Freemasons Honor Longest Serving Mason in Massachusetts
Freemasons Honor Longest Serving Mason in Massachusetts
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Why President William McKinley Became a Freemason
When General Horatio King asked William McKinley how he happened to become a Mason, he explained,” After the Battle of Opequam, I went with our surgeon of our Ohio regiment to the field where there were about 5,000 Confederate prisoners under guard. Almost as soon as we passed the guard, I noticed the doctor shook hands with a number of Confederate prisoners. He also took from his pockets a roll of bills and distributed all he had among them. Boy-like, I looked on in wonderment; I didn’t know what it all meant. On the way back from camp I asked him:
Surrey Freemasons Visit East Kent Mobile Chemotherapy Unit ‘Caron’ – Hope For Tomorrow
Freemasons from the Province of Surrey recently paid a visit to East Kent Mobile Chemotherapy Unit (MCU) ‘Caron’, in the run up to the launch of their 2022 Festival, on the 5th May 2016, when they will be fundraising for Hope for Tomorrow.
Freemasons install cornerstone at Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue Station
Community members came together on Sunday for a Masonic cornerstone laying ceremony at the new Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue station on Mountain View Avenue in Ellensburg.
50 Year Celebration
Forty friends and fellow Masons joined W Bro Bill Sherlock at All Saints KH Lodge on Tuesday to see our PGM, R W Bro Eric John Rymer, present Bill with a Grand Lodge Certificate marking his completion of Fifty Years a Mark Mason.
The Blazing Star
there has been very little agreement among our scholars either as to its (the letter ‘G’) origin or to its meaning. Usually, we can hit upon the manner in which a symbol was introduced into the Ritual by studying the records of the early eighteenth century in England, at which time and place the Ritual was cast in its modern form, but such a study cannot help us here because the eighteenth century Masons were themselves confused about the matter
Kipling and the Craft
The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.
A Display of Talent at White Rose Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1067
An excellent attendance at the Masonic hall, Hoyle Court on Monday 11 April to witness the advancement of Brother Howard Henry Thompson and the presentation of two Grand Lodge Certificates, not that exceptional you may say, but read on.
A Slider, Mark
Masons and Manuscripts – Medieval manuscripts blog
What do the masons who built medieval cathedrals, the philosopher Voltaire and the artist Marc Chagall have in common? Give yourself a pat on the back if you knew that they are all associated with freemasonry. The history of freemasonry is the subject of a major exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, open until 24 July 2016, to which the British Library has loaned two medieval manuscripts.