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and the wild bird screams—while the halls that once w e n lighted with all
that taste and labor, and science could procure, which resounded with melo­
dy and were lighted up by beauty, are now buried by their own ruins
mocked by their own desolation; Free Masonry alone stands/or/A in its orig­
inal strength—still stands to-day—proudly stands—when it has stood for
near four thousand years, upon the same broad platform of ' Brotherly love,
relief and truth;' and there, i f w e a n true to it snd true to ourselves, it
will continue to stand till the end of time."
W i t h a commendable and praiseworthy pride he thus points to their Ma­
sonic College:
" When hoary with age, like Yale or Harvard, with its endowments en­
larged and increased, until it shall become the asylum for every destitute orphan
throughout our jurisdiction, like them it will live in th* memories of
the past, and the joyous anticipations of the future. Live until ignorance
and opposition shall die, and the mystic tie of our glorious Brotherhood shall
become universal. Live to enlarge oar social intercourse, lire to elevate
and enlighten tho minds of those who are to eome after as—to soften the
affections and warm their sympathies. Live to disrobe human passion of it*
blindness and madness. Live in youthful vigor and increasing strength.
Live to write the impress of letters and science upon tbe immortal minds of
our children, and our children's children, and thos paying book in time
what it has borrowed, shall contribute its fail proportion to the aggregate
happiness and prosperity of mankind."
The report of Bro. Shaver, the President of their College, shows a high
degree of prosperity. The report of the Committee on Foreign Correspon­
dence is an able and pointed document, assuming on the main, correct Ma­
sonic doctrine.
K E N T U C K Y .
This Grand Lcdgo met in annual communication at Masonic Hall, Lex­
ington, August 30,1852, M . W . C. G. Wintersmith presiding. One hundred
and fifty-three Lodges were represented.
The Grand Master made an admirable address, notifying th* Grand Lodge
that during the past year he had granted fifteen dispensations for new
Lodges. I n speaking of themselves, he says:
" I t is a matter of congratulation that our Order has been steadily advan­
cing in prosperity, not only within oar own, bat as far as I can learn, with­
in the jurisdiction of all the Grand Lodges of the United States. W i t h a*
it has been increasing in numbers—elevating its tone of moral and virtuous
feeling—strengthening its bond of union—and in every way progressing to­
ward the high destiny to which its lofty tenets tend to exalt it. I trust that
this convocation will be an era of still further advancement, and that thos*
of us who are here, will, upon its adjournment, return to oar homes better
Masons and better men, infusing a like spirit among all our brethren. Tho
influence of the annual assemblage of the Lodges, by their representatives;