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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ILUNOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' 



ASSOCIATION. 



The Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association was held in the Sun Parlor of the Leland Hotel, 

 December 17 and 18, 1918. 



The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. A. C. 

 Baxter, at 10 a. m., December 17. 



President Baxter. — Gentlemen, you will give attention to the 

 invocation by Rev. Warber, of Alhambra, this State. 



INVOCATION BY REV. C. WARBER. 



Our Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer 

 — we come before thee with thanksgiving. We thank thee for the 

 manifold blessings that thou hast bestowed upon us, as individuals 

 and as a Nation. We thank thee for the institution of Liberty that 

 thou hast given us. We ask thee to be merciful unto us; grant unto 

 us the forgiveness of our sins; cleanse our hearts with the blood of 

 Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. We thank thee also that thou 

 hast given unto us a peace for which we have been praying in times 

 past. We ask thee to create within the world such government founded 

 upon peace, upon liberty, upon justice and righteousness in harmony 

 with thy will. We entreat thee that thou would st bring forth out of 

 the present discord and disagreement and chaos that peace which 

 passeth all understanding, founded upon justice and righteousness 

 everywhere. We ask thee to be with those that govern or shall govern 

 all nations, that they may follow thee and the dictates of their con- 

 sciences and love, and acting especially in harmony with thy will. 



We ask thee to let thy blessings rest upon this, our Nation. Hence- 

 forth may discord and sorrow be replaced with happiness. We ask 

 thee to be with those into whose home hath entered grief, and where 

 thou hast taken one of the family or more of the family. We ask thee 

 to be with the bereaved ones, especially with those whom thou hast 

 bereaved of our members of this Association. Especially wilt thou 

 be with the brother Secretary, where thou hast broken the family 

 tie, the bonds of love. Wilt thou let thy blessings rest upon this 

 assembly, and may those things that we do here not only prove bene- 

 ficial to us, but to all mankind. Let us feel thy presence here, and let 

 that word of thine be renewed in our hearts, "Lo, I am with thee, 

 even unto the end of the earth." We ask these things for Jesus, our 

 Saviour's sake. Amen. 



The President. — Members of the Association — it has been the 

 custom for a number of years in the Ilhnois State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, met in Springfield, to have some prominent citizen to welcome 



