The American Tyler-Keystone Volume 23; Devoted to Freemasonry and Its Concerdant Others (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...like whistling for a dog to come so you can kick him in the slats. It's the same old game of the man on the inside making it hard for the fellow on the outside. If you doubt this go to a lodge some time when there is a question of raising more revenue and set the two propositions of a raise of dues or a raise of fees before the body, and watch which one they adopt. The average Mason thinks that having had the degrees conferred on him makes him a creature apart from his fellows, and that they should look up to him and curry his favor; when, if the committee who had examined him had found out half the truth, he would have had so many black balls against him that--well, I s'pose one ought to leave the goat out of Masonic matters as much as possible." "You seem to think that the average Mason is a fakir and a fraud." "Are you the average Mason?" "I suppose so. Why?" "In that event you are right. The Master sent you out to examine this visitor, and you come back and confess that you did nothing of the sort. That you simply went out and had fun with him. It is exactly the same class of joke as stretching a string to trip up a blind man, or handinga red-hot penny to a hard-working hand-organ monkey. If you hope to fatten your matting average in this lodge you must put a little more of the milk of human kindness and the sugar of brotherly love in your Masonic cup. The trouble with you is that you don't know why the good Lord put that dab of corn meal batter in your cocoanut. My dearly beloved brother, that stuff is to think with, and when ever you want to find out how to act Masonically you have only to put yourself in the other fellow's place. That is Masonry boiled down till nothing but the meat remains. Do others or they w...