Excerpt from Sermon and Address Published by Order of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York for Distribution Among the Lodges: Sermon Preached in Trinity Church, Wednesday Evening, May 6, 1908, And, Address "the Upright Man and Mason" Delivered in the Grand Lodge, Thursday Afternoon, May 7, 1908 Nor is our meeting here as Masons anything novel. Rather is it a revival of an old custom. In former times, as our records show, the Grand Lodge would adjourn its sessions to attend a service either in St. Paul's or Trinity, as the case might be. Any one who knows anything of this great metropolis is aware of the great changes in populations in the last half century, chiefly indeed in the last twenty years. 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.