Excerpt from A Trip Across the Continent, by the Grand Lodge of United States, I. O. O. F., September, 1869: Address, on the Occasion of Degree on the Occasion of the Conferring of Degree of Rebekah, by American Lodge, No; 170, and Metropolitan Lodge, No; 142, December 14th, 1869 Your Committee of Arrangements having honored me with an invitation to address you on this interesting occasion, I shall claim, to some extent, indulgence on your part, in complying with their request. 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.