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is nevertheless a document of great interest; and we congratulate our Illinois
brethren on the prosperous and happy state of Masonry throughout their
dominions."
And conclude their report by saying;
" To oar sister Grand Lodges, Vermont aends assurances of her continued
fidelity and fraternal Brotherhood—and taking leave of them for another
year—whether we meet again, we know not; if we do, ma y it be undtr the
protection of the Great I AM, to find peace on earth, go od will to men, and
our Mystic ties still unbroken,"
The Grand Lodge of Vermont aro also procuring a Masonic Library*
IOWA.
From our sister Grand Lodge of Iowa, we have cheerful tidings. It met
in its tenth annual communication at Muscatine, Jane 7,1853, T. S. Pnrven
Grand Master. In his opening address he says:
" In assembling together on the occasion of oar tenth grand annual communication,
to consult upon the best measures to adopt for tbe future prosperity
of the Grand Lodge and its subordinate Lodges, it wisely becomes us
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 oar efforts to erect and adorn
a moral tern Klein our beautiful and rapidly growing State, eminently auxiliary
as it is, and ever should be, in forming and sustaining a correct moral
tendenoy in all the tide of our affairs. A Mason 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 His guiding counsel to our assistance, that
our present efforts may be crowned with tbe like success."
The committee appointed at a previous communication to report upon the
subject of a Masonic University, made their report, 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 may proudly point as illustrations
of its practical utility, and as arguments for its perpetuity. The forms of
Masonry alone will not maintain a vigorous existence; neither can it be
olaimed, that the social condition of the human race, 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 the mind heavenward. Vet, without some results
which will meet the wants of the present age, it will prove like the beautiful
and enchanted mirage of the desert which lores the pilgrim only to its anllry
bosom."
At the installatidn of Grand Off<strong>ice</strong>rs, Bro. J. F. Sanford, Grand Orat or
delivered a most beautiful address, from which we extract the following:
"Brethren, the charge hi in oar hands; we have traced it from its origin;