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Excerpt from Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, Proceedings: Sixty-Fifth Annual Communication Held at the City of Niagara Falls, Ontario, July 21st, A. D. 1920, A. L. 5920 To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge A. F. A. M. Of Ontario, and Visiting Delegates: It is indeed a pleasant duty, aye and a high honour' which is mine today, in extending to you an exceedingly cordial and hearty welcome to the city of Niagara Falls, Canada, upon this the occasion of your 1920 convention. I recognize the fact that I am today extending the felicitations of this electrical city to representative men from the various municipalities from which you come. I feel safe in saying that there never was a period all down the pages of recorded history, when the principles of truth, freedom, justice and the underlying sentiments of the Brotherhood of Man as exemplified by the Masonic fraternity, were as needful, were as necessary, for the world as they are today. These principles which were put into concrete form, and which have been handed down throughout the centuries, antedating as they do the Christian era, are essential today for the preservation of truth, beauty and righteousness. And it is your duty, not only as brother Masons, but as Citizens of this Do minion, to carry these fundamental truths into your every walk and avenue of life. I make bold to impress upon you this phase of your duty to this Dominion of Canada as an integral part of the British Empire, because Great Britain has been the outstanding figure among the na tions as a protector of the weak, and the guardian of the smaller races and peoples from the rapaciousness of the strong and of the grasping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.