Freemasonry unmasked

There was once a good Mason in a little Town, reputed for his goodness and piety, who regularly attended the Lodge meetings that then was meeting every week, as the legend goes. The report went that he was attending a secret society. His neighbour became curious and once accosted the Mason to tell him what his club was doing every week in the evening. The Mason told him that he would tell him about it the next day.

So the neighbour went to him the next day, when, the Mason took him to his garden and showed him the room where he had kept the fruits to ripen. The neighbour was surprised and asked him "Is this what you are all doing when you meet?" "Yes," replied the Mason. "We ripen fruits that are fit and proper ones so that the fruit becomes sweet, losing all its bitter and sour taste."

The neighbour was surprised and wanted to know where the fruits go. The Mason replied that it went into the world to make it better and happier. The neighbour was perplexed for the good man did not elaborate. But it attracted the neighbour who afterwards became an ardent Mason for it gave him the joy of Life. That is Freemasonry !!.

By W .Bro.P .R.Subramanian,
[Letters to the Editor- Grand Lodge of India News Letter, June, 1969]

Keep It Under Your Hat

"The Lodge had just opened. As the Master looked around the Lodge room he noticed a brother in the back row of the Southwest corner who was wearing a hat.

Not wanting to embarrass the brother, the Master called on the Senior Deacon to quietly ascertain why the brother was wearing a hat.

After a whispered conversation with the offending brother, the Senior Deacon reported back to the Master.

He said that the brother was overjoyed to be asked. It seems that it was the third time he had attended that Lodge, and this was the first time anyone had spoken to him.

Could this have happened in your Lodge ?

From the Indiana Freemason Summer, 1994

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