~ The Obituary ~
A new Worshipful Master in a small town spent the first four days making
personal visits to each of the members, inviting them to come to his first Lodge
meeting. The following Thursday the Lodge was all but empty. Accordingly, the
Worshipful Master placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because
the Lodge was dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Masonic burial.
The funeral would be held the following Monday afternoon, the notice said.
Morbidly curious, large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the
Altar, they say a closed coffin, smothered in flowers. After the Chaplain
delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his Brethren to come
forward and pay their final respects to their dead Lodge. Filled with curiosity
as to what would represent the corpse of a "dead Lodge," all the Brethren
eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin
then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look. In the coffin, tilted at
the correct angle, was a large mirror.
Remember the obligation we all took. Attend and support your Lodge.
Author Unknown
Edited from Pythagorean News
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