The Freemason - 15th August 1891
What's in a Lodge Name?
Temperance in the East No.898, Poplar, England, furnishes the key to unlock a storehouse of Masonic principles which should control every Worshipful Master and every individual Freemason.
Temperance in the East No.898, Poplar, England, furnishes the key to unlock a storehouse of Masonic principles which should control every Worshipful Master and every individual Freemason.
If there be not temperance in the east, there will not be temperance in the west, or south, or anywhere else. The Master rules the lodge. If he is intemperate in any respect the entire lodge suffers. And in how many ways it is possible for him to be intemperate - in speech, in spending money too lavishly, in permitting too much liquid refreshment.
Brethren, let temperance always prevail in the east, and it will prevail everywhere.
(Reproduced from The Freemason 15th August 1891, page 80)
