But what truly comprises a lodge is a sufficient number of Masons, meeting at an agreed to location for the purpose of conducting Masonic business.
Therefore a lodge's ashlar is as imperfect as the ashlars of the Masons that comprise the lodge, and it is the duty of every Mason regardless of rank within the lodge to help shape the lodge into the organization it should be to represent the community from which it is derived.
It is very difficult to hew off the superfluous bits of stone in a lodge, especially when it sometimes feels like a phalanx of old-timers bars the way. However here in Madison we have all heard the Canadian Charge at the end of the Master Mason Degree - so please remember that “on yonder book that oath YOU took, and will you break it? NEVER!” Your lodge needs you. Freemasonry needs you!
