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You will also receive in charge the By-Laws of your Lodge, which you
are to see carefully and punctually executed.

The new Master is then placed to the right of the Installing Officer
until the other officers have been installed.

The Marshal then severally presents the other officers to the Installing
Officer, who delivers his appropriate charge to each.

SENIOR WARDEN

Installing Officer—Brother -----------, you have been elected Senior
Warden of this Lodge. Do you solemnly promise that you will serve the
Lodge as Senior Warden for the ensuing year, and perform all the duties
appertaining to that office, to the best of your ability? (Senior Warden-
elect consents) You will now be invested with the jewel of your office.

The Level teaches that we are descended from the same stock, partake
of the same nature and share the same hope, "that we are all children
of one common father, heirs of the same infirmities, and exposed to the
same vicissitudes." It also reminds us that although distinctions among
men are necessary to preserve subordination, no eminence of station
should make us forget that we are brethren, and that in the Lodge and
our Masonic associations we are on a level. The level teaches us that a
time will come when all distinctions but that of goodness will cease, and
death, the leveler of all human greatness will reduce us to the same
state.

Your regular attendance on the stated and other meetings of the
Lodge is necessary. In the absence of the Master, you are to govern the
Lodge, and in his presence assist him in the government of it. Hence
you will perceive the necessity of preparing yourself for the important
duties which may devolve upon you. LOOK WELL TO THE WEST.

The Marshal conducts him to his proper station.

JUNIOR WARDEN

Installing Officer—Brother -----------, you have been elected Junior
Warden of this Lodge. Do you solemnly promise that you will serve the
Lodge as Junior Warden for the ensuing year, and perform all the duties
appertaining to that office to the best of your ability? (Junior Warden-
elect consents) You will now be invested with the jewel of your office.

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