FRATERNAL REVIEW

Editor - Ralph A. Herbold         (3-1-94)                        No. 687

LODGE
A lodge operating like a typical Lodge 200 or so years ago, before we modernized
and innovated it into the typical lodge in our country today, and it was
described in the January 1994 Oregon Masonic News:

In December, one lodge in Oregon "adopted" a member of the Home by contributing
$520 in pin money.  If you think this lodge is one with 400 members or even 200,
think again.  Intrepid Lodge No. 224 was chartered in 1986 and has a total
membership of 18.  The lodge was never meant to be a large one, its membership
limited to 40.

Dell Spohn, secretary in 1993, suggests the reason for the lodge's success is
the camaraderie of the members.  They meet once a month and all members are
expected to attend or notify someone if they won't be at the meeting.  At
installation, all were present but one.  This keeps everyone in close touch.
Members pay $100 a year in dues, which allows them to contribute as they like
without having to count on fund raising projects.

PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
A well known stamp dealer, Herman Herst, Jr., sent this letter to The Masonic
Philatelist who reproduced it in their December 1993 issue:

"John Fellows Esq New York
Sir

Quincy 2 Nov 1838

"Accept my thanks for your obliging letter, dated in September last, and which I
duly received together with a very learned work upon the Mysteries of the
Ancient Egyptians Pythagoreans and Druids, and inquiring into the origin,
History and Purport of Free Masonry --

"Considering the institution of Free Masonry as founded upon Imposture,
Historical, Religious, Moral and Political, every historical research relating
to it becomes interesting to me -- because no honest inquirer after truth can
come to any other conclusion concerning it -- that the only means of wiping away
the stain at present attached to the Society, is a total abandonment of the
Oaths.  I am happy to find this is your unequivocal opinion, and as the Oaths
are the vital part of the Institution, I trust the good sense of its ministers
will at no distant day induce them to abandon with the Oaths, the whole system
of fantastical absurdities connected with them.

"I am with great Respect Sir your obedt Servt."

John Quincy Adams

EMPLOYMENT
James A. Williams, P.G.M. of Alaska, presently residing and active in Seattle,
Washington, wrote:  "This is to thank you for your item 'EMPLOYMENT' in
Fraternal Review No. 676 of 8/15/93.  Your article benefitted us in the WA
jurisdiction tremendously,"  and he went on to relate how they were working on
a similar project for the Seattle area.  I consider such a reward for the work
we do in our Lodge.

Incidentally, a Masonic related employment service is being organized in the
San Diego area.  For further information contact Carl Ecklund, 1895 Camino Del
Rio South, San Diego CA 92108, phone 619-463-6581, fax 619-463-0815.

ENTERED APPRENTICE
The Grand Master's (Warren K. Clark) Message in the December 1993 Minnesota
Mason started with:

"I would like to inform you that the Grand Lodge Education Committee has
initiated a new program which is intended to better educate all new Entered
Apprentices as soon as they have received the First Degree of Masonry.  The
Secretary will submit the candidate's name on a special card which will be
furnished to the Lodge.  Upon receipt of the name of the new candidate, the
Grand Lodge office will send him a book, The Craft And Its Symbols, by Allen
Roberts."

This practice is apparently gaining momentum in our Lodge for we had requests
for 70 copies of the book in January alone.  We have at times, when a late
request is made by one of our members for a copy of the book to be presented to
an Entered Apprentice in his Lodge, been asked that it be mailed directly to
him.  We decline this request for we feel that the book should be presented by
our member.  One suggestion we would make to the brethren in Minnesota:  As you
have a Lodge Education Officer in each Lodge, why not have that officer present
the book, the reward being that the LEO becomes acquainted with the candidate
which in turn gives the candidate one to turn to with his questions.

ISRAEL - EGYPT
In a letter from one of our members in Israel, Leon Zeldis, mentioning Israel
and the Arabs talking peace, included:

"Freemasonry was once quite popular in Egypt, including the Royal Family, but
it was banned by President Nasser and has not revived.  Many Israeli lodges
were founded under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Egypt, until 1933,
when the National Grand Lodge of Palestine was created, and later merged into
the Grand Lodge of the State of Israel (1953), which finally united all Masonic
Lodges in the country."

YORK RITE
The December 1993 issue of the Montana Masonic News made me look twice as there
were so many familiar names in an article on the last September 62nd Triennial
of General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons International.

The presiding General Grand High Priest was SCRL member Harold Yaeger of
Montana.  He was preceded in office by SCRL member Walter Winchester of Florida.
The newly installed General Grand High Priest was R. Glenn Capps, not a SCRL
member.  Other officers are SCRL member Murray E. Cooke from California, General
Grand King and SCRL member William Schoene of New Jersey, General Grand Scribe.
Suppose the four could whisper good counsel in Brother Capps' ear?


