There is the prevalent tendency to regard Masonry as one among many institutions for promoting social intercourse. Too often a Lodge is regarded merely as a kind of club and its ritual as merely the preliminary to the banquet. Refreshment supersedes labour as the main object of the Craft. The banquet, rather than work, becomes the centre of attraction. ' The Lodge meeting becomes a convivial occasion rather than a school of mental and moral discipline, a purely social function instead of a training in mutual responsibility. When the
social side of Masonry is over emphasized, the pleasures of the South draw Brethren away from the call of the East and the West, with its promise of the true secrets of Masonry, the secrets of a well ordered life aiming at the development of a character noble and beautiful in its appeal to what is highest and best in man.
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1918 - The Foundations of Masonry - Bro. Archdeacon D. J. Davies
