The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-05
Memorial SerUice by Elks
 Sunday Largely Attended

The Go.du,a llks held most im- 1 pressive memorial service at Empress | thcater on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 | o'clock. The stage was draped with | American flags and the organizations | colors in mourning, and about three hundred people attended the service. K. c. Robinson, president of the Bills Club. presided and after d prayer by Rev l.. P. Ziegler made few appro- l priate introductory remarks. Miss Elsa Thomson rendered a solo on the pipe organ and the audience joined in singing Nearer My God to Thee" Mrs. T. N. Hubbert rendered a vocal solo and J V. Lydick delivered an eulogy of the departed brothers. Mrs. Hub bert sang another solo and America" was suns by the audience, followed by benediction. pronounced by Rev. Iicg- Ter Mr. Lydick's address follows.
 Brothers, friends, today all Elkdom stops. and in silent meditation sheds a tear for those brothers who have been Called before the Grand Exalted ;ulcr 0! the Universe.
 T.aoy wherever there is a lodge of EI... they are holding their memorial service. services for their departed brothc.-. ho uoa lest in drnamIoss sleep. Their nIr work is done. We canont 7. call them However,, each year th... names will be recalled by tn ir lodge at this sacred session; .ans accomplishing the trat~uul mess
 E. ABSENT BUT NOT FORGOT TEN"
 We have no lodge here, but We are trying s best We can to carry out the spirit of the day The rituals tic work as given by a lodge, today, is beautiful one. an impressive one. out to me the most impressive part of all is the roll call of the departed broth CTS When this is asked for by the Exalted Ruler, the Secretary and Es- quire rise in their positions, the Sec retary calls the name of departed brother-there is a moments silence, and the Esquire answers gone" An other name is called and again the Es- quire answers gone" and so on un- til the name of each departed brother has been called.
 oh teach us lesson. It should remind us that lifes pathway is but short one, and that we come to the end all too soon. For aught we know next year some Secretary may call our name and the Esquire answer gone" and in learning this we should strive to more the teachings of our order; those car dinal principles, Charity, Justice, BrotherIy Love and Fidelity. To be charitable to all mankind; charitable, in deed. and in thought, to dispense charity in large measure without undue ostentation; to care for the sick; to comfort those who mourn; to scatter flowers along the pathway of life and by our example teach others that Charity is one of the great est of all virtues. To be just to all, and in this way follow the teachings of our book of law-the Bible. To practice brotherly love; be less harsh with him who has fallen. A well chosen word to him in his darkened hour may perchance be the means of making man and an Elk of him again.
 Brothers. always bear in mind our motto: The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands. their virtues upon tablets of love and memory"
 And last. by our lives, try to exem- plify that greatest virtue of all-Fi- delity. Be faithful to our Creator, he faithful to our flag, to our lodge, and, lastly, be faithful to ourselves. For truly, my brothers, if one is faithful to himself he must necessarily be faithful to all others.
 My brothers and friends, | doubt that there are words more fitted for this occasion than those of William Cullen Bryant. and it shall be his words Ina, | will use in my closing rbn "Thanafopsis.
 THANATOPSl5
 To him who, in the love of Nature,
 holds