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1 Corinthians 4:16 “Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me”.

October  2023 – Newsletter

From the East: Rodger Ellingwood

Brothers:
When Benjamin Franklin was twenty years old, he created a system that he believed would help him develop his character. Here are Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtues as he described them in his Autobiography:

1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation.
2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e., Waste nothing.
6. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Brother Franklin would focus/reflect on improving a virtue each week and monitor his progress on improvement. With 13 virtues and 52 weeks in a year he would cover each virtue 4 times a year. Although he felt he fell short on achieving what he was striving for he felt he was a better man for it.

As Masons we take good men and make them better. A study by Duke University in 2006 “found that more than 40% of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.” Can you make a habit of Brother Benjamin Franklin’s virtue improvement process to become better?

W.B. Rodger Ellingwood

Fundrasers

• Buffalo Lodge 202 AFM First Saturday of the month breakfast, 0700-1000 $7 all you can eat
• Rock Hill 111 Second Saturday of the month breakfast - (suspended during the summer)
• Philanthropic 32 Third Saturday Starting July 15th Breakfast ( 0730 -10:30 ) $7 all you can eat.
• Corinthian 416 Fourth Saturday of the month breakfast – 730 – 10:00 - $7 all you can eat. Children 12 and under $5, Children 3 and under eat free.
• Sandy River 207 - BBQ Chicken Plates Sat 7/29/2023 10am -until sold out or 1 p.m.
• Scottish Rite Valley Rock Hill- American Flag Sell $25, contact member of Rock Hill Valley of Scottish Rite,
• Chester Shrine Club - First Saturday of the month, Steak Night starts at 5:30 pm. Dine-in or Carry-out, so come on out and enjoy dinner with us. Eat a good dinner while helping the Shriners children's hospital.
• PUBLIX PARTNERS - Don’t forget to support the Rite Care Centers in SC by signing up with Publix. To sign up, log in to your Publix account, click on my Publix partner, and select Rite Care Childhood Language Program. Each time you shop, enter your telephone number and a portion of qualifying purchases will be donated to the Rite Care Centers. (you can use the link below to sign up)
  https://www.publix.com/myaccount/register
• RWB Boyd "Ebbie" Hodges, J : These blocks came from the old Grand Lodge Building which was built in the 1960’s. The Grand Lodge is offering these blocks while they last for $50.00 each. All funds go to the building fund. If interested for your lodge or personal use contact me. If you need to pay for yours or arrange pickup you may call me at (843) 250-0377. Thanks for assisting the Grand Lodge Building Fund by purchasing these pieces of our history. YOU MAY RESERVE YOURS BY PAYING VIA VENMO. USE THE LINK BELOW.
  https://venmo.com/u/Boyd-Hodges
• Hawaii Disaster Relief - We have all seen on television and the internet the incredible destruction and tragedy that the fires have caused our Brethren, their families, and the people of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. The loss of life and property is beyond our grasp. Please keep our Hawaii Brethren, their families, and the people of Maui in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the loss of loved ones and the total loss of their property and homes. The Masonic Service Association of North America has issued the following Relief Appeal from the Grand Master of Hawaii. Our Grand Lodge is donating a relief contribution through our Grand Lodge AFM Charities and Disaster Relief Corporation to the Grand Lodge of Hawaii through MSA. After praying about it, if you and/or your Lodge wish to donate to assist the Brethren, their families, and the people of Maui, please make your checks payable to the Grand Lodge AFM Charities and Disaster Relief Inc. and mail those checks to Grand Lodge AFM Charities and Disaster Relief, PO Box 2185, Lexington, SC 29071-2185. The Grand Lodge AFM Charities and Disaster Relief Corporation is a section 501 (c ) Corporation, and all contributions are tax-deductible under that section of the IRS code
• Donation Drive – Please bring can goods, dry goods, and other donatable items when you stop by the Lodge. There is a box by the Inner Lodge door. Please make sure there is at least 30 days left before the expiration date or they cannot be donated. Other items needed: socks, t-shirts, men’s and women’s underwear, etc.

Do you have your dues paid for 2023 and 2024?? If not, please remit $72.00 to our secretary at Corinthian Lodge, PO Box 36335, Rock Hill, SC 29732. We do not want anyone to go NPD.

Don’t forget to stop by our website occasionally. Credit Brother Mark Hanslip for the original site. Brother Brandon Terry is now maintaining it. Thanks to both for all the fine work.

PRAYER LIST

Curt Adams, Rick & Annette Rinehart, Rick Rinehart’s Mother, Valerie Strickland, Arty Vick, Donna Smith, Mike Snipes, Tommy Sutton Sr., Jim Conner’s Family Jim & Pat’s granddaughter Olivia Rose, Joe Kimball Sr., Eddie Smith, Thomas Oliver (Brother of Hunter Oliver), Mamie Jackson, WB Clyde Herron, Mike Nichols, Danny Mitchum, Ray Klawer, Susan Frady, Faye Fanny, Ron and Wanda Lilly, Hurbert Lilly, Mike Spell, Mark Hepp (Mathew Hepp’s Grandpa), Robert Charles Goodpaster, Jim Sanders, Anthony Beck and his Family (personal problems), Clyde Mitchell and Wife Anne, Jamie Jackson’s Son, Dan Bishop, Gordan Cartrell, Edna Neil ( Chuck’s mother), Buck Jolley, Kathy Stone’s Family, Tom Bell, Jim Clark’s wife Connie, Betty Maloney, Sam Lineburger, Jimmy and Terri Cumbie, John Newt’s Family, WB Ed Cook’s Family, Leo Scaggs (Hip Replacement)), our Grand Lodge officers, All of our Military, First Responders and their Families, Our Government Officials-State and Federal.

If there is anyone we need to add to the prayer list or remove, please notify us at corinthian416@gmail.com or call Chaplain WB Barry Bruce at 803-517-2259.