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ARGUMENT.
Thb degree of Knight Commander of the Temple is sometimes
called Teutonic Knight of the House of St. Mary of Jerusalem.
The Order originated at the siege of St. Jean d'Acre, when tents
were made for the sick and wounded of the sails of the ships
and while they fought the infidel Saladin by day, and nursed the
sick and woimded soldiers by night, the Knights engaged
themselves to guard the city of Jerusalem against the Saracens
to protect Christendom ; to succor and assist the feeble and op-
pressed, and to defend the innocent. Their five excellent quali-
ties were Humility, Temperance, Chastity, Generosity, and
Honor ; and they practised all the Masonic virtues. This is the
first strictly chivalric degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scot
tifih rite-
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