The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-10-01
REBEKAH ANNIVERSARY.

An enjoyable entertainment was
heid wednesday evening of last week
wnen Ellivoro Rebekah lodge enter
tanned the Odd Fellows lodge in the
sixty-ninth anniversary of the Rebekah
order. The Odd Fellows responded
with a good attendance.
Did the Odd Fellows miss the re-
freshments?
No.
Did they eat up everything?
No.
DID they behave themselves?
Dla they ever miss a good feed when
the Rebekahs set it up?
No.
An interesting program was given
under the management of Mrs. K. 8.
Iaylor, in which Miss Kathlene Grant
Misses Pauline and Edna SchassberS
ana Miss Agnes Thayer were among
tne contributors; short address was
given oy Mrs. K. P. Hoskyn on the his
tory OF Odd Fellowship and the Re.
peKah order. as follows:
we are participating here tonight.
brother Odd Fellows. on this anniver-
sary occasion dear to the hearts Of
every sincere Rebekah; the anniver-
sary of our order. And it is surely a
great credit to be member of this or
der. and pleasure, as such, to repre-
sent Ellivoro Rebekah Lodge No. 234.
a branch Of the order we'll established
IN this community and working win
you in our joint effort to better man
kind.
While the order of Odd Fellows
was the first to recognize woman. vet
IL existed for half century before
woman was admitted. 1t Is fact that
no cause in all the history of the
world seeking the elevation of man,
has ever prospered without the sup
port OF wOman's influence and wom-
ans prayers and woman's work. Thus
woman has been the greatest factor
for good in all the world since the
morning stars sang their first chorus
es; and from the cradle to the grave
the influence of good, Christian wo-
man upon those with whom she asso-
ciates is so indellibly impressed that
nothing can efface it. Today her in
fluence is not only felt at home and
in the church, but in the fraternal
world as well, and (pardon the diver
sion) her participation in American
politics portends a brighter. cleaner
and more elevating future.
1T was through the patient and per-
sistent efforts of that grand and noble
statesman and Odd Fellow, Schuyler
Colfax, that the Rebekah degree was
adopted in 1861. To him belong the
honor of having worded and arranged
the Rebekah ritual, the lectures Of
which are perhaps the most beautiful
in all the work of Odd Fellowship.
The object in formulating this de-
gree was to enlist the cooperation of
womca as helpmate of man in dis
seminatifig the cardinal principles of
benevolence and charity, and to assist
Odd Fellows in their glorious work o.
fraternizing mankind by sowing the
seeds of friendship, love and truth
among the nations of the world.
The first degree conferred on them
was, however, only complimentary
one, and in 1854 it was considered a
dead letter; but when in 1867 COM
Sire John Ii. White, quaker by BIRTH
took up the cause which resulted in
the Sovereign Grand Lodge legislating
to authorize the instituting of Rebekai
lodges. And while the great Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows has extended
to twenty different nations of the world
with over sixty Grand lodges and up
wards of $4,000 subordinate lodges,
the Rebekah order has grown to 5000
lodges and the grand total of Odd
Fellowship now reaches far over two
million members.
Among the duties assumed by the
Rebekahs were to assist the brothers
in educating the orphans, caring for
the sick, relieving the distressed, COM
forting the dying and cOnsOling the
bereaved, and also contributing means
and energies to provide homes for the
orphans and aged. 1t is said these in
stitutions under the supervision of
Odd Fellows owe their existence and
success largely to the persistent eff
forts of the Rebekahs.
"These homes, the world over, are
now numbered by the hundreds and
the Rebekahs of the state of Wash
ington are happy and liberal contrib
utors to the magnificent Odd Fellows
home at Walla Walla, in which Okla
hogan county furnishes and keeps its
room at it's own expense.
"Ellivoro Lodge No. 234, organized
in 1911, has ever since been, as an
organized body, an earnest and har-
monious lodge in the great work Of
assisting our brothers in maintaining
the Odd Fellows home of Washington
md carrying on the work of raising
and maintaining the moral monument
of friendship, love and truth in this
community, for as soon as men learn
to practice toward their fellows more
of the christian virtues taught by the
example of mothers, daughters, wives
and sisters, then will the Divine Mas
ter bless our efforts to fraternize the
world. And, brother Odd Fellows, it
is Just an occasion such as this, when
you recognize the weaker vessels in
equal measure of credit in the good
work you are doing, and join with us
in these pleasant reunions that you
make the hearts of true Rebekahs re-
joice.
I'm this great cooperative work of
our, let us each perform our duty and
so live, that when the summons comes
TO Join the innumerable caravan
which moves to that mysterious realm
where each shall take his chamber
in the silent hall of death, thou go not
like galley slave at night scourged
TO his dungeon, but sustained and
soothed by an unfaltering trust, ap-
uroach the grave, like one who wraps
the drapery of his couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreams"
There is no getting behind the un-