The document summarizes the installation of officers for St. Joseph Lodge No. 78 for the year 2011-2012. It then provides explanations of key Masonic virtues such as Faith, Hope, Charity, Brotherly Love, and Relief based on passages from a 1855 Masonic manual. These virtues are fundamental principles that Masons aim to practice in their daily lives.

1. Lodge Officers Installed For 2012
Tuesday September 15th
2011, the 165th
year since St. Joseph Lodge No. 78 was chartered, the
elected and appointed officers were installed for 2011 – 2012. Pictured above in the first row
beginning at left are Tiler, WB Timothy J Conard; Junior Steward, WB John C Keys;
and Lodge Education Officer, RWB Dennis A Bonjour. Middle row from left Senior Deacon,
Br David J Hawkinson; Senior Warden, Br LeRoy H Maxwell III; and Senior Steward, WB Arthur F
Haynes. Beginning top row left Junior Warden, Br Nighram M Johnson; Treasurer, WB Carl C
Jennings; Marshall, Br D Brian Carroll. Not pictured are this year’s Worshipful Master, WB
Marion H Boydston; Chaplain, RWB Larry R Crawford and Secretary, RWB Wesley F Revels.
St. Joseph Lodge #78 Website: http://www.stjoe78.com/
SaintJoseph LodgeNo.78
AncientFree And Accepted Masons
CharteredOctober 14th 1846
605 Robidoux Street, St. Joseph, Missouri 64501
Annual Newsletter Vol.165Issue 1. “Peace & Harmony Prevailing”
Website: stjoelodge78.blogspot.com
As the steps of man are attached by
various and uncertain incidents of life,
as our days are chequered with a
strange contrariety of events, and our
passage through this existence, though
sometimes blessed with prosperous
circumstances, yet often beset by a
multitude of evils, hence is the Lodge
furnished with Mosaic work, to
remind us of the precariousness of our
state on earth. To-day our feet tread in
prosperity, to-morrow we totter on
the uneven paths of weakness,
temptation and adversity. Whilst this
emblem is before us, we are instructed
to boast of nothing, to have
compassion, and give aid to those who
are in adversity, to walk uprightly and
with humility; for such is our existence
that there is no station in which pride
can be stably founded: all men are
similar by nature, yet some are born to
more elevated stations than others, but
when in the grave all are upon a level –
death destroying all distinctions. Whilst
we tread on the Mosaic work, let our
ideas return to the original which it
copies; and let every Mason act as the
dictates of reason prompt him, to live in
BrotherlyLove, Faith, Hope and Charity.
FAITH, is the foundation of justice, the
bond of amity, and chief support of
society; we live by faith, we walk by
faith; by faith we have a continual hope
in the acknowledgment of a Supreme
Being; by faith we are justified, accepted
in the acknowledgment of a Supreme
Being; by faith we are justified, accepted,
and finally saved. A true Mason’s faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. If we, with
suitable, true devotion, maintain our
Masonic profession, our faith will
become a beam of light, and bring us to
those blessed mansions where we shall
be eternally happy with God, the Grand
Architect of the Universe, whose Son
died for us and rose again, that we might
be justified through faith in his blood.
HOPE, is the anchor of the soul, both
sure and steadfast, and enters into that
within the veil; let a firm reliance in the
Almighty’s faithfulness animate our
endeavours, and teach us to fix our hopes
with the limit of His promises, so shall
success attend us. If we believe a thing
to be impossible, our despondency may
render it so; but he that perseveres will
ultimately overcome all difficulties.
CHARITY, - oh, how lovely is the
theme! – it is the brightest gem that can
adorn our Masonic profession; it is the
best test and the surest proof of altruism.
Benevolence, attended by heaven-born
Charity, is an honour to the nation from
whence it springs, it is nourished, and
cherished. Happy is the man who has
sowed in his heart the seeds of
benevolence, the produce thereof is love
of peace; he envieth not his neighbor; he
listeneth not to a tale, when reported by
slander; revenge or malice has no place
in his breast; he forgives the injuries of
men, and endeavours to blot them from
his recollection. Let us therefore, as
Masons, remember that professing our
faith in GOD, we listen to him who
craveth our assistance, and from want
never withhold a liberal hand; so shall a
heartfelt satisfaction reward our labour,
and the produce of liberality most
assuredly follow after.
BROTHERLY LOVE, by exercising its
precepts, we are taught to regard the
whole human species as one family – the
high the low, rich and poor; all created
by one Almighty Being, and sent into the
world for the aid, support, and
protection of each other: on this grand
principle Masonry unites men of every
country, sect, and opinion, and
conciliates true friendship amongst those
who might otherwise have remained at a
perpetual distance.
RELIEF, is another tenet of our Masonic
profession. To relieve the distressed is a
duty incumbent upon every man, but
more particularly upon Masons, who are
linked together by one indissoluble
chain of sincere affection; hence, to
soothe the unhappy, to sympathize with
their misfortunes, to compassionate their
miseries, and restore peace to the (over)
“A Candid Disquisition”,
of the Principles and Practices
of the Most Ancientand Honorable Society of
Free and Accepted Masons.
From Past Master, Wellis Calcott’s Masonic Manual, New York 1855
Argument VI.p. 47-50, “OF THE MOSAIC WORK AS A SYMBOL.
AND THE VIRTUES OF FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, TEMPERANCE,
FORTITUDE, PRUDENCE, JUSTICE, BROTHERLY LOVE, RELIEF,
AND TRUTH OF THE MASONIC INSTITUTIONS.”