The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-07-16
The Fraternity is Encouraged In the
Work I'm the Order.


OF JOSEPH.
The Fraternity is Encouraged In the
Work in the Order.
The annual thanksgiving sermon
of the Golden Chain of the World
was preached at the Macedonia Bap-
fist church on Sunday, the 10th
inst, by Rev. E. Arlington Wilson.
The doctor divided his discourse
into two part, that of a lecture,
and that of a sermon. The lee
ture feature contained much infOr-
nation, and advice FOR the race
touching the points in the actions of
the habits and the dire want of de-
corium of our people in public
places, especially in travelling on
trains, making loud and uncalled
for demonstrations in raising wild
ows, and many of them seemed lost
as to good manners and to the sense
OF respect for the more decent per-
sons who may ride in the same
coach They seemed happy in the
fact that all in the same coach were
in the same condition and were on
the same level and would remark
that if any might be on the same
coach that did not partake of the
same demonstration regardless as
"stucked up" and thought himself
better than others. The lecture
part was timely and full of the COM
mon sense that needed to be heed
ed by those who ought take warn
ing.
"These lodges are school masters
to train our people and TO fit them
for the higher calling in simple
manners. 1t was but fitting that
we should organize lodges and con-
troll them for in so doing we would
be trained along the lines of citi
zenship and common ethics. OF
course, there is difference and
these remarks do not have reference
to those who are in the habit of
acting with decency on trains and
in public places.
In the sermon features, DR.. Will
son touched upon the high points
of the life of Joseph, the second
ruler of Egypt as to how the in
terpreter rose to that station and
was given the chief place in the
management of affairs in the pre-
paration and providing for the seven
years of famine. The purposes of
God can not be defeated. The
dreamer of dreams becomes the ruler
the wearer of the coat of many
colors, becomes the ruler of many
people and provinces. said unto
Pharoh unto Joseph l have set the
over all the land of Egypt" and
Pharoah took off his ring from his
hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand
and arrayed him in vestures of fine
linen, and put a gold chain about
his neck The rejected and the
dreamer once despised and debased
an Inundated by his brothers now
becomes a mighty ruler through the
providence of God. Man proposed
but God disposes. The purposes of
God are ripe, and will unfold in
due season, they can not be de-
feated. His DEGREES are certain,
His ways are high and holy. Your
station may be lowly. let your pur-
poses be planted in the eternal pur-
poses of God and all will be well
with you. God will make you chief
ruler. Joseph is rewarded for fore
telling and making plain the dream
of Pharoah so that he may know
the full meaning of the same, the
ruler becomes reconciled and set
to work out the plans made known
to him concerning the dream. The
dreamer is thrust in prison, an in
nocent man, but the prison can
not hold him, he is to be the ruler.
righteousness prevails much. He
who is sold as a slave, rises up as
ruler, and he who is debased is
now exalted, the slave is decked
with a ring on his hand, and
chain of honor about his neck, the
story of the sheaves, and of the
moon and stars are revealed to the
brothers of Joseph. He who was
mourned as dead is much alive and
is the second ruler of the land. The
rejected becomes the chief corner
stone.
The chief butler forgets Joseph.
freed himself from the confines of
the prison, remembers'not the prom
Use made to Joseph when he comes
before Pharoah. But Pharoah needs
an interpreter, and the chief butler
after 2 years remembers what Joseph
had done for him and the baker and
informs Pharoah of the powers of
the Hebrew lad who is brought be-
fore Pharoah and makes known the
dreams of the ruler when the ma
gicians and Hhe wisest of the wise
had failed but it was Joseph's
turn, it was the time of promotion,
the day of recompense anf of hon
or.