs of day it
Gems sometimes as if the wicked
prosper, the gambler is flush, the I
windler gets away with his swag,
nd the assassin and robber feast on
heir booty. But when this sort of
hing is stretched out over any con-
iderable space of time or territory
o that the cosmic laws, which move