Excerpt from The Jubilee: Celebration in the Lodges Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, to Commemorate the Freedom of the Craft From Debt, April 24, 1889 N the preparation of this volume the com piler has not attempted the work of an editor. The suggestion of the Grand Master that many of the eloquent and instructive addresses be given permanent form, was fol lowed by the adoption of a resolution by the Grand Lodge, authorizing the Grand Secretary to publish a volume of the exercises and addresses of the Jubilee Celebration. The reports from the several Lodges are printed in the following pages, in the order in which they were received, together with such extracts from the public press, giving an account of the celebration, as have been furnished. 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.