ation.

Charge to the Wardens.

Brothers Senior and Junior Wardens: (Who are called up by one knock.)
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. 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
assiduously to assist the Master in the discharge of his trust,
diffusing light and imparting knowledge to all whom he shall place under
your care. In the absence of the Master you will succeed to higher
duties; your acquirements must therefore be such that the Craft may
never suffer for want of proper instruction. From the spirit which you
have hitherto evinced, I entertain no doubt that your future conduct
will be such as to merit the applause of your brethren, and the
testimony of a good conscience.

Charge to the Brethren of the Lodge.

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Brethren of ...... Lodge, such is the nature of our Constitution, that
as some must of necessity rule and teach, so others must, of course,
learn to submit and obey. Humility in both is an essential duty. The
officers who are appointed to govern the Lodge are sufficiently
conversant with the rules of propriety and the laws of the Institution
to avoid exceeding the powers with which they are intrusted, and you
are of too generous dispositions to envy their preferment. I therefore
trust that you will have but one aim, to please each other and to unite
in the grand design of being happy and communicating happiness.

Finally, my brethren, as this association has been formed and perfected
in so much unity and concord, in which we greatly rejoice, so may it
long continue. May you enjoy every satisfaction and delight, which
disinterested friendship can afford. May kindness and brotherly
affection distinguish your conduct as men and Masons. Within your
peaceful walls, may your children, and your children's children
celebrate, with joy and gratitude, the annual recurrence of this
auspicious solemnity. And may the tenets of our profession be
transmitted through your Lodge, pure and unimpaired, from generation to
generation.

Proclamation.

Instituting Officer: (Calls up Lodge.) In the