e Grand Master or Installing Officer
may deliver an address or read the following charges, in his discretion:

"Worshipful Master: The superintendence and government of the brethren
who compose this Lodge having been committed to your care, you cannot be
insensible of the obligations which devolve on you as their head, nor
of your responsibility for the faithful discharge of the important
duties annexed to your position.

The honor, reputation and usefulness of this Lodge will materially
depend upon the skill and assiduity with which you manage its concerns;
while the happiness of its members will be generally promoted in
proportion to the zeal and ability with which you propagate the genuine
principles of our institution.

As a pattern for imitation, consider the great luminary of nature,
which, rising in the East, regularly diffuses light and luster to all
within the circle. In like manner, it is your province to spread and
communicate light and instruction to the brethren of your Lodge.
Forcibly impress upon them the dignity and high importance of Masonry,
and seriously admonish them never to disgrace it. Charge them to
practice out of the Lodge those duties which they have been taught in
it; and by amiable, discreet and virtuous conduct, to convince mankind
of the goodness of the institution; so that when a person is said to be
a member of it, the world may know that he is one to whom the burdened
heart may pour out its sorrows, to whom distress may prefer its suit,
whose hand is guided by justice, and whose heart is expanded by
benevolence.

In short, by a diligent observance of the By-Laws of the Lodge, the
Constitutions of Freemasonry, and, above all, the Holy Scriptures, which
are given as a rule and a guide to your faith, you will be enabled to
acquit yourself with honor and reputation, and lay up a crown of
rejoicing, which shall continue when time shall be no more.

Brother Senior and Junior Warden: You are too well acquainted with the
principles of Masonry to warrant any distrust that you will be found
wanting in the discharge of your respective duties. Suffice it to say,
that what you have seen praiseworthy in others you should carefully
imitate; and what in them may have appeared defective you should in
yourselves amend. You should be examples of good order and regularity;
for it is only by a due regard to the laws in your own conduct that you
can expect obedience to them from others. You are assiduou