Grand Organist.
You will be invested with your badge of office, and conducted to your station.
G. M. Grand ——, my duties are ended. The several officers of this Grand Chapter have been duly elected, installed, invested with their badges of office, and conducted to their respective stations.
Grand ——. It is well. Officers and members of the Grand Chapter, all things are now ready for you to enter upon the proceedings of a new year. Harmony and good-will prevail, and we start under the most auspicious circumstances. But no one can affirm that another year, or even a single day, will be committed to our trust. Therefore, if we have been faithful heretofore, let us redouble our exertions for the future. Let us continue kindly affectionate, one toward another. Let us walk circumspectly, sacredly preserving our lips from slander and evil speaking, ever remembering our sacred obligations. And may we, each of us, through the good providence of God, be brought, through a useful and happy life, to a blissful close and a triumphant entrance upon the joys of the Heavenly life.
Let us now look to God for his benediction.
Installing Officer calls up the Grand Chapter.
Prayer.
Grand ——. Grand Marshal, you will proclaim the Grand Officers, regularly installed.
G. M. In the name of the Grand Chapter and by order of the Worthy Grand ——, I proclaim the officers of the Grand Chapter of ——, Order of the Eastern Star, duly installed.