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INSTALLATION. 545
uistruet your brethren, and consequently to inform yourself in all
that it concerns them to know.
With you, as the sweet constellation of the five stars, Faith,
Hope, Charity, Honor, and Duty, I commit them to your
charge. Look well to them, and let them never cease to bum in
your Consistory ; for whenever one of them disappears and ia
seen no more among yon, Masonry also will have left you, to
seek some more congenial region.
Illustrious Commander-in-Chief, Officers, and Brethren, in your
midst in your columns, and in eveiy comer of your Con-
sistory, shines the great central sun of Truth. Receive it in
charge, and let its light never be obscured. Study and reflect, my
brethren, and gain wisdom and knowledge, and attain unto the
truth, and with zeal apply your knowledge to the benefit of your
followers, and may light and peace and joy ever remain and
abide with you.
Illustrious Brethren and Princes, members of the Consistory,
unite with me in applauding the installation of our Illustrious
Brother , in the high office of Illustrious Commander-in-
Chief ; * * * "With me, my brethren !
Gh:\ Com/. Illustrious Commander-in-Chief, I surrender into
your hands the government of your Consistory, and place under
your charge the Book of Gold and Letters Patent of Constitution,
now in the hands of our Secretary General, and may success at-
tend your exertions, and order and peace ever prevail among you.
Com.-. -in- Chief.-. Attention, Sublime Princes. Join me in returning
our thanks and doing honor to our 111/. Bro.\ the Grand
Commander.
Com.-. -in- Chief:. The officers elect will please approach the
East
They approach and form a line in front df the throne, in the order ia
which they have been elected, when the Grind Commander adminis-
ter* the oath of office, as follows
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