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PAY TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED ELKS Members of loc Local t I Lodge Hold H ld Impressive Service in Salt Lake Theatre ADDRESS BY RABBI FREUND BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IS TAK TAKING TAKI TAKING ING ON REALITY i S With the solemn and impressive rit nt ritualistic services of the order the th mem members members bers bern of Salt Lake lodge No 85 Benevolent Benevolent Benevolent lent and Protective Order of Elks paid tribute to the memory of the dead members of the local lodge at the Salt Lake theatre last night The theater was crowded with the friends of the members of the order and among them were many members of the families q of the departed The services were marked throughout by simplicity and earnestness and closest attention was paid during the entire service The Th stage was decorated with a back background background background ground of ot palms and cut flowers and andin andIn andIn in the center was placed the station of the exalted ruler of the lodge Occupying Occupying ping this station and conducting the exercises was Thomas Homer and on either side were ranged seats for the theother theother theother other officers of the lodge participating in the exercises These were George F esteemed leading knight C S Pulver esteemed loyal knight W WP WP WP P Cooper esteemed lecturing knight A W Yo secretary W R Ro Sib Sibley ley treasurer and Ben D Luce chap chaplain chaplaIn chaplain lain Calls Roll of Dead DurIng the ritualistic service serIce the roll rollof rollot rollof of ot the dead was called by the secretary secreta after which the members of the order throughout the house arose at the sound of the gavel gayel and gave the sign of ot sorrow orrow Chaplain Luce offered an impressive invocation A mixed quartet consisting of Mrs Bessie Bessle Browning Miss Agatha Berk Berkhoel Berkhoel hoel hod C F Graham and W G C Squires sang Teach each Me 0 O Lord by b Case Mrs Irs Browning sang 0 O Divine Redeemer by Gounod after which the eulogy was delivered by James C Leary past ex cx exalted exalted alted ruler of ot the lodge The eulogy treated of the uncertainty of life and the duty that man owes to man during life and pleading for a broader feeling of or fraternalism and brotherly love among men C Fred Graham sang The Road to Light by Walpole and the tho orchestra rendered Sullivans Lost Chord Brotherhood of Man Rabbi C J 1 Freund delivered the an annual annual annual nual memorial address in which he said that the world has ever e had its dreamers its visionaries men m who wio sing the songs gongs of f hope for th the future andi and the songs of an art era of ot greater at r accomplishment com andt and better feeling among men Men are living at peace with one an another another another other he said sal and nations are re laying aside their armament and the brother brotherhood brotherhood hood of r man mania is more of a reality re now than it has over before been It is no ito longer the dream of the dreamer the hope of the visionary He said the attainments of the pres present present present ent state of civilization are ar not the re ne results suits of a moment but have hOo been gained by the gradual steps step of men and the gradual advancement from a lower aloer to a higher plane of thought and action Primarily man was w s selfish s said the speaker and the continuance of ot his own existence was the first and fore foremost foremost foremost most thought in his mind Then came love loyo for family later love loe for tribe and nation until now the love of man for forman forman forman man has extended from nation to na nation natIon nation tion and includes es all of mankind wherever wherever wherever ever he may ina be found Message of Joseph With the passage of time a definite feeling Is growing up in the world that each man is in a measure responsible for the welfare and happiness of all I Iother other men and the brotherhood of man manis manIs I is taking on a greater and broader real reality realIty reality ity than ever before The man of or to today toda today day da has smoothed his former rough na fla nature natUre ture Men Ien are being drawn closer and amI closeT closer together by bonds that unite all human hearts The word man is be being beIng being ing more generally interpreted to mean brother The message of Joseph when he went forth in Iii the land of Egypt was II I seek my m brothers brother This message is being reiterated by b the whole human race All of mankind Is seeking his I brother The brotherhood of man Is the oasis in the broad and parched des desert desert I ert of life In lii that long march between the cradle and the grave The golden age of mythology and song should be realized In the present it should be bo made a reality of today Coming Closer Together The arguments of the tite thinkers the tue preachers the writers of today Is that the brotherhood of man should be an entity Fraternalism is a brotherhood in lii which personal differences es are for forgotten forgotten forgotten gotten in which men are coming closer together Employers and es are arc learning tIll limitations of each other othet Mans animal nature is no longer per permitted permitted permitted to dominate his better being Rabbi Freund said hospitals libraries institutions for tor the care and education of the unfortunate fraternal organizations organizations in which men band together for I mutual benefit all nIl these speak of the growing spirit of the of man He continued When there is I 1 famine on the steppes of Russia when there is bubonic bUl plague on the plains of ot India when there Is an nn earthquake in Italy or in hI our own land we do not pause p uS to ask nEk the color of the sufferers we arc are not actuated by b selfish motives but are actuated by bythe bythe bythe the noblest motives moties when we e extend our succor to the suffering Dont Walt Wait for beath beathe eath We e can attribute our condition to that golden rule that brotherhood la 1 coextensive with man In life Ute we should show feeling for or the brother In life Ufe find and nd not wait until he has ha passed the dark portals of the tomb before we extend our sympathy and aid ald The beauty of an organization such as ns this 13 Is that it does not wait for death but shows its altruism and its altruistic spirit while our brothers are arc with us usand usand usand and while they and we can understand It K The quartet sang One Sweetly Sol Solemn Solemn Solema ema Thought by b Ambrose Miss Berk Berko Berkhoel hoel hoe gave gae Tile Lord Is My Iy Light by Allison and the closing exercises were conducted co by tho the officers of oC or the thO lodge assisted by b the members In the audi audience audience audience ence |
