CHAPTER II.

Of a lodge, its nature,

65

ibid

5. Of behaviour towards a brother

whether present or absent

6. Concerning differences and law

suits, if any such should unhap-

pily arise among brethren,

CHAPTER V.

80

81

1. Of grand lodges in general

66 2. Of the election of grand master 83

67 3. Of the election or appointment

of the deputy grand master,

68

69 4. Of the grand wardens,

ibid

5. Of the grand secretary,

70 6. Of the election and office of the

grand treasurer,

71

7. Of the grand tyler and grand

pursuivant,

Of officers and members in general ib 8. General rules for conducting

Of the master-his election-office

and duty,

Of the wardens of a lodge,

Of the secretary of a lodge,

Of the treasurer, deacons, and

stewards of a lodge,

Of the tyler of a lodge,

Of the number to be initiated,

Of privileges in lodges.

CHAPTER III.

the business of the grand lodge

9. Of grand visitations, communi-

cations, annual feasts, &c.

ibid

84

ibid

85

ibid

72

73

in case of the absence of any of

the grand officers,

86

74

87

75

76

ibid

ANCIENT CEREMONIES.

CHAPTER I.

ibid Ceremony of constituting and

consecrating a lodge, installing

the officers, &c.

Of the behaviour of Masons as members Form of a warrant,

x

192

193

194

195

INDEX.

2. At the initiation of a foreigner, ibid | The free-mason's memento with

3. At the initiation of a soldier.

CHAPTER IX.

164 its explanation,

168

Second, or Fellow Cruft's Degree.

Remarks on the second degree, 165

Of operative masonry,

Of speculative masonry,

the globes,

the use of the globes,

order in architecture,

its antiquity,

the Tuscan,

the Doric,

ibid

Address to free-masons in gen.

eral,

Dr Smith's imperishable nature

of masonry,

Charge at the initiation into the

third degree.

. ibid

order.

ibid

the invention of the Corin-

CHAPTER XII.

thian order,

171

the Composite,

ibid

the inventions of the order of

Fourth, or Mark Master Mason's

degree.

architecture,

ibid

Introductory remarks,

199

the five senses of human

Letter of king Solomon to king

Hiram,

204

King Hiram's answer,

ibid

Charge to be read at opening the

lodge,

206

Charge to a candidate when he

is advanced to this degree,

Song by brother T. S. Webb,

P. G M. of the state of Rhode

Island, to be sung during the

closing ceremonies,

213

nature-hearing, seeing,

feeling, smelling, and tast-

ing,

the seven liberal arts-gram-

mar, rhetoric, logic, arith-

metic, geometry, music and

astronomy,

the moral advantages of ge-

ometry,

A charge at the initiation into the

second degree.

CHAPTER X.

Third, or Master Mason's Degree.

Observations on the order of

180

182

183

Select passages from scripture,
and moral reflections used on
this solemn occasion.
Elucidations of the Emblems, viz.

The pot of Incense, Bee Hive,

Book of Constitutions,

The sword pointed to a naked
heart, the All-seeing Eye, an-
chor and ark, forty-seventh
problem of Euclid, hour glass,
scythe and the three steps,

Illustration of the master's de

gree,

The five points of fellowship

explained,

Advantages which the worthy

brother may derive from this

degree,

186

Prayer at closing by the Rev.

brother Hargrove, G. Chaplain

of Maryland.

CHAPTER XIII.

219

Fifth, or degree of Select Master.

Remarks on this Degree,

Passages from holy writ, which

221

serve to illustrate this degree. 222

189

190

191