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Give freely of yourself and asking nothing in return
Of all the cardinal virtues, none is more valued in Masonry than selfless giving. Examples of Masonic charity are beneficent.
Masons in North America contribute nearly $3-million every day to relieve suffering and for the enrichment of mankind. Masons are founding sponsors of the Shriners Hospitals for children, a network of 22 pediatric hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that provide specialized care for orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate. All services are provided at no charge.
Masons are responsible for the National Heritage Museum and the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Clinics, The Knights Templar Eye Foundation, the Masonic Child Identification Program, and nearly $500,000 in annual scholarships.
Masons also support DeMolay for boys, Jobes Daughters, and Rainbow for girls.
Harry S. Truman, our 33rd President, was born on May 8, 1884. Masonry played a prominent and active part throughout his life.
He was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri in September, 1940 and also established the Missouri Lodge of Research.
As President, he led the nation in the final months of World War ll and put forward the Marshall Plan to aid the recovery of Europe after the war.
In the Grand Lodge of Missouri is astone taken from the walls of The White House during its just completed rebuilding. A sufficient number of these stones were discovered, each with a Masonic symbol upon it. A stone was given to each Grand Lodge in the United States as a gift from Brother Truman.
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