resence and favor
this great festival of the nations that it may help to make
stronger the bonds of human brotherhood in all the world. And
all this we ask in the name of Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Tenth. Benediction by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter:

May the blessing of the Lord God Almighty, without whom all our
labor is but vain, rest upon this work, and all who are or shall
be engaged in it.

May He take these buildings under His gracious keeping and crown
this great undertaking with His enduring favor, making it the
school of truth and beauty and so a revelation of His infinite
mind working and through the mind of man. And to Him be glory
and honor and power now and always.

The Lord bless us and keep us; the Lord make His face to shine
upon us and be gracious unto us; the Lord lift up the light of
His countenance upon us and give to us and to all the people of
this land peace, purity, and prosperity, both now and
forevermore. Amen.

Eleventh. Centennial salute of 100 guns.

At 8 o'clock p. m. a grand pyrotechnic display took place on the open
grounds south of the Administration Building.

PROGRAMME

DIPLOMATIC DAY, MAY 1, 1902.

At 10.30 a. m. the members of the Diplomatic Corps, the representatives
of the foreign governments to the exposition, and other official guests
assembled at the St. Louis Club, and they were then conducted by
military escort to the Liberal Arts Building.

At 12 o'clock m. the assembly was called to order by Mr. Corwin H.
Spencer, chairman of the committee on ceremonies of the Exposition
Company, and the following programme was carried out:

First. Invocation by Rev. Carl Swenson:

Great God, the God of our fathers and of their children, accept
our heartfelt worship and gratitude. We bless Thy holy name for
that wonderful providence of bountiful love and inspiring
benevolence by which Thou hast made us a great and mighty nation
out of an insignificant, struggling, and sorrow-laden beginning.

We render willing and adoring worship to Thee for that divine
guidance and wisdom so admirably exhibited in the wide-visioned
policy in the nation's most inspired leaders a hundred years
ago, and to-day the policy which in one brief century has
created an empire of a dozen magnificent Commonwealths of an
unknown expanse of uninhabited wilderness and desert.

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