Who Can Best Serve?

Throughout our lives we are involved in a competitive system.

There may be a great deal of merit in the struggle through competition up to a certain point.

The child comes home with his report card and a grade B. The first question the fond parent asks is: “What did George get on his report card?” So firmly
entrenched are we in this system that our grades are only relatively important.

Competitive sport is good so long as the contestants have due regard to the rules of the game. A system of competition in business is good so long as Public Opinion insists that moral laws are obeyed.

Masonry, wise in the wisdom of the centuries, establishes an ideal system, one that makes it possible for all men to advance, and not at the expense of his brother. The Mason is forever engaged in the struggle to improve self, to find a higher spiritual center for self. All Masons are participants in this “competitive system.”

The goal is not fame or fortune, gold or jewels, power and authority, but only “Who Can Best Serve.”
 

Rays of Masonry by Dewey Wollstein -1953