Meeting Calendar 2007

          Oct               Nov                 Dec

  4 - OES #8   1 - OES #8   6 - OES #8

13 - WM #3  10- WM # 3    8 - WM #3

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50 Years Ago

White Mountain Lodge October 1957

The lodge approved the purchase of a sign for the front of the building.
Brothers Navor Proctor and Wesley Parmenter were raised to the sublime degree of master mason
 

Doric Lodge October 1957

October 7, 1957 the first meeting was held in the new Temple. William Snedden was initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason.
Herman Gothard and George Snedden were raised to the degree of master mason.
 

Something to Think About

Worthy and Well Qualified

There is a growing feeling among thinking Freemasons that admission to the Order is too easy and that we have dissipated our strength in mere numbers.
True it is that the present apparent qualifications for admission are no more than are required for almost any organization of honest men who demand integrity, ability, and willingness to pay his way, as the principal needs of the initiate.
But Freemasonry demands more than integrity of character and ability to pay. It demands a high intelligence, a desire for knowledge for its own sake, and that type of mentality which can prudently interpret symbols into everyday action, not only in the body of the lodge, but in the day to day business of life.
Too many superlatively honest and kindly men are in our ranks with but a limited idea of what Freemasonry is trying to do, and too many good men have passed through these ranks bored with endless repetition of apparently idle ceremonies, failing to grasp the foundations of the personal and practical philosophy of life which the Masonic ritual strives to teach.
Freemasonry may be, as is all too often the case, at fault in failing to properly instruct its neophytes, but if the material with which the teachers must work is missing; the chances of making Masons rather than lodge members is small.
With a group of members whose ideal of Freemasonry is the endless conferring of degrees with only a limited understanding achieved of what the symbolism and language of these degrees are intended to convey, it is small wonder that eventually these same members imbued with exactitude of repetition as the final goal of perfection will, as officers, control the lodge and unwittingly drive from its ranks those who have caught something of the gleam.
It seems, therefore, that "worthy and well qualified" shall require, not only sterling character and willingness to pay a material price, but the capacity to absorb, develop, and use and ancient philosophy, and the ability to find in the hoary old ceremonies a retreat to eternal truths far from the rampant materialism of our age. Initiates might be fewer, for such qualifications are not given to many, but of them the real Freemason is made.

The previous is from the Alberta Grand Lodge Bulletin of 1936: Alberta, Canada. This was written and published 71 years ago. No matter how old you might be I think you will agree that 71 years is a long time, but when you read what is below I think you will also agree that some things have not changed all that much in all those years. When you read the following you will notice that the piece is as relevant today as it was when it was written.