May your Chapter become beautiful as the Temple-peaceful as the Ark, and sacred as its most holy place. May your oblations of piety and praise be grateful as the incense; your love warm as its flame, and your charity diffusive as its fragrance. May your hearts be pure as the altar, and your conduct acceptable as the offering. May the exercises of your charity be as constant as the returning wants of the distressed widow, and the helpless orphan. May the approbation, of heaven be your encouragement, and the testimony of a good conscience your support; may you be endowed with every good and perfect gift, whilst travelling the thorny path of life, and finally admitted within the veil of heaven to the full enjoyment of life eternal. So mote it be. 31. The officers and members of the Chapter will then pass in review, in front of the Grand Officers, and pay them the customary salutations as they pass. 32. The Grand Marshal will then make proclamation as follows, viz. In the name of the most excellent Grand High Priest, I do proclaim this Chapter by the name of ......... to be regularly constituted and its of ficers duly installed. 33. The officers of the Chapter will then take their stations upon the left of the Grand Officers respectively, and the members will be seated until the Grand Officers retire. 34. The ceremonies conclude with an ode or appropriate piece of musick. 35. When the Grand Officers retire, the Chapter will form an avenue for them to pass through, and salute them with the Grand Honours. They will be attended as far as the door of their appartment by the committee who introduced them. 36. The two bodies then separately close their respective Chapters. CHAPTER XX. HOW MASONS OUGHT TO BEHAVE TOWARDS EACH OTHER, THEIR RELATIVES, AND TOWARDS ALL MANKIND. Every Brother ought to belong to some regular lodge, and should always appear therein properly clothed; truly subjecting himself to all its By Laws and the general regulations. He must attend all meetings, when duly summoned, unless he can offer to the Master and Wardens such plea of necessity for his absence as the said laws and regulations may admit. No Brother should be a member of more than one lodge at the same time. All should work faithfully and honestly. All the working hours appointed by law, or confirmed by custom, are to be strictly observed. The Master and Masons must faith. fully finish their work. None should envy a Brother's pros perity, or put him out of his work, if capable of finishing it. All should receive their wages without murmuring, and avoid all unbecoming modes of expression. They should call each other Brother in the lodge. While the lodge is open for work, Masons must hold no private conversation or committees, without leave from the Master; nor talk of any thing foreign or impertinent; nor interrupt the Master or Wardens, or any Brother addressing himself to the Chair; nor behave inattentively, while the lodge is engaged in what is serious and solemn; but every Brother must pay due reverence to the Master, the Wardens, and all his Fellows. No private offences, or disputes about nations, families, religions, or politicks, must be brought within the doors of the lodge. Free and accepted Masons have ever been charged to avoid all slander of true and faithful brethren, with all malice and unjust resentment, or talk ing disrespectfully of a Brother's performance. Nor must they suffer any to spread unjust reproaches or calumnies against a brother, behind his back, nor to injure him in his fortune, occu pation, or character; but they shall defend such a brother, and give him notice of any danger or injury wherewith he may be threatened, to enable him to escape the same, as far as is consistent with honour, prudence, and the safety of religion, morality, and the state, but no further. They are cautiously to examine a stranger or foreign brother, as prudence and the rule of the Craft direct, that they may not be imposed upon by a pretender; and if they find him to be such, they are to reject him, but with proper caution. But such as are found to be true and faithful, they are to respect as brothers, relieving them, if in want, to the utmost of their power, or directing them how to find relief; and employing, if they can, or else recommending them to employ ment, |