The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-29
Why Can't a Woman be a Mason.

Why Can't a Woman be a Mason.
A lady friend of ours and wife of q
brother i'll good standing has frequently
~importuned us to disclose the reason
"Why a woman couldn't be made a Mas,
on" We have thus far failed to comply
with the request, bat happily find a so.
luton to the proposition in the following
from an address delivered by Major
Sherman at Austin. Nevada:
Women sometime complain that they
are not permitted to join our lodge and
work with the craft in their labors, and
learn all there is to be learned i'll tbs
situation. We will explain the reason.
We learn that before the Al.
mighty had finished his work he
was in some doubt about creating
Eve. The creation Of every living
creeping thing had been accom-.
plished, and the Almighty had made
Adam (who was the first Mason), ano
created him for the finest lodge in the
world, and called it Paradise No. /
He then caused all the beasts of the
field and the fowls Of the air to pass be.
ore Adam for him to know them, which
was q piece Of work he had to do alone
so that no confusion might therefore
arise when Eve was created. whom he
knew would make trouble. if she was
allowed to participate in it, if he cre-
ated her before hand. Adam, being
very much fatigued with the labors OF
his first task, fell asleep, and when he
awoke he found Eve in the lodge with
him. Adam being Senior Warden,
placed Eve as the pillar of beauty, in
the south, and they received their in
structions from the Grand Master in
the east, which when finished, she. inn
mediately called the Craft, from labor
to refreshment. Instead of attending
to the duties of the Office as she ought,
she left her station, violated the obi.
cations, let In an expelled Mason, who
had no business there, and went around
with him, leaving Adam to look after
the jewels. This fellow had been ex-
PEELED from the Lodge, with several
others, some time before. But hearing
the footsteps of the Grand Master, he
suddenly took his leave, telling Eve to
go making aprons, as she and Adam
were not in proper regalia. She went
and told Adam, and when the Grand
Master returned to the Lodge, he found
his gavel had been stolen. He called
for the Senior and Junior Wardens,
who had neglected to guard the door,
and found them absent. After search
ing for some time he came to where
they were hid, and demanded Of Adam
what he was doing there instead Of
occupying his official station. Adam
replied that he was waiting for Eve to
call the Craft from refreshment to
labor again; and that the Craft was not
properly clothed, which they were
making provisions for. Turning to
Eve, he asked her what she had to offer
in excuse for her unofficial and unma-
| sonic conduct. She replied that q fell
low passing himself off as a grand lee
turer, had been giving her instructions,
and thought it was no harm. The
Grand Master then asked her what had
become OF his gavel. She said she
didn't know unless the fellow had
taken it away. Finding that Eve was
no longer trustworthy, and that she
had caused Adam TO neglect his duty,
and he'd let in one whom he had ex-
PEELED, the Grand Master closed the
lodge, and turning them out, set q fifth
1 full Tyler 10 ~atch the door with q
flaming sword. Adam, repenting Of
his folly, went to work like q man and
a good Mason, in order to get reinstat-
ed again. Not so with Evea-she got
angry about 1T, and commenced rais-
ing Cain.
adam, on account of Ms reforma-
ton, was permitted to establish Lodges
and work in the degrees, and while Eve
was allowed to join him in acts Of char
ity outside. she was rsser again TO be
admitted to assist in the regular Lodge
work Of the craft. Hence the reason
why o woman cannot become an inside
Mason.r-gssnomowoc Times.