Included are many examples of speeches covering a wide variety of masonic occasions which will help the reader to develop his talents and increase his confidence. We impart and receive knowledge, ideas and, most important: expressions of friendship and brotherhood. This is frequently undertaken to excess, causing disruption during the serving of the various courses, which is dangerous if food is being served. You'll learn and remember everything you need to make a great speech, even at short notice, while enjoying a good laugh.

This process increases your familiarity with the speech and also gives you some good positive feedback. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. Worshipful Master, Grand Lodge Officers, Officers of District and Provincial Grand Lodges, Holders of Metropolitan* and Overseas Grand Rank, Officers and Brethren. Having given the formal salutation, they advise, pause, smile and count to three before saying anything. Did you know, for example, that Columbus actually set out to find the route to Cathay – India and China?God help us all to pass this way, With love fraternal on this day, And remind us too of those in need, While we sit and drink and feed. So never – ever – say anything about the work in the temple or the festive board except to express the hope that the visitors have enjoyed them. To be in control requires certain management skills that need to be acquired well in advance of a brother’s installation into the chair of his Lodge.

Now we are back in the Lodge room once again, maybe it is time to review how we learn and deliver ritual and look at different ways of improving that process.At breakfast he noted that there was a 7 o’clock at Windsor races and that there were 7 horses in it. Grand Lodge provides information, gives guidance when sought, admonishes and encourages the lodge when needed. Provides sufficient elementary instruction to enable any mason to rise with some degree of confidence and to speak for the required few minutes without disgrace.

You should exhort the Brethren to greater efforts, for example, in charity, in the ritual, in recruitment and in visiting and inviting visitors. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.A simple booklet about leadership or managerial control will provide all the ideas necessary for this subject. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. If speech-making is about planning in advance by the creation of the ‘’skeleton’’, then clothing it with sensible thought and then storing it away for the future is the solution.