The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-08

Then at the balance let's be mute,
We never can adjust It;
What's done we party can compute
| We know not what's resisted
| Charity is the virtue most cher
ished by Elks. Around it cluster GU
noblest aims. Aid support an,
sympathy for the distressed, tn,
fpoor, the sick, the needy; not onl.
among our own members, but amOnl
those who have no other claim
upon us than that they suffer
Charity without show; charley with
out hope Of reward or reciprocation
charity that calls for sacrifice, no,
merely aims; charity that seeks X
keep the name of giver and receiver
alike unknown; charity that brings
. smile Of peace fro mheaven and .
tear Of gratitude from sorrow.
ladened earth; charity. of which st
Paul spoke:
"And now abideth faith, hope and
charity, but the greatest Of these Il
charity"
Fidelity-Last OF the four great
virtues presented by our order to It'd
members as worthy Of their highest
efforts to practice and acquire. Alone
It is meaningless, but as an aid TO
the other virtues 1t stands for con-
stancy in their practice. BY 1t We
are reminded that. not & only are
Charity, Brotherly Love and Justice
noble objectss'for others to admire,
but they are virtues which day and
night, in want and plenty, III ease or
poverty. we are to constantly cult
vate and strive to make an INSOFAR
able part of our chaiacte and daily
lives.
A cloud OF smoke b, day and a
pillar OF fire by night to guide us
safely to the Promised Land.
Fidelity says: Il am constant as
the northern star, Of whose true,
fixed and resting quality, there is no
fellow in the armament"
When a man has taken to heart
these lessons which he has heard oft
times repeated in the lodbe room
lessons which must impress him, If
mere words can ever impress one.
with the beauty and power of these
four virtues Of life; and when he
has made them part Of his nature so
that he acts upon them as from Inn
pulse then he v. IL be led to seek the
path Of life, followed to its end, leads
to the peaceful green pastures of
eternity.
No man need be afraid to die who
in life has Deen unafraid to live
right. No man who is fit to live need
fear to die.
When a man dies, do his intelli-
gence and his soul perish, or is there
q future existence where man in an
other form resumes his life? Death |
tells us that well or lilly spent, an end
must come to our day Of life and the
night must follow when our work on
earth is done; when our tired hearts |
no longer send the warm flush of life |
thru our bodies, and our hands and
brains turn finally from all earthly |
tasks to rest forever.
Death is not a rare of uncommon |
occurrence Of nature.
1t is not like the orchid that hides |
It's ravising beauty in the depths of |
some dark jungle glade, unseen and
but rather is like the |
blades of grass that grow without |
count or number wherever man may |
i've.
All humanity comes into being in.
he same way; learned and ignorant
empress and begger-virgin and
and maid-not mat
.er the rank or station, each but re-
beats the same wonderful miracle,
birth.
Each finds life and light, mind
md q soul thru the pain and torture
If Gods most loved and venerated
;reation-a mother.
"No language can express the
,ower and beauty and heroism and
majesty of a mothers love. 1t
thinks not where man covers and
crows stronger where man faints,
md over the wastes of unkindly
ortune sends the radiance of its
luenchless fidelity like q star in
We enter life, our tiny fingers
,rasped at the very gate of death by
! mothers loving hand, and will
ngly, eagerly risking her own life
he leads us into mortal existence.
What we owe to her cannot be re-
aid. We generally realize our tre-
nendous debt Of gratitude too late
o acknowledge 1t, save to her cold,
White form as 1t lies motionless and
her soul gone at last
With the angels of God, with them to
well forever in the court of perpet-
lal light and Joy.
If there is ought surprising hui
nan deed or word or thought, it is
mothers love-"
The same gate of life swings open
or each of us, but once in the world
We enter upon separate paths:
Each endowed with Gods most re-
uirng mental gift to man-free will
we can follow any road we may
hOose.
As all trails thru the forest mergei
nto one at the deep rivers ford, so
o all the individual paths of life
ONE together at the ford Of death
s each reaches the bank OF the great
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