The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-04
FOR MASONIC HOME
INSTITUTION FOR ALABAMA
 WARMLY URGED.
Grand onicers of Other states Declare That Maintenance of Home In
 This Jurisdiction is .

The other Masonic grand jurisdic- tions throughout the United States con- tinue to pour their letters of encour- agement into Alabama on the Masonic Home question. It can easily be seen by the follow ing communications that Masonic Homes in other States are great suc- cesses:
 The President of virginia's Masonic Home writes as follows:
 Our Home is now in the seventeenth year Of its existence. during which period, we have admitted within it's hospitable portals, 130 children of our deceased brethren. We have now in our charge, fifty children-twenty- five boys and twenty-f1 five girls. ranging from six to seventeen years. Eighty have been discharged at the age limit (eighteen. years). and with but few exceptions, have found profitable and congenial employment. and are living good Christian lives.
 There Is no grander work that can enlist the sympathies of the Masons of your State, than the care and main tenance of the orphans of their de- ceased brethren, The establishment of home, Silf give them an object to work for-an incentive for effort--a consummation of that charity, which is the vaunted object of the order. Could the Masons of Alabama visit our Home and see the smiling and happy faces of our children. 1t would cause them to realize the wise beneflcence of its kind hearted founder. .. Our Home has not only been the means of increasing membership in the order, in our State, respect and admiration for the organization, but has resulted in inspiring zeal and en- thusasm In the lodges. as to the we'll being of the children, committed to our care. l say God speed. to your eff forts, and may they be crowned With success. So mote it be!
 Yours fraternally,
 "J. S. Moon,
 President" The Grand Secretary of Missouri says:
 There was decided opposition in our Grand Lodge to having a Masonic Home. at the time it was first pro- posed. A
 T believe that now, ninety-fve per cent of the Mssons of Missouri. are warm friends of the Home.
 Every Grand Master, Grand High Priest and Grand Commander has for years endorsed 1t strongly and it is the pride of Missouri Masons.
 John R. Parson,
 Grand Secretary" The Grand Master of North Carolina writes the following about their Home {: We have a most successful Or phan Asylum at Oxford, N. c. have requested that you be furnished all the literature they have. We have no Home for indigent Masons, but the Grand Lodge has decided to erect one and we are now engaged with the plan We are now erecting a great Masonic Temple in our State Capital and part of the income Is to be devoted to the support of this Home.
 T am cordially committed to our enterprise. The Orphan Asylum is the pride of our order and of the State. No man doubts its power for good and no man questions its great work
 Francis D. Winston,
 Grand Master" The Grand Master of Mississippi writes:
 Tt occurs to me that the erection of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home is one of the imperative duties that devolve upon the brethren of any Grand Jurisdiction. I believe it Is a question of only a very short time when every Grand Jurisdiction in our Union will have such Home for those who need 1t.
 We claim to be charitable order and l know of no more practical man. Hesitation of that charity which We teach and which is the peculiar char acteristic of our Fraternity than that of providing a Home for the loved ones of the deceased brethren who are without shelter and at the mercy of public charity
 The Grand Lodge of our State has for several years, been levying a per capita tax for the erection of such A Home in our Grand Jurisdiction, to which all of the subordinate lodges have responded liberally and cheer fully which is to be used as a trust fund.
 The agitation of this question has resulted. l think, in a broadening and deepening of that spirit of fraternity and charity among the brethren of this State, which should be one of the chlet characteristics of Mason
 trust that your subordinate lodges realize their responsibilities and obli- gations in this matter and will come nightly to your assistance, and that very soon the grand old State of Ala bama, in which I was born July 1859, will have erected a Home for the widows and orphans of the deceased members of the order who may be in need of shelter and food, and who have no one else to whom they can look for these necessary adjuncts to health and happiness
 Henry c. Yawn,
 Grand Master"
 MRS. W. c. BLEDSOE DEAn