This is a great development for Freemasonry — provided of course that some of our Brethren can overcome past grudges and see this for the opportunity it is.

To what am I referring?  The growing recognition, both inside and outside of Freemasonry, of Brother Prince Hall as a founding father of American civil rights.   I’m going to betray my own ignorance, but I had no idea that Prince Hall was such an eloquent voice for the kind of universal brotherhood and equality that is at the heart of Masonic teachings.  As Prince Hall wrote

“For if I love a man for the sake of the image of God which is on him, I must love all, for he made all, and upholds all . . . let them be of what colour or nation they may, yea even our very enemies.’’

Here’s the full story of efforts well underway to construct a public monument to this great man in Cambridge, Massachusetts.