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looks at it; how he is affected by it.
You take any lodge where, as is the
case in our own little lodge, you see
the capitalist and wage worker, men of
all classes, men of every kind of social
position and wealth and see them meet
ing together as Masons in the fullest
sense of the word, with a feeling for
one another, that goes with Masonry.
When one sees lodge such as that,
one sees how a certain small fragment
Of our industrial problem is te be
solved. 1t is not possible to present the
idea that 1 would like to bring out
to have all the best of all classes repre-
sented in Masonry in every district.
but it is possible for each Of us to go
out into the world trying to apply in
his dealings with his fellows the les
sons of Masonry as they are taught in
lodge and as they are applied in the
brotherhood. And so we can prac-
tically learn from Washington how to
deal with the problems of to-day.
1t was not Washington's genius alone
that made him a great man Of all time
You, worshipful grand master, here to-
day spoke of the great colossal world
figures; Of Alexander, of the career Of
Hannibal, the mightiest warrior of the
ages; of Caesar and of Napoleon, each
of whom combined in a wonderful de-
gree the capacities of emperor. ruler
and law giver. Great men, but twice
fortunate the nations that number no
one OF them among its men. Great
men who loom ever larger through the
ages, but we'll it is for US that we see
their figures through the mists across
the seas. Great men, but a greater far
was Washington: a greater far was
that man who should have been a Ma
son-Abraham Lincoln. Great men,
| but less great than our heroes because
our heroes really did have it in them to
prefer their fellowmen to themselves, to
prefer the state to their ambition, to
their own fancies or real well being,
because our heroes were heroes for us
primarily and not for themselves.
We are not here to have a chance.
any Of us, to do any work that remote
| ly approaches the work done by Them
But each of US has his work, and ac-
cordingly as in the aggregate all of US
do or do not do our tasks in the spirit
in which Washington and Lincoln did
theirs, will we be judged. Accordingly
as this is done or not done will this ma
ton succeed or fall in the century
which has opened before us.
Washington and Llncoln-Washing-
| ton, who when he came into a lodge Of
Free and Accepted Masons came in on
J an exact equality with any humble
farmer or mechanic. or any one else
who was in that lodge; Washington,
| the Virginia country gentleman, the
gentleman of good standing-a man
brought up for work. OF course, no
man can be a good citizen or do good
for our government if he has not been
brought up for work but he is brought
up to work under broader, easier and
softer conditions than the majority of
his fellows Washington on one side
and Lincoln on the other Lincoln. the
uncouth farmers boy, was reared in
the grinding toll and poverty of small
cabin on the frontier--the man who
| worked with his hands; the man who
| never knew what it was to walk in the
soft places of the earth. and who made
his way up until in our Pantheon his