2 July 2009
The Bomi County Branch of the Manson-craft in Liberia has been reopened with a commitment from the Corinthian Lodge Number 18 Ancient Freemasonry (A.F) and Ancient Modern Masonry (A.M) of Bomi County to embark on a surgical outreach in Tubmanburg free of charge.
According to a release from the organization under the signature of its Worship Master, Dr. Lyndon G. Mabande of the Corinthian Lodge 18AF/AM Bomi County, the reopening of the organization in the county was the first major celebration of the organization in Tubmanburg in thirty years.
Dr. Lyndon Mabande, former President of the Family Planning Association of Liberia and also the Chief Medical Officer of the Firestone Hospital said they have activated the lodge and have also reacquired an unfinished building which needs to be refurbished for active use by the organization
The release quoted Dr. Madande as saying during the program in Tubmanburg that the surgical outreach will include national and international surgeons which will afford the people of the county the opportunity to seek free medical attention. According to the release, the Bomi County masons celebrated Saint John the Baptist Feast for the first time since 1979 on June 27.
As such, the release said the observance of the occasion was characterized by parade of the principal streets of Tubmanburg followed by a worship service and an indoor program.
He told the congregation that the observance of the Saint John the Baptist Feast Day was primarily intended to give gifts to the poor and needy, especially the elderly, blind and the cripple in Tubmanburg. Such gesture, according to him, was also intended to dispel widely notion and belief that the masons are 'heartmen or bad people', to tell them that they are good people and humanitarian in nature.
The orator of the program, Retired Worshipful Brother, Calvin Hoff said the feast day of the Saint John the Baptist indicated that the evangelist became an annual feast day of the Grand Lodge of England in 1725. He furthered: "The freemasonry is a fraternal organization that rose from obscure origins in the late 1600 to the early 1799 and that freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world."
Additionally, Brother Calvin Hoff said the various forms all share moral and metaphysical ideals, which include in most cases the constitutional declaration of belief in a supreme being. He went on to say that while the freemasonry has often been called a "Secret Society" the freemasonry themselves argued that it is more correct to say that it is an esoteric society, in that aspects are private.
"So it can rightly be said that freemasonry is a society with secrets, stressing those parts in masonry that are private are the modes of recognition amongst members and particular elements with the ritual," the release indicated.
The release also noted that despite the great diversity with in the Masonic organization, the central preoccupation remains charitable work within a logical or wide community, moral uprightness as well as the development and maintenance of fraternal friendship.
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