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sea. The sea is about thirteen miles long and six miles wide and of an oval shape. The river Jordan enters in at its northern end, and passes out at its southern end. The water of the sea is sweet, cool and transparent, and the beach is everywhere pebbly, and it has a beautiful sparkling look. It abounds in Fish now as in ancient times, and fishermen line its shores and glide upon its waters. This brief outline, therefore, gives not only a biblical history, but shows our Order to be both ancient and sacred. May you all so act that it shall be said 'truly these people are emulating the virtues of the Galilean Fishermen of old.'"
The Fish as the emblem of our Order of Galileans, leads every Galilean to pray that we may also rapidly increase and multiply and replenish the earth, till we have brought every sun-bronzed son and daughter of toil, into one hallelujah of swelling chorus. Glory to God in the highest, who hath redeemed us out of every tribe and tongue and people, and hath made us kings and priests unto our God forever and forever. Let us as Galileans cherish the emblems and the faith that guarantees this coveted consummation.
But again, the sand glass is turned and we must speed on. The Fish as a generic term typifies and repesents all the proper inhabitants of the water, and these inhabitants, inseparably connect themselves with the elements they inhabit.
What then of the water and its inhabitants? Water is the great leveller and is the symbol of democratic equality. I use the term not in its political acceptation, but in its broader catholic significance. It washes down the hills, it lifts and fills up the valleys and constantly labors to bring all to an equitable level. It buoys up all that can float, without at all impairing the freedom of action which allows every being to persue any course it listeth. It is a great discerner and
