The Good Mason

Albert Pike writing of "The Good Mason" said

" "They are kind fathers, generous citizens, unimpeachable in their business, beautiful in their daily lives. You see Masonry in their work and in their play. It appears in all the forms of their activity, individual, domestic, social, ecclesiastical of political. True Masonry within must be morality without. It must become eminent morality, which is philanthropy. The true Mason loves not only his kindred and his country but all mankind; not only the good, but also the evil, among his brethren. He has more goodness than the channels of his daily life will hold. It runs over the banks, to water and to feed a thousant thirsty plants. Not content with the duty that lies along the track, he goes out to seek it; not only willing, he has a salient longing to do good, to spread his truth, his justice, his generosity, his Masonry over all the world. His daily life is a profession of his Masonry, published in perpetual good-will to men.