Instituting Officer, will assume the East and announce the object of the
meeting. He then causes the Letter of Dispensation to be read, after
which the names of the officers appointed by the Grand Master and by the
Master of the new Lodge will be announced. As these names are called,
the officers will form in line near and facing the East, when each
officer will be invested with his jewel. The new Master will then be
seated in the East, on the right of the Instituting Officer. The Wardens
and other officers will take their respective stations. The Instituting
Officer will then open the Lodge on the third degree of Masonry, and
deliver to the officers and brethren the following

Charges to the Officers and Brethren.

Inst. Off.: Worshipful Master: (Who rises.) The Grand Master having
committed to your care the superintendence and government of the
brethren who are to compose this new lodge, 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
attached to your office.

The honor, reputation, and usefulness of your Lodge will materially
depend on 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.

For a pattern of imitation, consider the sun, which, rising in the east,
regularly diffuses light and luster to all within its circle. In like
manner, it is in 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 any one 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 your Lodge, the Constitution of
Masonry, and above all, the Holy Scriptures, which are given as a rule
and guide to your faith, you will be enabled to acquit yourself with
honor and reput