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Welcome to the Order of the Secret Monitor or Brotherhood of David and Jonathan for the Province of Sussex.Our Order, which was formally constituted in 1887, is open to every Freemason of whatever rank, creed or nationality who has been raised as a member of a Regular Craft Constitution. Our rituals and ceremonies provide a profound understanding of the principles of brotherly love and the practice of that morality to the highest level. If you are not a member of our Order and you enjoy membership of the Craft, you will gain a higher level of pleasure within our Order. Our website will give you an insight into our Order, but you will only fully appreciate the friendliness, support and happiness which radiates from our gatherings by actually joining us. This small friendly Masonic Order presently has a national membership of approximately 10,500. The Sovereign Body of the Order is the Grand Conclave of the Order of the Secret Monitor or Brotherhood of David and Jonathan in The British Isles and its Districts and Conclaves Overseas. It is administered from Mark Masons' Hall, 86 St. James's Street, London, SW1A 1PL. Contact us if you are interested in joining or you require more information. Principles of the Order of the Secret MonitorA Society framed upon the principles of self-sacrifice, of mutual trust, watchful brotherly care, of compulsory warning in time of danger, official solace in time of sorrow and skilful and effective though unostentatious advice in every circumstance in life. A Society that meets a great and crying need in human affairs and is calculated to benefit those who act up to its tenets. Such a Society is that of the Secret Monitor. If a Brother be in sorrow the Conclave will afford him sympathy; if in danger his Brethren will give him assistance; if in distress the Visiting Deacons will bring him consolation; if in poverty he will find aid. Moreover, at every turn of life, at every crisis of fate, a Brother may look and he will not look in vain, to the experienced among his Brethren who have pledged themselves to give him caution, to prompt him to good actions, to warn him of doubtful ones and generally to watch over him, support him and cherish him, so long as he may need their care and prove himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him. Such are the principles of our Order; tried they have been in times of peril and true they have been found in times of difficulty. |