Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

conduct should misfortunes assail you, should
friends for-sake you, should envy traduce your
good name, and malice persecute you, yet may
you have confidence that among Mark Master
Masons you will find friends who will administer
to your distresses, and comfort your afflictions:
ever bearing in mind, as a consolation under the
frowns of fortune, and as an encouragement to
hope for better prospects, that the stone which the
builders rejected, possessing merits to them
unknown, became the chief stone of the corner.
The brethren shuffle round the Lodge again, as
before.
R. W. M. (giving one rap.)--Brother Senior, what
is the cause of this disturbance?
S. G. W.--Right Worshipful, it is the sixth hour of
the sixth
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day of the week, and the crafts are impatient to
receive their wages.
R. W. M.--You will form them in procession, and
let them repair to the office of the Senior Grand
Warden and receive their wages.
Members form two and two and march around
the Lodge against the sun, and sing from the textbook
the last three verses of the Mark Master's
Song. The Ceremony of paying the wages is gone
through at the Master's seat in the east, the Master
acting as Senior Grand Warden, and paying
"every man a penny."
The members then inquire, each of the other,
"How much have you?" The answer is given, "A