Temple Topics - Sabbar Shrine Temple

Noble Allan Morgan
Assistant Rabban 2013
Assertions of the Asst. Rabban
In my last article I said
I was going to review
sections of the Shrine
Creed since I feel that
it is important that we
remember why we became
members in the
first place. Some of us
have been members for
a great many years and
have undertaken a lot
of projects, and functions
in support of the
Shrine, and may have
not thought about the
Creed in a while. Over
the years, personality differences, demands from our
jobs, and families may have distracted us from the
reasons we entered into this brotherhood.
Personally, I find it helpful to re-read the creed when
the normal stresses of life make it a difficult choice,
of whether to participate in support of the
organization or take the easy way out and stay home.
As a beginning, the Shrine Creed states that
“Shriners believe in God, and that He created man to
serve His purposes, among which is service to others
in His name. We believe that care for the less
fortunate, especially the Children who suffer from
burns and crippling diseases, is our institutional
calling.” In our cases, that means supporting the
efforts of Sabbar Shrine to serve the children and
families by seeing to it that they are able to get to
the medical care which they need and which is
available at the Shrine hospitals. I don’t know of a
Shriner that doesn’t believe that the work we do in
support of the hospitals is not an important part of
God’s work. If the children are not protected,
nourished, and provided with the care they need to
make them whole, and imbue them with desire to
pass that caring attitude forward to next generation
then we are destined to become a nation of uncaring
takers, instead of a nation of caring givers. In my
mind, it starts with the children. If we cannot
make a difference in our own generation, then we
have to make the effort to give them the
wherewithal so they can make a difference in the
next generation. We as adults, practicing
Masons, and Shriners have to be able to put aside
our personal differences to support the Temple in
it’s work.
I ask that, as a Shriner and a Mason, you
examine your actions and see if you can find a way
to participate in the great work we do for the Children.
Actions do speak louder than words, and
every action you take to help the Shrine,
particularly Sabbar Temple, to succeed is
welcomed and encouraged. Every action, no matter
how small, whether it be of time, money, assisting
in the activities of the Temple, or
encouraging members of your Blue Lodge who
may be interested in the Shrine’s work to
participate, speaks loudly of the type of man you
are, and I am sure will be rewarded by the
Supreme Being in some way, shape, or form.
My own experience has been that, contrary to the
old saying that “No Good Deed Goes
Unpunished” in that my life has been better, and
the struggles more easily weathered by my Faith,
Hope and small amount of Charity I have been
able to provide others in worse circumstances than
myself.
With respect to all Brother Nobles,
Allen P. Morgan, Asst. Rabban.
M A R T o p I c s
D e a d l I n e
M A R 1 8 !
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