NEWS
YOU
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In Our 15th Year Issue No. 162
February 1999
Associate Consultants
THE
TRUTH
WILL
SETYOU
FREE
Serving the Triad Priceless
A Look at the Master Mason
Let’s give the Lord some praise!
He’s a mighty God, an everlasting
God! Amen!
I don’t know about you, maybe you
don’t feel what I feel, but I feel the
holy spirit, I feel his power - holy
ghost power, the power that makes
you want to do right, act right, talk
right Amen
This has been quite an experience.
This has been my fifth messianic
revival, but it’s by far, the liveliest. I
believe the Masons and the Sisters in
North Carolina are ready to be
revived, be renewed and go back to
the old praying grormd and say Lord,
create in me the right spirit. Let me
stop lying Lord, let me stop digging
ditches Lord, let me stop backstab-
bing Lord, let me pay my tithes.
Lord, let me support my church Lord,
let me use my talents Lord. Praise
his Holy Name!
On Wednesday night we talked
about two people, the enter appren
tice mason and the new Christian.
Now I want to say again that you’re
not instant coffee. When you come
out of the pool that doesn’t mean that
you’re a Christian. It means that you
have confessed, you’ve been baptized,
but have you received the Holy
Ghost? That’s the main thing,
because John acknowledged he didn’t
have the power to renew that spirit
or create a new heart, he said, but
yonder comes one who will baptize
you not with water, that dries up.
Some people don’t even remember
the day they were baptized but he is
going to baptize with the Holy Ghost
and with fire.
Masons, as I
told you
Wednesday
night, we’re
just types and
shadows of
the real
Master
Mason. You
go to a plumb
ing shop,
there is only
one master
plumber, he
owns the
joint. You go
to an electri
cal shop,there
is only one
master electri
cian — he
owns the
joint. Brother
Robinson you
go to a master carpenter, he owns the
joint. So when you talk about the
master mason you have to talk about
the one that really was raised from a
dead level to a living perpendicular.
See we’re only imitators, yeah we are
symbols. Who is this Master Mason,
who comes here, mark that down,
who comes here. Well, Matthew was
a tax collector and consequently, he
had to know all families. Because
when you take a census, that’s the
time you paid your taxes. That’s why
Jesus was bom in Bethlehem and not
in Nazareth because he went there in
the belly of his mother to pay taxes
and to be count
ed. But you see
they said that
there are two
things of assuri-
ty - death and
taxes. But Jesus
paid it all. He
redeemed us
from bondage.
Tonight, if you
will allow me,
we’re going to
look at the ‘The
Master Mason’.
Why, if you don’t
have him in your
life, you should.
We have been
accused of being
a cult, we have
been accused of
being devil wor
shippers, simply
because our sis
ters in the Eastern Star has an
inverted star and they said it was a
Satanic symbol. I have read the Bible
from cover to cover and I haven’t read
anything where satan made any
thing, not even the hell that he lives
in. I don’t know what your bible
says, but every bible I ever read in
the 16th verse of Genesis 1, says “and
he made the stars also”. Last night
we went through the start points and
I don’t remember mentioning satan
as one of those points. Robert Morris
in Jackson, Mississippi in 1854 - he
pulled three herons from the Old
Testament and two from the new tes
tament. No where did he mention
that the two upward points repre
sented the goat’s horns and the two
outer points his ears and the bottom
one, his beard. I don’t know how they
got there, but if you believe in satan,
I don’t, I believe in Jesus, I believe in
his Father and I believe in his Holy
Ghost.
Tonight we are going to look at all
the houses that we call this thing free
masonry and you will find nothing in
there that will interfere with your
duties you own to your God, your
country, your neighbor, or yourself.
In the Blue Lodge we are given our
existence from the first three verses
in 1st Genesis when God looked out,
came from nowhere into somewhere
and said I believe I’ll make me a
world. But just like when you come
into the Church the earth was dark
and without form and darkness was
all over the earth, darkness is a sym
bol of ignorance. When you come into
the church, when you come into the
lodge you are ignorant of the organi
zations. You don’t know the doctrine,
you don’t know the plan of salvation,
you don’t know what the lodge is all
about. So you are ignorant and ‘igno
rant’ is not a derogatory term, it just
means you haven” been exposed to it.
Now if you are dumb it means you
have the capacity but you didn’t use
it. If you are stupid you just didn’t
have the capacity in the first place,
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Black Business Owners Make Right Turn on Faith Road
by Samantha Muhammad
Joyce & Andrew Henry
Photo by LB Speas
Andrew Henry has been a happier
person since he opened the doors to A&J
Paint Store in June of 1996. That’s
when the future started looking a little
brighter for him and his family. After
working 19 years at major paint compa
nies, Andrew Henry (and his beautiful
and ever-inspiring wife, Joyce) decided
to invest in their future. It was time,
they both agreed, that they pooled their
resources into something they can call
their own.
‘You can’t get rich working for some
one,” Andrew Henry exclaimed. It’s been
two and a half years and their business
is doing just great. A&J Paint Store,
located on Clemmonsville Road, in
Winston-Salem, is the only Black-owned
paint store in the Triad.
“He always wanted to be in the paint
business. Finally, with all the (various)
businesses merging and downsizing, we
decided why not capitalize on it now,”
said Joyce Henry.
Andrew Henry will also admit his
years of experience in the paint industry
has truly paid off. “I’m the only store
that matches paint by the eye. Everyone
else uses a computer. But the Lord has
blessed, me with strong eyes,” said the
Winston-Salem native.
His strong points include the ability
miX' and match paint colors and trou
bleshooting with problems that arise
during paint jobs. Andrew said he some
times visits sites with painters to make
recommendations.
“1 tell people I’m not going to compete
with Lowes and Home Depot (on prices),
but 1 am going to give them quality
paint,” he said. A sign sits on the check
out counter that reads “Only Rich
People Buy Cheap Paint.” Andrews
takes the time to explain that most peo
ple who buy cheap paint, have to buy
more cans of paint because it just isn’t
enough to do the job - in regards to
quantity and quality.
A&J Paint Store furnishes paint to
several elementary and middle schools
and businesses in Winston-Salem. They
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