Stated Meeting Time Change
At the annual meeting on Nov 9th 2009, it was voted to move the Stated Meeting time FROM 7:30pm TO 7:00pm. Take notice thereof and let it be done.
RWB Robert C. Rill Jr.
Rubicon Lodge #237 congratulates the 11th Masonic Districts' own RWB Robert C. Rill Jr.
on being installed as the Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Ohio.
I-Care - Do You?
There many worthy, distressed Masons, their widows and orphans in need of some assistance
in order to remain safely at home.
To that end, the Ohio Masonic Homes ' Senior Services I-Care Program
is developing a network of I-Care
Committees composed of volunteers to ensure that the needs of our brethern are being met.
Contact Dave Subleski for details on Rubicon's committee, or
please see the September/October issue of the Beacon for more stories on I-Care.
Help The Valley of Toledo Learning Center
When You Shop At Kroger
It is that time of year to tug on your cabletow.
You can help the Valley of Toledo Childrens Learning Center without having to donate.
If you already shop at Kroger, and/or fill up your vehicles at a Kroger gas station, you can have 5% of
your purchases donated by Kroger to the Learning Center.
Contact the Valley of Toledo office (419-893-2942) for details.
Or, ask your Sr. Deacon at a lodge meeting.
What Makes a Man a Mason?
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hen he can look out over the rivers, the hills, and the far horizon with a profound sense of his own littleness in the vast scheme of things, and yet have faith, hope, and courage -- which is the root of every virtue.
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hen he knows that down in his heart every man is as noble, as vile, as divine, as diabolic, and as lonely as himself, and seeks to know, to forgive, and to love his fellowman.
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hen he knows how to sympathize with men in their sorrows, yea, even in their sins -- knowing that each man fights a hard fight against many odds.
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hen he has learned how to make friends and to keep them, and above all how to keep friends with himself.
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hen he loves flowers, can hunt birds without a gun, and feels the thrill of an old forgotten joy when he hears the laugh of a little child.
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hen he can be happy and high-minded amid the meaner drudgeries of life.
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hen star-crowned trees and the glint of sunlight on flowing waters subdue him like the thought of one muched loved and long dead.
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hen no voice of distress reaches his ears in vain, and no hand seeks his aid without response.
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hen he finds good in every faith that helps any man to lay hold of divine things and sees majestic meanings in life, whatever the name of that faith may be.
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hen he can look into a wayside puddle and see something beyond mud, and into the face of the most forlorn fellow mortal and see something beyond sin.
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hen he knows how to pray, how to love, how to hope.
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hen he has kept faith with himself, with his fellowman, and with his God; in his hand a sword for evil, in his heart a bit of a song -- glad to live, but not afraid to die!
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uch a man has found the only real secret of Masonry, and the one which it is trying to give to all the world.
By: Rev. Joesph Fort Newton, 33rd Degree
Grand Chaplain, Grand Lodge of Iowa, 1911-1913
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