THE MASTER’S WORD AND THE ROYAL ARCH
The Builder Magazine March 1915 – Volume 1 – Number 3 BY BRO. S. W. WILLIAMS, GRAND HIGH PRIEST OF TENNESSEE ” The MASTER’S WORD * * * is the reward of…
brotherly love
SHEFFIELD MASONIC HALLS | Sheffield Freemasonry
Sheffield Freemasonry . Freemasonry has been actively practiced in Sheffield since 1761, one hundred years before the American Civil War. Sheffield…
Thinking Outside of the Masonic Box
BY: WOR. JASON E. MARSHALL Back in February, Bro. Robert G. Davis and I took a road trip to Austin, Texas in order to attend a Lodge of Secret Masters…
Who Do You Sit By in Lodge?
Most of the negative associations that people have about minorities, the LGBT community, and religions other than Christianity, come from a place of fear and ignorance. Fear is a natural human reaction and emotion to things that are unknown to us. It is what kept our ancient ancestors from being eaten by lions and tigers; however, ignorance driven fear morphs into fanaticism, and fanaticism gives way to tyranny. Ignorance, fanaticism, and tyranny are the antithesis of Freemasonry, and must never be allowed to take root in our hallowed halls.
Fraternalism–The Lost Word in Charity
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS Any study of the beginnings of Freemasonry will clearly show that fraternalism was the first and most distinguishing…
Getting to the Big Picture
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS I attend a lot of Masonic meetings throughout the country; have personally got to know hundreds, perhaps thousands,…
Masonic Funeral Service
The Masonic Funeral Service Originally published in The Missouri Freemason “Nuggets From The Quarry” column by RWB Phil Elam, MMBBFMN #408 Regarding…
A Lecture on Various Rituals of Freemasonry by Rev George Oliver D.D
Delivered in the Witham Lodge, LincoIn, 1863, by THE REV. G. OLIVER, D.D. PAST D.P.G.M. FOR LINCOLNSHIRE;Honorary Member of numerous Lodges and Literary…
What is Freemasonry
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here this evening to afford you some information upon Freemasonry; a matter which is not generally understood by the outside…
Ideal of a Freemason
If you see a man who quietly and modestly moves in the sphere of his life; who, without blemish, fulfils his duty as a man, a subject, a husband and a father; who is pious without hypocrisy, benevolent without ostentation, and aids his fellowman without self-interest; whose heart beats warm for friendship, whose serene mind is open for licensed pleasures, who in vicissitudes does not despair, nor in fortune will be presumptuous, and who will be resolute in the hour of danger;