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A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 31st
The lesson of brotherhood—that is, the lesson that has got to be taught and got to be learned and applied to us as a people if we are to solve the great industrial and social problems of today. If we could get wage workers and employers in any given occupation or in any given district in a lodge together I guarantee the result. I guarantee what will happen. Is not that true? Do you not think so? If that thing could happe…
Posted by Lee on May 31st, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 30th
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored;
He hath loos't the fateful lightning of His Terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I ha…
Posted by Lee on May 30th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 29th
BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS
Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love!
The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above
Before our Father's throne, we pour our ardent prayers
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, our comfort and our cares.
We share our mutual woes, our mutual burdens bear
But often for each other flows, the sympathizing tear:
When we asunder…
Posted by Lee on May 29th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 28th
There is something unique in Masonry, a tie unlike any other, uniting men of all ranks, types, temperaments into a closely-knit fellowship; something deep and tender—one could call it mystical, if the word had not been so badly used—which all of us feel, but which no one can analyze. No one cares to analyze it. We sit in Lodge together, each knowing exactly what will come next; we meet upon the level and part upon the sq…
Posted by Lee on May 27th, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 27th
Fifteen or twenty minutes day by day will give you fellowship with the great minds of the race, and little by little as the years pass you extend your friendships with the immortal dead.
They will give you faith in your own day.
Listen while they speak to you of the fathers.
But each age has its own spirit and ideas, just as it has its own manners and pleasures.…
Posted by Lee on May 27th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 26th
LABOR
He who acts upon the Square
Will always well with all compare.
The Mason uses tools of love
To build a Temple planned above.
The Gauge he constantly employs
To measure work and limit joys.
The Plumb imbues his soul and heart
With love Divine and sacred art.
The Level guides his daily act
And makes good-fellowship a fact.
If we employ these tools today…
Posted by Lee on May 26th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 25th
A FREEMASON'S PRAYER
Almighty Architect! whose mind
Hath planned all things that be,
Whose thought is law, whose law is Love,
Whose love is Fertility.
Help us in reverence Thy mind,
And see Thy Temple in mankind.
"Let there be light"—Thy primal voice
We echo, nor in vain
The hidden mysteries explore
That all Thy works contain,
Yet pray for humblene…
Posted by Lee on May 25th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 24th
THE ROAD
So many men before Thy Alter kneel
Unthinkingly, to promise brotherhood:
So few remain humbly to kiss Thy Rood
With ears undeafened to Thy mute appeal;
So many find Thy symbols less than real,
Their teachings mystic—hard to understand;
So few there are, in all Thy far-flung band
To hold Thy banner high and draw Thy steel,
And yet—immortal and most mighty, Thou!…
Posted by Lee on May 24th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
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Posted by Lee on May 22nd, 2009 at 11:49pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 23rd
WHO IS A MASON?
Who is a Mason? Not the clod
Whose thoughts, ne'er rise above the sod;
Whose ambition is to know
The joys that from the senses grow.
Who is a Mason? Not the slave
To passions that will dig his grave;
Nor yet the miser, hard and cold,
Who shuts his heart to all but gold.
Who is a Mason? Not the hound
Who boldly treads on holy…
Posted by Lee on May 22nd, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 22nd
HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT
Behold, how pleasant and how good
For brothers such as we
In this united Brotherhood
To dwell in unity.
'Tis like the oil on Aaron's head
Which to his feet distills;
Like Hermon's dew so richly shed
On Zion's sacred hills.
For there the Lord of light and love
A blessing sent with power;
O, may we all this blessing prove,…
Posted by Lee on May 21st, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 21st
Lead gently, Lord, and slow,
For oh, my steps are weak,
And ever as I go,
Some soothing sentence speak;
That I may turn my face
Through doubt's obscurity
Toward thine abiding-place,
E'en tho' I cannot see.
For lo, the way is dark;
Through mist and cloud I grope,
Save for the fitful spark,
The little flame of hope.
Lead gently,…
Posted by Lee on May 20th, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 20th
THE ART OF HUMANITY
Over the past several years we have been subjected to the thinking of those who proclaim that everything that is must be changed. This bizarre thInking has served as effective propaganda. It has been accepted by many of our young people who have no protective defense against the "wisdom" of those who occupy a forum of prestige.
Education is futile unless it inspires our yo…
Posted by Lee on May 20th, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 19th
THE BEACON LIGHT
A city set upon a hill
Cannot be hid;
Exposed to every eye, it will
Over surrounding plain and vale,
An influence shed,
And spread the light of peace afar,
Or blight the land with horrid war.
Each Mason's Lodge is planted so
For high display;
Each is a BEACON LIGHT, to show
Life's weary wanderers, as they go,
The better way;…
Posted by Lee on May 19th, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 18th
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAN REALLY PRAYS?
He learns that he lives in two worlds—this world where we see and breathe, buy and sell. And another world, unseen, wherein we find faith, hope, and love that make the world of touch and sight, of struggle and loneliness, livable.
When we pray, we personalize the world in which we live. We bring God into our lives. We have an experience of God, not as an…
Posted by Lee on May 18th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 17th
MASONRY—A STUDY OF SELF
Our understanding of the end of study will determine the success of our search for truth.
From all around us today we read and hear that man has lost that vision which gives purpose to life. It is said that man has become subordinate to the machine.
This may come as a strange conclusion to the Mason. Masonry is a school for the study of one's own be…
Posted by Lee on May 17th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 16th
MAKING FRIENDS
If no one smiled and nobody cheered
And nobody helped us along,
If each every moment took care of itself
And good things went to the strong,
If nobody cared just a little for you
And nobody thought about me,
And we stood alone in the battle of life
What a dreary old world it would be.
Life is sweet just because of the friends we have made
And the thi…
Posted by Lee on May 16th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 15th
BE STRONG
Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle—face it; 'tis God's gift.
Be strong!
Say not, "The days are evil. Who is to blame?"
And fold the hands and acquiesce—Oh shame!
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name.
Be strong!…
Posted by Lee on May 15th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 14th
MOTHER O' MINE
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.
If I were drowned in the deepest seas,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
If I were damned of body and soul,…
Posted by Lee on May 14th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 13th
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and the love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT(Spoken by Brother Taft, in St. John's Lodge, Newark, New Jersey on this day in 1911.)
A Masonic T…Posted by Lee on May 13th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 12th (A)
THE YOUNG MAN MEDITATES
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…
Posted by Lee on May 12th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 12th (B)
DUTY-HONOR-COUNTRY
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…
Posted by Lee on May 12th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 11th
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…
Posted by Lee on May 11th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 10th
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…
Posted by Lee on May 10th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 9th
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the worker depends upon his own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy for social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let bleeding-hearts, social busy-bodies and professional public morals experts in the…
Posted by Lee on May 9th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 8th
Today, as never before, our country needs the support and loyalty of all its citizens, and I am sure that as long as there are three million Freemasons in the country, all good men and true, who believe in a system of morals, and the Constitution of the United States, we can safely face the future, no matter what it may bring forth.
HARRY S TRUMAN(Brother Harry S Truman was born on this day…
Posted by Lee on May 8th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 7th
A FRIEND OR TWO
There's all of pleasure and all of peace
In a friend or two;
And all your troubles may find release
With a friend or two;
It's in the grip of the clasping hand
On native soil or in alien land,
But the world is made—do you understand?
Of a friend or two.
A song to sing and a crust to share
With a friend or two;
A smile to give and a gr…
Posted by Lee on May 7th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 6th
THE EMBLEMS OF THE CRAFT
Who wears the Square upon his breast
Does in the face of God attest—
And in the face of man—
That all his actions will compare
With the divine, the unerring Square,
That squares great Virtue's plan.
And he erects his ediffce
By this design, and this, and this.
Who wears the Level says that pride
Does not withi…
Posted by Lee on May 6th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 5th
SOMETHING TO CAUSE REFLECTION
I watched them tearing a building down.
A gang of men in a busy town,
With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell
They swung a beam, and the sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled,
As the men you'd hire if you had to build?"
He gave a laugh and said, ''No, indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in…
Posted by Lee on May 5th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 4th
ARE YOU SUCH A FRIEND?
I hoped for a friend who was gentle and kind,
A friend who would always be there;
I dreamed of a friend who would share my joys
And soften each worry and care;
I wished for a friend who could see all my fauIts
And still remain steadfast and true;
I hoped and I dreamed and I wished till I found
That kind of friend in you.
Posted by Lee on May 4th, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 3rd
There has been an advance in civilization, but that advance has been more on the material side of civilization for some ages past, because, I suppose there are two sides of civilization. There is man's conquest of external nature, his harnessing of external nature to human wants, and that has gone forward profoundly; within a few decades things have happened that men had only dreamed of, and what may further happen in our…
Posted by Lee on May 3rd, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 2nd
The quality of justice is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon this place beneath; it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute of awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kin…
Posted by Lee on May 2nd, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 1st
No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseized, outlawed, banished, or in any way harmed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute. him, save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. To no one will We sell, to none will We deny or defer, right or justice
EXCERPT FROM MAGNA CARTA(In the United States, this day has been designated as Law Day, to commemorate the…
Posted by Lee on May 1st, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments
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