Texas Freemason Magazine

  A Look Back - From The Proceedings of The Grand Lodge of Texas  December 1924 Grand Orator's Address By Right Worshipful Brother Joe B. Hines, Grand Orator As a Man Thinketh Most Worshipful Grand Master, Right Worshipful Past Grand Masters, Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Masters, Right Worshipful Senior and Junior Grand Wardens and Brethren: During hundreds of centuries the human race has existed upon this planet, the sphere upon which we move and act, and we call the period of existence here our life.   In the vision of poets and the teachings of sages and the common experience of mankind is summarized by the symbolic term "A Pilgrimage." In that pilgrimage are encountered many storms, woeful terrors, mighty dangers, and distressing reverses.   Life, therefore, seems full of perplexity and sorrow.   Like the Arabian chief, whose trials are depicted in Holy Writ, humanity ofttimes yields to despair and breaks forth into the dread lamentation "Man is born ...

by James C. “Chris” Wiliams IV Well dear readers of this column, it was bound to happen sooner or later.   I always get a little stressed towards the end of the month when I haven’t heard from John.   I rarely talk to him during the month because we are both so busy, and I know that sometime during that last week of the month I will look up and see him driving into the shop or pick up the phone and he will be there.   The month was two days from being over and I hadn’t heard a peep from him.   Stress was not the descriptive word at this point……it was more like terror.   I have long worried that the day was going to come when John might be sick or the victim of some other calamity that would keep him from enlightening me and the rest of the Masonic Fraternity about what was on his mind and in his stomach for that month.   He was not answering his cell phone and neither he nor Mrs. Deacon was answering their home phone.   My first impression was that som...