ADDRESS

                                 or


  GRAND MASTER CHARLES EGINTON,

DELIVERED AT HIS INSTALLATION AS GRAND MASTER 6d
              THE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY,


      On the 21st day of October, A. D. 1869, A. L 58C9.





BretArca of ths Grarnd Lodge:
  I have no prepared speech with which to thank you for the great honor
which your partiality has so signally conferred.
  And in assuming this most important station, I assure you, with a grate-
ful heart, that I will faithfully and assiduously, during the year that is be-
fore us, perform the duties thereof to the best of my ability, and most ear-
neatly desire the active co-operation of not only those now present but of
every Mason in the State.
  Freemasonry, as a moral institution, at this time in Kentucky, has no
superior in the sublimity of its principles, the number and influence of its
members and the self-evident future usefulness of the organization. To sus-
tain that power and. insure continued prosperity, imposes a most sacred duty
upon every one of the Brotherhood.
  The hideous form of anti-Masonry within the current year has been again
trying to raise its venomous head and instill its poison into the minds of the
ignorant and deluded. Against this demon of mischief the respective sub-
ordinate Lodges must be prepared to show a dignified and impenetrable front.
Our banner must hang on the outer wall with no uncertain flutterrng, whilst
within the tabernacle unity and strength, cemented with puiity and love,
make the Brotherhood a defiant and unconquerable hcet. I do not mean
by this to merely gratify the ear or flatter the just pride of those who hear
me, but through you to adirtss myself to eash Subordinate Lolge in the
State.
  The strength of this Grand rody is not in the aeornmentsorco-veniences
of this beautiful bhll, r in the intelhet of those aro-nd anJ before me, iw