| Show I SORROW LODGE BY LOCAL lOGAl ELKS Eulogy and Memorial Service in Honor of Departed Members REV P A SIMPKINS ADDRESS Judge e M Jf M f Warner Eulogy With Appropriate Musical Numbers I I In Tn honor of o the following rollo named de departed departed parted utro brothers and those who nho preceded I r them to the tile realm of ot the great beyond hundreds of Elks and friends gathered In the Salt Lake lAko theater Sunday night to In the beautiful exercises which w arc are carried out wherever there Is Isan I an all Elks EIs lodge the first Sunday of ot each I December I It is called The Lodge of oC Sorrow SOlTOW and the program prepared by Salt Lake i I lodge No 55 was one of eulogy me mci morial and song in honor of oC the tho follow following followIng following ing lodge members who have passed away I L Kahn ICahn J W Yo I IGray IM Gray M II J Kennedy Kenned B B Heywood J D Wood J H Mease W A John IOn Tho The relatives and friends of or the departed ones could not help appreciating ing In the devoted tributes paid to tho those e who have been given tim the key ko to unlock the door of Immortality The Tho affair breathed of oC the spirit of or love tender tenderness tenderness tenderness ness and memory The Tho theater was packed almost to capacity On the tho stage were wuie the officers of ot the lodge tho setting betting being In the nature of or tho the dif dlf different ferent stations The decorations were Cl purple and 1 white and d on the h walls f hung beautiful f elk 1 heads a while I I at the tho back backof backof of the he stage stood a n full sized elk cUe The eulogy euloS by b Judge M M If Warner and the memorial address by b Rev P A SImpkin of or Phillips Congregational E church w were the leading features of or tho the services James W Collins exalted ruler of ot Salt Lake lodge delivered the ritualistic tic address which was wag repeated In hun hundreds hundreds of lodges throughout the United States The Elks Elles In tho the audience aro and ond sang the opening ode and then gave gae the sign in token of lovo and memory for those who have luLe passed away am The orchestra played opla ed the March I Pontificate In by Gou Gounod Gounod Gounod nod After concluding the ritualistic ad address addres address dress dres the exalted ruler lUler called upon the tho to read the names of those who ho passed away awa during the year cud Sud Pontificate In memoriam by Gou GiJu GiJun ness n ss and as ne each name namo was called by Secy Sec the name of or the tho broth brother er flashed forth on tho the altar which was wa covered by b an American flag The Tue Imperial quartet composed of ot Graham Ashworth Christoph erson and Squires rendered beautiful beautifully ly I 1 Parks Night of Rest M I M r 1 WARNERS ERS EULOGY M M I Warner Varner a member of or tho the lodge delivered an nn eulogy saying In part This 1 Is a day of o sympathy and emo emotion emotion emotion tion More than Elks are arc meet meetIng meetIng I Ing In various parts of the United St tes to honor and revere revero the tho memory of oi those who have passed to the realm of o Immortality Neither their cor death can break the golden chain chala chaino of or o love In this commercial age fow few t men are arc so great mentally mental morally and financially as to extend help to all 1 fellow men In distress or 01 they arc are arche too busy S to extend e sympathy a and cheer where he they are aro needed A selfishness Y has been bred of or this neglect and It Is j for the collective thought and action to toJa pay Ja to the tho departed as well as M asto a ato to cheer those who mourn Tonight with bowed heads and si sl silent silent lent heart throbs tho the roll roil call of our de do I parted brothers was wan read r ad and wo we bowed In humble submission to the awful silence that followed followell the tho call of ot their names name All that have gone from us were iero good Elks and we have hao conso consolation lation In n the fact that they the are now basking banking In the sunlight of oC Gods eternal love Among the notable musical numbers were A Prayer splendidly rendered by Fred Graham The Evening Song by h the orchestra The Rock of Ages by b a quartet composed of or Mrs Peters Miss Osborne Mr 11 Graham and Mr Squires REV REY SIMPKINS ORATION Tho The annual address by Rev Rov P A SImpkin was most eloquent In tho the course cour o of oC his oration he ho said ld Again we VO como comb down tho the road of ot memory whore where every overy step Is fringed with the twinkling beauty of or II 0 and as we march to tho the harmony majestic holding the echoes of yesterdays dear songs tongs that will vill not wholly who 11 die wo we pass pas by b tho long line of or tho the quiet faces of the tiLe loved and an lost to stand within the templo of sorrow Yesterday and memory today and love and God hear you OU not your our heart singing as around the tue holy room you ou keep for your loved lost the tile I quiet ones smile again as they were ivero wont to do In the sweet yesterdays esterday when they the walked walled beside besl e you yu ou In the way Yesterday and memory It Is glo glorious glorIous gb rious to K member love loe The lovo love re remembrances and tho the love lovo lights have havo been tho the beacons of or all the way men have havo walked This beautiful custom of your fra fraternity fraternity Is rooted in tho the finest linest sentiment of or the tile human soul Gathering to brood In n the quietness of sorrows temple templo upon the tile worth of those who were and andin in hi n earth are aro no more to ponder a space on lifes solemnity beauty and brevity no less than titan Its high responsibility sl we arc are here to find In a new ap apprehension apprehension apprehension of tho the worlds sorrow a new of pity and love which shall send us from this holy hol hour haul to service gentler entler and more beautiful for men be because because cause cau e they and God need us in love lovo and divineness I This Tills is loves nour me tile nean craves the presence and tIm the sight of Its beloved dead The summons summon them not that we may emphasize that of the earth earthy that moved in them as In us lifes love lovo and sweet sweetness sweetness ness neso but that upon tho the yesterday of earth may ma fall faU golden night kissing Into living splendor all Its Us touches The pathos of or life Is In few things so 50 writ wilt as In the tho hearts 11 arts loyalty to Its Ideals The divineness of our imaginings Is evidenced In loves lovos per por persistence and the devotion of or tho the soul to those who have drunken with us at loves bubbling spring It Is beautifully fit nt and fitly flU beau beautiful beautIful that you OU should In this lodge of or sorrow borrow dignify the tho fraternity whose whoso has bias touched you ou with tender tenderness ness nets and for a fleeting hour enthrone the humble souls that have filled with ours the tho woof of oC lifes simple sweet brave commonplaces You should rem remember remember I ember not only the bond that holds in II common life tho myriad sons of men I who ever evor falter by b tho the way a of life and ever eret on the lip need frame Forgive me Father 0 O forgive but likewise that heroism and beauty that mark even the humblest of or men again In and again So today In living hands we hold not the tho withered red flower falling failing again to Its nature dust dual but the perfume of liv living livIng Ii ing souls is gathered In the chalice crystal souls that In deeds of fidelity and sacrifice won that chap let of or remembrance we wo lay la upon tho tim serene brows of death physical Miss oils Amy Am Osborne sang HanS 0 O Loving lAving Father Mr Graham and Miss Peters rendered 0 O Love Divine and ami the tile quartet sang Praise ye e The Tho Father The Tile benediction was pronounced by b Chaplain P P Christensen Tho and committees committee which had charge of oC the lodge of or sorrow arc arcas arcas arcas as follows Officers James W Yo Collins exalted ruler A G Mackenzie esteemed lead leadIng leadIng Ing lug knight S Ewing esteemed loyal knight L T C KoHey Koll esteemed lecturing lecturIng ing lug knight ht A W V secretary K B F I Redman treasurer V A Bet esquire J A j Place tyler iler D L Inner guard gard P I P Christen Christensen sen chaplain H A Leipsiger or organist organist organist Memorial Committee H A er chairman W Wi V R n Sibley F F T Col bills Hns lin W W J C Reception Committee F li L I Gardner chairman J C Leery Lear E M 1 Keyser Thomas Homer Harry C Beason Benson J C Jack Jacle Robert Rober Akin Sam C Short Sherrill ill Gideon Snyder Harry Harr Brain Ben Davis L E IS Kahn C L Applegate A J Davis J T H Knickerbocker Oscar W V C Lockington C S Pulver George F A C Sul Sub livan C B Starr C H Reed Thomas ThomasM M 11 Ivory G A Bellenger E B F Kauf Kau Kaufmann Kaufmann mann W G Romney I Siegel Siege E B C Pen Penrose rose |
