| Show in CASTLE HALL OF GARDEN CITY NO 10 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS PROVO CITY UTAH april P P WHEREAS it has pleased the divine chancellor to call to his lodge on high the immortal soul of our brother jacob L flora we the members of garden city lodge no 10 knights of pythias tender our heartfelt sympathy to his family in the loss of a kind father and devoted husband and while we too will miss his familiar face and kindly smile and listen vainly for the voice forever stilled we bid you not weep for hope bends over his resting place a bow bright with immortality weep not for whether death is but the open portal that leads unto the golden streets of paradise or an eternal dreamless sleep or yet a new birth in purer better forms of life there is no cause for tears the living and not the dead suffer pain and in death there is nothing terrible the dead they are bot dead they are the roseate blush upon the cheek of morn the silver of the moonbeams moon beams tender light their garments are the rainbows gorgeous tints they sleep in the fair lilys spotless bed dwell in the scented petals of the rose whisper in and paint in every human brain the dream of hope they still do live to warn us of the dangers that beset there are no dead the leaves may fall the flowers may fade and pass away they only wait through wintry months tho coming sun of may brother we turn our eyes toward that unexplored shore where thy knightly hand is stretched across the chasm to give us again the fraternal grip of welcome and of love but until it pleases the divine chancellor to call us also bencs we must bid you adieu may thy pillow bo soft and thy sleep sweet may flowers blossom and birds sing their sweetest songs round and about thy resting place and may wo meet again in a land of sunshine purity and unselfishness until then farewell GEO R STONEY P 0 HY G blumenthal BLUM EATHAL P CHAS W BARNES P |
