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disloyalty or rebellion, but patiently submit to legal authority and
conform with cheerfulness to the government of the country in which you
live, yielding obedience to the laws which afford you protection.

In your outward demeanor be particularly careful to avoid censure or
reproach. Let not interest, favor, or prejudice, bias your integrity, or
influence you to be guilty of a dishonorable action.

Although your frequent appearance at our regular meetings is earnestly
solicited, yet it is not meant that Freemasonry should interfere with
your necessary vocations, for these are on no account to be neglected;
neither are you to suffer your zeal for the institution to lead you into
argument with those who, through ignorance, may ridicule it.

At your leisure hours, that you may improve in Masonic knowledge, you
are to converse with well-informed brethren, who will always be as ready
to give as you will be to receive instruction.

Finally, my brother, keep sacred and inviolate the mysteries of the
Order, as these are to distinguish you from the rest of the community
and mark your consequence among Masons.

If in the circle of your acquaintance you find a person desirous of
being initiated into the Fraternity, be particularly careful not to
recommend him unless you are convinced that he will conform to our
rules, that the honor, glory and reputation of the institution may be
firmly established, and the world at large be convinced of its good
effects.

Charge to a Soldier.

Brother: Our institution breathes a spirit of general philanthropy. Its
benefits, in a social point of view, are extensive. In the most
endearing ties, it unites all mankind. In every nation, wherever
civilization extends--and not unfrequently among wild savages of the
forest--it opens an asylum to a brother in distress, and grants
hospitality to the necessitous and unfortunate. The sublime principles
of universal goodness and love to all mankind, which are essential to
it, cannot be lost in national distinctions, prejudices and animosities.
The rage of contest and the sanguinary conflict have, by its recognized
principles, been abated, and the milder emotions of humanity
substituted. It has often performed the part of the Angel of Goodness,
in ministering to the wants of the sick, the wounded, and the
unfortunate prisoner of war. It has even taught the pride of victory to
give way to the dictates of an honorable connection.

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