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Page 2 THE TEXAS COMPATRIOT
PRESIDENT C. R. HARRINGTON'S MESSAGEPRESIDENT CARRIES TORCH
ILLUMINATING THE TXSSAR
PATH TO A GLORIOUS FUTURE
cAs we approach the end of our first
three months in the current TXSSAR
year, let's pause and reflect on what
we have done. It will amaze you.
<>First, your president has installed
the new officers in twenty-one of our
chapters. that's over 35 percent, or
one third of our society chapters. This
enabled him to renew old acquain-
tances and meet new ones. This in it-
self is one of the blessings of being
president. Sure, it's a lot of work and
an awesome responsibility being Pres-
ident of such a wonderful society com-
posed of wonderful people. But meet-
ing and being with our members is
more than enough compensation for
the hardships.
<>Second, we have chartered two
new chapters in our Texas Society,
the East Texas chapter in Longview
and the Fredonia chapter in Nacog-
doches. If you participate in such a
ceremony, you have an opportunity to
swell your pride in our organization.
To meet men embarking on a journey
with their fellow chapter members
brings forth a renewed interest in the
TXSSAR.
<>Your president had a surprise
benefit awarded to him in Nacog-
doches. He learned that he was in-
stalling a cousin as the new chapter
President, a cousin that he didn't
know he had. What a pleasant experi-
ence.
<>Several of your society members
attended the National Congress in
Louisville, Kentucky.
<The Texas Society comprises over
fifteen percent of our national mem-
bership, and we have furnished sev-
eral national officers, including
Presidents-General, Secretaries-
General, Chancellors-General and
Surgeons General. Prooviding leader-
ship to our national society is some-
thing for which our Texas society canbe justifiably proud.
oIn August, we will meet in Tyler
for our summer Board of Managers
meeting. For the initiates, the Board
of Managers is the "Execuive com-
mittee" of our organization. It over-
sees the operations between annual
conventions. We will hear reports: on
our new computer data-base system,
on our Flag Protection committee,
and we will formulate plans for our
committee activities. See the applica-
tion form on Page 14 in this publica-
tion; fill it in, and mail it to either
Past State President Col. E. Graham
Martin or our Vice President for Ex-
pansion Bob Coker. BUT MAIL
IT- AND EARLY. We have a lot of
things to discuss and we need your
ideas.
oThis is an exciting year for your
PRESIDENT, and he is looking for-
ward to reporting to you again in the
next (Autumn) issue of our TEXAS
COMPATRIOT.
o Keep up the good work you have
already begun.
Fraternally Yours
C. R. Harrington, President
Texas Society, SAR
0o<O<O<O<O<o0O
FROM THE PROPHET;
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
AND an old priest said, Speak to us
of Religion.
And he said:
Have I spoken this day of aught else?
Is not religion all deeds and all re-
flection, And that which is neither
deed nor reflection, but a wonder
and a surprise ever springing in the
soul, even while the hands hew the
stone or tend the loom?
WHO CAN SEPARATE HIS FAITH
FROM HIS ACTIONS, OR HIS BE-
LIEF FROM HIS OCCUPATIONS?
Who can spread his hours before
him,
saying, "This for God and this formyself;
This for my soul, and this other for
my body?
All your hours are wings that beat
through space from self to self.
He who wears his morality but as his
best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no
holes in his skin. And he who defines
his conduct by ethics imprisons his
song-bird in a cage.
He to whom worshipping is a win-
dow, to open but also to shut, has not
yet visited the house of his soul whose
windows are from dawn to dawn.o
<Your daily life is your temple and
your religion. Whenever you enter
into it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and
the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in
necessity or for delight.
For in revery you cannot rise above
your achievements nor fall lower
than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you cannot fly
higher than their hopes nor humble
yourself lower than their despair.
And if you would know GOD be not
therefore a solver of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall
SEE - HIM playing with your
children.
And look into space; you shall SEE
-HIM walking in the cloud, out-
stretching HIS arms in the lightning
and descending in rain.
You shall SEE-HIM smiling in
flowers, then rising and waving HIS
hands in trees.
Source:The Prophetzby Kahlil
Gibrano Published by Alfred A.
Knopf, INC.oSeptember 1923
oSeventy-ninth printing, May 1967.
Permission granted for Editorial
Review as follows; Gibran presents
a great spiritual message with few
words. A reminder of Benjamin
Franklin's "Where Liberty Dwells-
There is my country".......!!!, Editor.I I
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