This document contains summaries of several Masonic virtues: Fortitude, Prudence, Truth, Justice, and Virtue. It also includes an annual report from a Grand Lodge of Missouri detailing membership numbers from 2010-2011, including those raised to Master Mason, affiliated, transferred, deceased, and exempt for 50 or more years of membership. The document concludes with a poem about Masonic lodges being beacons of light and using faith, hope, and charity to ascend to higher spheres.

1. Masonic emblems Published by George Kenning, London, Liverpool & Glasgow. April
1874. Entered at Stationers Hall. Respectfully Dedicated (by permission) To J. Whyte
Melville Esq're of Bennochy, The Most Worshipful Grand Master Mason of Scotland, By
His Humble Servent William Garey.
its full scope, to obey the authority of
conscience with alacrity, to exercise the
duties of life with fortitude, in public to
maintain justice and in private to
observe temperance. To love and adore
GOD with distinguished affection, and
to acquiesce in his kind providence
with a calm resignation, is the surest
means of attaining virtue, approaching
to perfection and happiness, and leaving
the unhappy ways of vice and misery.
FORTITUDE, is that noble and steady
from rashness and cowardice, which
enables us to undergo any labour or
difficulty when found necessary or
expedient, and ought to be deeply
impressed on the breast of every Mason,
as a fence of security against any attack
that might be made upon him, by force
or otherwise, to extort from him any of
our royal secrets.
PRUDENCE, teaches us to regulate our
lives and actions according to the
The Following Annual
Report Was Submitted
To The Grand Lodge
Of Missouri
Total Number of Members: 223
Total Number Exempt
50 year Members: 39
From 9-21-2010 through 11-16-2011
RWB William J Bowser, Br Dean F Proffit,
WB Donald E Cox, Br Robert E Bushman
Total Number Exempt
Endowed Members: 31
Total Raised to the
Sublime Degree of Master Mason:
From 9-21-2010 through 11-16-2011
Br David J Hawkinson, Br Ryan S Gerster,
Br Christopher J Olinger,
Br Michael T Olinger, Br Todd A Sprague,
Br David W Standiford,
Br John A Fulkerson
Affiliate As Multiple Members:
Rev Br John E Johnson Sr
Transfer From Other Lodges:
Br Wayne R Welch
Deceased:
As of 11/6/2011
Br James L Rockwell Jr, 7-10-2010
Br Kenneth H Hawk, 11-4-2010
WB Jerry L Burris Jr, 1-9-2011
WB James B Clark, 2-20-2011
RWB Caroll E Henson, 4-11-2011
Br Edward G Hautzenroeder, 4-20-11
Rev Br John E Johnson Sr. 7-20-11
troubled mind, is the grand aim we
have in view; on this basis we
establish our friendships and form our
connections.
TRUTH, is a divine attribute and the
foundation of every Masonic virtue:
to be good men and true, is a lesson
we are taught at our initiation; on this
grand theme we contemplate, and by
its dictates we endeavour to rule and
govern our lives and actions; hence
hypocrisy and deceit are supposed to
be unknown to us; sincerity and plain
dealing are our distinguishing
characteristics, while the heart and
tongue join in promoting each other’s
welfare, and rejoicing in each other’s
prosperity.
VIRTUE, is the highest attainment of
the mind, the integrity, harmony, and
just balance of affection; the health
strength, and beauty of the soul. The
perfection of virtue is to give reason
dictates of reason; being that habit of
the mind by which men wisely judge
and prudently determine on all things
relative to their present as well as their
future happiness, and ought to be
nicely attended to in all strange and
mixed companies; never to let drop or
slip the least hint whereby the secrets
of our royal art may be illegally
obtained.
JUSTICE, is the boundary of right,
and constitutes the cement of civil
society. Without the exercise of this
virtue, universal confusion would
ensue, lawless force would take away
the barriers of equity, and social
intercourse would no longer exist.
And as justice, in a great measure,
constitutes study of the accomplished
Mason never to deviate from the
minutest principle thereof.
A city set upon a hill cannot be hid; exposed to every eye it will,
Over surrounding plain and vale an influence shed,
And spread the light of peace afar, or blight the land with horrid war.
Each Mason's Lodge is planted so, for high display;
Each is a BEACON LIGHT, to show Life's weary wanderers as they go,
The better way; To show by ties of earthly love
How perfect is the Lodge not made with human hands above!
Be this your willing task dear friends while laboring here.
Borrow from HIM who kindly lends,
That Heavenly Ladder ascending to the higher sphere.
And let the world your progress see you, climbing upward,
by FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY.
Based on Rob Morris’s poem