Show Elks Memorial Services Held Sunday Last Excerpts from frem Memorial Address de- de before the by Arthur Woolley Park City lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of or Elks on Sunday December The TIle twin miracles 8 of or God are life and death None In her night lIght can detain life me And nono In her coming can detain death All living beings have their sacred dead and when each Is touched by the Infinite bitterness and pain of ot death d nth and separated by time and the tho tomb a third miracle of God lays n a book Into the hands of the living the living the Immortal book of memory m mory If I catch the thc true spirit of this occasion oc occasion oc- oc occasion casion we have not gathered here to weep veep In an hour of bereavement no matter how deep our cause to mourn the thc loss leas of those whose passing we pause pauso In lifes life's mad rush to commemorate but hut rather Is the purpose of this thia session oi or sorrow to sweeten and assuage the grief of tho the bereft reft by reviving tender mem mem- memories memorIes memories ories of ot the departed deputed Since Sinco our last public service of this character two names have been en en- engraved engraved engraved graved upon the memorial tablet tablet- with with- within in our temple making In all aU one eight I Im members m of or this lodge who have finish finish- finished ed their allotted tasks and laid down to I rest We Wo have assembled here to testify that they are not dead I IA IA A man covets the gift gUt of prophecy that he might know what Is to be He goes gooe upon a Journey and In reliance up up- upon upon upon on his own experience or that of others confidently expects to arrive safely at athis athis his destination but he cannot know what mishap may befall him Ask your neighbor If the sun will rise In the tho east tomorrow and he will affirm It with a 0 certainty that Implies a lack of seriousness of or the questioner yet he Is sure euro of It only from what his bIs observation observation tion has been of the habit of the sun In the past The farmer desires to har har- harvest harvest harvest vest what he sows yet he be must plant on faith alone for he has no vision of what the season may bring forth True we point to men who we say possess great foresight and who can cnn look Into the future and foretell what what will transpire at a time that Is yet yet to come They are arc counted wise men But such wisdom Is only the fruit of ex experience ex- ex experience experience of the accumulation of memories ies lea of what has happened heretofore Itis It ItIs Itis Is shrewd deduction merely There Is s sno no faculty of mind nor power of or the eye by which even these great men can truly know whereof they prophesy What the tho future really holds Is an Inscrutable mystery that can only be guessed at unless It Is revealed by a divine Inter inter- interI intervention I Not so with the past I Memory Is mans man's J great alchemist By It dead yesterday Is isI quickened d Into live today the graves of I experience exp riene are opened and the past Is made to live again This Is the resurrection resurrection of fraternalism In lit memory the old man who has cometo come cometo cometo to the brink of the great beyond may be ben bea ft n happy child again on his fathers father's knee The pranks and anet deeds d eds of prowess that were the Joy of Irresponsible boyhood are brought to mind and relished again In retrospection and all that has trans trans- transpired transpired transpired to make life pleasant may be con con- conjured conjured Jur d up to solace the declining years con I The fullest flower lower of human happiness that that whIch comes with motherhood motherhood- Is kept In bloom In memory m mory I The sweet delights of or courtship are brought back to mind time after time The recollection of the complete un un- understanding understandIng understanding of the first years of wedded w bliss often serves to tJ soften the family Jars that tend to destroy a happy union Tho The thought of or the wise counsel and loving care of a husband and father who has gone away Is an ever present aid In Inthe inthe inthe the lonely struggle of or the dear ones who are left alone The Tho warm grasp of a brothers brother's hand extended d In the hour of need Is remembered remembered remembered when his voice olce Is still and makes mak s the heart beat stronger In the tion i How pleasing pl a n circumstance It Is that w wn cn c- c n so control the functioning of memory as to recall that which adds to thO happiness and contentment nt of life Ufe and leave In the grave of forgetfulness that which rankled d and hurt We trea trea- treasure treasure sure In the limitless storehouse stor of mem mem- memory cry ory the kindly smile the helpful coun- coun counsel counsel I sel the tender association of the lath fath lather father er cr the husband the brother and the friend who has gone and blot out the Impress of the thc regrettable We commune here today In this sense and In the Influence of the cheering ch rIng motto of our great fraternity Tho The faults of cur ur ur brothers we write upon the sands Their virtues upon the tablets of love and memory The Tho miasma of misunderstanding the oppressive vapor of suspicion the dark cloud of doubt all nU dissipate and melt away as we look through the clear light of charity Into the faces of the virtuous dead As we listen at the portals of or the tomb the sound of strife the voice of bitterness the cry cf of hate the clamor of greed are all lost to the ear In the stillness of hallowed memory By Dy keeping k ping the lamp of memory lit not only are our own lives Illumined by bythe bythe bythe the radiance of the noble deeds of the heroic dead but they are spared the I oblivion that Is the dread of all living men The Tho desire of or Immortality Is uni uni- universal universal universal versal In everyone No person can subdue sub sub- subdue subdue due It Victory over death Is the hope cf philosophy and the promise of ofell ell Teli- n gi Also It Is one of the most potent spurs to human endeavor end avor Horace Horae al although al- al although although though believing In accord with the thought of his great Greek contempo contempo- arles In the Immortality of the human soul built upon the hope cf ef the th Immor immor- Immortality of his name through the preservation r- r vaMon of his Imperishable poems He said I have erected a monument more lasting than brass and loftier than the kingly elevated pyramids which not the wasting rain nor the unrestrained noth no th or a numberless series of or years and the flight of time shall be able to destroy destry I shall not wholly die and a apart apart apart part of me shall escape the goddess of death With an appropriate Introduction Mr Woolley read a 0 poem composed by Mrs Woolley I I MY FRIEND i j I He was my friend I His hand was warm When ere mv my hand he pressed I He was my friend His smiles sincere They always stood the test I He was my friend His heart was high i When of his f ii n a 0 a he talked i He was my friend He slurred d no name As down lifes life's lane ho be walked d. d He was my friend His soul was white No man his trust could bend Im I'm thanking God with all my heft heel For Tor giving me my friend I |