North Star Light 11735 Kader Dr. Parma, OH 44130. ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Meetings Meetings North Star LodgeNorth StarF.&A.M. No638 December 2019 Volume 74 Issue 6 God said God said to the RenovationandHome. Fund tothe Ohio Masonic contributions made have who brethren the all thank to like would We Remember the Reason for the Reason Season for the Remember -- –

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OFFICERS FOR 2019 TRESTLEBOARD

Jan 8 Stated, EA Degree practice Kenneth J. Knish Worshipful Master Jan 22 Stated, EA Degree 6129 Creekhaven Dr #6 Parma Hts, 44130 Mar 26 Awards Night 216-326-2579 [email protected] dinner at 6:30 PM Brian Davis Senior Warden Apr 22 Inspection in the MM Degree Eric R. Owens Junior Warden TBA WPMT Annual Picnic Scott W. Halley PM Treasurer

Wm. J. Craig PM Secretary Oct 11 Annual Chile cook-off

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Eric Braden Senior Deacon Rather than incorrectly predict the de- Visit below for information, pictures, and upcoming events. Junior Deacon gree schedule in advance I would en- Robert W. Ross Junior Steward courage you to monitor the Trestle- Lodge webpage at www.northstar638.org Henry W. Rees Chaplain board on www.northstar638.org or District webpage at www.ohiodistrict22.org Roger K. Owens Marshall check your emails. If you do not have Ohio Grand Lodge at www.freemason.com Michael J. Munoz PM LEO internet access and would like to be updated, please let us know. James M. Pace Tyler

Any distress, illness or good contact George W Gladden PM Trustee our Senior Deacon; Eric Braden Michael S Firman PM Trustee 3135 Lorain Ave. Cleveland 44113 George H Gordon PM Trustee 440-458-1815 eric.braden117gmail.com

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Religions of the World WHEN IS A GAVEL NOT A GAVEL? WHEN If you are a member of the Jewish faith, your religion was found- IT IS A MAUL! ed by Abraham about 4000 years ago. If you are Hindu, your religion Another distinct Scottish Masonic tradition. developed in India around 1500 B.C. If you are Buddhist, your religion We have previously discussed Lodges in prior to the existence of any Grand split from Hinduism and was founded by Buddha, Prince Siddhartha Lodge. We showed the earliest Lodge record which belonged to Lodge Aitcheson’s Gautama of India, about 500 B.C. If you are Roman Catholic, Jesus Haven and which was dated 9 January 1599.

Christ began your religion in the year 33. If you are Islamic, Mohammed These pre-Grand Lodge, Lodges were of all variants: started your religion in what is now Saudi Arabia around A.D. 600.If 1) Stonemasons’ Lodges (that is the members were all stonemasons) 2) Mixed type A (that is the membership was partly stonemasons and partly specula- you are Eastern Orthodox, your sect separated from Roman Catholicism tive Masons but the majority were stonemasons) around the year 1000. If you are Lutheran, your religion was founded by 3) Mixed type B (that is the membership was partly stonemasons and partly specula- tive Masons but the minority were stonemasons) and, Martin Luther, an ex-monk in the Catholic Church in 1517. If you be- 4) Lodges who’s membership was made up of entirely speculative Masons. long to the Church of (Anglican), your religion was founded by The problems this caused when some speculative Masons decided to form the Grand Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a di- Lodge of Scotland in 1736 have been previously discussed but here we wish to consid- vorce with the right to remarry. If you are Presbyterian, your religion er one of the myriad consequences that demonstrate the connection between the pre- 1717 Lodge’s and those of today. was founded when John Knox brought the teachings of John Calvin to Scotland in the year 1560. If you are Unitarian, your religious group de- In most Lodges in Scotland the Master and Wardens use a Maul. This was one of the main working tool of a stonemason. We know that stonemasons simply took their veloped in Europe in the 1500s. If you are Congregationalist, your reli- working tools from their daytime labour building site to Lodge meetings in the even- gion branched of from Puritanism in the early in England. If you ing. In short, the working tools were used for practical as well as speculative purposes. We know this because Lodges have donated Mauls (and other working tools) as used are Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who by working stonemasons. Today such items are decorative rather than practical. No launched it in Amsterdam in 1607. If you are Methodist, your religion doubt this was because as speculative Masons came to dominate Lodges they did not wish to used large, heavy, mauls (and aprons etc) as used by stonemasons and so was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. If you are adopted the shape of the maul but made it smaller, lighter and more decorative. The small hammers used by judges in some courts of law (although not in Scotland) Episcopalian, your religion was brought over from England, to the are known as gavels and are ceremonially used to keep order. In Scottish Lodges the American colonies and formed a separate religion founded by Samuel Maul serves the same purpose.

Seabury in 1789. If you are Mormon (Latter day Saints), started your However, some Lodges have now adopted a small hammer, or gavel, instead of the church in Pakmyra, N.Y. in 1830. If you worship with the Salvation Ar- Maul quite often because they are unaware of the stonemasons’ traditions or because someone has donated gavels to the Lodge and it would be rude not to use them! One my (it’s a religious group, not just an organization that collects money in wonders if the appearance of ‘travelling gavels’ has reinforced the idea that it is the kettles on Christmas and serves dinners to homeless), your sect began gavel that is important? with William Booth in in 1865. If you are a Christian Scientist, Just to confuse the issue further when the Master passed the Maul to another person you look to 1879 as the year your religion was founded by Mary Baker (usually at the annual visitation) we have heard them say – ‘I hereby present to you the Lodge gavel…’ but of course it is actually a Maul! Eddy. If you are a Jehovah’s Witness, your religion was founded by Charles Taze Russel in Pennsylvania in the 1870s.If you are Pentecostal, your religion started in the USA in 1901. BERRY’S CORNER Page 4 NORTH STAR LIGHT December 2019 December 2019 NORTH STAR LIGHT page 5

A humble man wished to use His candy-making art To make a Christmas gift for Christ That came straight from his heart.

First he shaped the candy Into a shepherd’s staff, a”J” — To stand for the name of Jesus, Who was born on Christmas Day.

He used white stripes to symbolize Jesus’ virgin birth, And his sinlessness and purity During his time on earth.

Finally, he colored the candy With stripes made out of red, to represent His blood shed