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W.M. to S.W. What is the Junior Warden's station in the Lodge?

S.W. to W.M. In the South.

W.M. Why are you in the South, brother Junior Warden? What are
your duties there?

J.W. As the Sun in the South at its Meridian height is the glory and
beauty of the day, so stands the Junior Warden in the South, the better
to observe the time; to call the craft from labor to refreshment; to
superintend them during the hours thereof, and see that they do not
convert the purposes of refreshment into intemperance and excess; to
call them on again in due season, that the Worshipful Master may have
pleasure and the craft profit thereby.

W.M. What is the Senior Warden's station in the Lodge?

J.W. In the West.

W.M. Why are you in the West, brother Senior Warden? What are
your duties there?

S.W. As the Sun is in the West at the close of the day, so is the Senior
Warden in the West to assist the Worshipful Master in opening and
closing his Lodge; to pay the craft their wages, if any be due, and see
that none go away dissatisfied, harmony being the strength and support
of all societies, more especially of ours.

W.M. What is the Worshipful Master's station in the Lodge?

S.W. In the East.

W.M. Why is he in the East, brother Senior Warden? What are his
duties there?

S.W. As the sun rises in the East to open and govern the day, so rises
the Worshipful Master in the East to open and govern his Lodge; to set
the craft to work, and give them good and wholesome instruction for
their labors.

This closes the opening lecture. The Master gives three raps, which
call up the Lodge, he rising last.

W.M. Brother Senior Warden, it is my will and pleasure that --------
Lodge number -------- be now opened on the third degree of Masonry,
for the dispatch of such business as may regularly come before it, under
the usual Masonic restrictions. Communicate this order to the Junior
Warden in the South and he to the craft for their government.
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