The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-10

neered in the cause of the common
good for young and old alike, for
family and for business alike.
"As a Mason he was Master of
his Lodge; in the Scottish Rite he
held the highest place Of privilege,
opportunity and responsibility; and
apart from his interest in his home
which was primary-surely this
place was the object of his chief
love and concern. And as long as
this Temple shall endure, yea bet
ter still, as long as the spiritual
temple of Masonry abides in this
Territory there shall abide in the
memory of all of us the influence
of Dad" Tripp; and it shall be
rue therefore that He, being dead,
yet speaketh.'
Was Church Man
He was church man as we'll,
for aside from achieving a memoir
able Immortality in this life, he
gave his heart and life to Jesus
Christ as Savior and Lord that he
might come to know richer, fuller
Immortality in the life that is TO
DC. Years ago. in his years of
oaa1th ond avop uhor bis haari,, m
vas diminished he regularly sat
n his place in the House of God
With his dear helpmate of the years
~ his side
1T is in his home that you will
ind the perfect tribute; for the
perfect tribute is not the honors
which were his in elective or APP
)ointive office, not in the regard
Which your presence here shows,
lot in these flowers, tokens of love
md understanding. not in our
words, but in the daily acts of
ewing devotion which those who
lave known him for years in his
nome find the fitting and the per-
ect tribute; and perhaps in that
levotion we find something of an
answer to the question, Why these
5ears of hardship and suffering?"
Perhaps in the wisdom Of Goa, Ill
he midst of war-mad world, q
iivorce-crazed society and a thrill
eeking citizenry, we have needed
o know that the sweetest and tbs
ichest and the strongest and the
greatest thing in the world is not
lonors, is not position, is not fame.
out is Love, love Of two hearts
Who throughout half a century
,aced the joys and the sorrows, the
uccesses and the reverses of life:
md who instilled into the lives of
heir devoted children those prin-
,iples which have made their home
Ii we have known it.
And perhaps he too needed i'm
proved perspective for eternity
Blessed with full use of his keen
md active faculties through the
recent years of patient waiting,
who knows the thoughts of such
a mind; and no doubt the Grand
master of the great universal
lodge above has allowed him to go
through a school of suffering that
he should be, shall We say ground
IN the grindstone of suffering SO
hat he might become more highly
polished, as stone being fitted for
a place of special and larger USE
fulness and beauty for the Eternal
Temple. For, just as surely as the
Grandmaster of Men two thousand
years ago looked upon one Simon
and said, 'Henceforth they name
shall not be Simon but Peter the
rock SO also during the past four
decades that same Grandmaster of
Men, seeing in our departed dear
one those rock-like qualities Of in
iustry, integrity, fidelity and devo-
ton. said, Thou shall be called the
Pioneer. the Worker, the High Type
Citizen, Mason, Churchman, Home
Maker, Friend and Neighbor'-the
Grand Old Man of Masonry, the
polished gentleman of the old
school Dad Trip"
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