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16 SPECIAL iCOMMUNICATION OF THE GRAND LODGEMSSONRYITS GREAT AGE, TEACHINGS, AND INFLUENCE FOR GOOD.This day is full of interest to Masons throughout the civilizedworld. It is the festival of our patron, St. John the Baptist. Ayear ago, in classic periods, our ears were feasted with an exquisitelybeautiful pen picture of this <strong>grand</strong> character, whose life•was a prophecy of severe realities, and which, for gift to her who" Wast begot in Demogorgon's Hall,"was rounded to a finish, forming a sublime epic, illustrative of thegreatness of true courage, the ''Mighty force of Truth," and theheroism of devotion to duty."What more appropriate day for the dedication of our temple!Its completion marks an epoch in the history of masonry in <strong>Louisiana</strong>.This splendid structure, wherein we are assembled, is thisday delivered to the Grand Lodge, finished and complete in allits parts. To-day it is dedicated and set apart, with appropriateceremonies, to masonic purposes.May we not, as did Solomon of old, address ou 1 * supplicationto the Lord, and say : We "have surely built Thee an house todwell in, a settled place for Thee to abide in forever." 1It was on the occasion of the dedication of the Temple of Solomonthat our ancient Grand Master "assembled the elders ofIsrael and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers ofthe children of Israel unto King Solomon in Jerusalem, that theymight bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord out of the.city of David, which is Zion." 21. 1 Kings, Tiii, 33. 2. 1 Kings, viii, 1.

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