for adverfity. In all that is affectionate and all that is noble may you excel! And let your confpicuous virtues diffufe beauty and luftre over your own characters and that of the Society to which you belong! THE appearance of two Grand Lodges on this occafion is an happy exemplification of Masonic union and harmony, and an additional fource of pleasure to us all.* Let me be honored as the organ of fraternal congratulation on the pleafing circumstance. THE very large collection of refpectable brethren gives a dignified afpect to the day. I falute them all with fraternal affection.† May the honor our inftitution derives from their patronage, and our festival from their prefence, be repaid in all thofe acts and expreffions of refpect with which we delight to venerate the worthy, the wife, the emi. nent, and the good! * The Grand Lodge of Maffachusetts, under the M. W. PAUL REVERE, Efq. Grand Master, was joined by the M. W. JABEZ BOWEN, Efq. Chancellor of the College, and late Governor of the State of Rhode-Island, at the head, with feveral members, of the Grand Lodge of that State. +"Quos ego dilexi fraterno more fodales." MAY we all love fervently as Christians and as Brethren, walk as children of the light, keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace, and by active, graceful, and exemplary virtue be trained up for, and hereafter admitted to, the Society of the Perfect in the Temple not made with hands eternal in the heavens ! C 2 |