DURABLE INSPIRATION
Attribute the general feeling of despair today to the war, but bear in
mind that people who are for the moment without hope are not easily duped. They
are not like drowning people grasping at a straw. Rather does a hopeless
condition demand that which is lasting, that which is durable. Looking at the
shiny surface, touching the bright veneer, will no longer suffice. There must be
strength and wisdom, interspersed with beauty. Great business organizations are
talking more today of factual truths than "pep meetings." "Pep
Meetings" are injections that last until the meeting is over; factual
truths are durable.
What has this to do with Masonry? The ways of Masonry are slow; the
sensational is absent. Yet war proves the value of her patient ways. Masonry
came into being because society cried out for an institution that was free of
superstition, of idle creeds, of mercenary dogma. Throughout the centuries our
Institution has shown her votaries a pattern of life, a life in which men are
brothers because God is the Universal Father. Simple, yet so comprehensive, the
very future of the world depends upon its acceptance. Are these factual truths?
Study and contemplate. From your own conclusions there will come, not a
momentary inspiration, but a durable, lasting satisfaction that will reflect in
every act of your life.
So it is. Throughout the centuries Masonry has remained on guard against the
evils of a purely emotional influence and has slowly, but surely, sought the way
of Lasting Truths.
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