Your badge is the Cross Batons within the Star, an emblem of direction, admonishing you that courtesy and promptness are essential to the discharge of your duties. [Illustration: Marshal.] Sister Marshal, you will conduct our sister to her station in the South-East. _I. O._ Sister Marshal, you will present for installation the sisters appointed to represent the five rays of our central Star. _M._ Worthy ----, I have the pleasure of presenting those who have been appointed to represent the five rays of our central Star. Sister ----, to represent the blue ray of Adah; Sister ----, the yellow ray of Ruth; Sister ----, the white ray of Esther; Sister ----, the green ray of Martha; and Sister ----, the red ray of Electa. In the installation of the Star officers, bouquets of flowers, having the appropriate colors for the several points, may be introduced with pleasing effect. _I. O._ My sisters, you are the floral center of this Chapter. In our ceremonies, the colors and flowers appropriate to the five points of our Star are endowed with beauty and instruction. To you is assigned the duty of teaching the impressive lessons which those colors and floral emblems symbolize, and the sublime virtues illustrated in the lives of the heroines of our Order. How important, then, that in the discharge of your official duties, you should strive to throw an air of beauty and solemnity around all that you have to say and do, so that from you, as the central Star of this Chapter, may emanate a light that will give instruction and joy to all who attend our meetings. Sister Marshal, you will invest our sisters with their badges of office. _I. O._ Sister Adah, your badge is the Sword and Veil within the Triangle, an emblem of the heroic conduct of Jephthah's Daughter, admonishing you to be ever faithful to your convictions of right and duty. [Illustration: Adah.] Sister Ruth, your badge is the Sheaf within the Triangle, an emblem of plenty, admonishing you that patient industry shall not go unrewarded. [Illustration: ruth.] Sister Esther, your badge is the Crown and Scepter within the Triangle, an emblem of royalty and power, admonishing you to emulate the virtues of the heroic queen Esther. [Illustration: Esther.] Sister Martha, your badge is the Broken Column within the Triangle, an emblem of the uncertainty of human life, admonishing you that the deepest sorrow is often relieved by trustful faith in God. [Illustration: Martha.] Sister Electa, your badge is the Cup within the Triangle, an emblem of charity and hospitality, virtues inculcated by the teachings of our Order. [Illustration: Electa.] Such, my sisters, are some of the lessons taught by your several badges of office.