While on the personal note I should like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude for the privilege of occupying the Chair of this Lodge for the second time.
We work, Brethren, under a handicap. We are far removed from the repositories of historical records.
The numbers who take an active share in the routine work of the Lodge are few, the field from which we can draw lectures is limited, but our work is not in vain.
Sometimes we are tempted to deplore the apparent lack of interest taken in our work, instead, we should be stimulated, as our Secretary has been, to further effort.
Silent and unnoticed, even apparently unappreciated work is often the most effective in the long run. Masonry can never seek advertisement—that would be self- destruction—and, after all, in the outside world, how long is advertisement really .effective.
From its very nature, our work must be slow, but it must be steady.
Perseverance is a Masonic virtue we must be especially careful to cultivate.
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1940 - Address by the Worshipful Master - Bro. H. V. H. Watch.
