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Show WOODMEN PAY A TRIBUTE TO THEJ)EAD Fitting tributes to the dead members mem-bers of the lodge were paid by the Weber ramp lodge No. 74, Woodmen of the World, at their memorial ser vices held yesterday Among the impressive ceremonies was tne unveiling of seven monuim ms over the graves of Joseph W Bailey, LaTe Parlev. fieorge M Farland Paul Van Komen. Joseph W Williams, l bert Senton and Albert Herrlck In the morning a committee of lodgemen islted the Mountain View cemeter arid decorated the graves -.if the fifteen members lying burled II there In the afternoon the members degree team unveiling officers anil aides and band lined up at Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street and Washington avenue, if t r r : (in nolo a bout t he it all marched to the Ogden City cemetery where the graves were decorated In tin Woodmen plot, and the monu II ents erected over those dying with in the p.ast year were unveiled The memorial address was delnered bv T. D Johnson i ' With practically the entire member ship lined up the proeesslon was an I impressive one Bach member carried II wreaths or bouquets to be placed on fl the graves. H Mr Johnsons address In part was M as follow s f-v Address by T D Johnson. 'We are assembled, today to unveil and dedicate the monuments erected to mark the graves of those from whose hands the axe of the Woodman has fallen since we last gathered here; to place flowers on the graves of our departed brothers, as a token thai we still remember them and to remind re-mind Ourselves that we, too, shall soon take our places among them To those whose monuments we unveil, and whose craves we drcorate. it matters not what we shall do or sa Though I shall call aloud the I names. the will not hear, though the ones thev loved best in all the world shall lie prostrate en their graves and whisper loving words tin . will not answer them "W hat a monster is death All beaut v and loveliness fade and wither before his glance, no goodness no. purity protects from his embrace there ts no might nor power that can stay his ruthless hand, and all the wealth In the world cannot buy from him n respite of one little hour "And, then, what a leveler death is of men The wealthiest man whose Krave Is here is not todav one whit richer than the poorest widow whose last narrow home Is not far away He left his wealth; she her poverty The rich and poor, the high and low. the young and old. He In their graves on equal terms That Immortal document the pec laratlon of Independence, declare that all men are created equal. It Is true that all men at birth are equally helpless, equally dependent upon nth era for care and protection, for life itself So in death all men are equal ly helpless, equally dependent on others oth-ers even for sepulchre, and rill the rare and protection of others cannot save W hatever may be the inequalities inequali-ties in the lives of men In this world, it is a momentous truth that we come into the world and leave it on equal terms Naked ame I out of m mother's wombt and naked shall I re turn thither." "Bo yon believe in Immortality? Do you believe that men lutve immortal spirits, and that somewhere In the universe of God our dead brothers still live separate and apart from the bodies which we have buried here" I)o you believe that somehow, some time, they shall rt6e again from the earth where we have placed them h that same inscrutable power which with each recurring year awakens dead nature from the death of win ter, and makes the grass alive and covers the bare trees with foliage1 Or are yon without hope of such a glorious possibility, and In the silence ol ihe tomb see an eternal sleep? "It is noi my purpose to discuss these questions with you today I prefer to present a view In which believer be-liever and unbeliever, Christian and Sgnostic, may stand on common ground and all agree Whether we live beyond the grave as sentient conscious beings, or whether death is an eternal sleep, It Is a glorious truth that we live though dead, thai every life Is Immortal, and will con tinue In the life of the race as long as the race shall endure. Even the weakest and humblest of us will have a measure of immortality though dead, for our works do follow after us Though these, our brothers, may be sleeping an eternal sleep, think you they are altogether dead" Is It not true that their dead hands are still at work for those they loved In the protection they gae as members of our order0 In every policy of life Insurance held for the benefit of loved ones a man projects himself beyond the grave, and In that he accumulates for the protection of wife and children against want when he Is gone, he Is I seeking for immortality "In responding to the Impulse of his li-ari to safeguard the Interest .mil welfare ' those dependent upon him, every husband and father, thouph dead, atill Uvea- he llvce In the opportunities and happiness ol his children, and in the comfort and contentment of hia wife, and hi shall ' ontinue lo live as they shall transmit to other lives what he. by hia care and forethought, made possible in their lives. And thus his life will o on forever "Did you ever consider that Washington Wash-ington and the patriots of the revolt; tlon down to the humblest private, still live live In the life of our country, coun-try, Its freedom Its liberty and Its Slory "Will not every soldier of the civil war live in the life of a united country coun-try under a common flag as long as our nation shall endure Is it possl ble that the life of Abraham Lincoln, his influence and examplw will ever dlr- as long as men cherish liberty and slaves love freedom? "I do not know what you think of lh- Christ. You may beliove that he was the son of God sent to redeem men , that he died and rose again, us It is written, or you may believe the Btory of his life, his mlraclog, hlo death and resurrection, only myths woven about hia name. Bo that a It may. you do know that ho lived, taught and died; you know that for noarly two thousand years hl Hrc has continued and impressed itsolf upon millions of lives. Who will deny that Jeue Chrlit has attained an Un perishable immortality in the life ol the race? "And so every' man who has civcn the world n great thought a precept of right living, or added to the sum of human knowledge or who b dla covery or Invention has supplied the nee esMtles or ini n- im-.i . . . of mankind, has by that act secured for himself immortality. "It mov not be given to you or me to do any great thing In this world, or to be a part In any gmaf move men! thnt shall deeply Impress Use!' upon the course of human history, yet however humble ire cannot es cape the responsibilities of life, oi avoid contributing something to the life of the race. It may be great or small, good or bad, somethlnp. li musi be whether we will or not." |