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PP.OVOST AXD JUDGE. 79
The necessity for a Court of Judges did not exist
until after the death of the Grand Master Hiram, as
the number of difficulties and dissensions among the
workmen was not so numerous, and judgment was
arrived at by the ready decisions of Hiram, which
all quietly acquiesced in.
As a Provost and Judge, it is your especial duty
to render justice to all, to hear patiently, remember
accurately, and weigh carefully the facts and the ar-
guments offered. In our intercourse with others,
there are two kinds of injustice : the first, of those
who offer an injury ; the second, of those who have
it in their power to avert an injury from those to
whom it is offered, and yet do it not. So active in-
justice may be done in two ways—by force and by
fraud.
Eespect not persons in judgment, but listen to the
humble as well as to the great. Fear God, for judgment
is God's.
While you would administer justice, show mercy.
Exhibit the subduing influences of pity, the might of
love, the control of mildness, the commanding ma-
jesty of that perfect character which mingles grave
displeasure with grief and pity for the offender. So
brother Masons should treat their fellow Masons
who go astray—not with bitterness, nor yet with
good-natured easiness nor worldly indifference.
The human heart bows not willingly to what is in-
firm or wrong in our nature. If it yields to us, it
rather yields to what is divine in us. The wicked-