From
September-October 2004
Not
One Person
Bro. Dan Weatherington
Not one person ever joined Masonry because George Washington
was a Mason.
Not one person ever joined Masonry because Harry Truman
was a Mason.
Not one person ever joined because of any of our great
Masonic heroes.
Joining doesn’t make you any of those people.
Not one person ever joined in order to give a million dollars
a day to charity, or homes, or crippled children. You don't
have to be a member to give money.
Not one person ever joined because our ritual is outstanding,
or our minutes are accurate, or a hundred other things we
worry about. They don’t know about our ritual.
They joined because someone they knew and admired was a
Mason. It could have been a father, a friend, a man down
the street,
or someone a 1,000 miles away. Who, it didn't matter. They
admired him and wanted to do the things he did, and they
did it by the millions.
Want to help our growth? Be the kind of man someone admires.
Someone will notice.
The above is reprinted from the Masonic e-mail journal
Cinosam, originally published in the quarterly Newsletter
of Anniversary
Lodge of Research No. 175, New Hampshire.
