Proceedings

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1872
 

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Page 15 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 8 - The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Page 78 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 8 - Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament...
Page 18 - May your chapter become beautiful as the temple, peaceful as the ark, and sacred as its most holy place. May your oblations of piety and praise be grateful as the incense ; your love warm as its flame, and your charity diffusive as its fragrance. May your hearts be pure as the altar, and your conduct acceptable as the offering.
Page 8 - No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights ; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection ; when the sudden anguish and the convulsive agony over the present ruins of all that we most loved, is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days...
Page 68 - ... marshal; and likewise of the several grand and deputy grand high priests, kings, and scribes, for the time being, of the several state grand chapters...
Page 25 - In all cases of the absence of any officer from any body of Masons, instituted or holden by virtue of this Constitution...
Page 22 - Resolutions, offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: — Resolved, That the thanks of this Association are due, and are hereby tendered, to the...
Page 68 - Two thirds of both houses concurring, that in lieu of the third paragraph of the first section of the second article of the constitution of the United States...

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