Masonic Code Of The District Of Columbia

Author : Freemasons. Grand Lodge Columbia
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230037820
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia written by Freemasons. Grand Lodge Columbia and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...fraternity are growing with astonishing rapidity, as is always the case following a great war, with its stimulation of the thought of brotherhood. There was a like condition in American Masonic bodies after the civil war. It should be said, however, that lean years will surely follow the fat ones, and that those Masonic bodies will be wise which save their present earnings for the inevitable rainy day. The law of compensation works just as inexorably as the law of gravitation. If the pendulum swings far toward one side of the arc of the circle it never fails to swing back just as far in the other direction. There was a period, from about 1870 to the early eighties of the last century, when Capitular Masonry in New York state was at a very low ebb. The heavy gains made in the years immediately after the civil war had stopped. Many chapters were doing no work, others were showing net losses year after year, and the condition of the Royal Craft as a whole was the cause for anxiety. Toward the middle eighties recuperation set in, since which time there has been a stealy annual gain. The facts which I have just stated are elaborated, with considerable detail, in the report of the Grand Secretary of the New York Grand Chapter for 1920, which speaks a word of timely warning, advising the chapters that the prosperity of the present moment will not continue, and will certainly be followed by a period of depression. What is true of New York is true, of course, of every other Grand Jurisdiction. Now is the time for capitular bodies to husband their resources. It is pleasing to note that they are doing that in nearly all of the American jurisdictions, according to the official reports for 1920. Committees on correspondence in all parts of the United...