The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-05-06
The Five Points of Fellowship.

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What are the five points of fellow
ship? How frequently We hear the
question mechanically asked and glibly
responded to. Throughout the entire
ritual Of Masonry there is rothing
which appeals in as strong a manner to
the feelings of every one as the lesson
taught upon the five points of fellow
ship. The main trouble with Masons
is, they don't always practice what
they preach. If every man raised would
practice those sublime teachings in all
of his acts of life, this world would soon
be revolutionized, and would indeed be
the next thing to heaven. But, unfor-
tunately, they do not do so. Their in
tentions are perhaps of the best upon
t he outset, but in their selfishness and
mad haste for wealth, they only too
soon forget their vows and drop back
j INTO the old rut of heedlessness of the
welfare of others.
We wonder how many have ever Sc
riously considered the real inward
meaning Of each Of the five points of
fellowship, which are the nucleus
around which the whole structure of
M asonry is formed, and is one of our
most beautiful symbols. Without its
practical use in our everyday life.
Masorry is nothing more than any other
social and fraternal organization. No
one deficient in the parts of the human
body used in this symbol is eligible to
become a Mason, therefore they are
always before US and serve to remind
us of our obligations and duties toward
one another.
They teach C) that we should always
be ready and quick to aid a.needy
brother, to feed the hungry, clothe the
naked, provide shelter for the homeless
and employment for the unemployed,
and hasten to mitigate the grief and
bear relief and sympathy to the aff1ct-
ed. That should we see a brother go
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within our power to restrain and reform
him; should we know a brother to be in
moral, physical or financial danger, we
must quickly inform and aid him in
averting a catastrophe.
2. That we should always remember
a brother Mason in our supplications to
deity, that we should forever bury
envy, petit jealousy and hate, and cul-
tiva.e a spirit of true brotherly love
and affection.
3. That we should always be loyal,
honest, steadfast and true in all our
dealings with each other; that all a
brothers secrets, entrusted to US, or in
any manner coming to our knowledge,
should be safely sealed within our
breasts by faiths unbroken seal. We
should suffer trials, and though Cypress
ed by great odds and foully threatened
with the stroke of death, we should
never yield and betray a brothers
trust, for loyalty is one of the chief
characteristics of a good Mason.
5 That when a tempter seeks to win
a brothers. soul We should give him
timely warning and try to extricate him
from the snare. That we should al
ways be ready to whisper words of
good counsel into a brothers ear and
give him due and timely notice that he
may ward off approaching danger-in
fact, that a brothers interests should
be our interests.
These sentiments seem to US to ex-
press the greater part of the charitable
scheme of Freemasonory. What we re
quire in order to raise the Institution
to the high degree of excellence which
u forefathers intended it to occupy,
and maintain it there, is less preaching
and more real, earnest and loyal work
in behalf of our fellow Masons individ-
ually and collectively. -Masons Record.