The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
REUNION PLANS AREUNDER WAY.
Scottish Rite The Uni
 versity Of Free < Masonry

Summer reunion of the several bodies of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Birmingham will be held ill the Ma sonic Temple the week of June 9 to . Is, and all the degrees from the fourth to the fourteenth, inclusive, will be con. ferred in full form. Harold McDer, mott is chairman of the reunion com. mittee; Horace Ware, vice chairman, and Albert l.. Reese, secretary A large advisory committee composed of prominent Scottish Rite Masons of all sections of the Jurisdiction of the Bir- mingham bodies, has been named for the reunion.
 It is intended to make this reunion . notable one and teams who will con fer the various degrees are rehearsing, and the Scottish Rite choir is practicing for this event, and everything is be- ing done that will ensure success.
 Already large number of petitions are in the hands of the secretary and they are coming in daily. Attention is called to the fact that in order to com ply with the law of the order all pe- tltlons for this reunion must be in the hands Of the secretary on or before De held June 4 by the bodies for the purpose of business and balIoting on petitions.
 Z Scottish Rite \
 The following article onsthe Scottish Rite has been given oft blythe com mittee:
 The, Scottish Rite is the university of Free Masonry. It receives the Master Mason after he has been in- ducted into the mysteries of the ancient craft, and in a series of degrees, run ming from the fourth to the thirty second, it conducts him through i'm pressive and instructive ceremonies and by the use of coherently educational ritual to a knowledge of the royal secret of Free Masonry as it is re- vealed in the thirty second degrees By this education those fundamental truths which are taught in the ancient craft are worked out ipssthe manifold virtues of true men in flteif relations with the world of men ysand the duties, the obligations and the responsibilities of men in human society >aFe impressed upon the neophyte. 4
 More than this, through series of dramas, spectacular and interesting, men arc taught when and how to fulfill these duties and obligations, the danger of excess of zeal on the one hand or indifference on the other; the evils of sloth and neglect and the benefits de. rived by society in general through loyal and informed Masonry. In short, what the ancient craft conveys of the work of Masonry upon the individual, the Scottish Rite exemp1ifies of the benefit of Free Masonryeto the world of humanity. ..e
 Qualifications
 The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite is as broad in it's qualifications as is Ancient Craft Masonry. In it's mem bership are found men of all racial origins, of every religious creed, of many different tongues. Its members are bound together by only one essen tial faith-belief in one Everlasting and True God, the Father of all men, and in whom all men, are brothers. In it's meetings. Free Masons, regardless of lodge utilization, meet in fellowship. It is the '.collegium of Freemasonry," in whose halls -1nd on whose campus Masons of different affiliations can share the delights of coinradeship and plan for cooperative work in the great enterprises of Freemasonry. In the sO- cial gatherings of the Scottish Rite the ties of human brotherhood are closer z knit and the mystic chain of fraternity is made golden with the joys of fra ternat affection.