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A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 29th
THE HUMAN TOUCH
'Tis the human touch of this world that counts,
The touch of your hand and mine,
Which means far more to the fainting heart
Than shelter and bread and wine;
For shelter is gone when the day is o'er
And bread lasts only a day,
But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice
Sing on in the soul always.
Posted by Lee on November 28th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 28th
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
HENRY EMERSON FOSDICK(Henry Ford on this day in 1894 received the third degree in Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, Michigan.) …
Posted by Lee on November 27th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 27th
HOW TRUE!
Oh, yes, we are all Craftsmen and very proud to be;
We wear our pins and rings for everyone to see.
But let us pose the question, even though the thought may sting—
Would you know me for a Mason, if you did not see the ring?
True me show Tenets of our ancient hallowed Creed.
Not just on coat and finger, but by words and deeds.
There's one thing to remember…
Posted by Lee on November 26th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 26th
Count your garden by its flowers,
Never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by their golden hours;
Don't remember the clouds at all.
Count your nights by stars not shadows;
Count your days by joys not tears.
And above all, please remember
Count your age by friends not years.
Posted by Lee on November 25th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 25th
FAITH
O world thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes;
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
To trust the soul's invisible surmise
Was all his science and his only art.
Our knowledge is a torch of smo…
Posted by Lee on November 24th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 24th
The year's at the spring,
The day's at the morn; Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew pearl'd!
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven—
All's right with the world.
(Shadrach Bond was born on this day in 1773. He was the first Governor of Illinois and the first Grand Master of Illinois.) …
Posted by Lee on November 23rd, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 23rd
What is the purpose of Freemasonry?
Its purpose is the same as it has been since the day when the stones for King Solomon's Temple were hewn, squared and numbered in the quarries where they were raised. It is to take an individual—just one man at a time, mind you, and as a good a man as possible—and try to make a better man of him. That is all. How desperately the world needs just that! And…
Posted by Lee on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 22nd
A DESTINY
Where is a destiny that makes us Brothers;
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others
Come back to our own.
I care not what his temple or creeds,
One thing hold firm and fast—
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.
Posted by Lee on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 21st
A MASON'S PRAYER
I knelt to pray when day was done
And prayed: "0 Lord, bless everyone
Lift from each saddened heart the pain;
And let the sick be well again."
And then I woke another day
And carelessly went on my way.
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye;
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother along the r…
Posted by Lee on November 20th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 20th
If I have strength, I owe the service of the strong;
If melody I have, I owe the world a song;
If I can stand while all around me my posts are falling,
If I can run with speed when needy hearts are calling,
And if my torch can light the dark of any night,
Then I must pay the debt I owe with burning light,
I owe my debt to God.
Posted by Lee on November 19th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 19th
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a porti…
Posted by Lee on November 18th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 18th
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
BROTHER JOSEPH FORT NEWTON(John Philip Sousa on this day in 1881 received the third degree in Hiram Lodge No. 10, Washington, D.C.
On this day in 1928 the Grand Lodge of California held a special meeting at Culver City to lay the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple. The lodge room was so
…
Posted by Lee on November 17th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 17th
THE BUILDERS
We are blind until we see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making
If it does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious,
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the works
Unless the builder grows.
Posted by Lee on November 16th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 16th
THE SEA CAPTAIN
I sailed my ship for many a day
Across the stormy sea;
Many a ruffian I have carried
'And never refused but three.
They met me on a summer day,
And saw my gallant ship,
And sought a passage to the other side
Upon a hurried trip.
They offered all the dough they had,
Mixed with a\little sass;
That made me kinda hesitate,
…
Posted by Lee on November 15th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 15th
1 would rather have one little rose
From the garden of a friend
Than to have the choicest flowers
When my stay on earth must end.
1 would rather have one pleasant word
In kindness said to me
Than flattery when my heart is still
And life has ceased to be.
Bring me all your flowers today
Whether pink or white or red
I'd rather have one…
Posted by Lee on November 14th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 14th
GROWING OLD
A little more tired at the close of day,
A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less anxious to scold and blame,
A little more care for a brother's name;
And so we are nearing the journey's end,
Where Time and Eternity meet and blend.
A little less care for bonds and gold,
A little more zest in the days of old;
A broader vi…
Posted by Lee on November 13th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 13th
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, not talk too wise;…
Posted by Lee on November 12th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 12th
WHAT CAME YOU HERE TO DO?
Tell me now, my Brother,
What came you here to do?
When you joined, our mystic circle,
Had you a purpose in your heart
To be of service to your fellow man
And perform your allotted part,
Or came you out of curiosity
Or motive personal in view?
Tell me, Brother of the square
What came you here to do?
Have you studied…
Posted by Lee on November 11th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 11th
A MASONIC PRAYER FOR PEACE
"Whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."
Supreme Ruler of the Universe, we most reverently invoke Thy blessing in these troubled times. All about us we see evidences of men abandoning the basic Faith of their Fathers; we see new gods placed in the temples of everyday life; we see a discarding of the …
Posted by Lee on November 10th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 10th
AMERICA FOR ME
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown.
To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings—
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
So, it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be,
In the land of…
Posted by Lee on November 9th, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 9th
OUR TEMPLE
When our Temple of earth has been finished
And our tools have been all laid aside,
When the sound of the gavel is silenced,
And on earth we no longer reside,
We shall rise at the Word of the Master,
And remember the way that we grew,
As the Master of All Good Workmen
Shall put us to work anew.
And the faithful there shall be happy,…
Posted by Lee on November 8th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 8th
FREEMASONRY IS...
Freemasonry is kindness in the home; honesty in business; courtesy in society; fairness in work; pity and concern for the unfortunate, resistance towards the wicked, help for the weak, trust in the strong, forgiveness for the penitent, love for one another and, above all, reverence and love for God. Freemasonry is many things, but most of all FREEMASONRY IS A WAY OF LIFE.…
Posted by Lee on November 7th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 7th
To me the ceremonies of Freemasonry in this State of ours, especially these later ones that I have taken part in, make me wish that more Americans, in every part of the land, could become connected with our Fraternity.
BROTHER FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT(Spoken by President Roosevelt, on this day in 1935, before Architect Lodge No. 519, New York. At that time he attended the mee…
Posted by Lee on November 6th, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 6th
Friendship is a chain of gold
Shaped in God's all perfect mold,
Each link a smile, a laugh, a tear,
A grip of the hand, a word of cheer.
No matter how far or heavy the load,
Sweet is the journey—on friendship's road.
Posted by Lee on November 5th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 5th
THE MAN WHO KNOWS
I want to walk by the side of the man who has suffered, and seen and knows;
Who has measured his pace on the battle line, and given and taken
blows;
Who has never whined when the scheme went wrong, nor scoffed
at the failing plan—
But taken his dose with a heart of trust, and the faith of a gentleman;
Who has parried and struck and sought and given, and, sca…
Posted by Lee on November 4th, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 4th
Flattering as it may be to, the human mind, and truly honorable as it is to receive from our fellow citizens testimonies of approbation for exertions to promote the public welfare, it is not less pleasing to know, that the milder virtues of the heart are highly respected by a Society whose principles must be founded in the immutable laws of truth and iustice....
To enlarge the sphere of social…
Posted by Lee on November 3rd, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 3rd
TO A WATER-FOWL
Whither, midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way?
Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.
Seek'st thou the plashy brink
Of weedy lake,…
Posted by Lee on November 2nd, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 2nd
I think there are some wrong impressions about the Masonic Order. I happen to come in contact with some of them in my official work. I know nothing about it, in a single note I ever heard sounded, that is not in consonance with the best thought and the best aspiration, and the highest conception of American iustice I have ever known from any quarter. I know I am a better citizen, for being a better Mason. Sometimes—and there…
Posted by Lee on November 1st, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments
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