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686 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. ROE.
ing and grateful homage to our beneficent and infinitely loving
Father who is in heaven, I have, by virtue of the power with
which I am invested as the M.\ P.*. Sov.\ Gr.\ Commander of the
Supreme Council of Sov.\ Gr.\ Ins.". Gen. -
, of the thirty-third de-
gree, convoked you this day in this asylum for the purpose of
dedicating and consecrating the same as the Hall and Consistorial
Chamber of the Consistory of Sublime Princes and Commanders
of the Royal Secret thirty-second degree of the Ancient
and Accepted rite in and for the , of dedicating and con-
secrating it to the Supreme and Sovereign Author s-nd Preserver
of all things, by devoting it to virtue and good works, as a house
wherein lessons of wisdom and philosophy, beneficence and harmony
shall ever be taught as they are ordained and prescribed by
the universal constitutions of Free Masonry. After which we
shall proceed to inaugurate the Consistoiy, and to invoke for it
health, prosperity, and continuance, and to install its officers, that
it may commence its labors.
Be pleased, Illustrious brethren, to unite with me, and aid me
in commencing the labors of this day.
Or.: Corn.-. My brethren, as the world is darkened with
ignorance and error, and lies in the twilight of superstition and
routine, so in this Temple the dim light straggles with the dark-
ness, and does not prevail. Let us kneel here, before our Father
who is in heaven, and acknowledge our faults and errors ; implore
him to give us light, a spark of that divine fire, which in his ex-
haustless munificence ever flows from the sun to bless the grate-
ful earth, and which our ancient brethren imagined to be the
Bubstance of Deity ; that we may therewith illumine this Temple,
accepting it as an omen and assurance that the light of wisdom
and knowledge will some day illumine the whole world, and
make it a fit Temple for a God of infinite love.
PRAYER.
Our Father who art in heaven, the heavy shadows of barbarism
yet lie gloomy and motionless on much of this fair earth,
which thou hast made and given unto thy children for a dwelling-
place ; and even where the dawn of civilization has come, the
mass of the people are yet in the twilight of ignorance, error, and
superstition. Illumine this our Temple with a spark of thy