high a station. Your duties are to assist the Grand Patron and in case of his death, absence or disability, to assume his powers and duties. Those who have reposed so much confidence in you have reason to expect you to faithfully look after their interests and zealously work for the welfare of the Order. Let the laws, tenets and professions of the Eastern Star be your constant study, that you may be ready to enforce them by precept and example and the better enabled to exercise the higher and more exalted position to which you may be called at any moment.
You will now be invested with the proper emblem of office and conducted to your station on the left of the Associate Grand Matron, in the West.
G. M. Grand , it is my pleasant duty to introduce , duly elected to serve us as Grand Secretary for the ensuing year.
Grand . , the office to which you have been elected is by far the most important, if not the most