Wesconnett Chapter #247
5917 Old Timuquana Road
Jacksonville, FL 32210
Meetings:
2nd and 4th Thursdays
7:30 PM
The Order of the Eastern Star is an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity. Founder, Rob Morris sought to share the great fraternity with female relatives of Master Masons. He established an organization founded upon the lessons of our Heroines.
About our Heroines
Adah - Jephthah's Daughter
The vow that Jephthah made unto the Lord is considered by some writers as an extremely unfortunate one, and the great blunder of his life. He doubtless wanted to have every assurance of success and thus vowed a vow unto the Lord, which cost him the life of his daughter. His daughter was perfectly willing that her life should be sacrificed and thus fulfill her father's obligation unto Jehovah.
Ruth - The Gleaner
Naomi yearned for her old home and the home friends and resolved to return to Bethlehem again.
This story is the classic example of true and tried friendship between two women. It is often compared with David and Jonathan, and Damon and Pythias. It is the passionate love of a girl for her mother-in-law
Esther - The Noble Queen
The heroine of the story is Esther, one of the Jewish exiles, who rises from the most humble walks of life to become a queen, and thereby ultimately rescuing her people from wholesale destruction, planned by Haman, the favorite courtier of the king. One must take into account the circumstances of her life and the conditions of her time.
Martha - The Sister
Martha was the housekeeper. She looked after the food, comforts of the family, and the guests. Martha is the patron saint of all good housewives, careful mothers, and skillful and efficient nurses of the present generation. Her character makes a strong appeal to energetic women and especially to comfort-loving men.
Electa - The Elect Lady
She professed her faith to the whole world, although she knew what reproaches, persecutions even unto death, that she must undergo for the stand that she took. It meant the loss of good name, wealth, of means of doing good, of liberty, of husband and children, and of life itself. Yet she was willing to undergo all these things for the love of Christ and for the Christian religion in which she showed the most implicit faith.