Show the M E church was crowded to capacity last sunday night with alth friends of the local elks to participate in the elks memorial exercises many being unable to gain admittance the ceremonies were of an i unusually impressive character from beginning to end and the big audience was entertained interested and instructed every number on the i program was well rendered miss clara kimball recited the light from over the range impressively y dramatic causing many a wet eye during its rendition C T I 1 was in splendid voice and sang in the palace of 0 tile the king with his old time feeling and vigor mrs mra guy R i mckay won the hearts ot of the audience with her splendid solo fear not ye oh israel and miss waldena thompson sang very pleasingly 1 I come to thee annie don cleverly recited shall our memories I 1 live the saxophone quartette by wm win frank fountain john Simi and melville dingle played teach me to pray very prettily and the double quartette mesdames joseph kemp hemp A P ridge fred J ray briggs miss may nimmo and C T alt alf blackler joseph kemp and david baxter sang an appropriate hymn rev kev T P cook offered up an invocation and bishop W V D lewis pronounced the benediction the memorial address was given by mr henry welsh and was wag very interesting and instructive the lull full enjoyment ot of which was manifested by the close attention given the gentleman by the large audience for the benefit of those who could not attend irre record is pleased to pub itah the hie address of mr welsh in full ile he said paid zinc brother elks swiftly moving time has carried us forward in its flight until tonight we find that we have completed the circuit of another year in a figurative sense wo we are again c i A A 4 A aa W 0 1 standing about the mounds which mark the last resting place of our honored dead each living brother holding bolding in his hand a beautiful wreath which was woven on the loom 0 fraternal affinity all beautifully wrought in flowers or of affectionate regard which ile he la is about to tenderly place upon the sod beneath which litch our departed brothers are peacefully reace fully sleeping Ble their last long slee sleep p perhaps as each brother at af places his wreath and for a moment fondly dwells upon the loving traits of our brothers who are now in the great beyond each may add the further tribute of a tear in annually performing this loving service in memory of our absent brothers we believe that we are exercising one of the noblest attributes of mans better nature it Is r P practice that has bag grown in favor euring the christian age until today it Is recognized as one of the worthiest works of our present refinement we feel that it Is a very commendable virtue and one that lias has steadily improved in man since the refining influence of christian civilization first began softening ills hla harsher barsher nature As christian influence refined his mind this practice I 1 spread with increasing zeal un tl today its loving influence touches tl 0 0 hearts of people in almost every home in the land wherever be rever there Is a vacant chair once filled by some loed one whose home Is now in that mysterious realm to which all earthly trails lead this influence touches and sanctities that home by perusing the earliest of written bastory bi story we learn that untutored end and savage as man was in those sees he pave gave some rare care to big dead even I 1 lam amone ong the ewt bir barbarous barous of peonies pennies enles there exl ard moe ann e or less care tor for the li alp living si enre was wag IT the t tr trent of abe depart rt hv bv our oni and on i ran 10 r an lo t ty 9 rites riles and ceremonies were t in these they showed allowed a reverence and ii a tenderness ot of feeling beyond what N w as usual with them in other affairs when an interment was made the hunting bow and spear were interred with the remains the dog and horse were often sacrificed on tile tha grave of tile the departed as the indians believed that in doing these things they were providing the dead with the means of hunting and otherwise caring for themselves in tle happy hunting grounds looking back beyond the dawn of the civilization of our own race over in egypt we find that even in the early days of that people there existed the opinion that the inviolate per of 0 the body was essential to the corporal resurrection of the justified dead it may not be out of place tonight tor for us to briefly dwell on the practice which obtained among that people of remote antiquity as well as upon those ot of some borne others the belief existed among that people that u living man consisted ot of tour four parts lz iz a body a soul an intelligence and an appearance or as it was called by them an El dolon in their way of reasoning death ellsas dasas sn socia elated ted these four parts which were ultimately reunited tor for all eternity between the separation of these parts which they believed to be occasioned casio ned by death and the re unit ipg there elapses a period ot of from three to four our thousand years during which the soul performed probationary pilgrimages through the ahe Try mysterious underworld during this rame fame term of years the intelligence wandered ian v dered luminously through space meanwhile the body must be fitting iv 7 from injury la fury as these peo rl believed bli eved that wert the borle for or tan T as they tema it 10 to in suffer differ fril fri by ment this dib fl frencht fren brement or injury I 1 ro upon the re ben in tle the world benee it wr wa w a ait abit the flip rians r ians resort resorted Pd to the embalming embalm lm and guarding of their dead with so much care and concern in the light of 0 recent research it is probable that the motives which prompted the building of 0 the massive pyramids and sphinx had their origin in a desire ot of the reigning princes ot of the dynasties of egypt to protect and keep safely their bodies after death no doubt these monarchs had many enemies among their subjects and other living people who did not reverence them very highly and to prevent these enemies from taking possible vengeance on their remains by disfiguring them these powerful monarchs caused alese great piles ot of stone to be assembled and raised to their immense heights constituting mausoleums and monuments larger and more enduring thau than any ever before constructed by the art oth jofh man how well these monarchs the pyramids and sphinx of today attest the embalming process adopted by the egyptians was subsequently practiced by the greeks and afterwards by the romans and this practice was persisted in by these people until about years before the christian era the chinese practiced many strange rites and possessed many unusual beliefs which had come down to them through many ages one peculiar part of their belief was that when death comes to man the seven spirits which they believe preside over his seven senses die but the soul survives the soul was believed by them to have a threefold three fold told abode this conception led to the belief in three souls one of which went to heaven to receive the reward arih a proper life had merited one in the he grave to receive the offered with lionor honor and othar up lip its abode in the tile the talt tal t fio 04 fi o P mp of the d is B ril ali n ed at this latter place tle living members of the family met at stated times to perform the customary an cesor worship As AB it was the belief hmong these people that through their ancestors they must receive all the good things of life they consequently bestowed much reverence en cn their ancestors and the places of sepulchre of their ancestors were very sacred to them in some parts ct cf china a coin was placed in the mouth of the corpse this was intended as a fee tor for their charon the ferryman to take the soul across the river styx odd as this custom may seem it was practiced in ancient greece A among 1 ong the barbarous tribes ot of africa afric a there exists many peculiar customs one of these la Is that of their manner of In their dead not long ago a traveler on the upper shari river witnessed an interment which he described the grave consisted of 01 a deep narrow hole in which the deceased was placed in a standing position after the remains had been covered with soil the medicine man of the village planted a poisonous weed in the sod above the grave this vas done to convey to the deceased the power of wreaking breaking wre aking nanco nance upon his enemies in the land of mystery thus the poor untutored beings whose minds are seemingly IS as dark as their skin conceive only of the venon and malice which surrounds them in their barbarous life as fitting conditions in the life to come 1 the beautiful thoughts which till fill I 1 i the minds of the civilized people oft of i the world never pierces the dense darkness that en shrouds these poor i benighted beings chev see and think of that great annd undefined in the crue rind nafi terms in which they pep PP ard and live tile tl barbarous life in i 1 n nn T under onder that flint ahrlin n who understand their e A i mis missionaries fonaries among t ti hoi ho i in ohp th hoo ho bo o 0 i ULIC that blat christian light and christian practices may improve and refine th them am i from the greeks many of the roman practices were borrowed or appropriated the scrupulous care inath which the trojans and romans 1 performed the funeral rites tor for their departed and the firm beliet belief they had and deep interest they took in n those rites Is well illustrated in the story of aeneas in his quest guest tor for remains the latter was lost overboard on the ocean voyage from sicily to cumae aud aua his remains were lost to his companions in consequence te the funeral rites which were believed necessary to biang brang his spirit to a stage of happiness could not be performed to recover the remains it was necessary to learn of their NN hereabouts and as mortal man did I 1 not have this knowledge fenaes decided to seek this in the underworld where the souls of their dead were sojourning sojo securing the services of the sybil hecate to gulde guide him aeneas leas eltred the cave which was wa s supposed I 1 to exist under the world and proceeded to the abode of spirits Accor according cling to the narrative nara tive of virgil aeneas braved many dangers and underwent many hardships that he might obtain the necessary information that would bould make it possible tor for him to secure the dead body of 0 pal bestow upon it the proper rites thereby securing tor for the spirit of the privilege of an abode in the upper spirit world this privilege according to pagan doctrine was denied to all those whose bodies had not received the benefit ot of the funeral rites prescribed by the pagan religion of those days aeneas received the information which he sought at least leas t he thought he did but abut the remains found proved to be bose of another hero here the incas of peru peril commonly called sun worshippers Wor shippers had bad many ti beliefs about ane future v orld they like our own indians indiana that the life to come would be lived by the spirit somewhat after tile the manner in which life exists bare chev too preserved the body after a peculiar manner which could obtain only la in such elevated lands continued on page lii glit aff g 9 its the elks memorial 0 0 continued from page paga ono CJ abid dry as prevailed pre in their country they also believed telie vod that they could provide roaldo for tits tiie wants of tie die spirit in the tha next world by bury tag tn in the grave with the body such clothing ornaments health and utensils lla as had been es to tho needs of the body while living sad gad to relate the ceremony did not noi stop herer here but servants and wen aven wives were often sacrificed at uia the furi eral rites of the opulent find and powerful of the peruvian incas from studying the beliefs of 0 the barbarous or partially part ialy civilized peo wes kles we find recorded in his acry we can readily glean that in all uses where man was sufficiently advanced in reasoning powers to permit him to think seriously more or tesa respect was paid to the memory of the dead in almost every in stance ananco such respect seems to have seen pro proportional ort lonal to the degree of 0 refinement that existed among the of the period of which the wrote it is only among the very lowest types of intelligence that feat we find total neglect of the dead to have existed by taking a retrospective glance along the road of 0 mans pro gres as aa tie le made his way from the savage to the semi civilized state we can read vy fly trace the results of the refining influences at work upon him and nowhere were these influences more beadily discernible than in his its treatment of tits bis dead As these refining influences changed or reduced the ferocity of his nature his tender care of cf hla his dead was correspondingly increased by continuing along this same line of historical observation we are eadley enabled to trace mans transition from the half civilized to the civilized state detate and nowhere was illis refinement more in evidence than tn in the increased care that this nore refined being bestowed upon the dead and the place of their abode until today the most beautiful adorned plots of land and the best cared for or acres acrea in most enlightened communities muni ties are those which serve as the last resting place of man per haps as a nation we manifest more of this spirit of refinement than do other enlightened nations and one day each year Is now spent by ucb in fittingly commemorating the lives and tho the love of our dear ones who are sleeping in the bosom of mollier earth strange to relate tt it was the regard of colored dolored school children for the dead union soldiers who had given I 1 their lives that the union might live tind and that the colored people might be free that was as much responsible for or bringing into being ot of this custom of keeping that day as any other cause tutored by their white teachers showed their grat gratitude I 1 tude to those heroic men by beginning the practice of decorating the graves of the union soldiers that vere ere in a nearby near by cemetery with flowers and from this beginning the practice increased until today decoration or memorial day to is the most hallowed day ot of the entire year there is nothing that so softens the heart of the living man as does this practice of communing as aa it were with the dead we may be carried away from all thoughts of eternity through the necessity of en fiercely in the battles of life and worldly lure may cause us to forget even heaven itself but when on memorial day we repair to our cemeteries taking with us natures choicest and most beautiful productions in the forms of fragrant flowers and as we tenderly place these upon the grave of our loved ones who have gone from amongst us the chilliness of our dispositions seem immedi immediately atly thawed and instead of the cold calculating beings whom we usually have amongst us we immediately have warmhearted warm hearted men who are capable of feeling and expressing love and sympathy all because of a few moments reflection on the virtues and love of 0 our friends aar relatives who are calmly sleeping the sleep that knows knous no earthly waking we elks believe that such a practice can only result in good to the living when by observing it we show proper respect and bestow merited honor upon our absent brothers the christian church in its early years formed its services and laitur gies in such a manner as to keep the living in close touch with tho the memory of the dead the dominant church of our own state has a practice of tends to keep alive this same edine commemoration of the dead by the living the benevolent and protective order of elks have a ceremony all their own while the order does not seek to emulate or |