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610 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. KITE.
port these regulations, as Ineffable Masons have done in ull aget
before you ?
T. P. 0. M. I do.
CHARGE.
Com.-x t-C. My brother, your ready assent to the charges and
regulations of the order, justifies the confidence which your brethren
have reposed in you, and authorizes me to proceed with your
installation. You cannot have advanced to the degree which you
have attained in our rite without becoming acquainted with the
requisites necessary to constitute an efficient Master of a Lodge of
Perfection, with the duties that devolve upon the position, and ol
the serious responsibility which he incurs.
The honor, reputation, and usefulness of your Lodge will
chiefly depend upou the mode in which you discharge the duties
of your office. If you should be satisfied with merely knowing
by rote the formulas, the phrases, and ceremonies of the work,
and end with that, you may maintain good order and conduct
the work with regularity, but you will soon see indifference succeed
to zeal, inattention to punctuality, lassitude to interest, and
stagnant immobility to activity.
You cannot satisfy your promise never to open and close your
Lodge without giving a lecture, or some portion thereof, for the
instruction of the brethren, by asking a few trivial questions of
routine. It would be absurd to require of you to take a solemn
obligation to do that ; and a sad matter if Masomy would so
cheapen its oaths.
Whenever your Lodge is closed, and an evening has passed
away without your having given the brethren some new and use-
ful information, you zcill have failed to do your duty.
Think not that the field of Masonic learning has been so often
reaped and gleaned that there is nothing left for you to gather.
Its history has never yet been written. Its symbols are only in
part understood. Its philosophy is a vast region almost wholly
unexplored. You are to arouse the indolent, encourage the de-
sponding, and incite the unreflecting brethren to do something the
influences whereof shall be felt bevond the limits of the Lodse
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something for society, something for humanity. Admonish them
of the duty that rests upon them—so to act and behave as to bring
no discredit or reproach upon the order. Charge them to prac
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