From the Secretaries Desk:

Your 2010 Masonic Membership Dues cards have arrived from the Grand Secretary. The Lodge dues with the Grand Lodge Assessments are $58.00 with an additional $15.00 lodge Cabell lawn care/Lodge cleaning assessment for the total $73.00 and are due on or before January 1, 2010. To our 50-yr and life members who are no longer obligated to pay annual lodge dues, a $15.00 donation contribution is requested from each of you.

Mail your check to:

Right Worshipful Mikel S Johnson,

4092 Tabscott Road,

Columbia Va. 23038

Better yet, deliver it during the upcoming stated communication.

November 30^th, 7:00 pm Open meeting at Waddell 228 Gordonsville Va. for the purpose of presentation of 60-year veterans’ award to Right Worshipful Sherwood Parrott. Most Worshipful Jeffery E. Hodges will make the presentation.

Wednesday, December 2, 7:30PM.

Ritual Classes for Cabell Lodge are held each third Wednesday on the month at 7:30PM, your participation is requested. December Class is the 16^th.

Many writers and thinkers have tried to define Freemasonry but it really defeats definition. It is too complex, too profound in conception, to easily expressed in words. Perhaps the simplest and best definition of all is the phrase "the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God." Our Masonic forefathers had an understanding of human needs and human aspirations. They may never have dreamed of the mindless computer which governs our lives, or the fission of matter which threatens our lives, but they understood human nature and what motivates the spirit of man. Thus from a simple process of using stone and mortar for building they progressed to the most important of life's functions, the building of character. -Louis L. Williams