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is nevertheless a document of great interest; and wo congratulate our Illinois
brethren on the prosperous and happy state of Masonry throughout their
dominions."
And conclude their report by saying:
" To our sister Grand Ix*lges, Vermont sends assurances of her continued
fidelity and fraternal Brotherhood—and taking leave of them for another
year—whether we meet again, we know not; t/ we do, ma y it be under the
protection of the Great I AM, to find peace on earth, good will to men, and
our Mystic ties still tuibroken."
The Grand Lodge of Vermont aro also procuring a Masonic Library.
IOWA.
From our sister Grand Lodge of Iowa, wo have cheerful tidings. It met
in its tenth annual communication at Muscatine, June 7, 1S53, T. S. Parven^
Grand Master. In his opening address he says:
In assembling together on the occasion of our tenth grand annual communication,
to consult upon the best measures to adopt for the future prosperity
of the Grand Lodge and its subordinate Lodges, it wisely becomes Tel
as responsible agents to whom has been entrusted a great work, humbly to
express our gratitude to the Divine Architect, who directs and controls our
labors for the past blessings that have crowned our efforts to erect and ad m
a moral temrde in our beautiful and rapidly growing State, eminently auxiliary
as it is, and ever should be, in forming and sustaining a correct moral
tendency in all the tide of our affairs. A M.i-on will readily acknowledge
that
' There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will.'
Then let us invoke at this time If is guiding counsel to our assistance, that
our present efforts may be crowned with the like soccear."
The committee appointed nt a previous communication to report upon the
subject of a Masonic University, inado their rejwrt, in which they say:
"The time has come when the institution of Masonry, like all other benevolent
schemes for the happiness and glory of the human race, must raise
public monuments at which its members mny proudly point as illustrations
of its practical utility, and as arguments for its perpetuity. The forms of
Masonry alono will not maintain a vigorous existence; neither can it be
claimed, that the social condition of the human rnce, as it respects our relations
to each other in any of the pursuits of life, prevent the same necessity
for its maintenance in the world now, as it once did. Its principles are
the most beautiful which can find a resting place in the human breast; its
theory is pure, and leads tho mind heavenward. Yet, without some results
which will meet the wants of the present age, it will prove like tho beautiful
and enchanted mirago of the desert which lures the pilgrim only to its sultry
bosom."
At the installatidn of Grand Off<strong>ice</strong>rs, Bro. J. F. Ssnford, Grand Orat or
delivered a most beautiful address, from which we extract the following:
"Brethren, tho charge is in our hands; we have traced it from its origin;