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296 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. RITE.
Seven Breth.'. Hear our prayer.
T.\ P.'. Heavenly Father, in the earnestness of
our prayer, let now this awful embodiment of woe
and the emblem of foul evils pass from us, for we
know without prayer we cannot drive from our hearts
those demons of the soul's destruction.
Change, O heavenly Father, change the spirit
within us ! Teach
us what is good ! teach us thyself,
and may we understand ! Let evil give place to good,
as we now pledge our vows henceforth, as true and
devoted Pontiffs, to devote ourselves, our hearts and
hands, to the cause of truth and justice as against
all the evils of the world. In this, our vow, hear our
prayer.
Seven Breth.'. Hear our prayer.
T:. P.'. And now, unto the Great Jehovah be all
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Seven Breth.'. Amen.
praise, and honor, and glory ; and may we all say,
Amen.
The Chapter is now arranged with the blue hangings
and stars of gold ; the sun is changed to its bright appearance
; and the curtain in the East is drawn aside,
displaying a large gold cross with a white rose upon it,
placed on a prominence on the staging.