Tolerance - a beautiful tenet to remember
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- Title
- Tolerance - a beautiful tenet to remember
- Creator
- Pajarillaga, Prospero B.
- Language
- English
- Source
- The Cabletow XLIV (10) October 1968
- Year
- 1968
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- 'Toteicticc — “7e*et to fceiMm&wi Bro. Prospero B. Pajarillaga, Secretary (170) Masonry has so many beautiful and inspiring tenets among which are Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth, to mention just a few. Brotherly Love teaches us to love not only our own brethren in the fraternity and members of their respective families, but we also have to extend and share that sincere and genuine thing we call LOVE with our neighbors and all mankind, re gardless of their religious beliefs, po litical leanings, race, creed and color. Indeed, if all mankind can practice and implement this biblical injunction of loving one another as we love our selves, perhaps there will be no more wars among nations, there will be no more hatred among people; instead, there will be universal and lasting peace among all men under the Fatherhood of one God. But why is there no peace in this world of ours? Simply because there is greed among men for power, for honor and personal glory and for material riches, and there seems to be no end in sight and no satisfaction of men’s desire for world ly things. Or is it because man, by his sinful nature, must suffer and be punished for his sins in order to learn a lesson or to change his nature from bad to good so he can finally recog nize God’s authority and power? Unless man learns to subdue his pasdons within due bounds, and to hum ble himself and recognize the supreme authority of God on high and to prac tice and implement love for all, can there be permanent and lasting peace upon this earth. Relief teaches us to come to the aid of a brother in distress, to any one who has met or is suffering from any misfortune in life. Unless there is love for our fellowmen. relief is ’quite impossible to do and hard to undertake. When occasions come for us to extend our help, our much-need ed help, we should not run away from such a responsibility otherwise we be come as “sounding brass and tinkling cymbal.” Truth is the first and basic teach ing wc encounter in our early travel as Masons. It is a divine attribute and a basic foundation of all virtues of men. It teaches us to eliminate hypo crisy and deceit; and most important of all, we should act upon the square and deal plainly, sincerely and square ly with all with whom we come in contact. TOLERANCE While these inspiring tenets men tioned above are recognized and accept ed as the principal teachings of Mason ry, I personally consider another one as equally important and that is TO LERANCE. Whoever among our early founding brethren must have thought of Tolerance as one of our indispensable tenets should certainly deserve a prominent place in the hearts and minds of all Masons, past and present, and his picture should also find its proper place in the Masonic Hall of Fame. Tolerance teaches us and reminds us that we have to be understanding and sympathetic with our erring brethren. Let our motto be: “Live and let live.” Let us co exist in peace and happiness or even in sadness or sorrow. Now and then, there arc brethren of ours who for get to do things expected of them in side or outside the Lodge. Some re main cool and inactive, negligent of their sworn duties and obligations to their brethren and to their Lodge. Turn to next page OCTOBER, 1968 Some do not find time to attend Lodge meetings but have ample or sufficient time for worldly pleasures, forgeting the teachings and symbolism of the 24-inch gauge where wc arc taught to divide our time into three equal parts, whereby we should find a part tor the service of God and a distressed worthy brother, a part for our usual vocations, and lastly a part for our refreshment and repose. There are brethren who arc disgusted, unsatis fied and indifferent to another brother when some brethren fail to measure up to their expectations or when they failed to get what they want, like jobs, favors, priorities, promotions, choice positions, fat salaries, etc. Rather we should regard our membership in Ma sonry in such a manner that primarily we should serve instead of being served, help instead of being helped and to be assets instead of being lia bilities. Similarly, I wish to recall to you the remarks made by the late President John F. Kennedy df the United States of America when he said: “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” Why brethren, can wc not be so tolerant, so understanding and so sympathetic instead, to those who could not go beyond their limits or power? Why can we not remember that there is a limitation to everything and that to go beyond these limits may bring disastrous effects upon their positions or even the welfare of their families ? For the sake of unity among Ma sons throughout the world, unity be ing the strength and support of all societies especially of ours, the OF FENDER as well as the OFFEND ED should both be tolerant, under standing and sympathetic to the other fellow’s situation, for then and only then can we maintain unity and har mony within our folds and preserve this honorable and venerable Fraternity of ours for ages to come. 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