Masonry promised me nothing except opportunity for mental and spiritual growth and the opportunity to be serviceable to God and man.

I came of my own free will and accord as all men in all ages have done. I was received as all others have been received in the ages past.

I learned that Masonry is interested in the character of man in man as a thin…

Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points; to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance o…

In its modern form at least, Masonry is a symposium of symbolism in which three streams or strands of faith unite, by which man is a Builder of a Temple, a Pilgrim in quest of a lost Truth and if he be worthy and heroic, a Finder of the sublime Secret of Life. He is, first, a builder, taking the rough stones of the world and shaping them into forms of beauty, building upon the will of God by His design, with His help, in…

Freemasonry challenges no man's political creed, leaving that to his country, and to himself. It does not interfere with any man's religious opinions, leaving that a matter between his God and his conscience; and yet it does seek to impress by the most sublime and beautiful lessons, enforced by the most profound reasoning, the Almighty Power of Truth, appealing to the highest and purest sentiments of the human soul for t…