Brethren, The June stated meeting is over, the elections are completed and a new year is about to start. It is an odd feeling, how there is a sense of loss and relief all at the same time. It has been a good year and it is surprising how fast it has gone.

I have seen many changes over the course of this year. I have observed changes in our teaching committee. I see young Brothers looking for things to do to become active. Some Brothers have stayed in the teaching group to assist where, I believe, they feel they are profi-cient and have developed friendships. I challenge these Brothers to develop those same friendships with the older Brothers. I also challenge the older

members to extend a hand to these young enthusiasts.

I have seen changes in our line officers as they learned their role and developed new skills. I believe they have become an asset to our lodge and I look forward to greater things from them in the days to come.

Over the past year, I have developed many new friends and strengthened old friendships. I am humbled when I think of the many Brothers who threw their sup-port behind me this year. Without them I could never have succeeded.

I would like to thank all of my officers for their assistance. Without their helping hands and enthusiasm we could never have accomplished what we have this year.

I must not forget to acknowledge all of

the Brothers who were there when I needed them and all of the quiet council and assistance I received from the Past Masters.

In closing, I would like to congratulate our new Worshipful Master Elect. I wish him every success in the coming year. I am sure he will find that he is not alone in the lodge. There are many helping hands available, just for the asking.

Our last event for this Masonic year is our Festive Board. It is an important event for our lodge and it is also a fund raiser to help support our various charities. I would like to see the tables full of familiar faces on the 16th. It would be a great end to a wonderful year.

Fraternally Jim Rogerson

Worshipful Master

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Brethren, When we trace the lines of geometry drawn by the Divine pencil in the beautiful plumage of the feathered tribe, how ex-alted is our conception of the heavenly work! The admirable structure of plants and animals, and the infinite number of fibers and vessels which run through the whole, with the apt disposition of one part to another, is a perpetual subject of study to the geometrician, who, while he ad-verts to the changes which all undergo in their progress to maturity, is lost in rap-ture and veneration of the Great Cause which governs the system. When he exalts his view to the more noble and elevated parts of Nature, and surveys the celestial orbs, how much greater is his astonishment! If, on the principles of geometry and true philoso-phy, he contemplate the sun, the moon, the stars, and the whole concave of heaven, his pride will be humbled, while he is lost in awful admiration of the Maker.

Grammar is the science which teaches us to express our ideas in appropriate words, which we may afterward beautify and adorn by means of Rhetoric; while Logic instructs us how to think and rea-son with propriety, and to make language subordinate to thought. By this science, the architect is enabled to construct his plans and execute his designs; the general, to arrange his sol-diers; the engineer, to mark out grounds for encampments; the geographer, to give us the dimensions of the world, and all things therein contained; to delineate the extent of seas, and specify the divi-sions of empires, kingdoms, and prov-inces. To be an eloquent speaker, in the proper sense of the word, is far from being either a common or an easy attain-ment: it is the art of being persuasive and commanding; the art, not only of pleasing the fancy, but of speaking both to the understanding and to the heart. All the works of the Almighty are made in number, weight, and measure; there-fore, to understand them rightly, we ought

to understand arithmetical calculations; and the greater advancement we make in the mathematical sciences, the more capable we shall be of considering such things as are the ordinary objects of our conceptions, and be thereby led to a more comprehensive knowledge of our great Creator and the works of the crea-tion. Arithmetic, which is the science of computing by numbers, is absolutely essential, not only to a thorough knowl-edge of all mathematical science, but also to a proper pursuit of our daily avo-cations. Geometry, or the application of Arithmetic to sensible quantities, is of all sciences the most important, since by it we are enabled to measure and survey the globe that we inhabit. Is that science which directs us how to form clear and distinct ideas of things, and thereby prevents us from being mis-led by their similitude or resemblance

Fraternally, Don Laughlin Junior Warden

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Jim Rogerson Worshipful Master 214-675-7831 j.rogerson@sbcglobal.net

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Don Laughlin Junior Warden 817-572-6044 dlaughli@att.net

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Ancient Free & Accepted Masons

Stated Meeting Second Tuesday

of each month.

1415 W. Abram St. Arlington, Texas 76013

Charted 1875 By the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Texas

Senior Deacon . . . . . . . . Junior Deacon . . . . . . . . Senior Steward . . . . . . . Junior Steward . . . . . . . Master of Ceremonies . . Tiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

OFFICERS ELECTED AND APPOINTED 2014-2015

2015

Brethren,

I would like to thank the Lodge for put-ting their faith in me in electing me as Worshipful Master for the upcoming Ma-sonic year. I would like to further con-gratulate the other officers elected and appointed.

Also congratulations to Jim Roger-son and Damon Scheer on their Election to the Temple Board.

I look forward to working with all of these

Men for the betterment of our Lodge, of us, and of Masonry in the next year. Installation of Officers will be Tuesday June 30th Food and fellowship at 6:30. At about 7:00 the officers will Open the lodge and call down and prepare the lodge room for the ceremony which will begin as soon as we get all of our guests to join us. After installation we will have a social intermission of 30 to 45 minutes after which I will need the officers to join me in the lodge for closing, as well as Opening the Lodge of Sorrow for the

ensuing year.

On July 4th we will have the annual Lodge cook out Lunch will be served at 11:30 there will be food fellowship and fun. We will have the dominos and other games out and I will be turning a cherry handled Ice cream scoop for the winner of the Ice cream contest. This is open to all Ma-sons. Appendant Bodies, as well as friends and Family!

Fraternally, Don Riney

Senior Warden

Billy J. Knight 1934 2015

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Officers Meeting - Tuesday 7pm Festive Board - Tuesday 7pm Arlington Rainbow & DeMolay 7pm Arlington Rainbow & DeMolay 7pm Pancake Breakfast - Saturday 8am Close Lodge of Sorrow - 7pm Officer Installation - Tuesday 6:30

Arlington Eastern Star - Thursday 7pm 4th of July Picnic Arlington Temple 9am Arlington Rainbow & DeMolay - Thursday 7pm Arlington York Rite - Monday 6pm Arlington Stated Meeting - Tuesday 6:30pm MSB - Panther City #1183 - Wednesday 6pm Scottish Rite Motorcycle Fun Run - Saturday 7am Scottish Rite Annual Picnic - 10am Arlington Rainbow & DeMolay - Thursday 7pm

Calendar of Events

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Watch out for little ones & not so little ones,

give them the right a way!!

Please Join us in our Installation of Officers

Tuesday June, 30th 2015 at 6:30pm

This is an Open Meeting, everyone is invited!! Here is our lineup for 2015 - 2016

Worshipful Master . . . . . . . . .

Senior Warden . . . . . . . . . . . .

Junior Warden . . . . . . . . . . . .

Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Senior Deacon . . . . . . . . . . . .

Junior Deacon . . . . . . . . . . . .

Senior Steward . . . . . . . . . . .

Junior Steward . . . . . . . . . . .

Chaplain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Master of Ceremonies . . . . . .

Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Donald Riney

Donald Laughlin

John Gause

Lane McCall

Rick Montey

Corey Harris

Travis Lile

Zachary Haston

Damon Scheer

Richard Gaddis

Anthony Cole

Gerardo Vasquez

John Thomas

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