Dispensation Granted
Monday, January 31, 1820
Chartered Tuesday, December 12, 1820
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NO. 58, F. & A. M.
Dispensation Granted
Monday, January 31, 1820
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Master Sr. Warden
Jr. Warden
Treasurer Secretary Sr. Deacon
Jr. Deacon
Tyler Trustees Medina Lodge No.
58 STATED
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TRESTLEBOARD
March 2004
Greetings Brethren,
My heart felt thanks to all the brothers that helped or participated in our inspection. What an honor it was to have our grand master present. I think all of our practices paid off! Those of you who have been traveling to other inspections could certainly see the differences from a lodge that practiced and a lodge that did not. Once again, I thank all those who put forth the extra effort!!!!!!
We are now two thirds of the way through inspection season, the traveling gavel has been won the most so far by Seville lodge. In the past few years they have always been very close but we managed to edge them out. This year however, they are consistently beating us. Perhaps next year we can reverse this trend.
Please keep in mind that we still have a lot of work ahead of us this year, but I am even more sure now that myself & my officers will rise up to meet the ensuing challenges as expected with the help and guidance from our distinguished past masters and brothers.
Respectfully,
Roger A. Thomas, Master
News from the Southeast Corner
DONATE TO YOUR LODGE BY FEEDING YOURSELF & FAMILY
Brother Bob Askew, our resident chef, has set up an account for our Lodge with GFS (Gordon Food Service). GFS is located at 5006 Grande Avenue in Medina - next door to Home Depot. When you do your food shopping at GFS, a percentage of your purchases will be rebated (once a year) to the Lodge. You only need to give the cashier the customer number (002151708) for Medina Blue Lodge #58. The amount of the rebate ranges from 1% to 7% of the total annual purchases. We have 194 members living in close proximity to GFS. If each of those members purchased only $100 dollars worth of food per year from GFS, Medina Lodge would receive an annual rebate of $1,358.00. The more you spend the bigger the rebate. Shop GFS!
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MEDINA DEMOLAY DEVOTIONAL DAY OBSERVANCE Medina DeMolay Chapter Dad Bro. Douglas Shuler announced that the Devotional Day observance will be held on Sunday, March 21, 2004 at the Medina Presbyterian Church at 10:30 a.m. The boys will be putting on a short play entitled “Finding Jesus” in addition to taking part in other ways. We are all invited to join together to celebrate that faith which is in each of our hearts. DeMolay endorses no specific religion. Their individual faiths and belief in the one true God bind the youths to their fraternity and to each other. |
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Stated Meetings Special Meeting SPECIAL EVENTS Saturday Morning Breakfasts |
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ON SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY I think someone should speak to Brother Fillmore," said the New Member, thoughtfully, sitting down beside the Old Tiler. "Well, people do speak to him—I speak to him myself," countered the Old Tiler. "But I mean, speak to him seriously." "I speak to him seriously. I asked him tonight how his wife was," answered the Old Tiler. "Oh, you know what I mean! I mean admonish him." "About what?" "About his carelessness of Masonic secrets. Here he is running the lantern and leaving the slides out in the boxes where any profane can see them. He takes them home sometimes and his children can get them and——" "Well, I appoint you a committee of one to see that his children are all properly murdered. No child should look at a Masonic slide and live." "Now you are kidding me." "Boy, you are kidding yourself. What is there secret about a Masonic lantern slide? There is only one secret about them and thousands of Masons have tried to find it out and none ever have. But it is not to be revealed by looking at them. "I don't understand——" "No, but I'm telling you. There is nothing of the secrets of Freemasonry to be learned from a Masonic lantern slide. They are sold in a hundred stores to any one who has the price. Filly can leave them all over the lot and do not a bit of harm. If there was anything secret about a lantern slide, making it would be against all Masonic obligations, or use!" "But you just said there was a secret——" "Sure, but not a Masonic secret. Generations of Masons have tried to find out who designed them, in order that they might slay him with ceremony and an axe. The harm done by leaving Masonic lantern slides where the profane may see them will come from the poor opinion the profane gets from the Masonic slide conception of charity and brotherly love and relief and truth. Those antediluvian, prehistoric statues which represent Time counting the ringlets in the hair of the virgin are enough to give anyone with the slightest idea of art the notion that Masons are all cubists, which is all wrong. We are triangleists or rightanglists, maybe, but not cubists! Those illustrations of brotherly love, in which one fat man lays a ham-like arm lovingly about the bull-like neck of a misshapen Roman gladiator would scare any child who saw it into such fear of the fraternity he would probably weep every time Dad went to lodge ... but as far as giving away any Masonic secrets is concerned—piffle!" "Well, you evidently don't have the same reverence for the sacredness of Masonic secrets as I do." "Whoa! Boy, you have things upside down. My reverence for real Masonic secrets is second to none. Your reverence is inclusive of everything; mine only for what experience has taught me is real. You wouldn't go home and tell your wife that a lodge room has a chair in the east, where the Master sits; that there is an altar in the center of the lodge; or that candidates take an obligation, would you? "Certainly not!" "Well, I would! The scrubwomen see the lodge room. If they can be permitted to view its sacred outlines, I see no reason why my wife shouldn't. In lodge entertainments we don't move the altar or the east—and women have entertained us after lodge was closed, more than once. Any catalogue of Masonic paraphernalia advertises hoodwinks, and ours are regularly sent to the laundry, anyhow! "Now, lemme tell you something. The real secrets of Freemasonry are of value; they mean something—something for you and for me—which is not for the uninitiated. But the real secrets of Freemasonry are not in or upon lantern slides, the size of the room, the height of the ceiling or even the place where a Worshipful Master hangs his bat! Circumspection in speaking of the things of the lodge, as opposed to the spirit of a lodge, is necessary only that no false idea be given the outsider. For instance, if it were possible to take a photograph of a class receiving the first degree, and to show it, the profane would laugh, utterly unappreciative of the symbolism of what they saw. But do you really think the value of Masonic secrets would be decreased by such an exhibition? "Morgan, and a dozen other semi-insane men, have written what they were pleased to call 'exposes' of Masonry. Half true, half manufactured, no one was very much interested in them; on second-hand book stalls you can find them, pick them up for a few cents. You can find them in every Masonic library. I ask you, as a commonsense man and brother, if what they contained was really of harm to the fraternity, would the librarians not destroy them? "Man, the secrets of Freemasonry are those things you carry in your heart; not the things you see with your eyes or can touch with your fingers. There is nothing secret about an organ, or the music books the choir uses, or the gavel the Master holds in his hand, nor yet the books the Secretary uses to record who hasn't paid his dues. The shape and form and furniture of a lodge is not a secret, nor is the time of meeting or the name of the Chaplain. The lantern slide conceals no secret worth knowing, nor does the chart to which the lecturer points nor even the carpet laid down in the second degree. These are all but means of putting a picture in your mind and it is that picture, and its meaning, which must be sacredly kept, not the means which put it there. "Then you don't think someone ought to speak to Brother Fillmore seriously!" "No, but there was a brother in this lodge who had to be spoken to seriously. I did it." "Why, who was it?" asked the New Brother anxiously. 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BOURN A portion of the Fellow Craft lecture tells us that we are traveling upon the level of time to that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. It is taken directly from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1. The undiscovered country is death. The word bourn means boundary, but its use is now obsolete.
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