Dillsboro
Lodge

January - February Newsletter

NO. 459 A.F.&A.M.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN LODGE

Stated Communication:
JANUARY 5, 2006 6:30PM FELLOWSHIP MEAL COVERED DISH
JANUARY 5, 2006 7:30PM STATED COMMUNICATION
JANUARY 12, 2006 7:OOPM PRACTICE FOR EVERYONE (lets start the year off
with a bang)
JANUARY 19, 2006 7:30PM STATED COMMUNICATION
FEBRUARY 2, 2006 6:30PM FELLOWSHIP MEAL
FEBRUARY 2, 2006 7:30PM STATED COMMUNICATION
FEBRUARY 9, 2006 7:00PM PRACTICE (come and teach us how to do it right)
FEBRUARY 16, 2006 7:30PM STATED COMMUNICATION
FEBRUARY 18, 2006 4:00PM END OF WINTER PICNIC AT THE LODGE (covered
dish)

Light from the East: I want to thank the brothers of our lodge for electing me as Master. I am expecting support from all the members this year and with your support, we will have a great year. You will notice we are starting the year off running and will keep up the momentum thru out the year. Keep a sharp eye on the calendar. I have planned several projects for the year, and will need everyone’s help. I will be asking several brothers to serve on the different committees and I hope they will serve with enthusiasm. I am looking forward in working with all the brothers in the ensuing year. With your support this will be one of the best years this lodge has ever had. Our first picnic will be in February. I know it may be chilly but we will hurry winter out and bring spring in with a picnic at the lodge. EVERYONE IS INVITED, ALONG WITH YOUR FAMILY AND A SPECIAL INVATION TO OUR WIDOWS AND THEIR FAMILY. This will be a covered dish picnic. Bring something special that you have been saving all winter. I know for a fact that the ladies can cook. We have had some great meals and I am looking forward to a great meal this time.
All I am asking is that every brother does what he can in supporting the lodge and we all have a great year. I am happy to inform you that the lodge has a new email address. dillsborolodge459@yahoo.com Please but this in your address book. If you have email please send the secretary your email address.
This way the lodge can keep in touch and you can keep in touch with the lodge.
It will also save a lot of money in postage. The secretary can email the trestleboard to you. It will also save time as well as money.
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From the Secretary’s Desk: Brethren it is once again time for DUES. If you have not paid your dues for 2006, you need to do so as quickly as possible. I would like to have all the dues paid by March 1, 2006. This way I can be other things that I need to do and not worry about the dues. A reminder, the lodge pays it bills from dues and the heating bill this year will be a big one. As everyone has realized heating cost have gone thru the roof. Please pay your dues ASAP. If anyone has any questions call the secretary or email him at dillsborolodge459@yahoo.com.
Our Junior Warden Brother Vaughn Reynolds is also serving as master of Carter Hill Lodge in Bethlehem Georgia. Boy will he ever have a busy year. Several of us went down to the installation and were welcomed with a great time as well as good food. Have you ever gone to a Masonic dinner and not got great food?
All of us wish Brother Vaughn a great year.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Corn, wine and oil were the wages paid our ancient brethren. They were the “Master’s Wages” of the days of King Solomon. Masons of this day receive no material wages for their labors; the work done in a lodge is paid for only in the coin of the heart. But those wages are no less real. They may sprout as does the grain, strengthen as does the wine, nourish as does the oil. How much we receive, what we do with our wages, depends entirely on our Masonic work. A brother obtains from his lodge and from his Order only what he puts into it.
Our ancient brethren were paid for physical labors.

Whether their wages were paid for work performed upon the mountains and in the quarries, or whether they received corn, wine and oil because they labored in the fields and vineyards, it is true then, and it is true now, that only “in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” To receive the equivalent of corn, wine and oil, a brother must labor. He must till the fields of his own heart or build the temple of his own “House not made with hands” He must give labor to his neighbor or carry stones for his brother’s temple.

If he stand and wait and watch and wonder, he will not be able to ascend into the Middle Chamber where our ancient brethren received their wages. If he works for the joy of working, does his part in his lodge work, takes his place among the laborers of Freemasonry, he will receive corn, wine and oil in measures pressed down and running over and know a fraternal joy as substantial in fact as it ethereal in quality; as real in his heart as it is intangible to the profound world.

For all of us, then, corn, wine and oil are symbols of sacrifice, of the
fruits of labor, of wages earned, So mote it be.