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The following beautiful tribute to the life and character of the late R. J. Ross was delivered at the ceme tery by Judge Tom D. McKeown. Robert J. Ross, age 46, years, was one of the faithful members of Ada Lodge 119 of Ancient Free Accept ed Masons. Men outside of fraternal lodges do not know and cannot ap preciate the bonds which bind one member w another. When a Lodge of Sorrow i s talled and the mournful sound of the clods falling upon the coffin unforms us that another brother has fallen a vic tim before the scythe of the Grim neaper, memory brings to our minds the words of the poet who said: “There is a reaper whose name is And with his sickle keen, Reaps the bearded grain with a breath, And the flowers that grow between” So our brother fell without warn ing of the approaching scythe like grain before its season. He chose for his life work that noble calling of a carpenter and builder and to him the lessons of Masonry were most practicable. To him there was ever a lesson in the architecture of building which he learned in the building of his life. Man is no bubble upon the sea of his fortunes, helpless and irrespon sible upon the tide of events. Out of the same circumstances different men bring different results. The same difficulty, distress, poverty or mis fortune that breaks down one man, builds up another and makes him strong. It is this attribute that is the glory of man that he can bend the circumstances and conditions of his life to the intellectual and notal pur pose of his nature and it is this pow er of mastery that marks him as a superior being. Brother Bob Ross rose rom the difficult circumstances sur rounding him in early manhood by exemplifying the teachings of this of fer. He rose by sheer force of his character for honesty. He made his word his bond. His greatest asset was an unswerving honesty. A genius without integrity may rise for a sea son but ere long he must fall below the honest map. Brother Ross believed that neces sity or condition did not justify a de parture from the rule of rectitude he labored in Ada from the day of its infancy and by his hands he erect ed some of the city’s best building, which will remain a monument to hit oame in this city. By his hands he built the ‘homes ’ he Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges These will crumble away under ‘the ‘orce of fire, decay and time, but fh noniments erected by his life in” = hearts of his brethren with, through all of these and the Maji construction. of his character b uilding that will endure teronl he ages. Our brother has simply changed his
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1913
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