My Religion
author unknown
When talk turns to religion
I have notions of my own
Have my versions of the Bible
And things I think alone.
And I find them satisfying,
Find them comforting to me,
Though I wouldn't lose my temper
If you chose to disagree.
For religion as I see it
Is a pathway to the goal,
And its something to be settled
Between each man and his soul.
Now I'm not a Roman Catholic,
But I wouldn't go so far
As to fling away the friendship
Of the ones I know that are.
I've lived and neighbored with them
Come to love them through and through
I've respect and admiration
For the kindly things they do.
I've known Methodists, Baptists,
Scientists and Jews,
Whose friendship is a treasure
That I wouldn't want to lose.
So when the people talk religion,
I just settle back and see
Every helpful, loyal friend
Each Church has given me.
John
North Willys (October 25, 1873 – August 26, 1935), father of the Willys
Jeep, was an American automotive pioneer and statesman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willys
(Barton Smith Lodge 613, Toledo)
Ellsworth
Milton (E.M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 – April 16, 1928), founder of
Statler Hotels, was an American hotel businessman born in Somerset
County, Pennsylvania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth_Milton_StatlerDeMolay Lodge 498, Buffalo, NY
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson IAdlai
Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd
Vice President of the United States (1893–1897). Previously, he served
as a Congressman from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After
his subsequent appointment as Assistant Postmaster General of the United
States during Grover Cleveland's first administration
(1885–1889), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them
with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the
Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover
Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he duly became 23rd Vice President
of the United States.
In office, he supported the free-silver
lobby against the gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for
ruling in a dignified, non-partisan manner.
In 1900, he ran for
Vice President with William Jennings Bryan. Although unsuccessful, he
was the first ex-Vice President ever to win re-nomination for that post
with a different Presidential candidate. Stevenson was the grandfather
of Adlai Stevenson II, a Governor of Illinois and twice Democratic
Presidential candidate.
(Bloomington Lodge 43, Illinois)
Photo by Napoleon Sarony (1821–1896)
