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INSTALLATION OF CHAPTER ROSE CROIX. 529
V. To promote the general welfare of society, and to cultivate
all social virtues
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VI. To avoid carefully all piques and quarrels, to be cautious
in your behavior, courteous to your brethren, and faithful to all
the oaths and obligations which you have taken in our order,
and to the letters capitular which the Supreme Council haa
granted to your Chapter ?
In the presence of Almighty God our Father, and of my brethren,
I, ., Most Wise, of Sovereign Chapter of Rose
Croix, No , do hereby and hereon solemnly vow and swear,
to perform to the best of my ability the duties imposed upon me
in my aforesaid capacity, to obey and enforce the General Stat-
the laws and edicts of the
utes of the Ancient and Accepted rite ;
Supreme Council ; and also the rales and regulations of
Sovereign Chapter of Rose Croix, No
I furthermore solemnly vow and swear, to do all in my power
to maintain peace, harmony, and union among the members of
this Sovereign Chapter, and to conduct the labor's thereof with
justice, impartiality, and forbearance. So help me God !
I constitute and form you into a regular Chapter of Sovereign
Princes of Rose Croix, eighteenth degree of the Ancient and
Accepted rite; and I hereby grant unto you full power and
authority to act as a regular Chapter, according to the constitu-
tion and statutes of the Order, and may the Grand Architect of
the Universe bless all your lawful labors !
111.'. Grand Master of Ceremonies, conduct the Most Wise of
this Sovereign Chapter to his seat, on my left, and all the officers
of the same to their respective places.
Most Wise, after the discourse with which we have been
favored, and in which the Orator has expounded the sublime doc-
trines of Scottish Masonry in such language as only conviction
and sincerity can dictate, and especially after the obligations
which you have taken as a Knight of the Rose Croix, and as the
Most Wise of this Sovereign Chapter, your duties are known to
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