Excerpt from Washington: Masonic Compeers

Our historians and biographers seldom mention a Fra ternity which has existed in this country from its early colonial existence, and embraced in its membership a large number of our countrymen whose names are inscribed on our literary, civil, and military rolls Of honor. Has this arisen from a prejudice against the institution of Masonry, or from a belief that its in¿uences are unimportant?

The virtues which ennoble human character, are taught and cultivated in the lodge-room, and the mystic labors of the Master and his Craftsmen when convened, are such as fit men for the domestic relations Of life and the highest duties Of citizenship. Washington, with a full knowledge Of the subject, wrote: Being persuaded that a just dppli cation of the principles on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promotive cyf virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interest of the Society, and be considered by them a deserving brother.

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