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HUMANE LODGE NO. 21 Online at: http://www.HumaneLodge21.org.

September 2015 FROM THE EAST Brethren,

As we come out of darkness I hope that you all got a chance to relax with family and friends. I would like to report the Sea Dogs ball game was very enjoyable and even thou it didn’t look good that day it never did rain. I am sorry the weather didn’t cooperate in June which forced us to reschedule. Sorry for those who weren’t able to be there.

Our stated meeting this month is Monday , Sept. 14 due to the Labor Day holiday. We will open in FC degree meal 6:30 lodge at 7:30. The EA history will be given on this evening. I have scheduled a rehearsal for FC on Sunday Sept. 13 at 2pm.

District 5 LODGE of INSTRUCTION is Sat. Sept.12 at Winnipesaukee Lodge in Alton. Book sales at 5:30 Meal at 6:30 with instruction to follow. Dress code jacket and tie and apron for masons. Officers WM, SW and JW,Treasurer and Secretary will wear apron of their offices and jewel. All master masons are welcome. I would expect to see as many from Humane Lodge as possible. PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR for this LOI.

Sunday Sept. 20 is the Winnipesaukee Belle cruise leaving out of Wolfeboro dock 2 pm. Reservations need to be made with secretary. The cruise includes a buffet and the boat ride. Cost is $25 per person. Dress is casual for masons and invited guests. Cash bar is available. This is always a great time please join in the fun.

Monday Sept. 21 the lodge will perform the FC degree. Meal at 6:30. Lodge 7:30. Breth-ren please make an effort to support the officers and the candidates on this night.

Tuesday Sept. 22. District 5 masters class is at Moses Paul Lodge in Dover. Dress is casual 6:30 to 8:30. This is open to all master masons. I encourage you to attend.

There is a lot going on in District 5 try to travel to some lodges and meet some new ma-sons. We need to support each other.

I would like to thank Strafford Lodge for including our candidate from Humane Lodge to be part of their EA degree. It was very well done as well as the history. Thanks for all involved. Fraternally,

Wor. Dave R. Nason, Worshipful MasterP.O. Box 851, Milton, NH 03851

Tel. 603-652-9765Attest: Jeffrey C. Grant, Secretary

PO Box 1716, Rochester, NH 03867-1716Tel. (603) 948-2600 • Email:secretary@humanelodge21.org

+* Jeremiah H. Woodman 1810-11 * Levi Jones 1812-13 * William Barker 1814 * Pierce P. Furber 1815-16 * Jeremiah H. Woodman 1817 * Levi Jones 1818 * Joseph Cross 1819-20 * William Jones 1821 * Levi Jones 1822 +* Charles Dennett 1823-27 * Stephen M. Mathers 1828 * Charles Dennett 1829-37 * Charles Dennett 1850 * Josiah B. Edgerly 1851-53 * James H. Edgerly 1854-58 +* Alexander M. Winn, PGM 1859 * George Corson 1860 * David Hayes 1861-62 +* Franklin McDuffee 1863-64 +* James H. Edgerly 1865 * George Corson 1866 * John S. Parsons 1867-70 * Noah Tebbets 1871 * John S. Parsons 1872-73 * Russell B. Wentworth 1874-76 * Thomas H. Edgerly 1877 * Russell B. Wentworth 1878-80 * James E. Edgerly 1881 * John I. Copp 1882-83 * Ralph B. Palmer 1884 * Charles B. Ricker 1885 * Osman B. Warren 1886-88 +* John S. Daniels 1889-91 * Howard E. Grant 1892-94 * George A. McDuffee 1895-97 * Frederick E. Small 1898-99 +* Charles L. Wentworth, 33º 1900-01 * George P. Furbush 1902-03 * Louis M. Richardson 1904-05 * John S. Kimball 1906-07 * Fred W. Crocker 1908-09 +* J. Stacy Tripp 1910-11 +* Eugene C. Howard 1912-14 * Charles W. Varney 1915 * Lorenzo W. Clifford 1916-17 * Albion G. Weeks 1918-19 * William E. Tripp 1920-21 +* Clarence L. Woodman 1922-23 * Joel L. McCrillis 1924-25 * Horace J. Davis 1926 * William H. Otis 1927-28 * Carleton E. Meader 1929 * James C. Pringle 1930-31 * Raymond V. Jones, Sr. 1932-33 * Francis D. Swan 1934-35 * Joshua Studley 1936-37 * Donald G. McCallister 1938-39 +* Robert P. Wilson 1940-41 * Neal F. Teague 1942-43 * Downing Osborne 1944-45 +* Robert P. Wilson 1946 * Alwyn B. Marble 1947-48 * George S. Snyder 1949-50 * Bruce R. DeMerritt, Sr. 1951-52 * James A. Baxter 1953-54 +* Walter D. Abbott 1955-56 *** James Flood 1956 * John L. Phillips 1957-58 + William B. Holmberg 1959-60 * James H. Edgerly, Jr. 1961-62 *** Leroy S. Redlon 1961 * Philip W. Hussey 1963 +* Frederick H. Heuss 1964-65 * Austin F. Wilson 1966-67 * Norman H. Clough 1968-69

+*Arnold M. Ashley,PGM,33º 1970-71 * Edward J. Dotson 1972-73 * Robert E. Gray 1974-75 Donald S. Hawkins, Jr. 1976-77 * Charles H. Weed 1978-79 + Ronald J. Brown, 33º 1980-81 Leslie E. Locke 1982-83 * Robert O. White 1984-85 William F. Clark 1986-87 + Edward J. Kelvington 1988-89 H. Stephen Wood 1990-91 *Stanley F. Focht 1992-93 William A. Taylor 1994-95 *George A. White 1996-97 Gary A. Pike 1998-99 George L. Hubbard, Jr. 2000-01 Jeffrey L. Brown 2002-03 + Edward J. Kelvington 2004-05 *George A. White 2006 Arthur A. Trahan 2007 ** Frederick M. Steadman 2007Jeffrey L. Brown 2008-09*Stanley F. Focht 2010 William A. Taylor 2011David P. Kondrup 2012-13 Dave R. Nason 2014

* Deceased ** Honorary + Past District Deputy Grand Master

Past Masters of Humane Lodge No. 21 F. & A. M.

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UPCOMING EVENTSA Stated Communication of Humane Lodge will be holden on Monday, September 14, 2015 at 7:30 PM - Any business to come before a lodge of Fellow Crafts. Meal at 6:30 PM. The EA history will be given this evening.

Rehearsals: FC Degree rehearsal on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 2 pm and MM Degree rehearsal on Monday, Sept. 28 at 6 pm.

A Special Communication of Humane Lodge will be holden on Monday, September 21, 2015 at 7:30 PM - The work of the eveing will be the Fellow Craft Degree. Meal at 6:30 PM.

District 5 LODGE of INSTRUCTION is Saturday, September 12 at Winnipesaukee Lodge in Alton. Book sales start at 5:30, meal at 6:30 with instruction to follow. Dress code: jacket and tie and apron for masons. Officers WM, SW and JW,Treasurer and Secretary will wear apron of their offices and jewel. All master masons are welcome.

Sunday, Sept. 20 - Winnipesaukee Belle Cruise leaving out of the docks in Wolfeboro at 2 pm. Reservations need to be made with Secretary. The cruise includes a buffet and the boat ride. Cost is $25 per person. Dress is casual for Masons and invited guests. Cash bar is available.

Tuesday, Sept. 22 - District 5 Master’s Class is at Moses Paul Lodge in Dover. Dress is casual 6:30 to 8:30. This is open to all Master Masons.

CRUISE ON THE WINNIPESAUKEE BELLE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

2 PM • BOAT LEAVES FROM WOLFEBOROCruise includes: Buffet lunch and boat ride.

Cost: $25.00 per personDress is casual. Cash bar is available.

All members of Humane Lodge & their guests are invited.

MAKE RESERVATIONS WITH THE SECRETARY

The Winding Stairsby R. W. Bro. J. H. Young, 1972

Published in The Tracing Board, G.R.A.

Masonry is defined as “a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.” The wealth of that symbolism is not only varied, but each provides a portion in the Masonic building known as CHARACTER. Thus we have the Ashlars, the Sprig of Acacia, the Square and Compasses and the Winding Stairs, to mention but a few, though each one contributing something towards the temple of inward growth of grace and personality.

An outstanding symbol in the F. C. degree is the flight of the Winding Stairs. In the V. S. L. we read, “they went up the Winding Stairs into the Middle Chamber.” We travel also up a winding stairs of life climbing steadily from birth, childhood, and ascend to the Sanctum Sanctorum in which our souls find rest.

There is symbolism in the fact that the stairs WIND. A straight stairway hides neither mystery or secret. However, the winding stairs obscures from view that which is around the corner. To climb the winding stairs then implies we must exercise courage, determination and above all else - faith. The Winding Stairs leads us into the middle chamber of good or ill, or in other words, the unpredict-able. Man climbs to new realms of civilization and to spiritual enlightenment. Each must climb, though the individual experience may be vastly different from that of anyone else.

“A man’s reach must exceed his grasp

Else what’s a heaven for?” So wrote the poet Browning.

Longfellow expressed the same thoughts in his interpretation:

“The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight

But they while their companions slept

Were upward climbing in the night.”

Man climbs because he has courage; because he has faith urged on by a Divine discontent just because he is a MAN. By the same token so must the Freemason climb for the winding stairs DO lead somewhere. There IS a middle chamber. There ARE wages to be earned by the fellowcraft. He climbs in faith because he believes.

The Winding Stairs ties and disciplines a man’s soul. He must BELIEVE, other-wise no summit will ever be scaled. He must climb in faith that there is a summit, and where that upward climb is undertaken in sincerity, he eventually reached the coveted goal. Now all this is symbolical of life and manhood. No one knows

whether the top will ever be reached or not, but nevertheless he climbs in faith and hope that the middle chamber of ardent desire may be the joy and the satis-faction of achievement.

And so the F. C. degree is one of action - climbing and rising on the rungs of knowledge to the Arts and the Sciences. The Degree is emblematic of the strug-gle of life not only materially but spiritually as well. This adventurous climb is not intended for the drone of the laggard, but rather for the fighter and the adven-turer and the man of a stout heart. The F. C. must be equipped with high and indomitable courage for the achievement is worth fighting for.

Many may pass through this Degree and see only a beautiful ceremony - some-thing which attracts our attention but may not supply any lasting truth. The thoughtful Mason sees in the Winding Stairs an invitation to climb into great realities; it is an incentive to know more of the sublime mysteries and a spur to reach the Middle Chamber. The Winding Stairs is a progressive step to reach that exalted Degree of a Master Mason, and so fit and prepare himself to reach up to and commune with his Divine Creator.

Clarence L. Woodman Chapter Order of DeMolay meets the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7:30 PM, except during July and August.

Rochester Assembly #11 of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 6:30 PM, except during July and August.

LADIES AT THE TABLE

OCTOBER 31, 2015 AT 6:00 PMTICKETS: $15.00 • COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!

Make reservations with the Secretary