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170 The Grand Marshal then makes proclamation as follows:

By the authority of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of. . . . . . . . . . ., I proclaim that the Grand and Subordinate officers have been installed in ample form with the grand honors of Masonry by three times three.

The public grand honors are then given, and the brethren make the response,

So mote it be.

The following, or some other appropriate one, is then sung:

Almighty Father! God of Love!

Sacred, eternal King of kings!

From thy celestial courts above,

Send beams of grace on seraphs' wings

Oh, may they, gilt with light divine,

Shed on our hearts inspiring rays;

While bending at this sacred shrine,

We offer mystic songs of praise.