The study of Masonry has led man to the correct knowledge of God; the correct knowledge of God leads to the true worship of Him, and the true worship of Him places man in harmony with all that is true and good, enlarging his powers for usefulness in every vocation, station, position, or condition in life, thereby fitting him for citizenship, in whom we find a true neighbor, a generous friend, and a clear cut and well defined power of circumscribing his desires and keeping his passions in due bounds.

    Every emblem, principle and tenet of Masonry, has been baptized with truth, robed in the purest garments, freed of errors, and crowned with the most beautiful wreath of undying wisdom. This is true to him only, who, by industry, diligence and perseverance will have it so. He who is satisfied with a knowledge of esoteric Masonry alone, knows but little of the many sublime truths contained with its sacred precincts, which stands in the pathway of industry and diligence that they may not only adorn and beautify, but become "as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made by hands, eternal in the Heavens."

    Masonry is a great highway leading from wrong to right, from error to truth, from evil to good, and from Earth to Heaven. It is the champion of wisdom, strength, beauty, virtue and purity, and the eternal enemy of ignorance, weakness, ugliness, libertinism, vice and corruption.

    The Mason has God's own material with which to construct his spiritual building; material evolved from his own creative mind, washed and made pure in the water of the river of life and burnished by the exquisite touch of the seraphic host of Heaven.

    Why then should a Mason use this Heaven born material for any other than grand and glorious purposes? If he is true to the teachings of the order and true to himself, his whole being is dominated and ruled by the Grand Master of all Worlds, and wherever you find him, at all times, under all circumstances, he is a valiant soldier in the front ranks, battling for home, for family, for good society, for education, for all the noble and useful institutions, for law and order, for human rights and good government.

    We are told that the foundation of King Solomon's Temple was laid at a profound depth and consisted of stones of immense size and great durability. They were closely mortised into the rock so as to form a secure basis for the substantial erection of the sacred edifice. So it is with the true Mason: he reaches the almost immeasurable depths of his own soul and there he places the living stones of brotherly love, relief, truth, fortitude, prudence, temperance and justice, whose exact weight God alone knows, and by them his soul is joined in that of the great God of the Universe, and upon this foundation he builds for time and eternity, for God and Heaven.

    The principles of Freemasonry have survived the fall of man, the destruction of the flood and the confusion of the tongues; yea they have survived the rise and fall of empires and the decay of the public; these principles were matured at the cradle of new born nations, and have hallowed the graves of the sleeping heroes; were triumphant as the mighty flood and everlasting as the mountains; have spanned the vast oceans and planted the banner of Masonry in every region and nation under the sun.