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2012 Officers
Worshipful Master Fred Marquardt (602-575-4946)
tfmarquardt@aol.com
Senior Warden Jerry Dubois, PM
(928-595-2386)
jjdubois85532@gmail.com
Junior Warden Timothy
Humphrey
Secretary
Paul Dore' Sr, KYCH (928-425-2891 )
pauldoresr@cox.net
Treasurer
Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293)
rsteichrow@yahoo.com
Senior Deacon Forrest Hammer
Junior Deacon Earl Warner
PM(928-425-7715)
jwew98@yahoo.com
Chaplain
Ralph Gerhardt, PM
Marshall
Harold Benjamin, PM
Senior Steward Jim Rasmussen
Junior Steward Howard Billingsley KYCH
Tyler
Doug Skowron, KYCH
Trustees:
Harold Benjamin, PM, 2015
Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2014
Howard Billingsley, KYCH, 2013
Earl Warner, 2012
Timothy Humphrey, 2016
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O.E.S.
#8 Luncheon
Next
Luncheon –
September
8th
Committees
Public Schools - Ed Warner
Widows - Ed Warner
Education - W. Howard Billingsley
By-Laws - MW Oscar Lyon Jr.
Membership - WB. Doug Skowron
Community Events - Art Salcido
“Search For The Charter” - Fred Marquardt
Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey
Trestleboard – Bill Greenen
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Secretary's Desk
White Mountain Lodge has agreed to hold a Search for the Charter
on January 5, 2013. If you are interested in helping out let our
Master Fred Marquardt or Secretary Paul Dore know.
Just a
reminder, Mark your Calendar! We do not hold a stated meeting in
August.
Ed has delivered
8 bicycles to the schools
Paul J Dore
Secretary
FROM THE HIGH PRIEST
Globe Chapter No. 7 RAM
 Saturday
May 12th we installed the officers of Globe Chapter No.
7
Installing
Master – James Sebastian GHP
Installing
Marshal – James Rolle PGHP
Our
officers for 2012-13 are:
HP
Paul J Dore Sr.
K
T. Fred Marquardt
S
Tim Humphrey
CofH
Jim Rasmussen
PS
Tom Thompson
RAC
Mark Nielsen
3rd
V Forrest Hammer
2nd
V Jerry DuBois
1st
V Jim Baker
Chap
Ralph Gerhardt
Sent
R. Scott Teichrow
The
following were not in attendance:
Mark
Nielsen --DDGM Meeting
Forrest
Hammer – Funeral
Jim
Baker – Previous engagement
In
the future one of our officers will give a talk on RAM
July
– Tim Humphrey will give the educational talk
Sep
– Jim Rasmussen will give the educational talk.
Oct
– Tom Thompson will give the educational talk
At
the meeting we also reminded all of our Grand Chapter Grand
Session August 11th
The
Council will meet on Thursday August 9th & The
Commandery on August 10th
Paul J Dore Sr.
High Priest
Globe Chapter No. 7
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Something to Think About
The
following information comes from the 7 volume set of Mackey's
Revised History of Freemasonry - Clegg edition; by Robert Ingham
Clegg. There are at least 2 revised editions of Mackey’s
History of Freemasonry. I think the Clegg edition gives much more
detail that the other editions. However, for the Masonic student
the original as well as the Singleton and Clegg edition
are all
quite useful.*
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*Below
are included some segments of text from pages 692 & 693 of
volume 3 of the Clegg edition. If you have access to this
set you will enjoy reading the ‘preceding chapter’
Brother Clegg mentions below.*
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*"The use of prayer
in the Scottish Lodges of the 17th century is not a supposition.
That is proved by actual records. Brother Lyon, in his invaluable
work, to which we have been almost wholly indebted for the facts
in the present and the preceding chapter, supplies us with two
forms of prayers, one 'to be said at the convening,' and the other
'to be said before dismissing.' Both are taken from the
minute-books of Mary’s Chapel Incorporation for the year
1699." *
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*"Oh Lord, we most humblie beseech
theee to be present with us in merecy, and to bless our meeting
and haill (whole) exercise which wee now have in hand. O Lord,
enlighten our understanding and direct our hearts and mynds, so
with thy good Spirit, that wee may frame all our purposes and
conclusions to the glory of thy name and the welfare of our
Brethren; and therefore O Lord, let no partiall respect, neither
of ffeed (enmity) nor favour, draw us out of the right way. But
grant that we may ever so frame all our purposes and conclusions
to the glory of thy name and the welfare of our Brethren. Grant
these things, O Lord, unto us, and what else thou sees more
necessarie for us, and that only for the love of thy dear son
Jesus Christ, our alone
Lord and Saviour; To whom with thee, O
Father, and the belessed Spirit of Grace, Wee render all praise,
honor and glory, for ever and ever. Amen." *
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*"The
Second Prayer, or that used at the dismissal of closing of the
Lodge is as follows: *
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*"Oh Lord, wee most humbly
acknowledge the goodnesse in meeting with us together at this
tyme, to confer upon a present condition of this world. O
Lord, make us also study heaven and heavenly myndednesse, that we
may get our souls for a prey, and O Lord, be with us and accompany
us the rest of this day, now and forever. Amen." *
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*"The
importance of this record of prayers at opening and closing in the
Scottish Lodges, is that it adds great force to the claim that a
similar custom existed in the English Lodges at the same period."
*
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*"Therefore we may fairly conclude that it was the
practice of the Scottish Lodges of the 17th century to open and
close their meetings with prayer, a ceremony that we have reason
to infer was also practiced by the English Lodges of the same
period."*
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*Ed’s note: *
*Prior to the
formation of the Premiere Grand Lodge in 1717 (The Grand Lodge of
England), which phrased what we now know as Anderson’s
Constitutions, and which opened up the door for admittance of men
other that of the Christian religion, the craft of operative
Masons was predominately Christian; The predominately Christian
population of the Craft could have been because of the customs of
the population in which the operative Masons lived and operated.
And it could be that for this same reason it remained as such
during the period of transition from purely operative Lodges to
accepting non-operatives into their Lodges. The earliest records
of accepting non-operatives into the Masonic Lodges of the 16th &
17th centuries come from Scotland, and the earliest is dated in
1598. *
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*Regarding the prayers above: it is thought that
the Lodges in England also opened and closed their Lodges with
prayers, but the information above is an account of the earliest
know record of such, and that record comes from Scotland too. *
*A
Masonic Student can not do any better than reading in these ‘old’
Masonic books. Many Lodge libraries, and most if not all Masonic
Libraries have copies of them on hand for reading. *
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