The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-06-12
PROF. n. ". HARLLEE DELIVERS
WELCOME ADDRESS TO GRAND
LODGE MONDAY MONT. /.


GERS and Members of the Grand
Court of Calanthe, Representatives
of the lodges, ladies and gentle
men: The hour is at hand for the
converting of the annual session of
the Grand Lodge and the Grand
Court, and we have left our homes
to meet you at the very gates of the
city as you gather, coming from
your various lodges and homes. The
local lodges and courts have COM
missioned me from among those
who come to greet you and yours
with the tidings of cordial welcome
as you enter the gate way OF our
city. AS the representative of all
the lodges and courts ! am author,
lied to claim you as our worthy
guests, and we, are honored to have
you with us as our friends and
honored guests, You are no long
er servants of toll, but you are
at home with your friends in your
Fathers house. come in and en-
joy its hospitality. Z All the doors
are opened to you, enter while you
may.
Secret Fraternities. VI
Secret fraternities are elements
of civilization and as such we find
them common centers for fraternal
and social advancement. No man
liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself. Man longs for the COM
panionship of environment, with
out society he is lost and looses
his higher and better qualities and
develops into the beast of low in
centlves, but with society, with COM
panlonship, he ever changes into
higher stages from the citizen into
the sovereign and with proper en-
vironment of Christian graces, he
changes into the nobility and dig
nifty OF the highest type. God has
design that he should not live alone.
Hence he organized society for him
and placed him in garden and
down through the centuries man
clings to society in a varied form.
Through these we can accomplish
much in both the spiritual and ma
terial affairs. Let us have the Sc
cret fraternities and have them
more abundance. They are centers
of civilization and should be foster
cred for the good they do.
Why We Meet In Annual Session.
We are met tonight in annual
session, and we are come to re-
view the work accomplished, and
to take fresh encouragement for
greater activities for another year
with the experience of the past
er to have heart to heart talk as
brothers, and as members of the
great fraternity counts for much
in the way of wisdom and prudence
in the council of the order. We
are met to lay plans for the great
er growth of Pythianism.
Your work has been that of the
good Samaritan and that of the
humanitarian in the dispensing
timely aid to the widow and orphan
and to become ministering angels
to their urgent needs, and too, your
work has had to do with building
up a higher citizenship, in that
every lodge organized and every
court established, we find that
higher motives, and higher incen-
tives have followed in the pathway
of raising the moral aspect and
dignity of the membership in the
grand old order.
Uniform Rank.
Our uniform rank has kept alive
the only heritage left to us as
form of the military remembrance
in this commonwealth where in we
may get shadowry view of the past
and as such it should be the pride
of all the lodges to relish and even
foster this department which means
so much to us in every way. II
should be our purpose to recruit the
Uniform Ranks in every possible
manner in all it's relation of activity
and usefulness. Her ranks should
be recruited by thousands of our
young men with special pride, and
the spirit of the young cadets
should ever be encouraged and kept
alive to this Importance.
Business Relations.
This great order stands for bust
ness conducted on business and COM
mercial principles, which are es-
sential for the good of the order.
The hours have struck when these
annual gathering should no longer
be the assemblage of show glittering
regalias and gay insignas and loud
demonstrations of the child play,
for the time has come when we
should as wise men, men of coun
Gil, intrusted with the high duty
of sacredness of building up an in
stitution the membership of the fra
ternity for the common good of all
concerned. Our influence is to reach
out like a great net work in the
business relations into the rateries
of thrift and industry in every
avenue of usefulness that should
wakep in it's touch every interest
of our people, uplifting and inspir-
ing them in home getting and land
purchasing, for a Knight with
home or a farm, will make a SOW
ereign Knight, a mighty landlord.
If Pythianism means anything, 1t
means all this and more. too, 1t
means the birth, new birth of the
spirit of Damon and Pythias, COM
ing at this time to give common
sense and prudence to all their dis
ciples.
Object and Scope.
What is the object of becoming
a member of this noble Order? Is
its chief object the immediate bene-
fits in cold dollars and cents, If
so we might find these in others
commercial circles? The highest
motives should be a manetary or
pecuniary one, but there is a high
er motive. The motive of personal
contact, personal environment to-
be taken in due consideration. BY
all means, we are to consider the
mercinary benefits but in receiving
these, we as true Knights are to