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Rh W. M. The examples and symbols of our Order are full of useful and impressive lessons. They speak to us in this solemn hour with unwonted significance.

These floral tributes, the offering of sisterly affection, echo voices often heard from the several points of our Star; they symbolize, in the ritual of our Order, virtues which should adorn our lives. How appropriately, then, may they bear an important part in this solemn ceremonial.

Sisters of our star, you who represent the five distinguished heroines of our Order, have you anything to offer ere we leave the grave of our departed sister?

Sister Adah, what is the voice and tribute from the Blue point of our emblematic Star?

Adah. Blue symbolizes Fidelity and is appropriate to Jephthah's Daughter, who, in the morning of life, surrendered to the grave the brightest of earthly hopes, that she might be faithful to her convictions of right and preserve her