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Brethren, Tis the Season and Christmas and New Year’s is upon us, December has indeed been a busy month and January is shaping up to be more of the same.

Let us start by welcoming our newest youngest Entered Apprentice Mason; Brother Tim Hyclak who was initiated on the December Special meeting on 12/19/2019. I had the privilege of conferring, WB Dave Rice did fantastic job as the Senior Deacon, and I would like to thank VWB Gordon Johnson and Bro Alex Bautista for stepping in as Sr. & Jr. Stewards respectively.

In addition, Decembers Special meeting was opened and closed in due form by WB Mike Bishop, Past Master of WA#4 2009/2010.

January Stated is right around the corner, hopefully this meeting will establish the budget and the report from the Finance and Audit Committees on the Audit that is scheduled to take place on 12/30/2019, we will also look forward to hearing this years scheduled meeting for the remaining standing committees so it is important for you all to turn out.

Also on that date Brethren there is a scheduled meeting for organizing Burn’s night, which is scheduled for January 25th, at the Scottish Rite Building down in Portland. This

Washington Lodge 4

Founded in 1857 Meeting on the Level Acting by the Plumb Parting on the Square

YEAR 2019/2020ELECTED OFFICERS

Leigh Cahill Worshipful Master [email protected]

Jim � ompsonSenior Warden [email protected]

Justin MattalianoJunior Warden [email protected]

Mark Sanders Treasurer [email protected]

David RiceSecretary [email protected]

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January 2020 Greetings from the East

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Greetings and a happy new year, I’m sure you all have been asked the question at some time in your life. ”What is Masonry?” So to help you answer that question I offer you these three paragraphs. But when all is said and done, at the end of the day, you will still have to come to come up with your own defi nition.

Many writers and thinkers have tried to defi ne Freemasonry but it really defeats defi nition. It is too complex, too profound in conception, to be easily expressed in words. Perhaps the simplest and best defi nition of all is the phrase “the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God.” Our Masonic forefathers had an understanding of human needs and human aspirations. They may never have dreamed of the mindless computer which governs our lives, or the fi ssion of matter which threatens lives, but they understood human nature and what motivates the spirit of man. Thus from a simple process of using stone and mortar for building they progressed to the most important of life’s functions, the building character. (Louis L. Williams).

What is called the Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in nature of a system of philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship. Moderation and toleration are so respected that differences of opinion among its members, even about policies and purposes, are permitted quite as much as those about extraneous matters. The society does not proselyte but, in accordance with time-honored custom, insists that each applicant come of his own free will and accord. It has no program

Message from the Senior Warden.

meeting is taking place at WB Dave Torres’ house, and if you would like to attend please let me or our secretary know and we will forward you WB Dave Torres address. This is a special event for us at WA#4 and it is only made possible by those that volunteer, so please volunteer.

Finally Brethren, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - see you all in 2020

Leigh Cahill,

WM WA4

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or propaganda of political, religious, social reform, and it is singularly self-contained, especially refraining from political and religious embroilment, and even declining association with other societies and movements, no matter how benevolent their immediate objectives may appear.

Freemasonry, in its broadest and most comprehensive sense, is a system of morality and social ethics, a primitive religion, and a philosophy of life, all of simple and fundamental character, incorporating a broad humanitarianism, and, though treating life as a practical experience, subordinates the material to the spiritual; it is a religion without a creed, being of no sect but finding truth in all; it is moral but not pharisaic; it demands sanity rather than sanctity; it is tolerant but not supine; it seeks truth but does not define truth; it urges its votaries to think but does not tell them what to think; it despises ignorance but does not proscribe the ignorant; it fosters education but proposes no curriculum; it espouses political liberty and the dignity of man but has no platform or propaganda; it believes in the nobility and usefulness of life; it is modest and not militant; it is moderate, universal, and so liberal as to permit each individual to form and express his own opinion, even as to what Freemasonry is or ought to be, and invites him to improve it if he can. (H.W. Coil)

Hope to see you all in Lodge soon.

Fraternally,

Jim Thompson SW.

One evening after a brother had been a guest at an installation, he had partaken of too much wine, and his host was very worried, as he did not want him to drive home in his present state which was some distance away, so insisted that he stay the night at his house, and travel home the next morning, and after much persuasion this is what he did.

When he got home the next morning, his wife was furious with him because he had forgot-ten to phone, and she did not believe his story about staying with a brother because of the state he was in, but wondered if he had been with another women, however she pretended to believe him, by asking how the ceremony had gone, and asked how many other brethren had been there and all the regular questions that wives do ask, and he told her that it had been an excellent Lodge meeting and that 65 brethren had turn up etc. However at the next Lodge meeting when the secretary rose to read out correspondence, he read a letter from the wife asking if the brother where her husband had stayed the night after the last lodge meeting would please write to her and confirm his story that he had stayed the night at his house because he was unfit to drive home.

The next day in the post she received 64 letters.

Greetings From The SouthHAPPY NEW YEARS!I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Wow what an amazing time to be a FreeMason; with all the growth round us and all the challenges; and with all the dividing factors out there that we as humans seem to endlessly have to endure in one way or another. It is truly amazing to have a solid ancient structure of morals and guiding principles that we can all rest upon in times of need as well as in times of growth. FreeMasonry reminds me of an unwavering pillar of strength and light, a lighthouse built amongst the rocks, along rough waters, to help us guide our swaying hearts and minds in the face of life’s storms; that light in the mitst of the dark cloudy fog of all the lefts and rights.Seems to me, meeting on a level field is what keeps us humble, makes us strong, blessed, and ready to do the work that we as masons and as a lodge need to do. We have a great opportunity before us that will leave a very big impression for a very long time. We need a building and it’s time. What a blessing it will be to look back years from now and remember the lessons and trials and witness the growth that our lodge has seen in the last couple years and in the years to come. To witness the growth and share in the blessings that we were there to be apart of.Speaking of growth, I would like to take a second to congratulate all of our new brothers that have found their way into our glorious fraternity in search of that great light of brotherly love, friendship, deeper understanding, and that of living a brighter life. By doing the work, using the tools, and remembering what’s important; and applying this to our day to day lives, we grow as individuals and as a brotherhood. Welcome new brothers, I hope that your experience finds you never in lack of that which you seek. A good brother told me when I first joined “In masonry, you get out what you put in”. Kinda reminds me of that old saying “Seek and ye shall find”.I would also like to congratulate our brother Ron Fryer on receiving the Mason Of The Year award, And brother Will Lippl on receiving the Hiram award. Congrats brothers, you deserve it. I must say looking forward to 2020 brings me great joy. I am extremely honored to serve as Junior Warden. We have a great dinner menu planned out for this year and I hope everyone enjoys. Our January stated communication dinner will be Lasagna night, with Caesar Salad and garlic bread. Our special will be Chili and cornbread night; we should all be well fed this year. We also have Burns Night right around the corner, which is sure to be an amazing night as always! Be ready for that.Brethren, we have a lot to look forward to this year, a lot of fun to have and a lot of work to do as a Lodge. I look forward to both!Fraternally,Justin MattalianoJunior Warden

Message from the Junior Warden.

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No matter how it’s written or said:

This is what we are!

From the Secretary’s desk

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liberum Cicero

Gratis frimurer

Свободный Мейсон

Clachair an-asgaidh

Gratis murare

Вільний Мейсон

Saer Maen Am Ddim

Brethren of Washington Lodge No. 4,

As I’m looking at the District Dashboard on the Member Portal, I see that of Washington Lodge No. 4’s 108 Members:• 33% are registered Member Portal users• 54% have email addresses recorded• 41% have mobile phone numbers recorded• 35% have home phone numbers recorded• 94% have verifi ed mailing addressesI’d like to encourage Members to register on the Member Portal at https://freemason-wa.org/

Once registered, you will be able to:• Confi rm or update:o Personal informationo Contact informationo Military serviceo Spouse information• Add a photo• View your Masonic history in the jurisdiction• View your Awards• View Lodge Offi ces held• View Grand Lodge Offi ces held• View information for Lodges of which you are a member:o Transaction historyo Meeting minutes (if any posted)o Lodge informationo Lodge Offi cerso District Offi cerso By-Laws (if posted)• Set notifi cation preferences (by Lodge)• Set Communication Options (Lodge/Grand Lodge)But wait, THERE’S MORE! The portal gives you access to a large number of resources which you can view online or download. A sample of

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resources includes:• Master Masono 6 Step Program-Revised 5.3.2018o Alternative Prayerso Grand Lodge Authorized Table Lodgeo Information regarding 2019-2020 Ritual Competitiono Lodge Officers Handbooko Masonic Funerals & Memorialso Petition for the Degreeso Request for Masonic Reliefo Secretary Training-Powerpointo Social Media Guidelineso Washington Masonic Codeo Treasurer Training-PowerpointThere is even MORE on the Member Portal, but I’ll leave it to you to register, logon, and explore.

Sincerely & fraternally,

Gordon S Johnson, Deputy of the Grand Master – District 19

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Old Tiler TalksCarl H. Claudy - 1925

Title: BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE

“They are forming a study club in there!” announced the New Brother, disgustedly, to the Old Tiler. “Get all I want of study in school. Can’t see why men in lodge want to make a job out of Masonry!” “Maybe they want to learn something about it,” suggested the Old Tiler. “Some people do like to know something about the religion they practice, the organization they belong to, the truths they embrace.” “Is that a dirty dig?” demanded the New Brother. “It isn’t deserved. I am not one of those careless Masons who wear the pin and pay dues and end their activity. I attend regularly. I do what I am called upon to do. I learned the work and learned it well. I even learned all the third degree, although it wasn’t demanded of me. But to get together evenings in a study club and go all over it again and learn it some more- not for mine!”

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“Well, no one is going to hog-tie you and throw you into a study club,” answered the Old Tiler. “It’s not only a free country, but a free lodge.” “I am properly thankful for it,” answered the New Brother. “But I can’t understand the complex these fellows have.” “Suppose you change the subject and give me a defi nition of the philosophy of Masonry,” suggested the Old Tiler. “Why, the philosophy of Masonry is...it’s er...why, I suppose it’s...I don’t know what it is.” “Well, tell me then, what the religion of Freemasonry is?” “That’s easy,” laughed the New Brother. “Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man.” “Brotherhood of man cannot be a religion,” answered the Old Tiler, “because a religion is a system of belief and worship of Deity. And the Fatherhood of God is taught in a dozen different religions, including the Christian religion, the Jewish, the Mohammedan and most of the pagan religions. You’ll have to dig deeper than that for the religion of Freemasonry.

“As that sticks you, you might explain to me the real origin of the letter ‘G’ in Freemasonry; I don’t mean the ritualistic reference to it, but its connection with the symbols of the fi rst and second degrees.” “I didn’t know it had any other origin than what we give it in the Fellowcraft degree,” answered the New Brother. “Seems to me there are several things you don’t know about this craft work of which you are so self suffi ciently proud to have learned,” scoffed the Old Tiler. “Can you give a history of Freemasonry? Do you know anything about the fi rst Grand Lodge?” “You mean the one in Jerusalem?” “No, I mean in London!” was the sharp answer. “Can you tell me anything about Ars Quatuor Coronatum? Do you know the story of Price and Coxe and Freemasonry in the United States? Who Morgan was? What Freemasonry had to do with Mormonism? What other patriots besides Washington, Warren, Lafayette and Paul Revere went to a Masonic lodge for help in the revolutionary war? “Do you know anything of the Egyptian and Syriac origins of any of our ceremonies and symbols? Do you understand the connection of the myth of Isis and Osiris with our lion’s paw and Lion of the Tribe of Judah? Do you know why clandestinism is mentioned in our ritual or anything about Cerneauism and other spurious Masonry? “I know you do not! And therefore, it seems to me that you are among the many to whom attendance in a study club would be of the greatest value.

“Freemasonry is much more than a system of lodges. It is a system of living. It has many secrets to give you...you have learned only the exoteric secrets;

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the secrets which all initiates are taught. You have nothing more from your Freemasonry than any of the rest. Yet the simple and few secrets given you in your degrees are keys with which to unlock doors behind which lie other secrets of untold value. They cannot be told to you. You wouldn’t know how to understand them if you had them told to you. The only way a Mason can learn these, the inner, esoteric secrets of Freemasonry, is to use the keys we give him and unlock the doors and enter the holy of holies himself. “A man can do this alone. Many men have. A man may study medicine or engineering or stenography or house building or anything else alone, if he has the wit and the determination so to do. But it’s easier to study such things in the company of others and with a teacher. Teaching is an art and so is study. Not all of us know these arts. Hence, we have schools and colleges to help those who want to learn but don’t know how.”

“A study club is a Masonic school. It makes Masonic study easier. Unfortunately, there are many to whom the word ‘study’ is anathema; it is connected in their minds with tiresome days in school, when some teacher taught an uninteresting subject uninterestingly. If I should form a club, I’d call it the Beautiful Adventure Club. I’d try to make its members feel that instead of hard, laborious hours studying something, they were setting out on a beautiful adventure to fi nd the end of the Masonic rainbow, to look for the pot of hidden gold, to learn the secrets which may not be told, to get the knowledge that each man must fi nd for himself. That’s what the right kind of a study club is; a means of having an adventure which the casual-minded man can never have. But, of course, it’s only for the Masons who like adventure and who want to see behind the locked door to which they hold the keys- where are you going?” “You know perfectly well where I’m going!” retorted the New Brother scornfully. “I am going inside to join that club before they close the list of members! If there are any adventures to have in Freemasonry I want them, and if there are any locked doors I want to open them!”

The Old Tiler smiled. He had been an Old Tiler for a long, long time.

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*1857 - Lewis Van Vleet *1858 - Lewis Van Vleet *1859 - Jas. A. Grahame *1860 - Jas. A. Grahame *1861 - Lewis Van Vleet *1862 - Louis Sohns *1863 - Levi Farnsworth *1864 - Wm. H. Troup *1865 - Wm. H. Troup *1866 - Wm. H. Troup *1867 - Wm. H. Troup *1868 - Wm. H. Troup *1869 - Jos. M. Fletcher *1870 - Louis Sohns *1871 - James Davidson *1872 - John Eddings *1873 - Geo. W. Durgan *1874 - Louis Sohns *1875 - Louis Sohns *1876 - Jos. M. Fletcher *1877 - Jos. M. Fletcher *1878 - Geo. W. Durgan *1879 - Albert S. Nicholson *1880 - John G. Blake *1881 - Horace N. Kress *1882 - Horace N. Kress *1883 - John G. Blake *1884 - Louis Sohns *1885 - Louis Sohns *1886 - Louis Sohns *1887 - Lowell M. Hidden *1888 - Louis R. Sohns *1889 - Louis R. Sohns *1890 - Henry Christ *1891 - Charles A. Johnson *1892 - Louis R. Sohns *1893 - Wm. H. Eddings *1894 - Louis R. Sohns *1895 - Edward F. Hixon *1896 - Edward F. Hixon *1897 - Jas. M. Pritchard *1898 - Dexter C. Grunow *1899 - Jos. A. C. Brant *1900 - Edward F. Hixon *1901 - Dan Crowley *1902 - Jos. R. Harvey *1903 - Wm. H. H. King *1904 - Wm. H. Martin *1905 - E. M. Green *1906 - John Harvey *1907 - M. R. Sparks *1908 - Herman J. Erdman*1909 - William E. Yates*1910 - Lewis G. Conant*1911 - Rudolph G. Ebert *1912 - James Scott *1913 - Dennis Nichols

*1914 - Hugh McKinley *1915 - Samuel J. Miller *1916 - Francis M. Young *1917 - Wm. J. Kinney *1918 - Bert Yates *1919 - W. B. Richardson *1920 - M. W. O’Dell *1921 - Frank Steele *1922 - Claude E. Baty *1923 - Chas. H. Thurman *1924 - Horace H. Daniels *1925 - Forest H. Gay *1926 - Fred W. Sinclair *1927 - W. E. Pearson *1928 - Jesse L. Dodge *1929 - Claude C. Snider. *1930 - Cecil C. Cady *1931 - Ralph E. Carter *1932 - Olaf N. Lorass *1933 - Jay A. Sly *1934 - Erwin O. Rieger *1935 - Clark W. Moody *1936 - Elmer K. Bakke *1937 - Irwin L. Hopfe *1938 - James C. Callahan *1939 - Raymond T. Forrest *1940 - Howard D. Phillips *1941 - Ben H. Kreis *1942 - J. Guthrie Langsdorf *1943 - William J. Yunker *1944 - Ira G. Holcomb *1945 - Horace Hatch *1946 - Perry L. Hartsock *1947 - Roy C. Wilson *1948 - Clifford W. Koppe *1949 - Albert N. Stanley *1950 - Phillip LeRoy Weeks *1951 - W. E. Lawton *1952 - James A. Daniels *1953 - J. Ralph Morley *1954 - Clarence W. Olson *1955 - Kenneth F. Cone * l956 - J. D. Power *1957 - Leslie Sorensen *1958 - Hugh H. Bolton *1959 - Roland F. McKennett *1960 - Robert J. Moss *1961 - Milton V. Poe *1962 - James R. Gregg *1963 - Richard A. Flett*1964 - Thomas Lee Wilson*1965 - Eugene F. Hartley *1966 - Franklin H. McClung *1966 - Harold S. Ball (Hon.) *1967 - Earl E. (Bud) Sewell, Jr. *1968 - Robert T. Ludahl *1969 - H. A. Benedict

*1970 - Donald L. Wallingford *1971 - Robert L. Zweifel *1972 - S. Gene Grover *1973 - David W. Williamson *1974 - J. R. (Dick) Brown *1975 - Thomas B. Chapman *1976 - AIf Gregerson *1977 - Abraham N. Cutter *1978 - Albert D. Shaw *1979 - Robert L. Zweifel *1980 - Thomas W. Lloyd *1981 - David W. Williamson *1982 - John R. Feliz *1983 - Donald B. Gilliland *1984 - Gayle F. Cupp *1985 - Thomas B. Chapman *1986 - Thomas R. Fletcher *1987 - Richard J. Reed *1988 - Kenneth L. Cox *1989 - Gerald D. Preuss*1989 - Dale V. Simpson (Hon.) *1990 - Thomas A. Curry *1991 - Murray Falk *1992 - Willard M. Dewar *1993 - George W. Wilson *1994 - David W. Williamson *1995 - Kirk E. Williams *1996 - Michael L. Sanders *1997 - Thomas J. Macready. *1997 - Donald P. Graham (Hon.) *1998 - Marvin E. Christian *1999 - George A. Titus *2000 - James R. Thompson *2001 - James R. Thompson *2002 - Thomas J. Macready. *2003 - Kenneth D. McCoy *2004 - Terry K. Gaya *2005 - Roxy W. Spray *2006 - Thom B. Taylor *2007 - Mark D. Sanders *2008 - Joseph P. Conroy *2009 - Don Houston *2010 - Michael J. Bishop *2011 - H.J. (Hank) Shaffer *2012 - David C. Coffing. *2013 - Frederick T. Davis *2014 - Leigh F. Cahill *2015 - Gordon S. Johnson *2015 - Tudor F. Davis (Hon.) *2016 - David A. Rice *2017 - Thomas W. Clark*2018 - Dean Roettger 2019 - Chris Carter 2020 - Leigh F. Cahill

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