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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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