Members versus Men

"The value of our Fraternity is not in numbers,
but in men, in real brotherhood.
Eight men thoroughly immersed
in the true Omega spirit are far
greater assets than eighty
with lukewarm enthusiasm."

Bro.Walter H. Mazyck

 

The Bridge Builder

An old man going a lone highway,
came at the evening cold and grey;
To a chasm vast and wide and steep,
with waters rolling cold and deep.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
the sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side,
and built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man” said a fellow pilgrim near,  
You're wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
you never again will pass this way.
You’ve crossed the chasm deep and wide,
why build you this bridge at eventide?” 

The Builder lifted his old grey head,
"Good friend, in the path I have come"  he said.
There followeth after me today,
a youth whose feet must pass this way.
The chasm that was as nought to me,
to that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He too must cross in the twilight dim -
“ Good friend, I’m building this bridge for him.”

 W. A. Dromgool