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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 87, 18 August 1877, Page 3

The way Freemasonry Works.— A physician- m Washington, D.C., was called to visit professionally a young lady taken suddenly arid' seriously ill.* Employed m one of the departments, she was comparatively without friends or resources, and when rendered help- ' less by disease lier condition was truly deplorable! The physician, ascertaining his patient's name to be the same as that of a brother Mason m Boston whom he had met some years previously, he inquired if she was related to this person. ' Being told that she w.as the daughter of this craftsman, whom it should be remembered the physician only knew as i a member o£ the fraternity, he not only §aye her skilful professional treatment, . ut saw that she'wanted for nothing of , care and proper nursing ; and when she was sufficiently recovered to travel he accompanied her on her journey, and was not' content until he had piaped her : m her -own ■ Eastern home. Then exchanging'fraternal salutations with his old-time Masonic acquaintance, he returned to his work and calling, hardly conscious, perhaps, of. the moving power that had influenced him to so noble a deed, iif"the excercise of a large and generous charity. -This incident is only one of a thousand which might be adduced to prove ;the power and worth of Masonry.