Masonic After Dinner Speaking: How to Prepare & Deliver Speeches

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Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

This may be an established custom within the Lodge, but it needs to be set out in such a format that will enable the Master and his principal officers to control the proceedings smoothly with dignity and style. Included within the book is the bill for an Installation Night of the Old Dundee Lodge which makes the present Installation Banquet of two courses look parsimonious. Brethren are advised to consult with the Director of Ceremonies regarding the proper salutations and titles for the occasion, as these may be an individual lodge decision.If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. After most lodge meetings in this jurisdiction are ended, the officers and brethren will retire to the banquet room for what is often referred to as the Festive Board.

Of course you will comment on the WM (or his stand-in) and you will either congratulate him on the skill of his ritual or on his sincerity. Thank you so much for your great toastmaster performance on the evening and I enclose a copy of the menu for your records. The book covers the early days of Freemasonry when lodges met in taverns and how they dined after the meeting. This gathering is opened with a prayer, conducted with certain toasts, and closed with the Tyler’s Toast.

The ornaments of your Lodge will be the guests who frequent it and a visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. Aristotle taught that a speaker’s ability to persuade an audience is based on how well the speaker appeals to that audience in three different areas: logos, ethos, and pathos. However matters may go in France or with the French Government, or other French Governments, we in this Island and in the British Empire will never lose our sense of comradeship with the French people.

Speaking well can be a delight and a good speech gives your Brethren pleasure, so it is worth working at it. This is just ‘the sort of thing that is expected,’ for the work in the temple may have been dreadful. The procedure at the Festive Board should be an established sequence of events that includes the formal Toast List. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. If you are feeling a bit nervous or just want to know everything in detail, this is the book you need.

Public speaking is a skill you can learn, and Freemasonry offers the opportunity to perfect and practice this skill. You should talk about what the Lodge is going to do next, ‘advertising’ its activities and motivating the Brethren to participate.