Free and Accepted Masons Dover, N. H. April 2018 Organized Under Dispensation December 20, 1889 Chartered May 21, 1890
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1 MOSES PAUL LODGE #96 DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE Free and Accepted Masons Dover, N. H. April 2018 Organized Under Dispensation December 20, 1889 Chartered May 21, 1890
2 April Calendar Event: Masters Class, Date and Time: Wednesday March 28 th 7-9 pm at Star in the East Lodge, Main Street Exeter NH. Dress Code: Casual Cost: Donation for Collation Description: Masters Class with R.W. Bill Sawyer. Topic this month is Masonic Protocol Who can attend: Master Masons. Event: EA Workshop Date and Time: Saturday March 31 st 9:00 am -12:00 noon at Masonic Temple 53 Ironworks Rd., Concord, NH, RSVP to ASAP Dress Code: Casual Cost: Free, Coffee, Donuts, and Light Lunch provided. Description: The workshop is specifically designed for EA and any Brother who hasn t reached MM. All Masons are welcomed. Who can attend: All masons Event: Square and Compass, Date and Time: Wednesday April 4 th 6:30-8:30 pm Dress Code: Casual Cost: Usually less than $10.00 Description: Fellowship dinner with our Brothers at Strafford Lodge and the Grange. Moses Paul Lodge is host this month, Chef Phyllis LaPointe is cooking! Who can attend: All Masons and guests. Event: Return of Dine Around Club, Date and Time: Tuesday April 17 th 6:30 pm at The Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant, High Street Somersworth, NH Dress Code: Casual Cost: Order from Menu Description: Dine with your Brothers and friends outside of the Lodge, A great time to introduce a friend to Masonry Who can attend: All Masons and guests.
3 Event: Stated Meeting Date and Time: Thursday April 19 th, Lodge opens at 7:30 pm Dress Code: All Jacket and ties Cost: Donation for collation Description: Monthly Business meeting and educational program Who can attend: EA s and above District Calendar Event: Strafford Lodge Stated Communication Date and Time: Wednesday April 11 th, Lodge opens at 7:00 pm Dress Code All jacket and tie Cost: Donation for collation Description: Monthly Business meeting Who can attend: EAs and above Event: Winnipesaukee Lodge Breakfast Buffet Date and Time: Sunday April 15 th, 7:30 am-11:00 am at Winnipesaukee Lodge in Alton NH Dress Code: Casual Cost: $10.00 Description: Famous Breakfast Buffet Who can attend: Public event All are welcome! A Masonic Thought A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Woodrow Wilson
4 Moses Paul Lodge #96, Dover, NH Officers & Appointments for 2018 Worshipful Master: Wor. John T. Pond, Jr Senior Warden: Wor. William D. Akridge Junior Warden: Richard Lapointe Treasurer: Sanford Salava Secretary: Daniel Hanson Representative to Grand Lodge: Christopher J. Pond Chaplain Wor. Kristopher G. Furtney Asst. Chaplain Senior Deacon: James E. Lewis Junior Deacon: John T Pond, III Senior Steward: Junior Steward: Marshal: David Martinelli Tyler: Wor. James S. Miller Organist: Lodge Ambassador: Historian: Wor. William D. Akridge Finance Committee: Trustees of Charity Fund Wor. James S. Miller 2018 Wor. Kristopher G. Furtney 2018, & 2019 Richard LaPointe 2018, 2019, 2020 Widow s Program Chairman: Vincent R. Puleo Gates: #1-, Richard Lapointe #2-, #3-John T. Pond, III Representative to Evergreen Place: Building Committee: Chairman: Wor. David Akridge Recorder: Wor. John T. Pond, Jr Wor. Kristopher G. Furtney Robert Steele Sanford Salava Webmaster John T. Pond, III Public Affairs Officer Wor. Kristopher G. Furtney
5 MOSES PAUL LODGE #96 In Memory Of Brother Herbert Nelson Brown Born: May 6, 1919 Taunton Massachusetts Entered Apprentice: September 1, 1959 St. James Lodge, Mansfield Mass. Passed to Fellowcraft: December 1, 1959 St. James Lodge, Mansfield Mass. Raised to Master Mason January 5,1960 St James Lodge, Mansfield Mass. Past Master St. James Lodge, Mansfield Mass, Affiliated Moses Paul Lodge June 18, Year Member of Masons Called from Labor to Rest March 22, 2018 Worshipful Master John T. Pond, Jr. Secretary Daniel H. Hanson
6 Brethren: MASTER S MESSAGE As I am writing this message I am getting ready to officiate the Masonic Service for our departed Brother Herb Brown. This is the third brother since January who has been call from Labor to rest. This is a time that no Master of a Lodge wants to happen during his term, but it is a stop along our Masonic journey to the fold of the Great Architect of the Universe. Brother Brown lived a long and productive life, was a WWII veteran, a Husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, a Past Master and a great mason, and Wayfaring Man. We will miss him! I now look to the future, Moses Paul Lodge has started moving toward the Lodge that we all want. A lodge that is active, and starting to grow again, we have several of our older brothers who have come back to Lodge and are active again! We currently have two EA s and a Fellow Craft who are working hard on their lessons, and getting active in the Lodge. These brothers will be attending an EA and Masonic workshop in Concord on the 31 st of March, along with five of the officers from the Lodge. At a recent officers meeting, we had all of our installed officers present as well as 3 past masters and a brother who has recently returned to Lodge. Our last Stated meeting was a program on the meaning of the Fellowcraft degree, we spent the whole meeting at ease and having a great Masonic discussion and question and answer session. RW Dave Cumming gave us additional meaning of the point within the circle which added another aspect that we had not heard. As Our Masonic District does not currently have a Masters class, something that we hope will change shortly with the a new DDEO for our district, we have started attending the classes in District 1, the last class featured MW Stew Aronson as the guest speaker and was attended by 8 of Moses Paul members, we had the largest group there! So, who is the new DDEO for District 5? It is none other than our own Worshipful Dave Akridge PM, congratulations Worshipful and I know we will be having some great Masonic discussions in the near future. So, you can see that Moses Paul Lodge is alive and well and doing good Masonic work! Come check us out this month and see what you are missing! Fraternally and Respectfully, Worshipful John T. Pond, Jr.. bears123@comcast.net PH
7 SENIOR WARDEN From the West April 2018 I am personally excited to see the difference in our Lodge now that we are able to focus our efforts on Masonic Work and discussion. It is refreshing to see so many of our new Brethren, Masonic veterans and even some who have been members take such a renewed energy in our Fraternity. In the eight years that I have been in Lodge, I cannot remember a time when we have had such great Masonic discussions or experienced a sincere desire to travel Masonic events together. We do so, not because we want to have the most people at an event, rather, there seems to be a renewed interest, energy and enthusiasm for the Work of our Lodge. At our last Stated Meeting we were able to discuss the Fellow Craft Degree. The time flew by and Worshipful Pond really had to call time on us or we may have had a really late night. I was personally rewarded by the discussion and I hope that each of you were as well. I personally hope over the coming year and dare I say, years that we will continue to build on this enthusiasm and energy so that we will individually and as Lodge receive the Light we seek. Fraternally Worshipful Brother Dave Akridge
8 April Birthdays HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHERS Herbert A. Bischoff John A. David Casey Bova Elie Khoury Daniel Hanson
9 Secretary s Desk Thank you to all who have paid their dues on time! Please make every effort to pay these quickly as the Lodge depends on this money to be able maintain our building and pay the bills. If you can t afford your dues or have other issues preventing you from paying them please contact me or any officer, we may be able to work out a solution. When was the last time you came to a meeting? We as your officers know that your time is valuable and should not be wasted! The meetings are fun and informative. Can t remember the signs or you don t feel you know anyone, don t worry, we are all brothers and will greet you with open arms. Something as Masons that we all need to think about! Have you made your wishes known to your family about a Masonic Service when you are called from labor to rest? Does your family know who to contact? Does your family know where you keep your white apron? These are important things to take care of! This month s education article is G The Old Past Master and Old Tiler again impart their wisdom to us! Please visit our website for upcoming events. The District 5 Calendar at: %40gmail.com NH Grand Lodge Web site at: Webmaster: dovermasons@nhfreemasons.org Facebook: NOT RECEIVING THE TRESTLE BOARD BY ??? If you would like to get it as soon as it comes out and save the Lodge a stamp send your address to bears123@comcast.net
10 G SHORT TALK BULLETIN - Vol. V July, 1927 No.7 by: Unknown Even a stranger, entering a Masonic Lodge Room, as he may do on a public occasion, must be struck by a mysterious Letter which hangs over the chair of the Master in the East. No one need tell him of its meaning; it is a letter of light and tells its own story. Yet, no stranger can know its full meaning, much less how old it is. Indeed, few Masons are aware of all that it implies, either as a symbol or history. There it shines, a focus of faith and fellowship, the emblem of the Divine Presence in the Lodge, and in the heart of each Brother composing it. When the Lodge is opened, the mind and heart of each member should also be opened to the meaning of the Great Symbol, to the intent that its light and truth may become the supreme reality in our lives. When the Lodge is closed, the memory of that Divine initial and its august suggestions ought to be the last thought retained in the mind, to be pondered over. In English Lodges its meaning and use are made clearer than among us. There it shines in the center of the ceiling of the room, and the Lodge is grouped around it, rather than assembled beneath it. Below it is the checkerboard floor, symbol of the vicissitudes of life, over which hangs the whiter light of the divine guidance and blessing, so much needed in our mortal journey. Also, in the Degrees its use is more impressive. In the First and Second degrees the symbol is visible in the roof, or sky, of the Lodge Room, like a benediction. In the Third Degree it is hidden, but its presence is still manifest - as every Masons knows - since the light of God is inextinguishable even in the darkest hours. In the Royal Arch it becomes visible again, but in another form, and in another position, not to be named here.
11 Thus, in the course of the degrees, the Great Letter has descended from heaven to earth, as if to show us the deep meaning of Masonry. In other words, the purpose of initiation is to bring God and Man together, and make them one. God becomes man that man may become God - a truth which lies at the heart of all religion, and most clearly revealed in our own. At the bottom, every form of faith is trying to lay hold of this truth, for which words were never made. In all the old houses of initiation, as far back as we can go, some one letter of the alphabet stands out as a kind of Divine initial. In the Egyptian Mysteries it was the Solar Ra, a symbol of the Spiritual Sun shining upon the mortal path. In the Greek Mysteries at Delphi it was the letter E - Eta - the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet; five being the symbol of man, as evidenced by the five senses. Hence, also the pentagram, or five-pointed star. In olden times Fellowcraft Masons worked in groups of five, and five Brethren now compose one of their Lodges. Plutarch tells us in the Greek Mysteries. the Letter Eta was made of wood in the First Degree, of bronze in the Second Degree, and of Gold in the Third - showing the advance and refinement of the moral and spiritual nature, as well as the higher value to the truth that was unfolded. Many meanings and much history are thus gathered into the Great Letter, some of it dim and lost to us now. In our Lodges, and in the thought of the craft today, the Letter G stands for Geometry, and also as the initial for our word for God. Now for one, now for the other, but nearly always for both, since all Masonry rests upon Geometry, and in all its lore Geometry is the way of God. Of the first of these meanings not much needs to be said. In the oldest Charges of the Craft, as in its latest interpretations, it is agreed that Masonry is moral geometry. What was forfelt by philosophers and mystics in ancient times is now revealed to us by the microscope. It is an actual fact that Geometry is the thoughtform of God in nature, in the snowflake and in the orbits of the stars.
12 Since this ancient insight is confirmed by the vision of science, in the most impressive manner the great Letter may stand as the initial of God, not alone by the accident of our language, but also and much more by a faith founded in fact. There is no longer any secret; it cannot be hid, because it is written in the structure of things, in all forms which truth and beauty take. Nor does Masonry seek to hide the fact that it rests in God, lives in God, and seeks to lead men to God. Everything Masonry has reference to God, every lesson, every lecture; from the first step to the last Degree. Without God it has no meaning, and no mission among men. It would be like the house in the parable, built on the sand which the floor swept away. For Masonry, God is the first truth and the final reality. Yet, as a fact, Masonry rarely uses the name of God. It uses, instead, the phrase; The Great Architect of the Universe. Of course such a phrase fits into the symbolism of the Craft, but that is not the only - nor, perhaps the chief - reason why it is used. A deep, fine feeling keeps us from using the name of Deity too often, lest it lose some of its awe in our minds. It is because Masons believe in God so deeply that they do not repeat His Name frequently, and some of us prefer the Masonic way in the matter. Also, we love the Masonic way of teaching by indirection, so to speak; by influence and atmosphere. Masonry, in its symbols and in its spirit, seeks to bring us into the presence of God and detains us there, and that is the wisest way. In nothing is Masonry more deep-seeing than in the way in which it deals with our attitude toward God, who is both the meaning and the mystery of life. It does not intrude, much less drive, in the intimate and delicate things of the inner life - like a bungler thrusting his hand into our heart-strings.
13 No, all that Masonry asks is that we confess our faith in a Supreme Being. It does not require that we analyze or define in detail our thought of God. Few men have formulated their profound faith; perhaps no man can do it, satisfactorily. It goes deeper than the intellect, down into the instincts and feelings, and eludes all attempts to put it into words. Life and love, joy and sorrow, pity and pain and death; the blood in the veins of man, the milk in the breast of woman, the laughter of little children, the coming and goings of days, all the old, sweet, sad human things that make up our mortal life - these are the bases of our faith in God. Older than argument, it is deeper than debate; as old as the home, as tender as infancy and old age, as deep as love and death. Men lived and died by faith in God long before philosophy was born, ages before theology had learned its letters. Vedic poets and penitential Psalmists were praising God on yonder side of the Pyramids. In Egypt, five thousand years ago, a poet King sang of the unity, purity and beauty of God, celebrating His Presence revealed, yet also concealed, in the order of life. No man can put such things into words, much less into a hard and fast dogma. Masonry does not ask him to do so. All that it asks is that he tell, simply and humbly, in Whom he puts his trust in life and death, as the source, security and sanction of moral life and spiritual faith; and that is as far as it seeks to go. One thinks of the talk of the old Mason with the young nobleman who was an atheist, in the Tolstoi story, War and Peace. When the young count said with a sneer that he did not believe in God, the old Mason smiled, as a mother might smile at the silly saying of a child. Then, in a gentle voice, the old man said:
14 Yes, you do not know Him, sir. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy. But he is here, He is within me, He is within you, even in these scoffing words you have just uttered. If He is not, we should not be speaking of Him, sir. Whom dost thou deny? They were silent for a spell, as the train moved on. Something in the old man touched the count deeply, and stirred in him a longing to see what the old man saw, and to know what he knew. His eyes betrayed his longing to know God, and the old man read his face, and answered his unasked question: Yes, he exists, but to know him is hard. It is not attained by reason, but by life. The highest truth is like the purest dew. Could I hold in an impure vessel that pure dew, and judge of its purity? Only by inner purification can we know God. All these things - all this history and hope and yearning which defies analysis - Masonry tells us in a shining Letter which hangs, up in the Lodge. It is the wisest way; its presence is a prophecy, and its influence extends beyond our knowing, evoking one knows not what memories and meditations. Never do we see that Great Letter, and think of what it implies, that we do not feel what Watts felt: O God, our help in ages past, Our hope in times to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. SO MOTE IT BE
15 The Old Past Master Speaks DO YOU STUDY GEOMETRY? "I bought me a high school geometry the other day" confessed the Very New Mason to the Old Past Master, sitting on the benches waiting for the Worshipful Master to call the lodge to labor. "I was so much impressed with what I learned of its importance to Masons, during the Fellowcraft Degree, that I determined to go back to my school days and try again. But I am much discouraged." "Why so?" asked the old Past Master, interested. "I recall geometry as rather an interesting subject. I don't suppose I could do a single original now, it's been so many years... I don't know when I have looked in one!" "Why, you surprise me! I thought all good Masons must know geometry. We are taught... how does it go?... something about a noble science..." his voice trailed off in silence. "'Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences'" quoted the Old Past Master, "' is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry is erected. By geometry, we may curiously trace Nature through her various windings, to her most concealed recesses. By it we may discover the wisdom and the goodness of the Grand Artificer of the universe and view with delight the proportions which connect this vast machine.'" "Yes, that's it!" agreed the Very New Mason. "And there is a lot more, isn't there?" "A whole lot!" smiled the Old Past Master, in agreement. "Well, then, why doesn't a well informed Mason have to be a geometrician?"
16 "There is certainly no reason why a good geometrician shouldn't be a good Mason," answered the Old Past Master, "but no reason why a man who doesn't know geometry shouldn't be a good Mason. "You see, my son, we hark back a great many years in much of our lectures, to a time when knowledge was neither so great nor so diversified as now. William Preston, the eminent Masonic student, scholar, writer, who lived and wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, conceived the idea of making the degrees in general, and the Fellowcraft degree in particular, a liberal education! A 'liberal education' in those days was comprised within what we still call, after Preston, the 'seven liberal arts and sciences.' In those days any mathematics beyond geometry was only for the very, very few; indeed, mathematics were looked upon rather askance by the common men, as being of small use in the world, save for engineers and designers and measurers of land. "But Preston, if his lectures are no longer the real 'liberal education' which he planned, and which, in the form of his lectures modified by Webb (and somewhat tinkered with by various authorities and near authorities who at times have kept the husk and let the kernel escape!) builded better than he knew. For we may now justly and honorable take 'geometry' to mean not only the science of measurement of surface and area and the calculation of angles and distances, but to mean all measurement. And to study measurement, my son, means to study science, for all science is but measurement, and by that measurement, the deduction of laws and the unraveling of the secrets of nature. "I do not understand geometry anymore; it is long since I studied it. But I do study, and do try to keep my mind awake and always filling, if never full. It is true that to many a Mason the study of geometry itself would be a grand mental discipline and thus greatly improve his mind. But I do not think we are to take this admonition literally, any more than we are to accept literal interpretations for other wordings in our ritual. We meet upon the level, in Masonry, and we act upon the square. But that does not mean that we put our feet upon a carpenter's level, or sit upon stone masons' squares while we 'act.' The words are symbols of thoughts. I take the admonition to study geometry as a symbol of a thought, meaning that a Mason is to educate himself, to keep his mind open, to keep it active, to learn, to think, to develop his reason and his logic, the he may the better aid himself to know himself and his work to aid his fellowmen. "Even Preston, literal-minded as he was, and focusing all his attention as he did, upon ritual and teaching by it and a formalism which is not yet outworn in our ranks, had a vision of what geometry might mean beside the mathematical science of angles. For... how does it go? In our charge to a Fellowcraft, we say "Geometry, or Masonry, originally synonymous
17 terms, being of a divine and moral nature, is enriched with the most useful knowledge, while it proves the wonderful properties of nature, it demonstrates the more important truths of morality.' "It should be obvious that a study of mathematics of any kind cannot demonstrate morality unless it is considered a symbol as well as a science. As we are thus told in so many words to use geometry as a symbol, we may well agree with Pike, who wrote learnedly to prove a Mason's inherent right to interpret the symbols of Freemasonry for himself. To me, geometry is a symbol of science, and one which I should use to impress upon myself the need of something else. To a Mason who had had few educational advantages, the word might mean its literal sense, and he be greatly benefited by a close study of the book which discourages you. "I do not attempt, my brother, to force upon you my understanding, or to quarrel at all with those Masons who find a different interpretation of the geometry which is Masonry as we understand it. I do but give you my ideas for whatever use they may be to you, and so you will not be discouraged in what is a praiseworthy attempt to profit by the Masonic lectures. Do you recall the end of the charge you received as a Fellowcraft?" "I... I... I am afraid I don't, just exactly..." "It runs this way," smiled the Old Past Master. "...'in your new character it is expected that you will conform to the principles of the Order by steadily persevering in the practice of every commendable virtue.' If you study the 'principles of the Order' you will, indeed, be learning Masonic geometry."
18 GEOMETRIC BULL "There are a lot of things in Masonry," began the New Brother to the Old Tiler. "Bravo!" cried the Old Tiler, sarcastically. "Who told you all that?" "And some of them," continued the New Brother, "are more or less bull. I yield to no one in my love for the order, but I see its faults. And when I am expected to learn the science of geometry as a part of Masonry I know I am being bulled. There is no more sense to including geometry in the second degree than there would be including paleontology or..." "I love to hear a man say he can see the faults of Masonry," interrupted the Old Tiler, "because then I am in the presence of a master mind. Generations of philosophers have made Masonry what it is. When a new brother can plainly see its faults he is greater than all of these." "Of course I did not mean it that way. I just meant that I, er, you know..." "Do I? Well, then I suppose I'd better not mince words about it. To say there is no sense to geometry in the second degree is to advertise the fact that you know nothing and care less for the symbolism of the order. Take from Masonry its symbolism and all you have left is a central thought with no means of expression. Imagine a great musician, deaf, blind, and paralyzed, his heart ringing with wonderful melodies and harmonies, yet unable to give them expression, and you have a mental picture of Masonry
19 without symbolism. Symbolism is Masonry's means of expressing thought, and geometry, in the second degree, is not an arithmetical study, but a symbol. "Geometry was an outgrowth of the first science. The first glimpse brute man had there was aught in nature but haphazard chance or the capricious doing of a superior overlord was when he learned the stupendous fact that two and two always make four. "From that humble beginning and recognition of the master law of the universe-which is, that law is universal, unchanging, and invariable-grew the study of things; their surfaces, their areas, their angles, their motions, their positions. Modern methods have gone farther than Euclid, but his work was perfectly done and Euclid's geometry stands today as a perfect thing, as far as he took it. "Geometry is the science of order. Reaching back to the first recognition that there was order in the world, it may stand for anyone who has eyes to see, as it does stand in Masonry, for man's recognition of God in the universe. It is a symbol of universality. By geometry we know that natural law on earth is nature's law for the stars. There have been few atheists in the world, but I venture to say that none of them have been geometricians or astronomers. They know too much to deny the existence of the Great Geometer when seeing His work. "Geometry is everywhere. It is in the snowflake's measured lines of crystallization. There is geometry of the honeycomb and a geometry of the cone of a fir tree. Mountains stand or fall as they obey or disobey the laws of geometry and the spider in her web and the planets in their orbits alike work according to the universal laws of geometry. "'I think God's thoughts after Him,' said the great astronomer Kepler, looking through his telescope and thinking of the geometry of the skies. "If we know two angles and one dimension, we can find the other dimension. Man has angles and dimensions; and if we know enough of them we can find the rest. One of a man's angles is his love of Masonry. Given a real love of Masonry as one angle, a willingness to live her precepts as the other and we can tell what sort of a man he is now, used to be, and will be in the future. "It is a real geometry the second degree commends to you, my brother, because it is a symbol of law and order, of Deity, of
20 universality. But it is spiritual geometry which you should study rather than the propositions of Euclid, bearing in mind that they are symbols of that which Masonry most venerates, most wisely teaches, and most greatly loves. "Our ancient brother Pythagoras discovered the wonderful demonstration of the Great Architect which is the forty-seventh problem of Euclid. And so when I hear a young squirt of a Mason, with his eyes barely opened to the long path which is Masonry winding through the stars to God, say that the geometry in the second degree is bull, I wish I were young enough to take him out in the back lot and treat him as I would a small boy who found humor in church and fun in sacred things, and..." "Oh, stop!" cried the New Brother. "I was wrong. I didn't understand. Say, where can I get a geometry book? I want to know more about that forty-seventh problem." "In the reading room," growled the Old tiler. "And, say, son, when you get it in your head, come back here and explain it all over again to me, will you?"
21 Masonic Humor A Mason was having trouble with his ritual, and was telling a fellow mason at work one day, and his friend said I know a man down the road who sells Parrots who know the ritual and prompt you when you have any trouble. So the next day off he went to the shop, and the man said "yes I have three", he pulled a curtain across and there were 3 parrots, one with a white apron on, one with a Masters apron, and one with a Past Masters apron on. He said "how much is the one with the White apron on", "$ and he knows all the ritual including the inner workings, and will always prompt you when you get stuck"! No", he said "to expensive", "what about the one with the Masters apron on", "Well, that one is $1, and he knows all the ritual, but not the inner workings, but will always prompt you when you learning it"! "No to much, what about the one with the Past Masters apron on"? "You can have him for $10.00"! "Why so cheap, he must know all the ritual and the inner workings?" "Oh yes, he knows all the ritual, but when you make a mistake all he does is sit there and go, tut! tut! tut!!
22 Moses Paul Lodge #96 Living Past Masters Gerald E. Brown Ronald C. Bartlett Donald S. Meserve Raymond E. Allen William H. Carswell, II 1976, 77, 78 David R. Spiller..1984, 85 Edwin F. Mitchell, Jr Anthony Zizos. 1989, 90 James S. Miller , 98, 01, 02, 03, 04 John F. Torr.1993, 94, 99, 00 Stephen E Wawrzkiewicz Robert H. Stewart Jay A. Edgerly 1997 William C. Hill, HPM.2003 Michael J. Mawson George M. McGee III Christopher Piehler 2007, 2008 Robert D. Berry Kristopher G. Furtney 2010, 2011 Vincent R. Puleo , 2013 Robert J. Corsetti , 2015 William D. Akridge..2016, 2017
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