Show LESSON tESSON OF TH THE E ODD FELLOWS The They met in Salt Lake for the annual an an- until nual session of their Grand Lodge And the they recalled the tho honorable record of or their order It is a secret society in n the sense that the tho work vork of the thc I lodge odge room is hidden from the e eyes es of those not members But the tho good it i has done in the world is b by no means a secret It is impossible to say a how much of sorrow has been relieved how much of human suffering has been hean prevented b by the thoughtful and brotherly service of Odd Fellows It is a little more than a hundred bundred years since the first lodge was instituted instituted in this country and almost a century since Thomas Wildey with his associates munched launched It as an nn American American Amer Amen ican lean order orber In that time it has grown wonderfully It now contains perhaps a million and a half haU members and has hag distributed in relief relic since 18 1830 O over a hundred millions of or dollars The Tho obligation of an Odd Odd Fellow to assist his brother In life ife and nd protect his wIllow widow and children later is rarely ignored Members of the order In Utah arc are worth worthy citizens They realize in their I lives 11 the benevolent and mutually i helpful principles of the tho ritual and are areat areat are at all times an Influence for good They have had hiatt a successful meeting i in this city It is to bo be hoped they will wil increase in numbers here and that all their future ma may be as successful successful successful success success- ful as their past has been heen |