Master Mason : p. 55 MASTER MASON [Freemasonry, as before stated, is progressive, and a knowledge of its philosophy and teachings can only be acquired by time, patience, perseverance and close application. In the first degree, we are taught the duties we owe to God, our neighbor and ourselves. In the second, we...
Approval Of Revision : p. 3 APPROVAL OF REVISION Under date of December 5th, 1907, the Grand Lodge of Texas adopted the following report of Bro. E. E. Douglass for the Committee on Work: REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WORK To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Texas: We, your Committee on Work, to whom was referred that part...
Installation Ceremony For A Subordinate Lodge : p. 102 INSTALLATION CEREMONY FOR A SUBORDINATE LODGE The Marshal presents the Master-elect to the Installing Officer, and says: Worshipful Master: I present you Bro. A. B., who has been duly and constitutionally elected W. Master of.................. Lodge, No...., Ancient Free and Accepted Masons...
Fellow Craft's Degree : p. 37 FELLOW-CRAFT'S DEGREE [Masonry, like all other sciences, is progressive, and can only be acquired by degrees, and at intervals. When an Entered Apprentice has served the proper time, and learned properly the Ritual of the first degree, he can, and it is his duty (if he is a good and true...
Title Page : p. 1 THE OFFICIAL MONITOR Of The Grand Lodge Of Ancient Free And Accepted Masons State Of Texas Adopted December, 1921 GAYLE PRINTING CO. WACO p. 2 COPYRIGHT BY THE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS A.F.&A.M. 1922 NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , December 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is...
Installation Ceremony Of The Grand Lodge : p. 77 INSTALLATION CEREMONY OF THE GRAND LODGE [The following Installation Ceremony was prepared by Past Grand Master John Sayles, in 1879, was approved, and has been since then used by the M. W. Grand Lodge in installing its officers. By special permission of his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Sayles...
Constituting A Lodge : p. 117 CONSTITUTING A LODGE The ceremony of installing the officers and putting the Lodge at work under a Charter for the first time, is the same as the preceding, except the preliminary steps, which are as follows: The Installing Officer, who by the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Texas, must...
Untitled : THE OFFICIAL MONITOR Of The Grand Lodge Of Ancient Free And Accepted Masons State Of Texas [1922] This is the 'Monitor' of the Texas Masons. It describes ceremonies, including the those used for the three major initiations and the burial rite. The Monitor has model speeches and prayers for various...
Masonic Burial Service : p. 131 MASONIC BURIAL SERVICE The custom of interring the dead with some solemnity is general among all nations--whether savage and ignorant, or civilized and enlightened. In discharging a duty we owe to all, it insures proper respect to the mortal remains of a deceased brother, whatever may have...
Rules For Masonic Processions : p. 150 RULES FOR MASONIC PROCESSIONS The following General Rules to be observed in Masonic processions, are inserted as an appendix to the eight foregoing sections, which provisions appear for the public appearance of the Order. Too much attention cannot be paid to public processions. They should...
Recitation : p. 75 RECITATION [The following was composed by the compiler of this Revised Monitor, many years ago, to follow immediately after the delivery of "Morris' Masonic Poem." It has been so favorably received, that it is now given to the Craft, in printed form, so that they may receive any benefit it...
Addresses : p. 71 ADDRESSES ADDRESS TO A BROTHER UPON THE PRESENTATION OF A LAMBSKIN APRON BY THE LODGE My brother, in behalf of the Lodge, I now present to you this white Lambskin Apron. It may be, that in the coming years, upon your brow shall rest the laurel leaves of victory; it may be that, pendant...
Entered Apprentice : p. 21 ENTERED APPRENTICE SECTION I [The first section of this degree teaches the candidate, by Symbols, many important lessons, and among other things, that Masonry is a moral institution, founded upon the morality as taught in the Bible, and that he has to take the Holy Bible as the rule...
Ceremony At Laying Corner Stones : p. 118 CEREMONY AT LAYING CORNER-STONES At the time appointed, the Grand Lodge is convened at some suitable place, approved by the Grand Master, the brethren appearing in the insignia of the Order, with white gloves and aprons. The Lodge is then opened in ample form, and the rules for regulating...
Consecration Of A Subordinate Lodge : p. 125 CONSECRATION OF A SUBORDINATE LODGE On the day appointed for the ceremony of dedication, the Grand Lodge meets in a convenient room near the place, and opens in ample form in the third degree. The Master of the Lodge wishing to be dedicated, rises and says: Most Worshipful G. M.:...
Dedication : p. 9 DEDICATION Believing that we should endeavor to perpetuate the memory of those zealous Craftsmen who, at an early day in the history of Texas Masonry, and since then, labored hard to lay the foundation for the present unexampled prosperity of our Order, the Committee on Revision feels th...
Opening A Lodge : p. 13 THE MONITOR OPENING A LODGE When the brethren have assembled in the Lodge-room, that is to say, at the place designated in their dispensation or charter for holding the Lodge, and the time or hour for meeting has arrived, the W. Master gives one rap with the gavel, and directs the brethren...
