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G.\ M. .
KNIGHT KADOSH.
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of C.\ You will then kneel with me, niy
brother, in the midst of these decaying relics of
mortality, sad emblems of life and hope departed,
and offer up with me prayers and supplications to
the God of heaven.
" Our Father, who art in heaven," etc., etc.
* * * * *
He heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall
gather them. In the midst of life we are in death ;
yet to whom may we flee for succor, but to thee,
O Lord! who, for our many sins, art justly dis-
pleased. O God most holy! O God most mighty
Ever and glorious Lord !
eternal death !
Amen
!
save us from the pains of
The following is the prayer of Jacques De Molay, just prior to
ds execution, and may very properly be introduced at this time:
" O God !
permit us to meditate on the pains that
Jesus suffered, that we might be redeemed; and
enable us to imitate the example of endurance which
he gave when he submitted, without a murmur, to
the persecutions and torments which bigotry and in-
justice had prepared for him.
" Forgive, O God, those false accusers who have
caused the entire destruction of the Order whereof thy
Providence has made me the head. And if it please
thee to accept the prayer which we now offer, grant
that the day may come when the world, now deceived,
may better know those who have sought to live for thee.
" We trust to thy goodness and mercy to compensate
us for the tortures and death which we are no*
!