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HUMANE LODGE NO. 21 Online at: http://www.HumaneLodge21.org.

October 2015 FROM THE EAST Brethren,A quick overview of District 5 Lodge of Instruction. The Grand Lodge Fund Raising Drive is getting underway and we will all be asked to contribute, please help out, it will be greatly appreciated. Discussion about the up-coming Open House, lodge by-laws and need for dispensation provided valuable information.

As we practice our ritual and recite the histories and charges think about it’s meaning to you. We may have very different viewpoints. When we talk about our view with each other we are gaining insight and knowledge thru that interaction. Remember there is meaning in all we do.

Finally, as Grand Lodge has been increasingly busy with day to day operations it is necessary to hire some help. It is expected that dues will increase by $2 per capita to support this new position.

On a personal note thank you for presenting me with my Past Master’s Apron. I was quite surprised and it is very much appreciated. I will wear it with pride.

Fraternally,

Wor. Dave R. Nason, Worshipful MasterP.O. Box 851, Milton, NH 03851

Tel. 603-652-9765Attest: Jeffrey C. Grant, Secretary

PO Box 1716, Rochester, NH 03867-1716Tel. (603) 948-2600 • Email:secretary@humanelodge21.org

+* Jeremiah H. Woodman 1810-11 * Levi Jones 1812-13 * William Barker 1814 * Pierce P. Furber 1815-16 * Jeremiah H. Woodman 1817 * Levi Jones 1818 * Joseph Cross 1819-20 * William Jones 1821 * Levi Jones 1822 +* Charles Dennett 1823-27 * Stephen M. Mathers 1828 * Charles Dennett 1829-37 * Charles Dennett 1850 * Josiah B. Edgerly 1851-53 * James H. Edgerly 1854-58 +* Alexander M. Winn, PGM 1859 * George Corson 1860 * David Hayes 1861-62 +* Franklin McDuffee 1863-64 +* James H. Edgerly 1865 * George Corson 1866 * John S. Parsons 1867-70 * Noah Tebbets 1871 * John S. Parsons 1872-73 * Russell B. Wentworth 1874-76 * Thomas H. Edgerly 1877 * Russell B. Wentworth 1878-80 * James E. Edgerly 1881 * John I. Copp 1882-83 * Ralph B. Palmer 1884 * Charles B. Ricker 1885 * Osman B. Warren 1886-88 +* John S. Daniels 1889-91 * Howard E. Grant 1892-94 * George A. McDuffee 1895-97 * Frederick E. Small 1898-99 +* Charles L. Wentworth, 33º 1900-01 * George P. Furbush 1902-03 * Louis M. Richardson 1904-05 * John S. Kimball 1906-07 * Fred W. Crocker 1908-09 +* J. Stacy Tripp 1910-11 +* Eugene C. Howard 1912-14 * Charles W. Varney 1915 * Lorenzo W. Clifford 1916-17 * Albion G. Weeks 1918-19 * William E. Tripp 1920-21 +* Clarence L. Woodman 1922-23 * Joel L. McCrillis 1924-25 * Horace J. Davis 1926 * William H. Otis 1927-28 * Carleton E. Meader 1929 * James C. Pringle 1930-31 * Raymond V. Jones, Sr. 1932-33 * Francis D. Swan 1934-35 * Joshua Studley 1936-37 * Donald G. McCallister 1938-39 +* Robert P. Wilson 1940-41 * Neal F. Teague 1942-43 * Downing Osborne 1944-45 +* Robert P. Wilson 1946 * Alwyn B. Marble 1947-48 * George S. Snyder 1949-50 * Bruce R. DeMerritt, Sr. 1951-52 * James A. Baxter 1953-54 +* Walter D. Abbott 1955-56 *** James Flood 1956 * John L. Phillips 1957-58 + William B. Holmberg 1959-60 * James H. Edgerly, Jr. 1961-62 *** Leroy S. Redlon 1961 * Philip W. Hussey 1963 +* Frederick H. Heuss 1964-65 * Austin F. Wilson 1966-67 * Norman H. Clough 1968-69

+*Arnold M. Ashley,PGM,33º 1970-71 * Edward J. Dotson 1972-73 * Robert E. Gray 1974-75 Donald S. Hawkins, Jr. 1976-77 * Charles H. Weed 1978-79 + Ronald J. Brown, 33º 1980-81 Leslie E. Locke 1982-83 * Robert O. White 1984-85 William F. Clark 1986-87 + Edward J. Kelvington 1988-89 H. Stephen Wood 1990-91 *Stanley F. Focht 1992-93 William A. Taylor 1994-95 *George A. White 1996-97 Gary A. Pike 1998-99 George L. Hubbard, Jr. 2000-01 Jeffrey L. Brown 2002-03 + Edward J. Kelvington 2004-05 *George A. White 2006 Arthur A. Trahan 2007 ** Frederick M. Steadman 2007Jeffrey L. Brown 2008-09*Stanley F. Focht 2010 William A. Taylor 2011David P. Kondrup 2012-13 Dave R. Nason 2014

* Deceased ** Honorary + Past District Deputy Grand Master

Past Masters of Humane Lodge No. 21 F. & A. M.

Clarence L. Woodman Chapter Order of DeMolay meets the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7:30 PM, except during July and August.

Rochester Assembly #11 of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 6:30 PM, except during July and August.

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UPCOMING EVENTSA Stated Communication of Humane Lodge will be holden on Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:30 PM - Any business to come before a lodge of Master Masons. There will be a presentation by the members of York Rite regarding membership in the Order. Meal at 6:30 PM.

Rehearsals: MM Degree rehearsal on Monday, Oct. 12 at 6 pm.

A Special Communication of Humane Lodge will be holden on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM - The work of the eveing will be the Master Mason Degree. The DDGL will be in attendance to examine Humane Lodge on our proficiency on this degree. Please support our newly made Mason on this special occasion. Meal at 6:30 PM.

Saturday, October 17, 2015 - Statewide Masonic Open House from 9 AM to 3 PM. I would like to get volunteers to clean up the office area in the lodge on this day as well.

Saturday, October 31, 2015 - Ladies at the Table. The event starts at 6pm. Cost is $15 per person in costume, $20 without. I would encourage those in attendance to be in costume. I think it would be a lot of fun. I am trying to make it a little different to generate interest. Make your reservations with Secretary. Please mark your calendar for this special event.

SAVE THE DATE:10.31.15

HUMANE LODGE PRESENTS

A HALLOWEEN LADIES AT THE TABLE

6 O’CLOCK PM $15 PER PERSON

$20 per person without costume

Costumes are encouraged.

Make your reservations with the Secretary

The Five Pointsfrom the Short Talk Bulletins by the Masonic Service Association

The Five Points of Fellowship, as every Master Masons knows, contain the essence of the doctrine of brotherhood. But many a new brother asks, pertinent-ly, “why are they called “Points?”

In the Old Constitutions, as explained in the Hallowell or Regius manuscript, are fifteen regulations, called “points.” The old verse runs:

“Fifteen artyculus there they soughton And fifteen poyntys there they wrogton.”

Translated into easy English, this reads:

“Fifteen articles there they sought And fifteen points there they wrought.”

Phillips “New World of Words,” published in 1706, defines “point” as “a head, or chief matter.” Moreover, an operative Masons “points” the seams of as wall by filling in the chinks left in laying bricks or stone, thus completing the structure.

In older days of the Speculative Art there were “twelve original points” as we learn from the old English lectures, done away with by the United Grand Lodge of England at the time of the reconciliation of 1813. They were introduced by the following passage:

“There are in Freemasonry twelve original points, which form the basis of the system and comprehend the whole ceremony of initiation. Without the existence of these points, no man ever was, or can be, legally and essentially received into the Order. Every person who is made a Mason must go through these twelve forms and ceremonies, not only in the first degree, but in every subsequent one.”

The twelve points were: Opening, Preparation, Report, Entrance, Prayer, Circumambulation , Advancing. Obligation, Investure, Northeast Corner and Closing; and each was symbolized by one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel for inge-nious reasons not necessary to set forth here.

The twelve original points were never introduced into the United States, and are now no longer used in England, although the ceremonies which they typify, of course, are integral parts of all Masonic rituals.

Our Five Points of Fellowship are not allied to these, except as they are reflect-ed in the word “points.” We also find this relationship in the Perfect Points of our Entrance, once called Principal Points. Dr. Oliver, famous, learned and not always accurate Masonic student and writer (1782-1867) sums up the Five Points in his “Landmarks,” as follows:

“Assisting a brother in his distress, supporting him in his virtuous undertakings, praying for his welfare, keeping inviolate his secrets and vindicating his reputa-tion as well in his absence as in his presence.”

by which it will be seen that in Oliver’s day the Five Points were not exactly as they are with us now.

Strange though it seems, a change was made in the symbolism of the Five Points as recently as 1842, at the Baltimore Masonic Convention. Prior to that time, according to Cole, the Five Points were symbolized by hand, foot, knee, breast and back. After 1842, the hand was omitted, and the mouth and ear tacked on as the fifth. Mackey believed that:

“The omission of the first and the insertion of the last are innovations and the enumeration given by Cole is the old and genuine one which was originally taught in England by Preston and in his country by Webb.”

Some curiosities of ritual changes, though interesting, are more for the anti-quarian than the average lodge member. Most of us are more concerned with a practical explanation of the Five Points as they have been taught for nearly a hundred years.

For they have a practical explanation, which goes much more deeply into frater-nal and brotherly relations than the ritual indicates.

A man goes on foot a short distance by preference; for a longer journey he boards a street car, rides in an automobile, engages passage on a railroad or courses through the air in a plane. Service to our brethren on foot does not imply any special virtue in that means of transportation. The word expresses the willingness of him who would serve our own pleasure and refuse to travel merely because the means is not to our liking would hardly be Masonic.

We assist our brethren when we can; also we serve them.

The two terms are not interchangeable; we can not assist a brother with out serving, but we may serve him without assisting him. For a wholly nega-tive action may be a service; suppose we have a just claim against him and, because of our Fraternal relations, we postpone pressing it. That is true ser-vice, but not active assistance, such as we might give if we gave or loaned him money to satisfy some other’s claim.

How far should we go “on foot” to render service?

Nothing is said in the ritual, but the cabletow is otherwise used as a measure of length. That same Baltimore Masonic Convention defined a cabletow’s length as “the scope of a brothers reasonable ability.” Across town may be too far for one, and across a continent not too far for another. In better words, our own concep-tion of brotherhood must say how far we travel to help our brother.

To Be Continued...