Your zeal for the institution, the progress you have made in our mysteries, and your steady conformity to our useful regulations, have pointed you out as a proper person for this peculiar mark of our favor.

    Duty and honor now alike bind you to be faithful to every trust, and strenuously to enforce, by precept and example, a steadfast obedience to the tenets of Freemasonry. Exemplary conduct on your part will convince the world that merit is the just title to our privileges, and that on you our favors have not been undeservedly bestowed.

    In this respectable character you are authorized to correct the irregularities of your less-informed brethren, to fortify their minds with resolution against the snares of the insidious, and to guard them against every allurement to vicious practices.

    To preserve, unsullied, the reputation of the Fraternity ought to be your constant care. It, therefore, becomes your province to caution the inexperienced against a breach of fidelity; to recommend to your inferiors in rank or office, obedience and submission; to your equals, courtesy and affability; to your superiors, kindness and condescension.

    Universal benevolence you are zealously to inculcate; and, by the regularity of your own conduct, endeavor to remove every aspersion against this venerable institution. Our ancient landmarks you are carefully to preserve, and not suffer them on any pretense to be infringed, nor countenance a deviation from our established custom.

    Your honor and reputation are concerned in supporting with dignity the respectable character you now bear. Let no motive, therefore, make you swerve from your duty, violate your vows, or betray your trust. Be true and faithful, and imitate the example of the celebrated artist whom you have just represented. Thus you will render yourself deserving of the honor which we have conferred, and worthy of the confidence we have reposed in you.