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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: children left destitute by the death of members. In fancy I again
beheld the vision of long trains of lodge men going to their
yearly meeting, but this time, in a city of their own building,
and over the gateway to this red-roofed town I saw the legend:
THE CITY OF HAPPY CHILDREN
But alas for dreams! Any one can have them, but their
realization is not always possible. The men in the Moose before
me had fought vainly for these high ideals. At the end of my
first year as director general I had not made one-tenth the
progress I had hoped for. Figuring on the rate of progress I was
making, I saw that a lifetime would be too short to accomplish
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