fefs an inherent worth. As for its effects, we may truly fay, it has often been effectual to fave life and property; it has often relieved distress; it constantly teaches the ignorant; it daily wipes rivers of tears from the eye of dif trefs; it has often reconciled the most jarring interefts; it has often converted the bitterest foes into the dearest friends. With these recommendations, and believe me, these are natural tendencies; it is a fecret worthy the knowledge and acquaintance of every one.

To you, my dear Brethren, I advise, pursue the valuable lecture with conftancy, firmness, and alacrity; each moving on in the Square of lovely truth, within in the Compafs point of integrity, and by the rule of God's word, the grand descriptive part of Masonry; and, according to your various ftations, in all the rules of fymmetry, order, and proportion; that when your earthly lodge fhall be diffolved, your Jewels may be fafe, and you admitted into that more glorious lodge, where faints and angels fhall be your brethren, and the Supreme Architect of the universe your unspeakably great and indif cribably Grand Mafter: which glorious end of of our labours, and as an eternal refreshment

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to our immortal fpirits, may we all enjoy, through the merits of Jefus Christ our Lord; to whom with the Father, and the eternal Spirit of all grace and truth, be ascribed, as is most due, eternal and everlasting praifes. Amen and Amen.

PRAYER.

ETERNAL and everlasting God, who of one

blood, haft formed all the nations upon earth, who haft richly poured down upon all, the benevolent riches of thy providential mercies, who, in the glorious perfon of thy beloved Son, haft paid a rich unfailing price for all the world; to Thee, eternal God of love, we pray that thou wouldst give us of that uniting fpirit, by which all thy perfections are magnified, and all thy creatures are eternally benefited; that we in Thee, and thy eternal Son of love, our everlasting Redeemer; may become one united. Brotherhood of everlasting truth and fidelity. Give us an united heart of Brotherly affection towards

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towards the world in general, and each other in particular. May we be always unitedly engaged in the furtherance of each others fpiritual and eternal intereft, in the establishment of each others reputation, and in the increase of each others present and future felicity.

With all the wifdom which thou shalt give us, for it is thou alone who givest all we enjoy, give us the diligence of exertion to diffuse it amongst those minds that are fill, than ourfelves, more unlearned; and may we all, from the wifeft to the most ignorant, excel in that wisdom which cometh from above, which is pure, fimple, without partiality, full of good works. Yes! Lord! give us that wisdom which is above all wisdom, the knowledge of Thee the true God, and Jefus Christ whom thou haft fent.

With all the riches which thou shall give any of us to poffefs, give us, we also pray Thee, the true estimation of those riches; give us to to know that they come from Thee to us, to be dispensed abroad to others; that those whom thou haft bleffed with riches, thou haft alfo appointed only the ftewards of thy treasuries; to dispose of them to others of thy needy crea

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tutes. And may our ears, our hearts, our hands, be open, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to give medicine to the fick, and comfort to the diftreffed.

Imprefs thy facred Word upon every heart, that above and before all things, we may all poffefs that true riches, which in value is fuperior to the most ineftimable jewel, even the riches of thy eternal and everlafting favour; which, when all the worldly riches fhall take to themselves wings and flee away, may give us an eternal inheritance amongst them. that are juftified. And that when we have done with all the trifling concerns of this frail perishable state, when the tranfitory business of this fhort day of human existence shall have paffed its fleeting courfe, and the Great Architect of the univerfe fhall command us to clofe the Lodge of human labour; may we all be admitted into that great and general affembly of the true and faithful, where Faith fhall be truly realized, Hope univerfally confirmed, and Love fhall be the grand, the prevailing paffion of every affembled bofom.

To this great end, the falvation of our immortal fouls, blefs, we pray Thee, heavenly

Father,

Father, all the difpenfations of thy providence, whether profperous or afflictive; bless all the focial meetings of all the focieties in the world, and above all, the prefent opportunity of this momentary adoration at the footstool of thine all gracious Throne. May the feeble efforts of thine unworthy fervant be blessed to every heart, and thy name everlastingly the glory of every Masonic meeting, through Jefus Chrift the mediator for all, Amen and Amen.