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Brethren or others sick or in Distress Remember all our Masonic widows and orphans

Wor. Brother Robert Nicklin is still under the weather.

Wor. David Potter’s wife (Pam) is ill.

Pray for their recovery.

Worshipful Rick Potter 941-3766

Sr. Warden Joe Murphy 887-8333

Jr. Warden Duane Smith 886-3556

Treasurer Steve Wilt 448-1239

Secretary Bill Campbell 886-1155

Sr. Deacon Walt Richmond 430-9218

Jr. Deacon Bill Surratt 487-1991

Chaplin David Hayes 886-0916

Marshall Stuart Brown 886-7784

Tiler Robert Nicklin 939-4364

July 02,2013—Staunton Stated Meeting

July 06,2013—Crozet Independence Day Parade

(Shriners Parade)

July 29-31,2013—Reid James Simmons Academy

of Masonic Leadership at Fort Union Military

Academy

October 12,2013—Masonic Home of Virginia

Family Day (picnic and parade) at Masonic

Home of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia

November 8-9,2013—Grand Annual Communi-

cation at Hilton-Richmond Hotel & Spa

IMPORTANT DATES

Staunton Lodge #13 Officers 2013

Newsletter Date July 2013

Trestle Board Staunton Lodge No. 13 AF & AM

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Applications Read (0) Entered Apprentices (2)

Fellow Crafts (0) Master Masons (0)

Please make plans to attend practices and degree

work, and support these men (and their coaches) as

they continue their Masonic journey through their

degrees.

KNOCKING AT THE DOOR

MASONIC BIRTHDAYS

From the Master

Worshipful Rick Potter

Brethren,

“From the Master” is unavailable this month. The Master is overseas

(traveling in foreign countries) on vacation.

Every Tuesday morning there is practice at the Lodge in all parts of the ritual,

starting at 9:00 AM. All brothers are welcome.

The Brethren of Staunton Lodge No. 13 would like to express their sincerest

condolences to a frequent visitor and Brother, Worshipful Richard Hodge (Elmer

Timbererman Lodge No. 54 and Lee Lodge No. 209) and his family on the recent

loss of his sister. Our prayers go out to your family.

Brethren, if you would like to add or see something in your Trestle Board, feel

free to contact me Bro. Thomas H Otto 32° at geteurdone@comcast.net

Masonic

Information

Tom Dwayne Roby 07/04/62 Howard A Beiseigel 07/15/58

Robert Lee Brodeur 07/05/06 William L Whitesell Jr 07/25/58

Harrison May 076/10/71 Stephen L Coffman 07/26/89

Alan Edward Warner 07/10/71 Alex Owen Davis 07/26/07

John Francis Koplitz 07/12/05 Darrell W Carter Jr 07/30/01

Edmund D Potter 07/13/04

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168th Grand Master of Masons in Virginia Louis Kerford Campbell

“Masonry’s Youth, Masonry Future”

Our Social Problem

Our ancient Operative Brethren came nearer solving these vexing questions than any one has ever come since. They worked as a fraternity; they had joy in their work, and saw spiritual meaning in it. Labor was a joy to them because it was construc-

tive, and because they never lost the human touch - which is the saddest tragedy of modern industry. Their labor was com-munal. Each man worked as a “brother” in a community, not as a cog in a machine. It was mixed with friendliness, comrade-ship, and good will. They regarded their ingenuity - both as artists and as artisans - as a form of divine inspiration, a holy and

consecrated skill, for which they gave thanks as a community on Whit-Sunday. The Master was not a Foreman or an Overseer; he was a Brother, a friend, and a teacher. Surely modern industry is not the better for the loss of this spirit of reverence and cooperation - brotherly leadership and com-munal responsibility - which distinguished the fraternity - of Operative Freemasonry. Today Master and Man are far apart. They have little personal contact. Social welfare work in factories is too much like a sop to the discontented - too much like a form of charity. Men go to their work as if driven, finding no joy in it, shirking it as much as possible. Our ancient Brethren never thought of getting all they could for as little work as possible. The whole idea of using men to make money, instead of

using money to make men, is foreign to the genius and history of Masonry. No Mason was regarded as a "hand"; he was a fellow brother - not an animated tool but a human being. There is no hope of peace in the industrial world until this spirit of humanity and fraternity is recovered - restoring the status of labor, and also its high obligation. Masonry did it once; Masonry can help to do it again. Masonry is an international fraternity. Its members are prepared to travel in foreign countries and work and receive the wages of a Master Mason. Each is enjoined to be loyal to his own country, without hatred to other lands - knowing that other men

love their countries as he loves his. In all the teaching of Masonry there is a recognition of the human race as a family, a brotherhood - a sense of the fact that the good of humanity as a whole does actually exist - and that is the one thing needed today. The world is perishing for lack of Brotherhood, and though we have the great ideal on our lips, it has not yet found its way into our hearts and hands.

"Does it make you mad when you read about

Some poor, starved devil who flickered out, Because he had never a decent chance

In the tangled meshes of circumstance? If it makes you burn like the fires of sin, Brother, you are fit for the ranks-fall in!

Does it make you rage when you come to learn Of a clean souled woman who could not earn

Enough to live, and who fought, but fell

In the cruel struggle and went to hell?

Does it make you seethe with an anger hot?

Brother, we welcome you-come share our lot! Whoever has blood that will flood his face

At the sight of Beast in the holy place

Whoever has rage for the tyrant's might, For the powers that prey in the day and night,

Whoever has hate for the ravening Brute That strips the tree of its goodly fruit;

Whoever knows wrath at the sight of pain, Of needless sorrow and heedless gain;

Whoever knows bitterness, shame and gall At thought of the trampled ones doomed to fall;

He is a brother - in soul we know

With brain afire and with soul aglow;

By the sight of his eyes we sense our kin- Brother, you battle with us-fall in!"

Author: Unknown

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BY ARTHUR R. HERRMANN

THE LODGE ALTAR

'Round Thy sacred altar, now,

Do Thy children humbly bow;

Rev'rently they gather there:

Awed and silent in their prayer;

Grateful for Thy blessed Light,

Shining through the darkened night,

Teaching Brotherhood to men

That all strife may cease again,

And, upon this earthly sod,

Men may always turn to God!

BREAD UPON THE WATERS

I took a brother by the hand; I spoke

a word of cheer;

It gave him strength, renewed his

hope,

And helped to banish fear.

How passing strange is life, my friend,

For as the years sped by I, too,

was faced with dark despair And life

held but a sigh.

My friend now took me by the hand,

And whispered words of cheer - The

same soul-lifting words I spoke

To him, another year.

'Twas then I knew the bread I'd cast,

As in the Scriptures told,

Upon the waters had returned

To bless me now, two-fold!

CORNUCOPIA

The horn of plenty. The old Pagan myth tells us that Zeus was

nourished during his infancy in Crete by the daughters of Melis-

sus, with the milk of the goat Amalthea. Zeus, when he came to

the empire of the world, in gratitude placed Amalthea in the

heavens as a constellation, and gave one of her horns to his nurs-

es, with the assurance that it should furnish them with a never-

failing supply of whatever they might desire. Hence it is a symbol

of abundance, and as such has been adopted as the jewel of the

Stewards of a Lodge, to remind them that it is their duty to see

that the tables are properly furnished at refreshment, and that

every Brother is suitably served. Among the deities whose imag-

es are to be found in the ancient Temples at Elora, in Hindustan,

is the goddess Ana Purna, whose name is compounded of Ana,

signifying corn, and Purna, meaning plenty.

She holds a corn measure in her hand, and the whole therefore

very clearly has the same allusion as the Masonic Horn of plenty.

Unworthy Members That there are men in our Order whose lives and characters reflect no credit on the Institution, whose ears turn

coldly from its beautiful lessons of morality, whose hearts are untouched by its soothing influences of brotherly

kindness, whose hands are not opened to aid in its deeds of charity is a fact which we cannot deny, although

we may be permitted to express our grief while we acknowledge its truth. But these men, though in the Tem-

ple, are not of the Temple; they are among us , but are not with us; they belong to our household, but they are

not of our faith; they are of Israel, but they are not Israel. We have sought to teach them, but they would not

be instructed; seeing, they have not perceived; and hearing they have not understood the symbolic language in

which our lessons of wisdom are communicated. The fault is not with us, that we have not given, but with

them, that they have not received. And, indeed, hard and unjust would it be to censure the Masonic Institution,

because, partaking of the infirmity and weakness of human wisdom and human means, it has been unable to

give strength and perfection to all who come within its pale. The denial of a Peter, the doubting of a Thomas, or

even the betrayal of a Judas, could cast no reproach on that holy band of Apostles of which each formed a con-

stituent part. "Is Freemasonry answerable," says Doctor Oliver (Landmarks, page148), "for the misdeeds of an

individual Brother, by no means. He has had the advantage of Masonic instruction, and has failed to profit by it.

He has enjoyed Masonic privileges, but has not possessed Masonic virtue." Such a man it is our duty to reform,

or to dismiss; but the world should not condemn us, if we fail in our attempt at reformation. God alone can

change the heart. Freemasonry furnishes precepts and obligations of duty which, if obeyed, must make its

members wiser, better, happier men; but it claims no power of regeneration. Condemn when our instruction is

evil, but not when our pupils are dull, and deaf to our lessons; for, in so doing, you condemn the holy religion

which you profess. Freemasonry prescribes no principles that are opposed to the sacred teachings of the Divine

Lawgiver, and sanctions no acts that are not consistent with the sternest morality and the most faithful obedi-

ence to government and the laws; and while this continues to be its character it cannot, without the most atro-

cious injustice, be made responsible for the acts of its unworthy members. Of all human societies, Freemasonry

is undoubtedly under all circumstances, the fittest to form the truly good man. But however well conceived may

be its laws, they cannot completely change the natural disposition of those who ought to observe them. In

truth, they serve as lights and guides; but as they can only direct men by restraining the impetuosity of their

passions, these last two often become dominant and the Institution is forgotten.

- Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

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JULY 2013

Staunton Lodge

No. 13 Ancient Free &

Accepted Masons

Masonic

District 19

708 D Street Staunton, Virginia 22980-0154

(540) 886-8701

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1

Staunton, Virginia 24402

Email: StauntonLodge13@gmail.com

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Happy Independence Day—Brethren