Chicago, Illinois:
FIRST REVISED EDITION.
January, 1890.
COPYRIGHT, 1890.
In pursuance of a call, issued and endorsed byseveral Grand Chapters, a convention of representativeswas held at Indianapolis, Indiana,November 16th, 1876, and the General GrandChapter, Order of the Eastern Star, was organized.A Ritual Committee was appointed, and in1878 the General Grand Chapter adopted the work,and it was published by its authority. At the sessionin 1883, a committee on Ritual was appointed,with instructions to receive all proper amendments,and report the same at the next meeting.In 1886, the Committee was continued. At thesession in 1889, the Ritual Committee, consistingof Jerome Spaulding, Mary A. Hepler and LorraineJ. Pitkin, presented the following Ritual as theresult of their labors, which was adopted.
We hereby certify the following to be the Ritualas revised at the session of the General GrandChapter, September, 1889.
Nettie Ransford,
M. W. Grand Matron.
Benjamin Lynds,
M. W. Grand Patron.
Lorraine J. Pitkin,
R. W. Grand Secretary.
| Preface | v |
| General Regulations | 1 |
| Opening | 15 |
| Closing | 31 |
| Initiation | 35 |
| Installation, Subordinate Chapter | 69 |
| Installation, Grand Chapter | 97 |
| Funeral Ceremonies | 117 |
TITLE.
This organization shall be known as "TheOrder of the Eastern Star."
MEMBERSHIP.
Master Masons in good standing in a MasonicLodge, and their wives, daughters, mothers,widows, and sisters, who have attain