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About Trepanier No. 83 and Freemasonry
 Located at
5842A Beach Avenue,
Peachland, B.C. VOH 1X7. This Worthy Warranted and Worshipful Lodge has
been operating in Peachland for almost 100 years helping with the community and
always making good men better. For the history of this lodge see the
Historical Sketch of Trepanier No. 83 1913
-1949 which was penned by one of Trepanier No. 83's own Past Masters, Wor.
Bro. R. J. McDougall, PM - 1943.
Ideal of a Freemason
If you see a man
who quietly and modestly moves in the sphere of his life; who, without
blemish, fulfils his duty as a man, a subject, a husband and a father;
who is pious without hypocrisy, benevolent without ostentation, and aids
his fellowman without self-interest; whose heart beats warm for
friendship, whose serene mind is open for licensed pleasures, who in
vicissitudes does not despair, nor in fortune will be presumptuous, and
who will be resolute in the hour of danger;
The man who is
free from superstition and free from infidelity; who in nature sees the
finger of the Eternal Master; who feels and adores the higher
destination of man; to whom faith, hope and charity are not mere words
without any meaning; to whom property, nay even life, is not too dear
for the protection of innocence and virtue, and for the defense of
truth;
The man who towards himself is a severe judge, but who is tolerant with
the debilities of his neighbour; who endeavours to oppose errors without
arrogance, and to promote intelligence without impatience; who properly
understands how to estimate and employ his means; who honours virtue
though it may be in the most humble garment, and who does not favour
vice though it be clad in purple; and who administers justice to merit
whether dwelling in palaces or cottages.
The man who, without courting applause, is loved by all noble-minded
men, respected by his superiors and revered by his subordinates; the man
who never proclaims what he has done, can do, or will do, but where need
is will lay hold with dispassionate courage, circumspect resolution,
indefatigable exertion and a rare power of mind, and who will not cease
until he has accomplished his work, and then, without pretension, will
retire into the multitude because he did the good act, not for himself,
but for the cause of good! If you, my Brethren meet such a man, you will
see the personification of brotherly love, relief and truth; and you
will have found the ideal of a Freemason. |
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