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Show 'Elks . H.oId ;. Artnual. . Memorial Service Most Impressive Was the Session of the Lodge of Sorrow Held at the Ogden Theater Sunday Afternoon by Ogden j Lodge No. 719, B. P. 0. Elks. In Memoriam GEORGE L. WADE JOHN H. ERADY HARRY S. HOWARD JULIUS C. KIESEL JESSE F. BAKER SAMUEL WAY ANDREW C. HE INZER LOUIS J. HOLTHER CHARLES W. LOWREY EDWARD S, LUTY GEORGE H. CORSE ALBERT L. HOWE GORDON S. GRANT SEYMOUR L. CLARK ARTHUR E. BAKER WILLIAM E. MARSH WILLIAM J. WOOD FRED ARBOGAST WILLIAM L. MAGINNIS HARRY E. BLAIN SAMUEL H. WINTER GEORGE T. HOOD "The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands: Their virtues upon the tablets of love and memory." brother If wo have a fattier, and that fatherhood to man means tho fatherhood father-hood to woman, the fatherhood of God. Now two boy a in the name family fam-ily haven't Just the same father, they think they have, he bops by the same name, but ho Is not quite tho same man to each of the two sons. No mat-tor mat-tor how large the family, no two of the family have precisely the same vision of their own father. Wo oaunot see all the Bides of a human life, and we certainly eanuot see all Bides of God's life, but with men finding themselves them-selves drawn together towards God-hood. God-hood. We have not been always so drawn together, not always, but we must 'lie If we keep up this Idea of brotherhood, for after all a family relation re-lation between humanity and God Is what wc must expect and whon this J is in fact wc have the real Ideal expression ex-pression of religion. Have you ever asked yourself where men get their religion? It is interesting. Men receive re-ceive their first notions of religion from their mothers. No one can say more for the religion of woman than would 1m? true and beautiful, and the religion of woman is nearer the truth than the religion or man, because the religion of woman comes to her by intuition in-tuition and that of men by reason of our reasoning power, which does not always work correctly, and woman's intuition leads her to tho truth and man's reasoning leads him over much dlvertcnt ground before he discovers the truth, but no matter how beautiful beauti-ful her religion may be, it Is true a man hasn t intuition. When the mother moth-er tells her little loy her notions of religion, the mother doesn't explain it. she knows theni and feels them, they are equally true, but she doesn't explain them. The boy takes his mother's moth-er's religion In hid heart in a way, in his mind in a way, and goes out into life, and then he Is asked to explain it and he can't, and no man holds anything any-thing permanently that he cannot explain ex-plain to some degree, if it is explainable explain-able and every man must have a reason rea-son for something, and the first thing the man knows ho is out among men with pomethlng that he cannot glvo any reason for, or any explanation of, that he has never put any Intellectual analysis into, and when be finds that certain other analyses and certain other explanations seem to contravert the intuition of his mother, he cannot defend himself, he is lost, and while he is being lost he loses hi3 preoption preop-tion of religion. Ho goes on being religious without knowing it, he is In the background of his life and conception con-ception of God and human brotherhood brother-hood without realizing it, tout to openly open-ly realize that he is religious, that he has a God whom ho personally serves, he has lost that. It will be a great day when the men of the world do not leave the thought of religion in the hearts of their children just to to their mothers, It will be a great day when tho men of our brotherhood, each In his own way, tells to his own boy and to those whom he knows his notion and his explanation, ex-planation, and why he believes In the brotherhood of man and the father-hoed father-hoed of God; it mny not be my notion, no-tion, that Is not of such great concern, con-cern, it may not be yours, that Is not of such great concern only that It shall be some explanation of his own vision that ?hall mako real to him his and conquer a country? and give it back again suvo in the story of our America. In no other nation and history his-tory have people spent their money and their lire Mood to bring a beneficence benefi-cence to a strange people of another type and of another language. " "It Is peculiarly American, this universality of lovo and brotherhood, and It ! very Interesting lo us today that we have among other fraternities a fraternity such as this whose guests we arc today, which Is banded together togeth-er not simply for mutual helpfulness, ns beautiful as that ia, as practical as ,.Jt is, as necessary as it Is, but It Is banded together not only for that, but also for universal helpfulness, It is uniquely an American conception of brotherhood, so that wherever wo have lived, in whatever state. In whatever what-ever part of this great land of ours, wo have always known of the beneficent benefi-cent hand of this order stretched out, not towards IU members, that we do not know of, but Its beneficent hands arc stretched out towards those who are not members of its order, towards the unfortunate, towards tho weak, towards thoae who need a friend, whatever they are, whatever their belief, be-lief, whatever their creed, whatever their race "There l.i something very wonderful about this idea of human brotherhood, this feeling of loyalty of one man towards to-wards another, Just' because he Is a man. "Mr. Lamb, in his Essays of Elia, tells a very Interesting story about a gentleman. Some one asks why It Is that such a gentleman of London is so courteous and polite and gentle and as the story goes in the easay. you remember, he says that he remembers at one time how that Ijondon merchant mer-chant had been engaged to a most beautiful woman, MHs Wlnstanley. He called upon, her at one time and he found her not In her usual sunny mood, and after many inquiries he finds out from her this incident, "1 wan passing your store the other day and I heard you lcratJng your washerwoman, wash-erwoman, because she was a few minutes min-utes late, or a few hours late, as it may have been, with your laundry, not knowing that perhaps aho may have staid up half the night to finish It. I said to myself that I, Miss Wlnstan-loy, Wlnstan-loy, a beauty and nn heiress, may have the very finest speeches of this fine gentleman, but this poor washerwoman, washerwo-man, name unknown, has nothing but criticism, and I said to myself, if I have not the kind speeches of this man, not because I am a beauty and an heiress, but just because I am a woman, I will not have them at all," and as the storv goes this charming woman, who told such a beautiful, great, universal truth to this man died 'before the marriage was consummated, consum-mated, and the story goes on to say this friend has seen this merchant standing bare headed in the London street in the rain, helping au apple woman over tho crossing through the mud, paying tribute to her womanhood, woman-hood, that is the Ideal life. It moans much to us In this generation that wo are going to pay tribute not to the man, not to his station, not to his back account, not to his physical prowess, but we are paying honor to his manhood, that means great things. "The speaker was for a time a traveling trav-eling man, he spent much time in ho- thing In life? It would be presumptuous, presump-tuous, indeed, for. me to attempt more1 then tentatively . at most to answer this question. I apprehend, too, that even with-lime for consideration and reflection no two Individuals would come to the eame conclusion concerning concern-ing It. To one It may mean power; to another, fanic; to still another, It may mean an abundance of this world's goods, and so on ad infinitum. Terhaps , lq . ,aU it . means happiness. Many 'devout -Christians will tell us that the' ;8ummutrr bonum of life is' fulth, and much can be 6ald in support sup-port of the assertion; I am rather inclined, in-clined, however, to believe that the greatest thing in the world is love. Said the Apostle Paul 'Now abldcth faith, hope, Kve; the greatest of these is love.' And it needs no scriptural arnouncement to convince us that the power to love our fellow-man Is the greatest gilt of God. In the power to love are encompassed patience, kind-resB, kind-resB, generosity, humility, unselfishness, unselfish-ness, sincerity. Rruwning says that "love is the energy of life." Look about ycu and, forgetting the passing Incidentals Inci-dentals and trifles of your existence, and even leaving out of the account the boundless love of God for man, what really enduring good thing can you Dnd iu your experience that does not emanate from your love for others or their love for you? What real happiness hap-piness have you ever experienced ycur?elves or conferred upon auolher that has not been derived from this puissant passion? Said Henry Drum-inond Drum-inond in one of his sermons: 'There- J fore love. Without calculating, without with-out procrastination, love. Lavish it upon tho poor, where It Is very easy: etpeclall upon the rich, who need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very ditllcult, and for whom, perhaps, we do least of all.' I have paid that lovo Includes generosity. gener-osity. Is not generosity oue of the moBt valuable of human sentiments? I do not speak merely of that generosity gener-osity which consists in the giving of tangible things to tho&o In need, but of that larger generosity which Impels Im-pels us to attach full faith and credit to the acts and motUes of our fellow-men. fellow-men. Were we but gcuerous as we should be, how many of the asperities ol life would vanish; how many ot the barriers which separate us would crumble away, and what a larger fund of true happlnen there would be In the world. Generosity Is the inseparable characteristic ot all great personalities. Without it man Is but a pitiable counterfeit of one of God b children.' Sincerity Is also one of the elements ele-ments of love. And by sincerity I mean freedom from dl&slmulatlon, needom from every form of hypocrisy. hy-pocrisy. In other words, it Is being precisely what we appear to be. Is there enough of this virtue amongst us? Is itaposslblo for you or me to be too sincere? Is not life much too short to justify any of us In being otherwise in our dealings one with ar.othor? Surely tho world i not so bad as to preclude us from the exercise exer-cise of this virtue. And so I might speak categorically of this family group of virtues which constitute tho sentiment or passion of love, but what I have said must suffice for this occasion. "The thought I desire to leave with you in this connection Is that our relations re-lations her In Hie are mutually Interdependent. Inter-dependent. We mu?l both give and receive. No man should say, 'I am not my brother's keeper.' We are all in dally need of the help of our fellow-nicn. fellow-nicn. The happiness of. the individual is inseparably connected with that of bis neighbors and friends. Nor can crc be truly happy without doing good to others, for 'it is more blessed to give than to receive,' "In conclusion allow me to leave with you these words of a tiuly loving spirit: " "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing I can do or any kindness I can show to any human hu-man being, let me do it now. Let me not defer It or ui-pect it, for I shall not pass this way again!'"' Address of Rev. Brainard. Rev. Frank G. Drainerd iu his address ad-dress spoke as follows: ".Mr. Kxalted Ruler, Members of the Elks Lodge, Indies and Gentlemen: We have become so accustomed in this generation to continental express, telephone, wireless telegraphy , and now to the flying machines that wo almost are losing tho conception of bigness in life; because we sec great things so commonly on every hand, we are altnobt led Into the mistake of thinking that life is commonplace and ordinary Hut It is very certain that among all the great things of life, whose greatness we do not often enough recognize, there is the great-I great-I ness of human brotherhood. We can-I can-I not comprehend the advance from the I days of savagery, when every man'o hand was against his neighbor's hand, i to this day and to this occation, when , every man's hujid is in his neighl-or's hand, when every wish for hl3 neigh-j neigh-j bor on the part of man is a wish for ! good, if he Indeed has In him the i heart of a man. It Is not strange that j as time came to the human race men felt the longing of one heart toward another, and the needing of another's I hand in their hand. There were times when the battle was too much for one man, when the struggle was too severe se-vere for a few men, and men in the Instinct of solf-preservatinn sought assistance, which they later returned in kind, and the sceMng of such as-J as-J slsunce and its return in kind brought i ii'ao.t an acquaintance, a mutual un-drstandlnc un-drstandlnc and fellowship aud the dawn or brotherly luve. It Is not blrunc;c lhat ai time passed nun bandf-d themselves together in fraternal fra-ternal organizations, pledging to mu-. mu-. tual helpfulness and good will. J "We are very proud of our country, coun-try, we are proud of our America and its strrs aud stripes, with its sons and Its daughters, with Its histories, now almost tome of them becoming tradition, but we have a w ay in Auterl-ca Auterl-ca or doing things just a little differently differ-ently than they are done in tho old ' lands, we have a way In this land where men stand shoulder to shoulder, shoul-der, and have equal rank at the ballot, and equal honor If their lives are equally god and wholesome on the street, wo have a way In this country of not having cloe lines as they have iu other countries, of pushing our horizon ho-rizon further away, mailing our worlds bigger. It is not strange to me that among the fraternities of human folk-there folk-there should come to be in these fuller ful-ler days nn American franterulty, a fraternity that had something rather peculiarl American in it You remember re-member our nation 'as a nation has doue some tilings peculiar to itself, we hive had natious go out In wars for self preservation, we have had nations na-tions jo'n others in w;r and keeping a treaty In returning : u obligation of proffered help, wc- have had nations go ovt In war to conquer territory and annex it, but there never was another an-other one in tho hl.'fnry of man, no other great nation that went into a war to lay down the life of its people i own perception. "And I fv el sure that such a gathering gather-ing as this, brought alont because of our interest in the work of such a body or organization as this, in memory mem-ory of those who have been of their number and who have passed beyond their Llcn, but whose memories re-nialn, re-nialn, whos'e faults having been written writ-ten upon the sands, where we hope ours may also be written, aro forgotten, forgot-ten, whose virtues have been Inscribed Inscrib-ed upon the living tablets of the hearts of their friends, where we hope ours may be incril cd, I am very sure that such a spirit as la In this organi-; organi-; zation and which is In the heart3 and ! the micds of their guests and friends i this day, cannot but help U3 to believe be-lieve that this Is a wonderful world In which we live, that every nan at our elbow is our brother, because one God is our father, that our happiness in life Is to honor the father and to love our brother and to live as a great human family In peace and good will, for that is what the Elder Iiroth-cr's Iiroth-cr's message was to us In those early days, on earth peace, pood will towards to-wards men May we do our man's part in the brotherhood of hi m.mlty towards mak ng life sweeter and better bet-ter for us ail." s As softly asd reverently as are spoken the names of those who were nearest and dearc6t, so were spoken the names of twenty-two departed members of Ogden lodge No. 719, Ik-novolent and Protective Order of Elks, at the annual memorial service conducted in the Ogden 'heater yesterday yes-terday afternoon. It was the annual day of reverence fcr those who have laid aside, together to-gether with their earthly cares, tho mantle of purple and white, not only those of tho Ogden lodge, nor of all Utah lodges, but of the entire United Stales In every city, village or hamlet ham-let where the spreading antlers of Wkdom proclaim the presence of this gieat brotherhood, a prayer was spokeu Tor those of the great herd who have been enrolled in the greater j ledge, presided over by the Exalted j Ruler of all exalted rulers. The auditorium at the Ogden theater thea-ter was filled yesterday afternoon by the members of the local lodge aud th.ir friends. cwho had assembled to v 'mess the Impressive ceremonies and listen to the words of comfort and commendation spoken by the Reverend Rev-erend Brother W. W. Fleetwood, rector rec-tor of the Episcopal church; Rev. F. G. Drainerd, pastor of the Congregational Congrega-tional church, and Brother Frank K. Nebeker. What was undoubtedly the most impressive feature of the entire service ser-vice was the calling of the roll for those who were not present to answer their names. Slowly as the name of e;'ch departed member was called, the curtain dropped from the illuminated illumi-nated tablet, revealing the name of the absent brother. The Program. Appropriate music and the ritualistic ritualis-tic ceremonies prescribed by the grand lodge marked the memorial service ser-vice The service was held at 3 o'clock and the following was the program: pro-gram: Organ prelude Prof, Squire Coop Opening ceremonies I Brother C. A. Bojd. Exalted Ruler, and Lodge Members. Solo, "Rosary'' Nevln Mrs. Bessie Dean Allison. Opening Ode The Lodge Members Ii.vocatlOD. .Brother W. W. Fleetwood Solo, "Crossing the Bar" Payntz Miss Rosalie Holberg. Address. . .Brother Frank K. Nebeker. Solo, 'Mindful of His Own. .Lleurance ' Mr. A. R. White. Address Rev. F. G. Brainerd ' Solo. "Lord Thy Mercy" Rossini Mrs. Bessie Dean Allison. Cicsing Ceremonies The Exalted Ruler and Ixjdge Members Closing Ode Lvnediction Hro. W. W. Fleetwood Orgau Poctlude Prof. Squire Coop The musical selections were appropriate appro-priate and beautifully rendered. There were solos by Miss Rosalie Holberg. Mrs. Bessie Dean Allison and A. R. Yv hite. The organ postlude by Professor Pro-fessor Coop was also pleasing nura-btr nura-btr on the program. Nebeker's Address. Frank K. Nebeker spoke as follows: Mr. Exalted Ruler, Brother Elks aed Friends: Since the la3t memorial exercises of Ogden lodge No. 719, Be-nevolent and Protective Order of Eiks, death has claimed for lis own ail too many of the valued members of our order. We are here todav to cherl&h their memory and to mingle our soitow aud sympathy with lhat which wells In tno hearts of their bereaved be-reaved relatives and friends. "The list of those who have answered an-swered the iinal summons includes the names of William J. Wood Frci Aibogast, Judge Wlllium Lvman Ma- 1 you, of course, knew him well. Judge Maglnnla, as wo all know, was a great ' lawyer. Great not only in the sense thut he was possessed of a rich store of legal learning, but greater still In Lhat he was possessed of a singularly keen, sympathetic nature. Nothing gave him greater satisfaction than to aavocate tho cause of the unfortunate and helpless. It was apparently a nec-oneary nec-oneary requirement of his mental organization or-ganization to think clearly and to give expression to his conclusions with absolute ab-solute fenrlessness and candor. Although Al-though an aggressive advocate, I never knew him to bo otherwise" than respectful of the court and courteous towards his fcllow-memberd of the bar In all that the simple Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon term implies, he was every luch a man. With what unlllnching fortitude he battled with the fatal luulady which assailed him, and in the extremity of the last Lours of his life his mind, not approaching on his own approaching dissolution, went out iu almost unprecedented fidelity to tho welfare of a client whoso serious Interests had been entrusted to him. Then, as always, he was as true to his client as the needle to the pole. In thinking of his last illness one naturally recalls that of cx-Presldent Grant, of whose death Cannon Farrar once said: "But God's ways are not our ways. To bear that sudden ruin, that speechless agony, required a courage nobler and greater than that of the battlefield, and human courage grows magnificently to the height of hi'inan need. "I am a man," said Frederick Fred-erick the Great, "and therefore born to suffer." On the long agonizing deathbed Grant showed himself every inch a hero, bearing his agonies and his trials without a murmur, with rugged stoicism in unflinching fortitude.' forti-tude.' "My friends, intimately associated with our rellectious concerning death are those concerning life. The one l is the inevitable consequence of the other. Today were are here, tomorrow tomor-row we are gone. Does it not behoove us to look this plain fact squarely in the face, and order our lives and our conduct towards one another accord-lngsly. accord-lngsly. "As we gain in experience, we all come more and more to the conclusion conclu-sion that a large part of our striving and contention here below is on account ac-count of fancied and not real dlffer-erces dlffer-erces of opinion. I am often reminded , la this connection of the story of the two men who looked at a shield from . opposite sides; one said it was black I rnd the other said it was white. The dispute grew Into a quarrel of most serious proportions. But at length tliey reversed their positions, and to their sui prise found that the shield was white un one side and black on the other. Thus we see their altercation alterca-tion resulted wholly from their different differ-ent poiut of view. And bo wc pass through life lookln- at things from 'different angles Our islon is necessarily neces-sarily Imperfect and restricted. 'Wa see through a glass darkly ' Consequently, Conse-quently, strife arise with reference to business, politics, religion and to most all of our social affairs'; and. while it is not given us to see things precisely as they are and as they ap-pear ap-pear from various points of view, -should we not at least regard with liberal Indulgence the opposing opln-lens opln-lens of our lellow-mcii. realizing that, alter all, we may blmply be looking at the object of the controversy from different points or view? "In respect to this phase of human experience, I am convinced that there has been great progress since the r.-edlaeval time; for Instance, when Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, Dun Scotus and the schoolmen Oiled libraries with their fine spun arguments, and each regarding the other as an enemv nvn- tels, he saw many strangers. Hotel life Is not a pleasant life for any one. It Is particularly unpleasant sometimes some-times for those who serve. It Is to be regretted that many people sitting at a public table, pajing current coin for the food placed before them, fancy that, it gives thorn a right to say things to the woman whose need it la to serve that they would not say In their own homes. "We have had for a long time among men the word brother, it is a beautiful word, but among the most pleasant recollections of the speaker In those days when ho was trawling away from homo is the remembrance how frequently as the time paBscs and more frequently as the time passes pass-es among the men at a hotel table, calling his waitress Tor another helping, help-ing, did not call her by her given name, which be had picked up from some one else, but said, "Sister, can I have fOrne more potatoes or meat?" It will be a wonderful day for humanity human-ity when men shall have learned that becauso men are brothers women are, sisters, it will be a wonderful day when we speak of the woman whoso name we do not know, whether she meets us socially, or whether she serves us in her need, that we shall think of her as our sister. When w put a woman in a sister's place in our hearts and lives, It will be a wonderful wonder-ful dawn for the beauty of womanhood woman-hood in our country. ''Then wc have another phase going go-ing over the land these days, the phase of the big brother movement, and that means much, it means that the man has found that Ihe boy i3 his younger brother, and men over the country are trying to set themselves to do something worth while for the bov: It Is a great Idea. "But we are talking about ourselves being brothers, because we can be r.innls und Harry K. Blain. Of the' late Judge Maglnnis only can I speak from personal acquaintance, but of each of them can we s.iy with sincerity sin-cerity that we mourn their absence from the fraternal circle of our order und we extend to their relatives and ft lends our warmest sympathy They Lcve passed to their final aceouuU and It Is quite beyond our poor jow- I ers to add one line or take awav one syllable from the record they 'have I made. This w can do: In our remembrance re-membrance of them In these memorial ceremonies we can cement more light-ly light-ly the bonds of fellowship and brotherhood broth-erhood amonga the living. I cannot, however, refrain from mailing myself of the opportunity of speaking one further word concerning the late Judge Magmnis. As I have said I hI V"1 fr rnany yeurs b"-e hl .V.rC,r; DOt l say' trae'c "oath. Halng been a resident of your city, Hie slightest difference of opinion. How different It. has been with those like Dot-cartes, llobbs and Locke, Berkley and Hume, who have engaged iu the modem discussions of science aDd philosophy. "Even In the domain of rellgiou. where the human emotions are mostly Involved, and, therefore, where It Is most difficult to deal philosor blcally with the many questions which sep-j sep-j arate Individuals, intolerance has j gradually lessened and a broad hu-I hu-I man sympathy has taken Its place, j 1 each Is the case In the larger llelds of social activity. It should not be mn eo In the smaller and personal affairs I of life. Let us mive ml?h;ilv for those things which we believe to bo right, but, like good neighbors, let us eat and drink together and. lend a j helping haod k.ere and there as wo Journey along. A I "After all, what ia the greatest |