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Order of the Eastern Star.
Cond. I have the honor of introducing..................who is to be presented by you to the Worthy Matron.
A. M. My friend, you are heartily welcome. Sister Conductress, you will cause the candidate to face East.
Conductress and candidate face the East.
A. M. Worthy Matron, I have the honor to present whose petition has been approved by this Chapter and who is now ready to assume our Obligation.
The Worthy Matron rises and addresses the candidate.
W. M. It is with pleasure that I welcome you into this Chapter. Your relation to the Masonic fraternity and the recommendations presented in your behalf, assure us that you merit the honor we confer and are worthy of the important trust with which we are about to invest you. The Order of the Eastern Star exists for the purpose of giving practical effect to one of the beneficent purposes of Freemasonry, which is to provide for the wel-
