Difference between revisions of "MAGLFDTaylor"

From MasonicGenealogy
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 40: Line 40:
 
Allen W. Stone<br>
 
Allen W. Stone<br>
 
''Committee''
 
''Committee''
 +
 +
=== SPEECHES ===
 +
 +
==== FEAST OF ST. JOHN, DECEMBER 1943 ====
 +
 +
''From Proceedings, Page 1943-286:''
 +
 +
''Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren:''
 +
 +
I have admired R. W. [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRoy Tom Roy] for the past twelve months, and I have learned to love him. I never admired him more than I do this very moment. In his retirement from office he looks comfortable and at ease. He has adorned the office of Deputy Grand Master. If he brought water last year, as has been suggested, I trust the fire may be as acceptable to the Craft as the water has been.I heard a story about two Methodist people. A man and woman had lived on earth as husband and wife for many years and had enjoyed a close and happy friendship together. They died at the same time. As they were entering the celestial land, they called upon St. Peter and made a request of him. They explained to him how happy they had been on earth and they wanted to be married again before entering upon their new life. Since they were married by a Methodist minister in their first wedding, they wanted a Methodist minister for their second.
 +
 +
St. Peter said, “You sit and wait there.” They waited several days. Then the man approached St. Peter again and said, “Perhaps you don’t understand. We want to be married again before we begin life here. We want to be married by a Methodist minister.”
 +
 +
“Yes, I understand. Just wait a bit.” They waited, longer and longer. They waited one thousand years, and the man dared to approach St. Peter again and said, “We do want to get married.” St. Peter said, “Yes. I am sorry you have had to wait so long. I will attend to it right away now. There has been no Methodist preacher here until this morning. Not one of those fellows has been here in the past thousand years.”
 +
 +
I don’t know why I am a Deputy, but that is what I am. Webster says a deputy is one appointed to take another’s place. Whose place am I taking? The [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMACoolidge Grand Master] is here; the Grand Officers are here. I am taking nobody’s place. There is no occasion for me to be here at all, but I was told I must speak a bit.
 +
 +
I will tell you something about myself. In my weaker moments I have sometimes wanted to be a politician, but never have been allowed to realize that wish. In the next twelve months I am going to be close to one of them—and it will be a nice experience, I am sure.
 +
 +
There is a moment in the opening ritual of the Grand Lodge that always provides me with a thrill. I never weary of it. I got it today in finer fashion than ever before. It is at that period in the opening of the Grand Lodge when the Grand Master is about to state that we are ready for business. The lights have been properly prepared, the prayer has been spoken, the hymn has been sung, and the Grand Master stands with gavel up�lifted—Brother [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMSchaefer Schaefer] was more skillful than usual with it this afternoon—and says, “I declare this Grand I.odge opened in ''Ample Form''.”
 +
 +
Those words “ample form” always thrill me. Not many bodies are capable of opening in ample form. The legislative body of a sovereign state could open in ample form. The general council or conference of an ecclesiastical body might open in ample form. The general committee of the Red Cross could open in ample form, ample to meet any catastrophe that might strike, anywhere on the face of the earth. Not many bodies are opened in ample form, but the Grand Lodge is opened in ample form—ample enough to receive interest of any Brother, or any Lodge in the jurisdiction and act upon it with full and complete authority.
 +
 +
It suggests the amplitude of Freemasonry—ample enough for the exercise of all the Masonic virtues, ample enough for faith, hope and charity, for brotherhood, tolerance, self-control, good will—all those virtues that are fundamental to a happy and prosperous society.
 +
 +
Looking about this room tonight, marked by the Christmas season, looking at the Master’s desk, decorated with the lovely Christmas colors, I make bold to say that Freemasonry is ample to carry this spirit of Christmas out into human society, making “peace and good will” possible to all men.
  
 
<hr>
 
<hr>
  
 
[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsPeople#DISTINGUISHED_BROTHERS Distinguished Brothers]
 
[http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsPeople#DISTINGUISHED_BROTHERS Distinguished Brothers]

Revision as of 13:09, 1 May 2020

FRANCIS DEE TAYLOR 1894-1968

FrancisTaylor1944.jpg

  • MM 1910, Hiram
  • WM 1930, Victory
  • DDGM, Waltham 5, 1938-1939
  • Deputy Grand Master 1944
  • Grand Chaplain 1945-1962

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1968-161:

The Right Worshipful Reverend Francis Dee Taylor, D.D., the son of William and Mary Ann Taylor, was born in Turney, Missouri, on March 1, 1884, and died in Needham, Massachusetts, on August 16, t968. His funeral Service was held in Carter Memorial Methodist Church, Needham, on Sunday, August 18, at 2:00 P.M., and the interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Lois, and by two daughters, Mrs. Fred Miller of Naples, Florida, and Mrs. A. B. Leighton of Holyoke, Massachusetts; also by five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Right Worshipful Brother Taylor was raised in Hiram Lodge, Arlington, on May 19, 1910. He affiliated with Victory Lodge, Watertown, on February 3, 1928, and served as Worshipful Master of this Lodge in 1930. He was one of six Honorary Members of Victory Lodge since its organization in 1920. In April of this year, Victory Lodge named the current class of candidates "The Right Worshipful and Reverend Frank Dee Taylor Class."

He was District Deputy Grand Master of the Waltham Fifth District in 1938 and 1939. He was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge in 1943, and Deputy Grand Master in 1944. He was again appointed a Grand Chaplain in 1945 and served as such until 1962. He was Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Ecuador near the Grand Lodge in Massachusetts from 1940 to 1962. He received the Henry Price Medal in 1944 and the Veteran's Medal in 1960.

His interest in Freemasonry reached out to the Collateral Bodies. He received the Royal Arch Degree in Reading Chapter, Reading, on May 27,1914, and became a Charter Member of Watertown Chapter in 1922. He served as High Priest of this Chapter in 1927. He was District Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts in 1934 and 1935, and was Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter in 1936. He was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Chapter in 1940. He received the Super Excellent Degree in Cambridge Council in 1931, and was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Council from 1946 to 1957. ' He received the Order of the Temple in Beauseant Commandery, Malden, in 1919.

Right Worshipful Brother Taylor's Masonic interest found marked expression in the Scottish Rite. In 1922 he became a member of Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix, and Massachusetts Consistory. He was Orator of the Consistory from 1949 to 1955, and one of the Priors from 1955 until the time of his death. He was Prior of Massachusetts Council of Deliberation from 1946 to 1968. He was created an Honorary Member of the Supreme Council, Thirty-Third Degree on September 29, 1948.

Right Worshipful Brother Taylor graduated from Missouri Wesleyan College, from which he had an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree, and had his work in theology in Boston University. All of his pastoral ministry was in Massachusetts where he served Churches in West Chelmsford, Arlington Heights, Wakefield, Medford, Watertown and Newton Upper Falls. He was appointed District Superintendent of the Methodist Churches in the Worcester District in 1949 and served six years. Since his retirement he has served several Churches in an interim capacity. He was a Chaplain in the United States Army in World War One.

He will be long remembered for his contribution to Massachusetts Freemasonry. He enriched every relationship with which he was associated. His fertile mind, his facility in apt expression and natural eloquence, his perceptiveness as to the realities in Freemasonry, and religion, and life, enabled him to give a new dimension to every occasion where he was called upon for public address or prayer. His warm personality and his kindling friendliness won men to him instinctively. Freemasonry found a strong and tireless worker, an ardent friend and an outstanding exemplar in Frank Taylor. With all sincerity we can say of him what was said of another in days long gone:

"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' "

Fraternally submitted,
Thomas S. Roy
Howard E. Perry
Allen W. Stone
Committee

SPEECHES

FEAST OF ST. JOHN, DECEMBER 1943

From Proceedings, Page 1943-286:

Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren:

I have admired R. W. Tom Roy for the past twelve months, and I have learned to love him. I never admired him more than I do this very moment. In his retirement from office he looks comfortable and at ease. He has adorned the office of Deputy Grand Master. If he brought water last year, as has been suggested, I trust the fire may be as acceptable to the Craft as the water has been.I heard a story about two Methodist people. A man and woman had lived on earth as husband and wife for many years and had enjoyed a close and happy friendship together. They died at the same time. As they were entering the celestial land, they called upon St. Peter and made a request of him. They explained to him how happy they had been on earth and they wanted to be married again before entering upon their new life. Since they were married by a Methodist minister in their first wedding, they wanted a Methodist minister for their second.

St. Peter said, “You sit and wait there.” They waited several days. Then the man approached St. Peter again and said, “Perhaps you don’t understand. We want to be married again before we begin life here. We want to be married by a Methodist minister.”

“Yes, I understand. Just wait a bit.” They waited, longer and longer. They waited one thousand years, and the man dared to approach St. Peter again and said, “We do want to get married.” St. Peter said, “Yes. I am sorry you have had to wait so long. I will attend to it right away now. There has been no Methodist preacher here until this morning. Not one of those fellows has been here in the past thousand years.”

I don’t know why I am a Deputy, but that is what I am. Webster says a deputy is one appointed to take another’s place. Whose place am I taking? The Grand Master is here; the Grand Officers are here. I am taking nobody’s place. There is no occasion for me to be here at all, but I was told I must speak a bit.

I will tell you something about myself. In my weaker moments I have sometimes wanted to be a politician, but never have been allowed to realize that wish. In the next twelve months I am going to be close to one of them—and it will be a nice experience, I am sure.

There is a moment in the opening ritual of the Grand Lodge that always provides me with a thrill. I never weary of it. I got it today in finer fashion than ever before. It is at that period in the opening of the Grand Lodge when the Grand Master is about to state that we are ready for business. The lights have been properly prepared, the prayer has been spoken, the hymn has been sung, and the Grand Master stands with gavel up�lifted—Brother Schaefer was more skillful than usual with it this afternoon—and says, “I declare this Grand I.odge opened in Ample Form.”

Those words “ample form” always thrill me. Not many bodies are capable of opening in ample form. The legislative body of a sovereign state could open in ample form. The general council or conference of an ecclesiastical body might open in ample form. The general committee of the Red Cross could open in ample form, ample to meet any catastrophe that might strike, anywhere on the face of the earth. Not many bodies are opened in ample form, but the Grand Lodge is opened in ample form—ample enough to receive interest of any Brother, or any Lodge in the jurisdiction and act upon it with full and complete authority.

It suggests the amplitude of Freemasonry—ample enough for the exercise of all the Masonic virtues, ample enough for faith, hope and charity, for brotherhood, tolerance, self-control, good will—all those virtues that are fundamental to a happy and prosperous society.

Looking about this room tonight, marked by the Christmas season, looking at the Master’s desk, decorated with the lovely Christmas colors, I make bold to say that Freemasonry is ample to carry this spirit of Christmas out into human society, making “peace and good will” possible to all men.


Distinguished Brothers