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Free & Accepted Masons M.W.P.H.G.L. of Pennsylvania 4301 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19140 History
SHEBA LODGE No.7 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS, ORIGINATED IN 1830 IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, OUTSIDE OF THE PRINCE HALL FAMILY. ON DECEMBER 27, 1882 SHEBA LODGE No.7 BECAME A DULY CONSTITUTED LODGE OF PRINCE HALL FREE MASONS, AND RECEIVED ITS CHARTER FROM THE PRINCE HALL GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, HAVING MET ITS CONSTITUTIONAL AND RITUALISTIC OBLIGATIONS. THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER IN 1882 WAS AMBROSE SPENCE. SINCE THAT TIME, THE LODGE HAS MAINTAINED AND HAS IN ITS POSSESSION ITS ORIGINAL CHARTER. SHEBA LODGE HAS STRIVED TO UPHOLD THE GOLD'S, ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL PRINCE HALL GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. THROUGH THE YEARS, THE LODGE HAS CONTINUED TO PRESERVE THROUGH WARS, ECONOMICAL STRIFE AND THE STRUGGLE OF OUR PEOPLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. CONTINUOUSLY, HER MEMBER HAS GONE FORTH ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF THIS NATION TO HELP PRESERVE THE FREEDOM THAT WE ALL NOW ENJOY. SHEBA LODGE No. 7 GREW IN THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. RECORDS SHOW, SHEBA LODGE No. 7 HAD A ROLL OF FOURTEEN MEMBERS, WHICH GRADUALLY INCREASED. BY 1908, THERE WAS A TOTAL OF FIFTEEN MEMBERS. IN 1925, THERE WAS FIFTY-NINE MEMBERS WITH THIRTEEN PAST MASTERS. MEMBERS OF SHEBA LODGE HAVE SOUGHT AND ENTERED INTO THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF FREE MASONRY ENDEAVORING TO NOT ONLY ENHANCE THEMSELVES AND THE MOST WORSHIPFUL PRINCE HALL GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE LODGE PARTICIPATES IN NUMEROUS ENDEAVORS TO EXACT THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF FREE MASONRY. THROUGH THEIR SUPPORT OF UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND DRIVES, THE NAACP, THE PHILADELPHIA URBAN LEAGUE, THE PHILADELPHIA FELLOWSHIP COMMISSION, PLUS NUMEROUS CHURCHES IN PHILADELPHIA AREA. THE LODGE, IN HELPING ITS OWN, MAINTAINS A CHARITY FUND FOR ITS WIDOWS AND NEEDY BROTHERS AND SIGNIFICANTLY ANY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. WHERE FAMILIES HAVE SUFFERED THROUGH FIRES, DEATH OR ECONOMICAL STRIFE, THE LODGE HAS RALLIED TO COME TO THEIR AID, TO EXTEND AN OPEN HAND OF BROTHERLY LOVE. IN 1970 SHEBA LODGE SPONSORED A KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS COUNCIL. THE COUNCIL WAS NAMED AFTER ONE OF OUR PAST MASTER WHO HAVE SERVED THIS LODGE WELL AND HIS SON BROTHER WEYMON DICKERSON WORKED IN THIS LODGE UNTIL HIS DEATH IN APRIL OF 2004. BROTHER WEYMON DICKERSON WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL, HE WAS ALSO A LIFE MEMBER OF SHEBA LODGE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THIS LODGE FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. PAST MASTER JAMES C. HARRIS HAS BEEN THE COUNCIL ADVISOR SINCE MAY OF 1991. BROTHER TERRENCE GREEN BECAME A MEMBER OF SHEBA AFTER SERVING AS THE GRAND MASTER KNIGHT AND IS NOW THE ASSISTANT COUNCIL ADVISOR. BROTHER LEON STOVALL WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF MARTIN A. DICKERSON SR. #15 AND IS A MEMBER OF SHEBA. BROTHER GREEN AND BROTHER STOVALL WAS RAISED IN 2008 THIS WAS THE FIST TIME IN OUR HISTORY THAT WE HAD TWO OR MORE OF OUR KNIGHTS TO COME INTO SHEBA AT THE SAME TIME. AS WE CELEBRATE, THIS OUR 127TH ANNIVERSARY IN THE PRINCE HALL FAMILY OF FREE MASONRY, WE ARE PROUD TO SALUTE THOSE WHO HAVE HELP TO MAKE OUR HISTORY AN OUTSTANDING ONE. WE SALUTE THOSE PAST MASTER THAT THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE HAS CALLED TO SERVE HIM. OUR PAST MASTER THAT ARE STILL WITH US, WE HUMBLY HONOR, AND WE WISH GOD'S SPEED TO THE OFFICERS, MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILY, BOTH IN THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER FOR 2009- 2010 IS WILLIAM MANGUM. WE ASK FOR DIVINE LEADERSHIP, THAT WE MAY UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS BESTOWED UPON US. AS FREE PEOPLE, MAY GOD CONTINUE TO PLACE A DIVINE HAND UPON OUR SOULS, MIND AND HEARTS.
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