PRAY FOR PEACE THE WORLD OVER

Excepts from the Grand Master's address

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....A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE VISITORS WHO HAVE TAKEN TIME OUT OF THEIR BUSY SCHEDULES TO VISIT US.... FOR THIS I AM TRULY GRATEFUL. YOU HONOR US WITH YOUR PRESENCE, I THANK YOU , THE MEMBERS OF THIS CRAFT FOR ELECTING ME AS YOUR GRAND MASTER. THANK YOU FOR PLACING ME IN THE GREATEST POSITION OF HUMILITY AND ... ALLOWING ME THE OPPORTUNITY, WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY, TO SERVE YOU. I THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME THE STRENGTH ANBD WISDOM AND STAND TALL LIKE A MIGHTY OAK DEEPLY ROOTED..> IN THE FAITH AS I HAVE FACED THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES..> ..OF LEADERSHIP AS YOUR GRAND MASTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA AND JURISDICTION. THROUGH THE TRYING AND HECTIC EXPERIENCES OF YET ANOTHER YEAR'S PILGRIMAGE, WE HAVE COME FROM EVERY NOOK AND CORNER... OF THIS GREAT STATE TO ASSEMBLED IN HOLY CONCLAVE AND RECOUNT THE EXPERIENCES... OF THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE.> TO LOOK AT THINGS THAT WERE, THINGS THAT ARE AND THINGS THAT ARE TO BE. ......+++AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS+++. YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT WAS IN THE PILOTHOUSE AND HAD CONTROL OF THE WHEEL... (308 DEATHS THIS YEAR) THE ROLL CALL OF THE CREW REVEALED THAT MANY OF OUR MEMBERS HAD... ..BEEN SWEPT OVERBOARD WHILE BATTLING WITH THE WAVES, AND THE ONLY ANSWER.... THAT CAME TO OUR PITIFUL CALL WAS THE EDHO OF OUR WAILING CRY... BUT THAT THE OLD MASONIC SHIP WAS STILL SEAWORTHY, WAS REASSURING..

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